Symposium on international health April 29 at Fairchild
The Stanford University Medical Center Alumni Association will host its annual symposium on international health April 29 in Fairchild Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, with continuing medical education credit available for a $25 fee.
Starting at 8:30 a.m. and running through the morning, the event features the following talks from medical school alumni: "Aid, ethics and politics: Humanitarian assistance in conflict and disaster zones," Sheri Fink, MD, PhD, fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative; "High tech/low tech: Delivering surgical care in the developing world," Catherine de Vries, MD professor of surgery at University of Utah; "The cancer expert corps: A novel concept to help health disparities populations access clinical trials," C. Norman Coleman, MD, director of the NCI's Radiation Oncology Sciences Program; "Defining Mexico's priorities in pediatric research, education and training," José Ignacio Santos, MD, director general of Federico Gómez Children's Hospital, and "Global childhood survival: How preventable infections in the developing world affect us all," Yvonne Maldonado, MD, associate professor of pediatrics and health research and policy at Stanford.
For more information, call 234-0619, e-mail haronson@stanford.edu or visit http://med.stanford.edu/alumni/reunion2006/eventschedule.html.