Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Registration is now open!         

University of Minnesota - Department of Medicine Global Heath

2013 Humanitarian Crisis Simulation Exercise



May 31 - June 2

University of Minnesota Tickets and Events:
https://www.tickets.umn.edu/umato/online/article/MGHDisasterCamp

Contact: gblhlth@umn.edu

SAVE THE DATE


Tropical and Travel Medicine Seminar 

Date:  May 28, 2013

Time:  6pm-9pm

Location: Shriners Hospitals for Children

Registration will open soon!


Contact:  gblhlth@umn.edu

http://www.globalhealth.umn.edu/education/travel-and-tropical-medicine-series/index.htm

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Doctors Becoming Doctors (video)


Immigrant and refugee physicians face many barriers to practicing medicine and working in their communities when they come to the U.S. While the U.S. brings foreign trained physicians into the country to provide health care in areas that are lacking physicians like rural areas but who leave after 3-4 years. Instead, they could utilize physicians that are already here, have years of experience, communities that depend on them, are culturally and linguistically appropriate and who will stay in the area.

http://vimeo.com/59299147

Check out this new book...

'Zoobiquity':                                                                

What Humans Can Learn From Animal Illness

Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, a cardiologist at the UCLA Medical Center, coined the term "zoobiquity" to describe the idea of looking to animals and the doctors who care for them to better understand human health.
 
http://www.npr.org/2013/04/22/177452982/zoobiquity-what-humans-can-learn-from-animal-illness

 

 

Monday, April 22, 2013



Please click on the link below to see a new article written by Kristina Krohn and published by NBC News.

"Deadly meningitis among gay men worries officials”


Kristina Krohn, MD, is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Resident at the University of Minnesota and the 2012-2013 Stanford NBC News Media and Global Health Fellow.

"American Heart" Debuts at the MN Film Festival on April 18




Free Country Media is pleased to announce the official premiere of the documentary film, “American Heart.”

The film will be unveiled as a part of the 2013 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, and will be competing in the 
Made-in-Minnesota Documentary competition.


The premiere will take place on Thursday, April 18 at 6:30pm at the official festival venue,  
St. Anthony Main Theatre.




Seven years in the making, American Heart takes viewers on an intimate journey into the lives of three refugees who now call Minnesota home.  All of them confront life-threatening health emergencies throughout the course of the film, and their trajectories prove surprising even to their doctors.  At the center of it all is a remarkable health clinic, tucked away in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood of St. Paul.

The HealthPartners Center for International Health serves a diverse population of refugees and immigrants from around the world.

American Heart is directed by Minneapolis filmmaker Chris Newberry, edited by St. Paul’s Bill Kersey, and executive-produced by local documentary icon Melody Gilbert.







To purchase tickets for the screening or to learn more, visit: 



General information regarding the festival can be found at:  



Press contact: 

Thursday, April 18, 2013

CDC Resource...

Resources Available for Local and State Public Health Officials: 

Preparing for and Responding to Bombing Events

http://emergency.cdc.gov/HAN/han00346.asp

 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013



Please see our Global Health Resident and Faculty publication...


PERSPECTIVE THE WRITER’S VOICE 24 | MINNESOTA MEDICINE | APRIL 2013

Lost in translation
A simple lesson about our emergency system might have saved a life

BY KRISTINA KROHN, M.D., AND PATRICIA WALKER, M.D., DTM&H








Please join us for a very special Tropical and Travel Medicine Seminar on May 9 at The Hindu Temple of Minnesota!
 
May 9, 2013
6pm-9pm

All are welcome to attend, 
please REGISTER HERE for this event.

TTMS AGENDA:  6pm-9pm               
Light Dinner and Introductions
►Global Health Resident Presentations
►Global Health Poster Sessions
►Hindu Temple Tour

Seminar Location:
The Hindu Temple of Minnesota                                                                                                                                                     
10530 Troy Lane
Maple Grove, MN 55311
1.763.425.9449

Two weeks in

*disclaimer* This was written a few days ago and now being posted!   Mambo from Arusha! It has been two weeks into our four month long stay...