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Newsletter: Fall 2008.08, Week of
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1. ACS/BBB/PHP (American Chemical Society,
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center Colleges of · Allied Health (includes Dental Hygiene, Cytotechnology, Health Information Management, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy) · Dentistry · Graduate Health Sciences · Medicine · Nursing · Pharmacy Southern Military Scholarship Programs:
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Thursday, November 13 –
BBB: Bowl-a-thon for · December 6, all day – BBB: St. Jude Marathon (Contact Antony) |
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2. Yale University
will host the Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health &
Development Conference, April 18-19, 2009.
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This Global Health Conference at Yale will likely be of interest to you, and we would appreciate it if you could please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested in attending or presenting at the conference. You are encouraged to submit an abstract for a presentation related to medicine, public health, global health, international development, social entrepreneurship, among other topics. The abstract deadline is September 15, and abstracts must be submitted through the online system at http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference Register and/or submit an abstract. Abstract deadline is September 15. Registration rate increases monthly. Please forward widely. Unite For Sight 6th Annual
Global Health & Development Conference As Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is
What CNN Calls "A Meeting of Minds" NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission - Abstract deadline is September 15 Register For Conference REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. Rate escalates each month. Interested in submitting an abstract? Anyone may submit an abstract. Abstract submitters range from students to professionals. Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical education, and public service. Confirmed Keynote Speakers Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon
General, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine
and Allan Rosenfield, MD, Dean Emeritus, Mailman School of Public Health; Professor of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation Speakers Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers "The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines through Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation "The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital Confirmed Featured Speakers "Progress Towards Eliminating Blindness Due To Trachoma: Findings of Post-Intervention Impact Trachoma Prevalence Surveys in Seven Countries," Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International Trachoma Initiative "Unearthing Local Definitions of Child Protection and
Well-Being," Alastair Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical
Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Jared Ament, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Fellow,
Ophthalmology & Corneal Surgery, "Holistic Children's Services For Orphans Abroad," Jane
Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services;
Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, "Workshop: How To Create An Organization To Do Community Work
Abroad," Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric
Health Services; Founder and Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation
(WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Elizabeth Ashbourne, Results Secretariat, OPCS, World Bank Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E.
Cameron Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sheri Berenbach, MBA, Executive Director, Calvert Foundation "An Innovative Program to Deliver Vision Care to Persons with Intellectual Disabilities – Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes," Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and
Population; Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography,
Department of Global Health and Population, "Protecting Children in Disaster and War: Efforts to Professionalize the Field," Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University " Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration; director, Health Management Program; Director, Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine,
Pathology, and Epidemiology and Public Health, Michael Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business
Administration, James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director,
Crystal Eye Clinic, Lisa Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and
Training, Global Health Institute, "The American Medical Model - Are We Right To Export It?" Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue Committee Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal
Eye Clinic, Marva Eberhart, Teacher For Visually Impaired, "Climate Instability: Health Problems and Health
Solutions," Paul Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center
for Health and the Global Environment, Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University "The Role of Cultural Competency in International Health Care and Volunteerism," Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, CEO and Founder, Center For Human Diversity "Improving Eye Care in Rural Hunan Province, China," Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas International Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan "Nutritional Management of Cataracts," Heskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; President, Optoed Corp, Inc. Rebecca Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast Steve Hilton, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Debbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School of Medicine "Challenges and Potential of Genetic Manipulation of Insect Vectors of Disease," Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health "Eye Care Services in "Atrocities and Social Entrepreneuriship," Zachary
Kaufman, JD Candidate, Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders "Improved Instruments for Trachoma Surgery," Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for A Livable future Professor; Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & International Health; Director, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health Sciences; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Robert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical
Engineering Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, "A Vaccine To Prevent AIDS: When and How," John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law
Project Manager, Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development
and Globalization Fellow, Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High
Impact Philanthropy, Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for
Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, The Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York Medical College School of Public Health "Global Health Education: The Penn Program As Example,"
Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, "Empowerment: The Key To Transforming Communities - Guatemalan Experiences," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Heallth "The International Efforts of The American Academy of Pediatrics," Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on International Child Heallth Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med "The Pathophysiology of Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis and
Macular Degeneration," Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for
Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost of Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs,
University of "Eye Care Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, "Malaria as an Obstacle to Economic Development: Fighting Malaria on the River of Life, the Value of Public Private Partnerships," Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil Corporation Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications Susan Reef, MD, CDC "The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lee Roberts, PhD, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Steven Rothstein, President, Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee-Memphis "Community Eye Health Program Can Improve The Quality of Life
of Poor: An Action Research Study from "Private Finance Models That Support Public Health Efficiency," Georgia Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US Agency for International Development Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The Ohio State University Tamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting
Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye "The Future of Glaucoma Surgery: Hope For The Developing World?" Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director,
AB Eye Institute; Former President, All Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, "Success of Laproscopic Sterilisation in Controlling
Population Growth in Eastern India: My Experience of 30 Years," Renu
Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of the Obs and Gynea Department of Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Marie Skinnider, MD, Health Advisor, MSF "Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Evidence Based Practices To Reduce Maternal Mortality in a Rural Nicaraguan Community," Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at UTMB Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global Health Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery;
Director, "The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lindsay Stark, Research Associate, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global
Initiatives; Clinical Professor, James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, Dayan "Global Health Inequalities: Why They Matter?" David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human Development Network World Bank |
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Reuters Health Information 2008. © 2008 Reuters
Ltd. By C.
Vidya Shankar, MD CHENNAI, India (Reuters Health) Sept 11 - A
ring-tone that sings "condom, condom, condom" has attracted over
270,000 downloads since its launch last month and has spread the message of
safe sex to many more mobile phone users in India and abroad. The innovative "Condom a Capella"
ring-tone that has the word "condom" sung in many overlapping
melodies is the work of an Indian duo, Rupert Fernandes and Vijay Prakash.
The website http://www.condomcondom.org, where the ring-tone can
be heard, has had over 2 million hits. The campaign has been produced by the BBC World Service
trust in According to latest figures, 2.4 million people
are living with HIV in Stigma and taboo associated with sex education
are the major challenges facings HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Never before has a mobile ring-tone been used to
communicate a social or public health message, said Yvonne MacPherson, Country
Director, India, BBC World Service Trust. "We wanted to create a conversation piece
that would get people talking and ultimately break down the taboo about
condoms," she commented to Reuters Health. "We want condoms to be
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5. Received
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World Book: A reference guide for American Association of Colleges of Podiatric Medicine · College Information Booklet (Posted on the PHP bulletin board) · What is a DPM? Booklet (Posted on the PHP bulletin board) · 2008-2009 Brochure (Posted on the PHP bulletin board) · Viewbook (Posted on the PHP bulletin board) The · Defining the 21st century doctor Viewbook (Posted on PHP bulletin board) ·
Footsteps Spring 2008 – An
Official Publication of the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine ( · DVD (in AH 114) · Flyer on Osteopathic Medicine and DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (Posted on PHP bulletin board) |
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Saturday November 15, 2008 8:30 am to 3:00 pm WVSOM Campus WVSOM www.wvsom.edu Phone: 1-888-276-7836 Fax: 304-647-6384 E-mail: admissions@wvsom.edu This
program is designed to provide individuals who are
interested in becoming a physician with information on admission
requirements, financial aid, and
osteopathic medicine. For
more information and registration check out our
website at : www.wvsom.edu/applicants/recruiting.cfm
Or RSVP
by calling the WVSOM Admissions Office at 1-888-276-7836. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! |
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7. ====
AAMC STAT ====, News from the Association of American Medical Colleges,
October 6, 2008 edition. |
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== AAMC briefs congressional staff on stroke prevention, treatment == AAMC president leads panel discussion on medical homelessness == Medical students awarded for community service programs == Careers in Medicine seeks proposals for research, best practices == AAMC, groups comment on human subject protection training and education == Congress approves visa waiver program extension, increases flex-slots == LCME seeks comment on removal of accreditation standard == On the move ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AAMC briefs congressional staff on stroke prevention, treatment At an AAMC-sponsored briefing on Capitol Hill last week, congressional staff were presented with some of the most current research in the prevention and potential treatment of those
suffering from strokes in the Story C. Landis, Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and Karen L. Furie, M.D., M.P.H., director of the stroke service at Massachusetts General Hospital, told the congressional staff in attendance that huge strides have been made in brain imaging that have enabled physicians to easily detect areas not receiving enough blood supply and thus most likely to be affected by stroke. They also explained that new research shows that a drug called tPA (tissue plasminogen activator), when administered early, can significantly minimize the debilitating effects caused by stroke and restore function to the impacted areas of the body. The briefing, "Stroke Prevention and Treatment" was the ninth in the AAMC's "Fulfilling the Promise" series. A Web cast of the briefing is available online. Information: Go to http://www.aamc.org/ftp ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AAMC president leads panel discussion on medical homelessness In a panel discussion hosted by the AAMC and the Urban Institute (UI) last week, AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., discussed the "medical home" concept of care and addressed how academic medical centers are advancing medical homes while training the next generation of doctors. Dr. Kirch responded to questions about the physician workforce and the hospital reimbursement system, and was joined by Drs. Robert Berenson and J. Lloyd Michener of the UI and Cristina Boccuti of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. The event, "Combating Medical Homelessness: What is the Role for Academic Medicine?" was moderated by UI President Robert Reischauer. An audio recording of the event is available online. Information: Go to http://www.urban.org/events/other/Medical-Homes.cfm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Medical students awarded for community service programs The AAMC has awarded grants to nine medical schools for the development or expansion of medical student-initiated community service programs. The annual Caring for Community program provides funding for service projects initiated, developed, and administered by medical students in collaboration with existing community agencies or other medical school outreach activities. The 2008 grantees are: of Medicine; University of of Medicine; Vanderbilt University Information: Go to http://www.aamc.org/about/awards/cfc08.htm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Careers in Medicine seeks proposals for research, best practices
The AAMC Careers in Medicine program is soliciting proposals for research and best practices in medical school career planning and career advising, to be presented at a professional development conference, June 15-16, 2009 in processes, programs, topics, or research of interest related to implementing career planning in general and careers in medicine specifically. Proposals are due Nov. 24. Information: Jeanette Calli, AAMC Careers in Medicine, 202.862.6270, jcalli@aamc.org or go to http://www.aamc.org/programs/cim/newsnotes.htm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ AAMC, groups comment on human subject protection training and education The AAMC, along with the Council on Governmental Relations and the Association of American Universities, has submitted a comment letter to the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) on the implementation of human subject protection training and education. The letter, a response to OHRP's request for information and comments, emphasizes the evolution of local education and training programs, supports the role of the Federalwide Assurance instrument (used for assuring that human subject protections are met), and denies the need for additional guidance or regulations on the issue of human subject protection and training. The letter also encourages OHRP to expand mechanisms to fund the development of training tools and modules on a national level. Information: Go to http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/research/corres/2008/092608.pdf ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Congress approves visa waiver program extension, increases flex-slots Congress has approved legislation to extend the Conrad 30 State J-1 visa waiver program through March 6. The bill also includes an AAMC-supported provision that doubles (to 10) the program's "flex-slots," the number of physicians per state who may serve in facilities, often teaching hospitals, that are located outside medically underserved areas but that treat patients from those areas. The Conrad 30 program allows state departments of health to request waivers of the J-1 visa home country service requirement for up to 30 foreign physicians per year to work in federally designated health professions shortage or medically underserved areas. Information: Go to http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/washhigh/2008/100308/start.htm#4 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LCME seeks comment on removal of accreditation standard The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) will hold a hearing for public comment on a proposal to delete accreditation standard IS-15. This standard directs faculty to "work closely together in teaching, research, and health care delivery." While a laudable concept, this standard does not lend itself to measurement and it is difficult for schools to document compliance. Other standards more adequately address the role of faculty in the medical education program. The hearing will be held on Saturday, Nov. 8, at 1:30 p.m. in the Crystal D/E room of the Orlando World Center Marriott, FL, during the Interim Meeting of the American Medical Association. Written comments may be forwarded until Dec. 31 to Dan Hunt, M.D., M.B.A., LCME Secretary, at the AAMC 2450 N Street, NW, e-mail to: lcme@aamc.org. Anonymous comments will not be considered. For further information, contact Dr. Hunt at 202.828.0596. Information: Go to http://www.lcme.org/hearing2008.htm ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On the move Gerald S. Levey, M.D., vice chancellor for medical sciences and dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has announced that he will retire as medical school dean when his current term expires on June 30, 2009. He will continue to serve as vice chancellor for medical sciences through 2010. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Academic Medicine Online Internal medicine practice is changing, and many believe that internal medicine training should follow suit. Not so fast, say Drs. Thomas Huddle and Gustavo Heudebert in the October issue of Academic Medicine. The authors argue that many changes now proposed would likely damage the "consultant-generalist" ideal of traditional internal medicine and they propose a model of training that would preserve this ideal. Commentaries by Drs. Holly Humphrey and F. Daniel Duffy take on the training model proposed by Huddle and Heudebert, examining the evolution of internal medicine training and practice. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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8. Ya know, Christmas isn’t that far away. Here’s this week’s suggestion for a
Christmas gift for the person who has everything. |
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From Ward’s Scientific, http://www.wardsci.com :
Specific web page: http://wardsci.com/product.asp_Q_pn_E_IG0018379_A_Fossilized+Bat+Guano+%28Holocene%29 You have to admit -- it is unique, n’est-ce pas? |
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9. Marginalia: This is what sorry looks like… |
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THIS IS WHAT SORRY
LOOKS LIKE
This is what tired
looks like
This is what bad
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