::Beyond Borders:  Global Health and Migrating Populations

The 16th Annual GHEC Conference
Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
February 15 - February 17, 2007

Sponsored and Hosted by:
GHEC: Global Health Education Consortium

Co-sponsored by:
Jay Weiss Center for Social Medicine & Health Equity
at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

GHEC President
David Zakus, PhD
Director, Centre for International Health
University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine

Program Committee
Michel Dodard, MD, (Conference Co-chair)
Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Medicine
Univeristy of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Board of Directors, GHEC

Steven Larson, MD (Conference Co-chair)
Assistant Dean for Global Health Programs
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Karen Lam (Conference Strategy )
Executive Officer
Global Health Education Consortium

Andre-Jacques Neusy, MD
New York University School of Medicine

Tom Hall, MD, DrPH
University of California at San Francisco
Executive Director, GHEC

Anvar Velji, MD, FRCP(c), FACP
Kaiser Permanente
University of California at Davis

Abstracts & Awards Committees
Committees Chair, Anvar Velji, University of California at Davis and Kaiser Permanente

Session Abstracts
Diane Appelbaum, MEDICC
Rashida Khakoo, West Virginia University
Neal Nathanson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Breyette Lorntz, University of Virginia

Poster Abstracts
Anne Fanning, University of Alberta
Tom Norris, University of Washington School of Medicine
Penny Parnes, University of Toronto
Janice K. Smith, University of Texas Medical Branch

Awards
Michel Dodard, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
D. Daniel Hunt, Northern Ontario School of Medicine
Jay D. Kravitz, Oregon Health & Sciences University
Steven Larson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Andre-Jacques Neusy, New York University School of Medicine
Sara Pirtle, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Sural Shah, American Medical Student Association
Mario Tristan, International Health Central American Institute

Special Thanks:
To the many groups and individuals who played an important role in the creation of this event. Especially:

• Office of Global Health Programs University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
• Andrew Kestler, University of Colorado at Denver
• Terri Lynch, ILAC / Creighton University
• AIM • CENISMI • ILAC • MEDICC