march meeting 2014 - external speakers

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Opening Ceremony:

Margaret Mungherera, World Medical

Association (WMA), President

Dr Margaret Mungherera from Uganda has

been a medical doctor for 30 years and a

psychiatrist for 20 years with forensic

psychiatry as specific area of interest. Dr

Margaret has expertise in training health

professionals and Community Health

Workers (CHWs), mental health research,

human rights advocacy, non-profit

organizational governance and

development. You can read her full CV

here. Dr Margaret will also speak on the 5th

march at the President Sessions presenting

the work between National Medical

Associations and NMOs

http://www.wma.net/en/60about/40leaders/

CV_Mungherera.pdf

Lola Dare, CEO of Center for Health

Sciences Training, Research and

Development (CHESTRAD), IFMSA Board

of Recommendations member

Dr. Lola Dare is a community physician and

epidemiologist. Dr Dare facilitates health

leadership development and management

programs and serves consultant for many

regional and global organizations in public

health and social development (health,

education and poverty reduction), working

at local, national and regional levels to

advocate for, and support the increased

application of management and business

tools to improve the performance of African

health and social development systems.

You can read more about Dr Lola Dare

here. http://www.chestrad-

ngo.org/index.php?option=com_content&vie

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Theme Event Sessions:

Dr. Mihaly Kokeny, Senior Fellow of the

Global Health Program at The Graduate

Institute of International and

Development Studies

Hungarian, trained for medicine, cardiology,

health care management and political

sciences. He joined the staff of the

Hungarian health ministry in 1979. He was

working in various government positions

including Secretary of State (1994-1996,

2002-3), Health and Welfare Minister (1996-

98, 2003-4), Government Commissioner for

public health coordination (2004-2006). In

the Parliament he was the Chairman of the

Health Committee (1998-2002, 2006-2010).

In 2010, he served as a Chair of the WHO

Executive Board. Currently he works as a

health policy consultant. He is Senior Fellow

of the Global Health Program at The

Graduate Institute of International and

Development Studies (Geneva,

Switzerland) and contributes to global

health diplomacy education and research.

He is also a lecturer at the University of

Debrecen, Faculty of Public Health in

Hungary (on global health and health

policy).

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Ilona Kickbush, Prof, Director of the

Global Health Programme at the

Graduate Institute of International and

Development Studies, Geneva

Ilona Kickbusch is the Director of the Global

Health Programme at the Graduate Institute

of International and Development Studies,

Geneva. She advises organisations,

government agencies and the private sector

on policies and strategies to promote health

at the national, European and international

level. She has published widely and is a

member of a number of advisory boards in

both the academic and the health policy

arena. She has received many awards and

served as the Adelaide Thinker in

Residence at the invitation of the Premier of

South Australia. She has recently launched

a think-tank initiative “Global Health Europe:

A Platform for European Engagement in

Global Health” and the “Consortium for

Global Health Diplomacy”.

Her key areas of interest are global health

governance, global health diplomacy, health

in all policies, the health society and health

literacy. She has had a distinguished career

with the World Health Organization, at both

the regional and global level, where she

initiated the Ottawa Charter for Health

Promotion and a range of “settings projects”

including Healthy Cities. From 1998 – 2003

she joined Yale University as the head of

the global health division, where she

contributed to shaping the field of global

health and headed a major Fulbright

programme. She is a political scientist with

a PhD from the University of Konstanz,

Germany.

You can read more here.

http://www.ilonakickbusch.com/kickbusch/in

dex.php

Eugenio Villar Montesinos,

Department on Public Health,

Environment and Social Determinants of

Health (PHE), World Health Organization

(WHO), Geneva; IFMSA Board of

Recommendations member

Dr Eugenio Villar is a pediatrician trained in

Peru. He currently works at the Department

for Public Health, Environment and Social

Determinants of Health at WHO.

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Mikaela Hildebrand, Youth Program

Coordinator, UNAIDS, Geneva

Mikaela has the overall responsibility to

develop and implement UNAIDS youth

strategy work-plan and budget.

Coordination the implementation of UNAIDS

youth strategy across UNAIDS regions in

collaboration with 7 regional youth officers.

Within the Inter-Agency Network on Youth

Development, Mikaela supported the

development of UN Secretary General's

System-Wide Action Plan on youth. She

also conceptualized and managed

CrowdOutAIDS.org as online collaboration

space for continuous collaboration and

engagement on UNAIDS youth strategy as

well as developed and deepened strategic

partnerships with key youth organizations

within and outside the AIDS response.

Erica Wheeler, Technical Officer,

Department of Health Workforce, World

Health Organization (WHO)

Dr Erica Wheeler’s background is in public

health and her career and academic studies

cover a range of areas in research, policy

and planning a period of 25 years. She has

worked for WHO over the last 14 years and

for a brief period for the Asian Development

Bank. Her work over the year has spanned

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the areas of curriculum development,

training, policy and knowledge brokering in

mental health and human resources for

health. More lately, the focus or Dr Erica’s

work in WHO HQ has been to coordinate

the work on the production, education and

training of health workers with an initial

focus on developing and promoting global

policy guidelines to transform and scale up

health professionals education and training.

Lloyd Russell Moyle, Vice President for

External Affairs, European Youth Forum,

United Kingdom

Lloyd is a Vice President of the European

Youth Forum where he leads on

development issues and social enterprises

and co-ordinates the work in the Autonomy

and Inclusion Chapter of European Youth

Forum’s work (Education, Employment,

Youth Rights, Anti-Discrimination and

Mobility).

Alessandro Demaio, Postdoctoral

Fellow in Global Health and NCDs at

Harvard Medical School, Assistant

Professor at the Copenhagen School of

Global Health

Dr Demaio trained and worked as a medical

doctor in Melbourne, Australia. While

working as a doctor at The Alfred Hospital,

he completed a Masters in Public Health

including field work in Cambodia.

In 2010, Alessandro relocated to Denmark

and began a PhD fellowship in Global

Health with the University of Copenhagen,

focusing on Non-Communicable Diseases

(NCDs).

His PhD research was based in Mongolia,

working with the Ministry of Health, UN and

other local and international partners to

provide an epidemiological evidence-base

for current and future public health and

policy responses to the growing burden of

NCDs.

In 2013 Dr Demaio co-founded NCDFREE,

a global social movement against NCDs -

including the crowd-funding of $60,000US

and the making of 3 short advocacy films -

one in collaboration with the World Health

Organization.

Currently, Alessandro holds a Postdoctoral

Fellowship at the Harvard Global Equity

Initiative, Harvard Medical School and is an

Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen

School of Global Health.

In addition to his research, Alessandro

lectures for the University of Copenhagen,

The University of Melbourne, Coursera

(MOOC) and Charité - Universitätsmedizin,

Berlin, and is a regular contributor to

academic and public discourse.

Bryan Collinsworth, UAEM Executive

Director

Bryan Collinsworth has a broad background

in policy advocacy, organizing,

management and communications. As the

national student coordinator for STAND

(Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) in

2006, Bryan mobilized student activism

against global human rights violations. He

subsequently served on the Capitol Hill staff

of Congresswoman Betty McCollum, the

founder of the Congressional Global Health

Caucus. Most recently, Bryan directed

online organizing and advocacy for the New

York Working Families Party, running issue

campaigns for economic justice and

government and corporate accountability.

Bryan studied global politics and history at

Sarah Lawrence College, from which he

holds a B.A., and UCLA.


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General Program:

Mukesh Haikerwal, Chairman of

Council, World Medical Association

(WMA)

Dr Mukesh Haikerwal is a General Medical

Practitioner in Melbourne's Western

Suburbs where he has practiced since

1991. Dr Haikerwal is the Chairman of

Council of WMA. He was the 19th Federal

President of the Australian Medical

Association, its Federal Vice President and,

prior to that AMA Victorian State President.

He is a Professor in the School of Medicine

in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders

University in Adelaide, South Australia and

was appointed to the NH&MRC Health Care

Committee. Between February 2008 and

June 2009 he was appointed a

Commissioner to the National Health and

Hospitals Reform Commission by the Prime

Minister and Minister for Health. In January

2011 Dr Haikerwal was made an Officer of

the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished

service to medical administration, to the

promotion of public health through

leadership roles with professional

organizations, particularly the Australian

Medical Association (AMA), the reform of

the Australian health system through the

optimization of information technology, and

as a general practitioner.

Dr Haikerwal will have a presentation on the

6th March at the President’s Sessions on the

theme of the Leadership.

Caroline Moulins, International

Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Caroline Moulins works for the ICRC as a

data analyst for the Health Care in Danger

(HCiD) project, conducting the HCiD

incident analysis in cooperation with 23

operational delegations. She joined the

ICRC in November 2011 as Assistant in the

Public Relations Unit seconding Press

Officers. Prior to this, she took an internship

with the French delegation to the OECD in

Paris where she was monitoring policies.

During her studies, she worked as a

volunteer for a local branch of OXFAM in

Lyon. Caroline holds a Master's degree in

Social Economics, Project Development

and Management from Lyon 2 University

and a Diploma in International Relations

from Sciences Po Lyon.

Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:

Disaster Risk Management preGA, March

1st 11.00 - 12.30 “Health Care in Danger”.

Dr. Luca Ragazzoni, Center for

Research and Education in Emergency

and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIM)

Dr. Luca Ragazzoni from Italy is a specialist

in Anesthesiology and Critical Care. He is

currently performing research at the Center

for Research and Education in Emergency

and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIM),

Università degli Studi del Piemonte

Orientale, Novara, Italy. He participated in

two humanitarian missions for UNDP in Sri

Lanka, and was the head of Mission of two

humanitarian missions for the Italian NGO

Rainbow for Africa in Burkina Faso. Luca is

the director of an Italian program in Disaster

Medicine and lecture at the European

Master in Disaster Medicine. The latest

addition to his work experience consists of

the coordination of a project in collaboration

with MSF-Italy to enhance the

professionalization of the humanitarian

sector involving residents in anesthesia and

critical care medicine.




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1st 12.30 - 13.00 “Disaster Simulation in

Medical Education”, 14.00 - 18.30 “Disaster

Simulation”, and March 2nd 14-00 - 15.00

“Disaster Risk Management in Medical

Education”.

Health 2.0 preGA, Modern information and

communication technologies for health -

How the Information Revolution is changing

healthcare and what our contribution could

be, 11.35 - 12.20 Modern Approaches to

Disaster Medicine

Dr. Luca Carenzo, European Society of

Emergency Medicine (EuSEM)

Dr. Luca Carenzo is currently a research

associate at the CRIMEDIM Research

Center in Emergency and Disaster

Medicine, Università deli Studi del Piemonte

Orientale, Novara, Italy. His main research

fields are simulation in disaster medicine

and semi-quantitative evaluation

methodologies for simulations in disaster

medicine. Luca is also a course tutor at the

European Master in Disaster Medicine. Last

autumn Luca was elected for years 2014-

2016 co-chair of the European Society for

Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) Young

Emergency Medicine Doctors Section. For

the section he coordinates all the section

courses and training and is currently

working on an international european

exchange for emergency medicine

residents.


Disaster Risk Management preGA,

February 28th 19.30 - 20.30 “Societty of

Emegency Medicine”.

Niloufar Rahim, International Physician

for the Prevention of Nuclear War

(IPPNW)



1st 12.30 - 13.00 “Disaster Simulation in

Medical Education”, 14.00 - 18.30 “Disaster

Simulation”, and March 2nd 14-00 - 15.00

“Disaster Risk Management in Medical

Education”.


Disaster Risk Management preGA,

February 28th 19.30 - 20.30 “International

Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear

War”

Shyama Kuruvilla, The Partnership for

Maternal, Newborn and Child Health,

IFMSA Board of Recommendations

Member

Dr Kuruvilla is currently serving as the

Senior Technical Officer- Knowledge for

Policy at The Partnership for Maternal,

Newborn & Child Health. Dr Shyama

Kuruvilla is responsible, with partners, for

the design, development and management

of The Partnership’s knowledge system and

summaries to facilitate the translation of

knowledge into policy and practice to

improve maternal, newborn and child

health. Dr Kuruvilla (India) has worked as a

research, professor, and policy analyst and

joined The Partnership from the Department

of International Health, Boston University.

She was previously employed at the World

Health Organization in Switzerland as a

Scientist and Global health Leadership

Officer in Evidence and Information for

Policy. Dr Kuruvilla has coordinated and

collaborated on a range of multidisciplinary

international projects focusing on global

health policy and partnerships, policy

science and political philosophy, knowledge

translation and the assessment of health

research and policy impact. Dr Shyama

Kuruvilla attained a PhD in public health and

policy from the London School of Hygiene

and Tropical Medicine, where she was a

Research Fellow. She graduated from


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Cornell University with an M.S.,

concentrating on health services

administration and health communication.

Her undergraduate degree was in

occupational therapy from the Christian

Medical College and Hospital in Vellore,

India, where she also coordinated a

community-based rehabilitation program

through the Department of Community

Health and Development.

Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting

2014: Women’s Global Health preGA,

February 28th 11.15-12.00 “Where are we

at with MDGs 3&5 and what will happen

post 2015?” and March 1st 9.30-10.15 “An

Introduction to Global Maternal Health”

Karah Pedersen, Senior Technical

Advisor, Youth Program, Ipas

Karah Pedersen is a Senior Advisor at Ipas,

an international nongovernmental

organization (INGO) that works to improve

women’s access and rights to safe high

quality abortion and related reproductive

health care services. Karah leads Ipas’s

Youth Program, a multi-year program aimed

at building the capacity of partners and staff

to advance comprehensive reproductive

health services for young

women. Karah returned to Ipas in 2013

after working at FHI 360 as an

organizational learning manager and youth

reproductive health specialist. She has also

worked to provide safe abortion care

services in Rajasthan, India and conducted

research on HPV vaccine acceptability for

young women. Karah has a master’s in

public health from the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill. Despite more than

12 years of experience at reproductive

health INGOs, Karah considers herself to be

young at heart.


2014. Women’s Global Health PreGA,

March 2nd 14.00-16.00 “The Quest for Safe

Abortion + A Call to Action” and SCORA

session March 4th 12.00-13.00 “Ipas-

Maternal Health and Values Clarification”.

Yousri El Kissi, Department of

Psychiatry, Farhat Hached Hospital,

Sousse, Tunisia

Professor El Kissi is a psychiatrist working

and researching in the areas of sexology,

sexuality and infertility, as well as other

topics in psychiatry including personality

disorders.


2014. SCORA sessions March 5th 9.45-

10.30 “Sexuality and Pleasure”.

Victor Watz, Coordinator Fake Free,

Swedish Youth Temperance

Organization

Viktor Watz works for a think-tank called

Fake Free which is a part of the Swedish

Youth Temperance Organization in

Sweden. Fake Free springs from the ideas

from the work of Adic Sri Lanka and has

existed since 2009. Fake Free focus on the

social aspects of using alcohol and how this

affects the mind and behavior of people.

Fake Free wants to question and examine

how and why alcohol always is present

when there is a party going on. Viktor has

earlier worked with prevention in the field of

tobacco and sexual health, but is

specialized in the relationship between food

and health.

Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014

- PreGA International Public Health

Leadership Training February 28th, 12:00-

18:00” What is what: reasons for young

people to use alcohol, expectancies,


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placebo, culture” (the workshop on the most

innovative prevention approach).

Amaranath Tenna, Alcohol and Drug

Information Center, Sri Lanka

ADIC is an organization working in the field

of drug demand reduction over last 15

years. During this period they have

contributed substantially by introducing

innovative and scientific based drug

demand reduction strategies in Sri Lanka

and to other countries especially in SAARC

Region.

Inaugurated in April 1987 and was

established as an independent organization

in 1990, ADIC has been recognized by the

World health Organization in 1993 by

awarding the prestigious WHO award,

“Tobacco or Health Medal”. In 1998 and in

1999 ADIC won the awards from

International Federation of Non

Governmental Organization (IFNGO) for the

Most Outstanding New Project, for the

achievements from the drug Demand

Reduction Project launched at

Hapugastenna Tea Estate in Sri Lanka and

for creating of Voluntarism respectively.

ADIC also won the Commonwealth Youth

Service Award 1998/99 granted by the

Commonwealth Secretariat. In 2000, ADIC

was invited to participate in the “Alcohol

Policy Strategy Advisory Committee” of the

WHO. In 2013 ADIC stood out for its

campaign for pictorial warnings on cigarette

packets and was awarded the NGO of the

year in Sri Lanka. ADIC contribute to the

international advocacy by collecting and

disseminating information, conducting

trainings, workshops and mobilize

communities through effective strategies.

ADIC gives the technical consultancies on

implementing tailor made effective

strategies to alcohol, tobacco and other

drug prevention internationally.


- PreGA International Public Health

Leadership Training March 1st 9:00-18:00

“From grass-roots to global scale - how to

curb the activities of Big Alcohol and Big

Tobacco”

Dr. Karim Abderlwahed and Hamza

Saddam, President and President of

Honor of the Association Tunisienne

Pour la Promotion de la Santé

The Association Tunisienne Pour la

Promotion de la Santé was created and

established after the revolution of January

14, 2011.The primary axis of the association

is to design, prepare and implement a

compatible model with the health system

and social scientific knowledge of the most

vital sectors in Tunisia through the efforts

and energies of its members and experts in

the field of health and other relevant fields.


- SCOPH Sessions "21st century public

health challenges and the role of public

health associations" March 4th 11:00am

Dr. Sabine Kleinert Senior Editor - The

Lancet

Sabine Kleinert studied Medicine in

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the

USA, and trained as a Pediatrician in the

UK and Belgium. After further specialist

training in Pediatric Cardiology at Great

Ormond Street Hospital in London and the

Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne,

Australia, and research training at the Texas

Children's Hospital, Houston, USA, she

joined The Lancet as a full-time Medical

Editor in 1998. In March 2002, she became

Executive Editor, and in July 2006 Senior

Executive Editor. She joined the Committee

on Publication Ethics in 1999, was elected

to Council in 2002, and served as Vice-

Chair from 2006 to March 2012. She is on


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the steering committee for the World Health

Summits, held annually in Berlin, Germany,

and was a member of the planning

committee of the first and second World

Conference on Research Integrity. She now

co-chairs the planning committee for the

2013 World Conference on Research

Integrity.


The PreGA Workshop on RESEARCH

METHODOLOGIES - BUILDING THE

NEXT GENERATION OF MEDICAL

RESEARCHERS

Dr. Elizabeth Wager, Publications

Consultant Sideview

Freelance publications consultant and

trainer and has worked with scientists,

editors and writers on six continents. Before

setting up her own company she worked in

the publishing and pharmaceutical

industries (for Blackwell Scientific, Janssen

Cilag and GlaxoSmithKline). She chairs the

Committee on Publication Ethics and is a

member of the BMJ’s Ethics Committee, the

World Association of Medical Editors Ethics

Committee, and the CONSORT for

Abstracts steering group. She is a Visiting

Professor at the University of Split School of

Medicine.

She is a co-author of Good Publication

Practice for Pharmaceutical Companies

(2003), the European Medical Writers

Association guidelines on the role of

medical writers (2005), the Wiley-Blackwell

Best Practice Guidelines on Publication

Ethics (2006), COPE Best Practice and

flowcharts for journal editors and the author

of books on ‘Getting Research Published:

an A to Z of Publication Strategy’ (2nd

edition 2010) and ‘How to Survive Peer

Review’. She has published research and

commentaries on peer review and is the co-

author of two systematic reviews on the

effects of peer review. In 2010 she was

awarded a PhD for a thesis entitled ‘Peer

review and editorial processes for improving

the quality of research reporting’.


The PreGA Workshop on RESEARCH

METHODOLOGIES - BUILDING THE

NEXT GENERATION OF MEDICAL

RESEARCHERS

Dr. Angelo D’Ambrosio - Information

Technology Group (Hospital Bambin

Gesù)

Angelo D’Ambrosio is a scientific consultant

in digital epidemiology for the Pediatric

Hospital Bambin Gesù of Rome, Italy.

His work mainly consists of using Internet

technologies and Social Network for

investigating Public Health topics and

assessing technologies to be use in clinical

context. He previously worked in SISM

(Segretariato Italiano Studenti in Medicina),

the italian IFMSA NMO, as Information

Technology Group Coordinator for 2 years,

implementing many modern technologies to

improve communication and management

workflows in his association. He also

created the position of Local Officer for

Information Technology, to help Local

Committees to better exploit technologies in

the associative work and advocate on

themes like modernization and openness of

health care and medical research. He was

also involved in promoting the Open Access

movement in SISM Italy, collaborating with

the Right To Research Coalition, a student

movement wich aim is to advocate for open

distribution of academic knowledge.


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Dr. Helmy Mekaoui - Head of Medical

Operational Support Unit Athens (SOMA)

Médecins Sans Frontières-Greek Section

Through longer-term programs, MSF treats

patients with infectious diseases such as

tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and

HIV/AIDS and provides medical and

psychological care to marginalized groups

such as street children. Founded by doctors

and journalists in 1971, MSF is now a

worldwide movement with sections in 19

countries and an international coordination

office in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr.Mekaoui

has participated in many MSF initiatives as

Emergency Coordinator.

PreGA Disaster Management Risk

Dr. Najeeb Al-SHORBAJI - WHO

Director, Knowledge, Ethics and

Research Department

Dr Najeeb Al-Shorbaji has been working

as Director of the Department since 1

September 2008. Prior to that, he held

the posts of Information Scientist at the

WHO Regional Centre for Environmental

Health Activities (CEHA), Amman,

Jordan between 1988 and 1993. He

moved to the Regional Office for the

Eastern Mediterranean in Alexandria in

June 1994 then to Cairo, Egypt in August

2000. He worked there as Officer-in-

Charge of Health Literature Service,

Regional Informatics Officer, Regional

Advisor for Health Information

Management and Telecommunication

and Coordinator for Knowledge

Management and Sharing. Dr Al-

Shorbaji is from Jordan, born in 1954,

married and holds a PhD in Information

Sciences since 1986 from University of

Wales, United Kingdom. While at the

Regional Office in Cairo between 2000

and 2008, Dr Al-Shorbaji led the regional

eHealth programme. He initiated a

number of regional projects, convened

the regional conference on eHealth on a

regular basis and developed the regional

strategy for knowledge management.

During the same period he managed the

knowledge management and sharing

programs and coordinated the

publishing, translation and web services.

He organized on a regular basis the

regional conference on virtual health

sciences library and the regional

conference on medical journal

publishing. Dr Al-Shorbaji's current

portfolio covers WHO publishing

activities and programs, library and

knowledge networks, eHealth,

knowledge translation and WHO

Collaborating Centres. Dr Al-Shorbaji’s

publications in both Arabic and English in

addition to the more important

conference presentations appear in the

adjacent list. Dr Al-Shorbaji is invited to

scientific and professional conferences

as keynote speaker and thought leader

in the areas of eHealth and access to

knowledge in global health.

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Dr. Regina UNGERER, WHO

Department of Knowledge Management

and Sharing

She is Project Manager for the

ePORTUGUESe Program from April 2006.

The ePORTUGUESe Program started in

2005 as a platform to strengthen

collaboration among Portuguese-speaking

Member States in the areas of health

information and capacity building of human

resources for health.

Portuguese is the sixth most spoken

language in the world with almost 300

million people throughout the world. It is the

official language of eight WHO Member

States (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea

Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé

and Príncipe and Timor Leste), geographic

located in four continents and four WHO

Regional Offices (AFRO, AMRO, EURO

and SEARO). Five of the Portuguese-

speaking countries are among the least

developed in the world according to the

UNDP Human Development, in much need

of reliable and up-to-date health information,

especially to strengthen their health

systems, and engage in strategies to reach

their Millennium Development Goals. It is

considered that the lack of Information is

one of the biggest limitations for human

development and knowledge plays an

important role for the rights to health and

education, the rights of women and children.

Ultimately, the lack of health information can

cost lives as well the shortage of trained

Human Resources for Health (HRH). She

was Project Manager for a Health

Promotion in Action Project. This project

(Health Promotion in Action) was developed

as a technical cooperation between CPHA

(Canadian Public Health Association) and

ENSP (National School of Public Health of

FIOCRUZ), that aimed to introduce health

promotion strategies in a Health Centre

training facility inside FIOCRUZ. The main

goal was to develop a health promotion

network among several Health Centers in

Brazil. She was Responsible for the Monthly

PTA Bulletin International School of Geneve

and she receive an Award of recognition for

South-South Cooperation in Health (UN

Office for the South-South Cooperation).

She started this carrer after studying at

Faculdade de Medicina de Petrópolis,

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Dr. Adolfo Sparenberg, ISfTeH Board

Member

Adolfo L. F. Sparenberg, MD, graduated

from the Medical School of the Federal

University of Pelotas/Brazil in 1985. He is a

cardiologist and MSc in Biomedical

Engineering. Also, a former president of the

Medical Association of Sao Lourenço do Sul

(SOMESUL) RS/Brazil, an ISfTeH

associated member. Since its foundation in

1999, SOMESUL has been a leading

medical institution in the field of eHealth

projects implementation including

telecardiology, teleradiology and

telepsychiatry.

Adolfo is the coordinator of the eHHealth

Centre of the "Instituto de Cardiologia" of

the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), Brazil.

Starting its activities in 2007, the eHealth

Centre of the Instituto de Cardiologia RS, is

in charge of providing a 24/7-telecardiology

service to remote towns. Established

through a partnership with the State

Government, the program offers: immediate

ECG analysis, videoconferencing. Since

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2008, Adolfo Sparenberg is one of the

Coordinators of the ISfTeH Students

Working Group, whose major responsibility

is promoting eHealth activities

internationally while focusing on a new

generation of professionals. As part of this

strategy, the ISfTeH Students Working

Group organizes a series of multi-seat web

conferencing sessions, traditionally held

during some of the ISfTeH officially

supported meetings. In Jan 2011, Adolfo

Sparenberg was elected as a Board

Member of the International Society for

Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH), for the

period 2011-2013. As part of the work he

developed in the position of board member

of the ISfTeH, we highlight the activities

developed towards the establishment of a

partnership between the ISfTeH and the

IFMSA (International Federation of Medical

Students Association), celebrated in the

current year. Through this cooperation

about 1.2 million students from medical

schools over a hundred countries, now,

have access to the activities offered by the

ISfTeH, on a free of charge basis.

It should also be mentioned the

performance of activities in conjunction with

other ISfTeH

Working Groups, highlighting the

organization of webconferencing sessions in

conjunction with the Telenursing Working

Group and, more recently, activities

developed in cooperation with the Free

Software Working Group.






be

Dr. Etienne Saliez, ISfTeH working

group PBLT (Collaborative Care Team in

Open Source)

She is responsible of the PBTL project

within Open Source working group of the

ISfTeH, International Society for

Telemedicine, a not for profit organization

with members in 80 countries and

developing regions.

You can find more about it here

http://www.chos-wg.eu/PBTL/PBTL.html






be

Alberto E Tozzi, MD - Head of

multifactorial diseases and complex

phenotypes research area and Head of

telemedicine project unit at Ospedale

Bambino Gesù (Rome, Italy)

Dr Tozzi is a pediatrician and an

epidemiologist with experience in vaccine

trials and in surveillance of infectious

diseases. He has worked as a researcher

with the Italian National Health Institute for

more than 15 years. In this period he has

worked in several projects concerning the

prevention of nosocomial infections, HIV

infection in children, and surveillance of

transmissible diseases. In this area he had

responsibilities in surveillance of enteric

bacteria and haemolytic uremic syndrome,

in surveillance of pertussis at the European

level, and in supporting recommendations

on immunization in cooperation with the

Italian Ministry of Health. He has been part

of the coordination group of a large clinical

trial on acellular pertussis vaccines that

involved nearly 16000 Italian children. He

was also responsible for a study on the


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effect of thimerosal contained in vaccines

on neuropsychological development of

children, funded by the US Centers for

Disease Control.

In 2004 Dr Tozzi moved to the Bambino

Gesu Pediatric Hospital, a large clinical and

research centre where he joined the

epidemiology unit. In this period he

continued to work in vaccine preventable

diseases with studies on the epidemiology

of rotavirus, on conjugate pneumococcal

vaccines and pneumococcal infections, on

immunization of children with chronic

diseases, on determinants of carrier state

for MRSA in children, and on the

immunological memory in children who

received hepatitis B vaccines. He has been

also a cnsultant for WHO for activities on

polio eradication and for the investigation on

a cluster of severe adverse events to

vaccines in India. He is also a component of

the Expert Vaccine Group of the European

Center for Diseases Control.


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preGA, Modern information and




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Professor David Gordon, World

Federation for Medical Education,

President-Elected

Professor David Gordon is visiting professor

at the University of Copenhagen, emeritus

professor of medicine at the University of

Manchester, and visiting professor in

Chisinau, Moldova. He was dean of the

medical faculty in Manchester for seven

years.

Whilst dean in Manchester, he was also

elected chair of the Council of Heads of

Medical Schools (now the Medical Schools

Council), the representative body for all

medical schools in the UK, particularly

concerned with UK national policy for

medical education and for medical schools,

and with the interaction of medical schools

with their parent universities.

At the University of Copenhagen he is a

member of the staff of the World Federation

for Medical Education (WFME), and works

widely in Europe and elsewhere in the

management and evaluation of medical

schools. He was elected member of AMSE

Executive Committee in 2002 and President

of AMSE in 2004.


SCOME Sessions

Professor Madalena Patrício,

Association for Medical Education in

Europe, Past-President

Professor Madalena Patrício is a member of

BEME (Best Evidence in Medical

Education) of Medical Teacher and of the

Editorial Board of the Harvard Medical

School Program Portugal. She is assistant

professor at the Institute of Introduction to

Medicine at the Medical School of Lisbon

University and Coordinator of the Lisbon

BEME Group (Best Evidence in Medical

Education).

In addition to assessment of clinical

competences her special interests are in

Humanization of Medicine, Training

Teachers, Bologna process and Social

Accountability of Medical Schools.


SCOME Sessions.


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Professor Mohi Eldin Magzoub,

Association for Medical Education in

Eastern Mediterranean Region, Secretary

General

Professor Mohi Magzoub has been working

in the field of Health Care and Medical

Education since the early 1980's in Sudan

and Saudi Arabia. Have wide and diverse

experience in both hospital and medical

education administration. Have undertaken

consultancy projects on behalf of WHO and

other prestigious organizations in Syria,

South Africa, Kenya, Brazil, USA and

elsewhere. Have published excess of 100

publications, routinely participate as

speaker and moderator at international

symposiums and routinely oversee courses,

seminars and workshops in the field of

medical education.

Professor Mohi Magzoub was also the first

IFMSA SCOPH Director (1982-1983).


SCOME Sessions

Invited guests:

Xavier Deau, President-elect, World

Medical Association (WMA)

Dr Xavier Deau is a general practitioner

from Epinal (Vosges) in France. He was

elected last year as a President of WMA

and will resume his position in October

2014. Dr Deau is the current President of

the European and International Delegation

of the French Medical Council. During his

career in French Medical Council, he was

Vice President in charge of international

relations, Vice President in charge of

relations with Universities, and President of

the Medical Training and Qualifications

Department.

Dana Hanson, Past President, World

Medical Association (WMA), IFMSA

Board of Recommendations member

Dr. Dana Hanson has been caring for

patients in his Fredericton dermatology

clinic since 1981. A Saint John native, he

received his medical training from Dalhousie

University and McGill University.

His keen interest in politics has led him to

take an active role in addressing issues and

shaping the future of the medical profession

through his involvement in medical

associations. Dr. Hanson first became

involved at the regional level with the York

Sunbury Queens Medical Society, and then

moved on to become the President of the

New Brunswick Medical Society from 1992

to 1993. From there, he became the

President of the Canadian Medical

Association from 2002 to 2003, and

ultimately the President of the World

Medical Association from 2009 to 2010.

Dr. Hanson has been presented with a

number of awards, including the Queen's

Diamond Jubilee Medal, the New Brunswick

Medical Society's President's Award and

Order of Merit, and the Distinguished

Career Award from the York-Sunbury-

Queens Medical Society.

Dr. Dana Hanson was made a Member of

the Order of Canada in 2012. He is

receiving the Order of New Brunswick for

his outstanding leadership in the medical

profession in New Brunswick and around

the world.

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