Health briefs

Cape orthodontist elected MDA president

Dr. Shannon T. Kirchhoff, a Cape Girardeau orthodontist, has been elected president of the Missouri Dental Association. His official term began following the association's annual House of Delegates meeting Nov. 3 in Jefferson City. Kirchhoff served as a U.S. Army Medical Army Corp dental laboratory technician from 1972 through 1975. He graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Southeast Missouri State University in 1979 and received his doctor of dental surgery degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry in 1985. In 1988, he was awarded a certificate of graduate orthodontics from UMKC. Since then, he has been in private practice in Cape Girardeau. The House of Delegates is the supreme authority of the Missouri Dental Association and represents 2,200 dentists statewide.

Calendar

Today (Dec. 7)

American Red Cross blood drive from 2 to 7 p.m. at Woodland High School in Marble Hill, Mo.

Walk 'n' Be Fit, 8 a.m. at West Park Mall, near the Pasta House entrance.

Blood pressure screenings, from 10 to 11:15 a.m. at the Cape Senior Center.

Stroke club, 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and Cape Rock Drive.

Saturday

Weight loss surgery support group, from 10 a.m. to noon at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Generations Center.

Monday

Depressive Bipolar Support Alliance, 7 to 9 p.m. in the Assisi Conference Room at Saint Francis Medical Center.

Tuesday

New Voice Club, 5 to 6: 30 p.m. in the Saint Clare Conference Room at Saint Francis Medical Center.

Diabetes self-management education holiday party at 1 p.m. at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Generations Center.

Grief support group, 7 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church.

SHARE grief support group, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Generations Family Resource Center.

Wednesday

American Red Cross blood drive from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Do It Best, 5422 Nash Road.

Health and wellness screenings, 7 to 10 a.m. at Saint Francis Health and Wellness Center.

United Ostomy Association, 5 p.m. at Delmonicos restaurant in Jackson.

Sibling class from 6 to 8 p.m. at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Generations Family Resource Center.

-- From staff reports