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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
w=article&id=98&Itemid=98
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.
For more information read here -
http://www.crics8.org/agendas/program/pers
on.php?lang=es&id=9
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.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
Disaster Risk Management preGA, March
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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.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
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)
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
Disaster Risk Management preGA, March
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”.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
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.
Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting
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.
Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting
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.
Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014
- 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.
Sessions in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014
- 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.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
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’.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
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.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
Health 2.0 PreGA, Modern information and
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communication technologies for health -
How the Information Revolution is changing
healthcare and what our contribution could
be
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.
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014 -
Health 2.0 PreGA, Modern information and
communication technologies for health -
How the Information Revolution is changing
healthcare and what our contribution could
be.
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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,
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
Session in the IFMSA March Meeting 2014:
Health 2.0 PreGA, Modern information and
communication technologies for health -
How the Information Revolution is changing
healthcare and what our contribution could
be
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.
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Health 2.0 preGA, Modern information and
communication technologies for health -
How the Information Revolution is changing
healthcare and what our contribution could
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
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Health 2.0 preGA, Modern information and
communication technologies for health -
How the Information Revolution is changing
healthcare and what our contribution could
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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communication technologies for health -
How the Information Revolution is changing
healthcare and what our contribution could
be
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.