At WMed, our International Health Experiences program regularly hosts presentations representing a broad array of topics. The presentations are held in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus.
Speakers and Topics:
June 19, 2018: Water Borne Diseases - Dr. Rose Archemetre, Medicine-Pediatrics Resident
Past Presentations
May 15, 2018: Human Trafficking - Presenter: Dr. Jayne Barr
April 3, 2018: Escalating Care in Resource Poor Settings: Experiences from the Amazon - Presenters: Drs. Tom Melgar, Elizabeth Doherty, Ross Driscoll and Residents
January 30, 2018: Tropical Fever Approach - Presenter: Dr. Steven Pollens
December 5, 2017: Primer on Medical Missions - Presenters: Pediatric Cardiologists Dr. James Loker & Dr. Sunil John
November 16, 2017: Madagascar - Presenter: Dr. Richard Roach and Residents
October 17, 2017: Disaster Medicine - Presenter: Dr. William Fales
September 12, 2017: Poverty, Inc. - Presenter: Dr. Priscilla Woodhams
March 7, 2017: Sierra Leone Healthcare - Presenter: Ron Baker, MD
January 17, 2017: Journal Club: Comparing and Contrasting Disease Here vs. Abroad by Medicine-Pediatrics Residents Emily Cordes, DO and Emily Gray-Goerl, DO
Intracerebral bleed, right haemiparesis and seizures: an atypical presentation of vivax malaria
Severe Plasmodium vivax Malaria: A Report on Serial Cases from Bikaner in Northwestern India
November 15, 2016: Topic - Tropical Medicine Rotation in Madagascar 2016 by Richard Roach, MD and WMed Residents
October 11, 2016: Topic - "Hard to Believe" http://www.hardtobelievemovie.com Discussion to Follow by Tyler Gibb, JD, PhD
September 20, 2016: Topic - Healthcare in Egypt by Mohamed A Mortagy, MD
August 30, 2016: Topic - Reversing the Brain Drain; the New Paradigm in Medical Missions by Michael Johnson, MD
May 24, 2016: Topic - Patient Zero by Ethan Ebner, DO
April 12, 2016: Topic- Disease of Aedes: Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, Yellow Fever (+/- West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis)
March 8, 2016: Topic: Public Health in Afghanistan by Christian Ertl, MD
February 9, 2016: Topic - When tropical infectious diseases travel home by Katie Ryan, MD
January 28, 2016: Topic - Annual Physical Exams in School-Aged Children in the Philippines by Geneva Sagun, MD
December 17, 2015: Tropical Medicine Rotation in Madagascar 2015 by Richard Roach, MD
November 24, 2015: Health Care Realities in the Andes of Peru by Aaron Ebner
September 16, 2015: Variation on Global Health Involvement by Richard Roach, MD
June 17, 2015: Hope for African Women with Cancer by Angela Caffrey, MD, Dr. Jane Namugga, Dr. Greg Ganda
April 16, 2015: Overseas Missions by David Flagler, MD
March 26, 2015: Tropical Pediatrics: A Public Health Concern of International Proportions (A discussion of the 2nd edition of the book) by Richard Roach, MD
February 24, 2015: Maternal Immunization as a Strategy to Improve Maternal and Child Health by Sapna Sadarangani, MD
January 29, 2015: Distal Neonatal Intestinal Obstruction by Marc Downing, MD
November 11, 2014: Ebola Panel Discussion. Moderator: Thomas Melgar, MD
Panel: Amy Curtis, PHD, MPH. Kieran J Fogerty, PHD, EIS-97. Karin Essani, PHD. Larry Lutwick MD, FACP. Moderator: Thomas Melgar, MD
September 24, 2014: End of Life Care: A Cross Cultural Perspective by Angela Caffrey, MD
August 21, 2014: The Psychological Impact of the Ebola Outbreak by Wanda Costanzo, RN, MSN
July 24, 2014: Tropical Disease Update presented by Dr. Richard Roach
February 27, 2014: Using Unofficial Data Sources to Detect Emerging Infectious Diseases by Larry Lutwick, MD, FACP