University of Minnesota Medicine Global Health

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Congratulations!

The University of Minnesota - Department of Medicine - Global Health Health Pathway would like to congratulate the 2013 program graduates!

     Mahsa Abassi
     Michelle Carlson
     Renee Donahue Carlson
     Salahudon Maalin
     Donald Mitema
     Malini DeSilva
     Ryan Kelly
     Yoel Korenfeld Kaplan
     James McCabe
     Emily Schaaf
     Sandra Schultz

Thank you for your participation in our program as well for your contributions and support.

Best wishes!

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Doctors Without Borders in Minneapolis:
"Access to the Danger Zone" Film Screening

What:                 "Access to the Danger Zone" Film Screening followed by Q. & A.
When:                Wednesday, June 12, at 7 p.m.
Where:               Lagoon Cinema, 1320 Lagoon Avenue, Minneapolis
Cost:                  Free

Narrated by Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis, the new documentary "Access to the Danger Zone" explores the strategies that humanitarian organizations use to reach people in need in the midst of armed conflicts. Interviews with key experts from Doctors Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations are accompanied by dramatic footage shot in war zones in Afghanistan, Somalia and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2011 and 2012. (View trailer.)
The screening will be followed by a Q. & A. session with Minnesota-based medical and non-medical personnel who have worked internationally with Doctors Without Borders. Speakers will include Dr. Sarah Kesler, a Minneapolis physician who has worked with Doctors Without Borders in Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Chad and the Philippines, and Dr. Joseph Keenan, a Minneapolis physician who has worked with Doctors Without Borders in Nigeria and South Sudan.
Doctors Without Borders provides independent, impartial assistance in more than 70 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care or natural disasters. In 1999, Doctors Without Borders was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Over the last five years, Minnesota residents have worked with Doctors Without Borders in a total of 20 countries.

The screening is free, open to the public and fully accessible. More information is available online at: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/minneapolis.

Tim Shenk
Press Officer
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
333 Seventh Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001
Tel: +1 212.763.5764
Cell: +1 646.206.9387
http://twitter.com/timkshenk
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org

Thank you!

Thank you to all of the Global Health Course and Camp participants, speakers, faculty, volunteers, staff, and supporters for helping to make the 2013 Live Global Health Course and the Humanitarian Crisis Simulation Exercise a huge success!

---The University of Minnesota ~ Department of Medicine ~ Global Health Course

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Space Available!

University of Minnesota ~ Department of Medicine ~ Global Health Course

Space is still available to attend the 2013 Humanitarian Crisis Simulation Exercise.

May 31 at 1pm through June 2 at 1pm.

Click here to register and receive details.

Contact gblhlth@umn.edu with questions.

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS!

We are seeking volunteers for the 2013 Humanitarian Crisis Simulation Exercise event on May 31 at 1pm through June 2 at 1pm in Cannon Falls, WI.

Please contact Debbie Luedtke for details and to volunteer at this exciting event!
gblhlth@umn.edu

Please join us for the next Tropical and Travel Medicine Seminar…

All are welcome free of charge, reservations are requested.

May 28, 2013

6pm-8:30pm

AGENDA:

6pm-6:15pm Light Dinner and Introductions

6:15pm-6:30pm Global Health Update

TBA

University of Minnesota ~ Infectious Disease Fellow

6:30pm-7:30pm Presentation:

Acquired Heart Disease in the Developing World:

Focus on Rheumatic Heart Disease

Ron Johannsen, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine

University of Minnesota ~ Department of Medicine

HCMC ~ Associate Director of the Cardiac Cath Lab

HCMC ~ Director of International Medicine

7:30pm-8:30pm Case Presentations from Global Health Rotations

Melanie Lo, MD

HCMC ~ Internal Medicine Resident

Brian Frederick, MD

HCMC ~ Internal Medicine Resident

8:30pm-9pm Global Health Faculty and Resident Gathering

Event Registration:

Web Site UMN Tickets and Events May 28 TTMS

Deadline May 24, 2013 at 5pm

Event Location and Directions:

Shriners Hospitals for Children - Multipurpose Room

2025 East River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55414

612.596.6100

TTMS Web Page:

http://www.globalhealth.umn.edu/residenttraining/curriculum/tropicaltravelseries/home.html

Contact:

gblhlth@umn.edu

Join us on May 23 for a special Hippocrates Cafe production…

All are welcome free of charge, reservations are requested.

May 23, 2013

6pm-8pm

AGENDA:

6pm-6:15pm Welcome and Introductions

6:15pm-7:15pm Program ~ “Hippocrates Cafe: An Exploration of Plague”

The Hippocrates Cafe shows explore healthcare topics through story and song using professional actors and musicians.

Please join us for this live, made-for-radio show, created and hosted by MPR's regular health and medical analyst, Dr. Jon Hallberg.

Hippocrates Cafe

Narrator: Jon Hallberg, MD

Associate Professor ~ University of Minnesota

Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Actor: Mark Nelson

Actor: Angie Timberman

Musician: Robert Bell ~ Guitar

Musician: Dan Newton ~ Accordion

7:15pm-8pm Dinner and Discussions

8pm Adjourn