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Medical Missions Symposium set April 5 |
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Jim Winkler |
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Apr 3, 2008 |
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Six speakers are slated to give talks at the 10th annual Medical Missions Symposium that will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in Health Education Building Room 110 on the Health Science Campus.
The title of the program, which is sponsored by a UT student group, Students for Medical Missions, is “The Time Is Now.”
The speakers and titles of their talks are:
• John Bul Dau, president of the John Bul Dau Foundation and a 2006 Sundance Film Festival Award winner, “God Grew Tired of Us”;
• Dr. Glenn Geelhoed, professor of surgery, international medical education, and microbiology and tropical medicine at George Washington University Medical Center, “Development of International Health and Medical Education Programs”;
• Dr. Peter Hotez, president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and the Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at George Washington University Medical Center, “A Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases”;
• Dr. Editha Canete-Miguel, founder and executive director of Agape Rural Program in the Philippines and a 2006 recipient of World Health Organization Sasakawa Health Prize for innovative work in health development, “Transforming Communities Through People Empowerment”;
• Dr. Thomas C. Rambo, professor of biological sciences at Northern Kentucky University, “There Is Always Another Question to Answer”; and
• Sharon Barlow Daly, director of the Mossy Foot Project in Ethiopia, “The Mossy Foot Project: From Despair to Hope.” The project provides clinics, supplies, special shoes and foot treatment to people with mossy foot, a debilitating condition that is found primarily in rural districts where people work in soil of volcanic origin. The condition causes repeated swelling and ulcers, deformity and secondary foot and lower-leg infections, and often makes people with the condition social outcasts.
There also will be a screening of the award-winning film, “God Grew Tired of Us,” inspired by the life of Bul Dau.
Hotez, co-director of the Global Network for Neglected Topical Disease Control, an international initiative to control neglected tropical diseases with preventive chemotherapy and antiparasitic drugs, and Dr. Canete-Miguel, who is working to improve the health of thousands of impoverished Filipinos, will be inducted into the Medical Mission Hall of Fame during ceremonies Saturday evening in the Center for Creative Education atrium on the Health Science Campus.
Rambo’s father, Victor, a physician whose missionary work helped millions of people in India regain their eyesight, and Barlow Daly’s father, Nathan, a physician who established the Mossy Foot Project, will be inducted posthumously into the hall of fame. Bul Dau will be honored with the Lawrence V. Conway Distinguished Service Award at the program.
A continental breakfast and lunch at the Dana Conference Center will be provided to attendees.
The symposium is free for students; cost is $60 for health professionals seeking continuing medical education credit and $35 for others.
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