SOUTHFIELD — Celebrity physician and author Dr. Mehmet Oz, a frequent guest on the “Oprah Winfrey Show,” will join Women in   
Philanthropy, a division of the Sinai Guild, for the Women’s Heart Health Benefit at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield Oct. 13.

“We are a small organization that does a lot of good,” said Sandra Jaffa, executive director of the Sinai Guild, which has approximately
2,000 members and serves Jewish and metro Detroit communities through its affiliation with the Detroit Medical Center.

The Sinai Guild hosts the Women in Philanthropy event every other year. This year’s endeavor corresponds with a new mission of the 
organization to look at women’s heart health beginning in November.

“We knew we wanted to bring in somebody of stature and somebody who could deliver a serious message and give people who come 
to this event something to take home with them,” Jaffa said of booking Oz.

“We wanted someone with a really big name,” echoed Marlene Oleshansky, co-chair of the event. “We’re very excited. He’s a big draw.”

Oz is the author of “YOU: Staying Young,” and “Healing from the Heart.” He is a professor of cardiac surgery at Columbia University 
and a founder of the Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital, as well as the founder and chairman of 
Health Corps Research. His own self-titled syndicated television program premieres this month on WDIV-TV.

His appearance at the event next month will assist in raising funds for the Sinai Guild to purchase an ultrasound machine to give to  
the DMC and Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital. The machine, an advanced duplex ultrasound with a vascular reactivity assessment, 
which provides the ability to assess present and future cardiovascular function, will be used as part of a nationwide study conducted by  
Dr. Theodore Schreiber, head of DMC’s Cardiac Team One. Local residents are invited to participate in the study, which aims to
test 1,000 women.

“The women are going to see the results, which is going to be great, because they’ll be able to know if they have any problems  
now or in the future,” Oleshansky said.

“It will further the research in women’s heart health, but it will directly help the women who participate,” agreed Jaffa.

The Sinai Guild was created in 1952 as a women’s auxiliary to the then-Sinai Hospital in Detroit.

“It supported the hospital in terms of volunteers — it helped in all aspects of running a gift shop and dealing with babies in the  
neo-natal group, working with doctors and raising money for the hospital,” Jaffa explained.

 Today, the Sinai Guild focuses on development, grant-giving and research studies, and funds supplies, equipment and research.

“We do very little volunteer work anymore — we give out grant money and we participate and involve members in research studies,” she said.

Earlier this month, Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital dedicated a new office building as a lasting memory of the Sinai Guild and Sinai Hospital.

“We are very proud of it and very excited about it,” Jaffa said.

The Sinai Guild operates from the Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center, 31995 Northwestern Highway, in Farmington Hills.
Tickets to the luncheon to hear Oz speak are $100 per person.                  

Congregation Shaarey Zedek is located at 27375 Bell Road in Southfield. 
For more information about the Sinai  Guild or the event, call (248) 538-6501 or visit www.thesinaiguild.org.

You can reach Staff Writer Jennie Miller at jmiller@candgnews.com  or at (586) 279-1108.

January 16, 2009
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CONTACT: Sandra Jaffa, Executive Director
(248) 538-6504
sjaffa@dmc.org

The Sinai Guild Awards Nearly $300,000 in Grants To DMC Hospitals

and Organizations That Serve the Jewish Community

Farmington Hills, Michigan…..The Sinai Guild has awarded 13 grants totaling $295,879 to help Detroit Medical Center hospitals and organizations that serve the Jewish community conduct research and purchase medical equipment.

This is the eighth year that The Sinai Guild Board of Director Grants have been awarded, with a total of more than $2 million in grant awards to area hospitals and organizations since 2001.

“These grants fill an important need because there are very few organizations that give grants to meet medical needs both in the Jewish community and the medical community,” said Sandra Jaffa, Executive Director of The Sinai Guild. “These grants help with research and medical equipment that enhance the level of care and services that these hospitals and organizations provide.”

The Board of Directors approved grants at its November Board meeting that will assist with projects ranging from the purchase of a human patient simulator to a prescription drug program for Jewish seniors.

Below is a complete list and description of funded projects.

The Sinai Guild is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support and promote medical and scientific activities that benefit both the Jewish and the Metropolitan Detroit communities through Detroit Medical Center facilities and agencies that serve the Jewish Community.

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