Linda Adams, former director of the California Department of Water Resources, was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in May 2006 as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency – making her the first woman to serve as head of the agency. During Adams’ 32 years of service to the State of California, she has acted in a number of key positions in both the Executive and Legislative branches, most recently as a member of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. Prior to her serving as Director of the Department of Water Resources, Adams joined Governor Davis’ staff in 1999 as Chief Deputy Legislative Secretary, where her primary responsibilities were negotiating legislation related to environmental protection and natural resources. Adams’ most notable accomplishments include the “Clean Cars/Clean Air” legislation, earning her the “Environmental Hero Award” from the California League of Conservation Voters.
• Keynote Address | Symposium on Global Warming •

Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD, is Professor of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at UC Davis Health System and the Director of Community Engagement of the UCD Clinical Translational Science Center (CTSC). He just completed a four-year term as a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). He is the Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean of the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Consortium. He is also Chair of the Board of Directors of Mental Health America (MHA; formerly the National Mental Health Association), a Steering Committee and Research Scientist member of the National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse (NHSNDA), and a member of the National Latino Healthcare Task Force. His research includes cross-national comparative epidemiologic research on patterns and correlates of mental disorders, substance abuse and health conditions. His applied research program has focused on identifying unmet health and mental needs and associated risk and protective factors and reducing health and mental disparities in underserved populations and health care quality improvement. Lately, he has been very active translating health and mental health research results into practical information for individuals, families, service administrators, and policy makers to inform health policy decisions and guide program development at the local, national, and international level. • Introduction to Keynote Address I, Lunchtime Topic Tables I, Session A1, Morning Welcome •

 Kelly Anderson, B.Sc., B.A.H. (Queen's University), MD Candidate 2010 (University of Western Ontario) is the National Officer of Public Health for the Canadian  Federation of Medical Students (CFMS) (2006-08). Following a Postgraduate Program in International Project Management (Humber College), Kelly held positions at the Rwanda National AIDS Commission (2005-06) and Right To Play International (2006). She has served on Advisory Committees at the Hamilton AIDS Network (2004-05) and the Local Host Secretariat of the International AIDS Conference (2006). She developed and currently coordinates the International Health Mentorship Project (http://ihmp.cfms.org), which pairs Canadian medical students with global health mentors at over 50 global NGOs. Interested in global health curriculum, Kelly is the current FMS Representative to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Global Health Resource Group. • Lunchtime Topic Tables II •

Rachna Bali, MS, is a third year medical student at Touro University, California. She is currently the National Officer for Medical Education at IFMSA-USA (International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations-USA). Her responsibilities include promoting and coordinating medical books donation in medical schools across the United States via local IFMSA-USA chapters. She is also the Director of Malaria Research and Prevention at GPC (Global Physicians Corps) www.globalphysicians.org—a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting health and medical care in the developing nations. Her research on pediatrics malaria has been presented at several prestigious conferences such as the RSTMH, the ASTMH, the GHEC, and the Northern California International Health Conference. Rachna received her Masters degree in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology from the University of California, Davis. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Simon Barquera, MS, PhD is a medical surgeon from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico city with graduate MS and PhD degrees from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston MA. He has been a consultant for WHO, PAHO, IFPRI and the IAAE in the fields of nutrition, obesity and chronic diseases. He is co-author of several books and scientific papers such as the Third Report on the World Nutrition Situation of United Nations, the Mexican Nutrition Survey 1999 report and the Mexican Health Survey 2000 report. In 2003 he was a member of the team that received the Fred L. Soper award for excellence in health literature for an article characterizing the obesity and nutrition transition situation in Mexico. Currently Dr. Barquera is President of the Nutrition Board of Professor at the Mexican School of Public Health and head of the Diet and Chronic Diseases Department at the Nutrition and Health Research Center. He has been awarded the distinction of National Investigator by the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology. • Session A2 •

Betsy Bencken, MS, is currently Director of Operations at the Center for Virtual Care at the University of California, Davis. Her background includes appointments at the University of California, Davis in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Radiology and Pathology. Ms. Bencken is an experienced instructor with a multifaceted background in administration, academic education, biotechnology and pharmaceutical research. She has presented in multiple simulation conferences using simulation and hybrid education as a foundation for advancing patient safety by improving the quality of the care giver through advanced educational modalities with a focus on simulation. • Session D5 •

Marvin J. Bittner, MD, is Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the Creighton University Medical Center and Chief, Infectious Diseases, at the VA Medical Center in Omaha. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor (Clinician, Volunteer) at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and chief consultant for infectious diseases and international travel for the Douglas County Health Department, where he has staffed the Travel Clinic for over 20 years. He is on the board of the Global Health Education Consortium as well as the Metro Omaha Medical Society, whose bimonthly magazine he serves as editor. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, of the Infectious Disease Society of America, and of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. His SB (chemistry) is from the University of Chicago and both his MD and MSc (clinical epidemiology) are from Harvard. • Session B3 •

Christine C. Boesz, DrPH, is the Inspector General (IG) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Within the IG community she serves as Vice-Chair of the Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency and chairs several IG committees. She is a Member of the GAO Advisory Council on Government Auditing Standards; U.S. representative to Global Science Forum’s Project on Responsible Conduct of Research. Prior to her NSF position she was Head of Regulatory Accountability, Aetna U.S. Healthcare Inc; (1995-98) VP, Government Programs at NY Life. Prior to 1995, she held compliance and oversight positions with DHHS, specializing in managed care and Medicare. In 1978 she helped found and manage a Health Maintenance Organization in Texas and was an Associate Professor of Mathematics, Valdosta State College, GA. She was past president of the National Association of Managed Care Regulators, a member of the American Statistical Association, and American Public Health Association. Received Lifetime Service Award from Managed Care Regulators; B.A. Mathematics, Douglass College (1966); M.S. Statistics, Rutgers University (1967); Doctorate in Public Health (health policy), U. of Michigan School of Public Health (1997) where she was Pew Fellow. • Session D2 •

 Carol Brosgart, MD, is Vice President, Public Health and Policy at Gilead Sciences. Carol joined Gilead in 1998 and was promoted to Vice President, Clinical Research (2001). During her tenure leading the antiviral clinical drug development programs, Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate), for the treatment of HIV (2001) and Hepsera® (adefovir dipivoxil), for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (2002) were licensed. In 2005, Carol started the public health and policy department. Prior to Gilead, Dr. Brosgart spent over 20 years as the Medical Director of the East Bay AIDS Center (1987-1998) and Central Health Center (1978-1987) of the Alameda County Health Care Services Agency. In 1981, she was one of the first physicians in the U.S. treating HIV patients. She directed NIH collaborative research trials, worked on the development of antiretrovirals for HIV and on agents for prophylaxis and treatment of opportunistic complications of HIV. Serving in an advisory capacity to the State of California, NIH, CDC, and HRSA , she has contributed to public health policy for HIV and communicable diseases.Her MD and residency in pediatrics was at UCSF; and preventive medicine was completed at the California State Department of Public Health and UCB.  • Session D1 •

Jack H. Bryant, MD’s professional life has been focused mainly on the health problems of poor populations in Africa, Asia and Latin America-Caribbean, often working from a university base, with major emphasis on the development of community-based health care systems for those living in poverty. A diversion from that pattern work in the Carter Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Health and Director of the Office of International Health, which also placed him on the Executive Board of WHO and the U.S. Delegation to the Alma-Ata Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC), 1978. For the past ten years, Dr. Bryant worked in Kenya as a Visiting Professor, teaching at the Tropical Institute for Community Health and Development in Kisumu. Since 2004, Dr. Bryant and his wife have been working with UN Habitat (Nairobi), which invited them to assist in the ensuring that Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OCV) in the urban slums receive special attention. At the request of The Encyclopedia of Public Health (Elsevier Press, London) in 2006 he has written a chapter on the Alma Ata Story. Dr. Bryant is currently on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Department of International Health; Great Lakes University of Kisumu, Kenya; University of Virginia Department of Public Health Sciences.
• Lunchtime Topic Tables I, Sessions B2, C1 •

Xóchitl Castañeda has been the Director of Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA) at the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley, since 2001. A medical anthropologist by training, Xóchitl was educated in Guatemala and Mexico. She did a post-doctoral fellowship in reproductive health at the UC San Francisco and trained in social science and medicine at Harvard University and Amsterdam University. She was a professor and researcher at Mexico's National Institute of Public Health, where she directed the Department of Reproductive Health. In 1999, she received the National Research Award on Social Science and Medicine. Xóchitl has more than 80 publications and has served as a consultant for more than 20 national and international institutions. Her leadership has been key in the creation of binational programs to improve the quality of life of Latino immigrants in the U.S. Under her direction, HIA has coordinated Binational Health Week with the participation of over 88 Latin American consulates. She was elected to be an advisor to the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), for which she served as the National Coordinator of the Health Commission for the U.S. • Session B1 •

Freida Chavez is Director of International Student Programs and Lecturer, Global Health and International Nursing at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, (LSBFN) University of Toronto. She brings decades of broad based experience in health system leadership and education. Upon joining the LSBFN four years ago, she has championed the vision of Nurses as Global Citizens and successfully obtained support in creating strategies to build global citizenship through education. Freida leads the integration of global health in the curriculum to build awareness of global citizenship as a guiding concept for nursing practice. One tangible expression of this vision in the is the Global Health Elective. She designed and leads this course where both undergraduate and graduate students go to global health clinical placements in resource-constrained areas in First Nations communities in Canada and internationally( India and Africa). A systematic review through the development of evaluation methods for the course has just been funded by the Centre for Excellence and Innovation in Nursing Education, LSFN, and UofT. Freida is currently working with international partners in India and Africa on collaborative projects to build capacity in nursing education and practice. She is also involved with the Canadian Nurses Association, Leadership for Nurses Working Abroad.  • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Bruno Chomel, DVM, PhD, received his degree in veterinary medicine in 1978 from the University of Lyon, France. He was a faculty member of the Lyon Veterinary School from 1979 until 1990. Dr. Chomel received a MS in Microbiology (Pasteur Institute, Paris, 1981), a MS in Immunology (University of Lyon, 1982) and his PhD in Microbiology from the same University (1984). He served for 2 years as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and consulted with international organizations including the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the United Nations Development Program, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and NGOs such as Bioforce and Vétérinaires sans Frontières. Dr. Chomel joined the faculty of the School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis in 1990 as Professor of Zoonoses. His research centers on cat scratch disease and Bartonella infections in domestic animals and wildlife, the epidemiology of rabies and plague and zoonoses of wildlife. Dr. Chomel is the Director of the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center on New and Emerging Zoonoses. He serves as the Director of the Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis and was elected corresponding member of the French National Academy of Medicine in January 2007. • Session E1 •

Lynne Chronister, MPH, is Executive Director of Sponsored Programs at the University of Washington. Previously she served as Assoc. Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Davis. She has been a presenter on Global Issue in Research Ethics and the responsible conduct of research at numerous international meetings. Through the Society of Research Administrators International, she is working with the University of Ibadan in Nigeria to promote additional research collaborations and to establish an infrastructure for research administration and compliance. Lynne is the co-author of the recent text Research Administration and Management.
• Session D2 •

Richard J. Deckelbaum, MD, FRCP(C), directs the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University where he holds professorships in nutrition, pediatrics and epidemiology. In addition to his basic research in cell biology of lipids and issues of human nutrition, he has been active in translating basic science findings to practical application in different populations. He has chaired task forces for the American Heart Association, March of Dimes, and has served advisory committees of the National Institutes of Health, RAND Corporation, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Early in his career he helped establish the first children’s hospital in the West Bank of Jordan and then continued to organize research programs among Egyptian, Palestinian, and Israeli populations. With colleagues at two universities he helped initiate and now directs, the Columbia side of the Medical School for International Health (MSIH), a ‘novel’ medical school at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center. MSIH aims to help build the international health work force through inoculating global health skills into medical education. Currently, he continues in projects related to health and science as a bridge between different populations in the Mideast, Africa, and Asia.
• Morning Welcome, Awards, Session D2 •

Stephanie DeVita-Gutendorf is the 2007-2008 global health Outreach Fellow of the University Coalitions for Global Health where she has had the opportunitiy to represents student interests during the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) reauthorization process. In addition to doing grassroots organizing at universities all over the nation, Stephanie advocates for global health issues in Washington D.C. Prior to this position, Stephanie completed her bachelor’s degree in international relations with a focus in global health and minors in non-profit management and Spanish at Seton Hall University. Her advocacy experience includes her two-year class presidency and involvement in a variety of activism campaigns on her campus. An Ohio native, Stephanie has a background in the medical field, ranging from working with the Human Rights Clinic at Doctors of the World, where she trained doctors to recognize the signs of torture and helped refugees find asylum in the United States to her summers spent volunteering at an HIV/AIDS clinic.
• Lunchtime Topic Tables II •

Michel Dodard, MD, is an Assoc. Prof. of Family Medicine and Community Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the State University of Haiti, and after a residency in Family Medicine in Yonkers, New York, completed a fellowship in Urban Family Medicine at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Dodard has been involved in academic Family Medicine since 1980 and was Director of the Family Practice Residency Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1988 to 2000. He is the Medical Director of AHEC at UM and is principal investigator of the UM Haiti Project, which has introduced and promoted the Specialty of Family Medicine in Haiti. Dr. Dodard’s publications include articles and book chapters on pulmonary nodules, insomnia and tuberculosis. His major interests are intercultural medicine, community health and health workforce development in resource poor countries. • Breakfast with the Professors II •

Paul Drain, MD, MPH, was raised in Ohio where, while earning a degree in Microbiology at Miami University, he began cultivating his interests in global health and medicine. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the remote High Atlas Mountains of Morocco for two years. He completing a Masters of Public Health degree in Epidemiology and International Health at the University of Washington, during which time he conducted research in Madagascar. He then worked at PATH, a non-governmental global health organization in Seattle, before entering the University of Washington School of Medicine. During medical school, Dr. Drain created the school’s first course on Tropical Medicine, conducted clinical HIV research in Kenya, and co-founded a became an editor of Global Pulse, a new international health journal. He then spent a year in Tanzania conducting clinical HIV research with Harvard University as a U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty/Ellison Fellow. Dr. Drain is currently a Medicine Resident at Stanford University and his first book, called Caring for the World: A Guidebook to Global Health Opportunities, will be published spring 2008 • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Jessica Evert, MD, is currently a third year resident in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF and is a UCSF Global Health Clinical Scholar.  She is a graduate of Ohio State University College of Medicine, where she helped establish the Office of Global Health Education.  She has served on the executive board of IFMSA-USA and has co-authored the GHEC-sponsored guidebooks on developing undergraduate and graduate global health medical education.  Domestically, she provides primary care within the Refugee and Asylee Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital's Family Health Center, is a local coordinator for the National Physician's Alliance, and participates in a variety of initiatives for underserved patients and communities.
• Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Oliver Fein, MD, is a practicing general internist with experience in health policy, access to care and global health education. He is Professor of Clinical Medicine and Public Health at the Weill Cornell Medical College. As Associate Dean, he is responsible for Weill Cornell's Office of Affiliations and Office of Global Health Education. He also coordinates the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium, a weekly interdisciplinary health policy forum. Dr. Fein is Vice President for the United States of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and is President-elect of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). He also sits on the Editorial Board of the journal Medical Care. In 1993-94, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the office of Senate Majority Leader, George Mitchell.
• Session E4 •

Emily Fisher recieved her BS in Human Biology: Social Aspects of Health and Disease from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. While at UT Austin, she served as an intern at both the Population Research Center as a demography intern, studying adolescent dating and sexual practices, and later at the Texas Department of State Health Services as an infectious disease intern conducting a project on MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) transmission in Texas high school athletes. Both these experiences helped solidify her interest and hopes for a career in public health. Currently she is a second year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. This past summer, she had the oppurtunity to travel to Mulukuku, Nicaragua with a UTMB-sponsored family medicine externship. This project is the capstone from her experiences in Mulukuku. • Session B5 •

Faith Fitzgerald is an Internist and Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Humanities and Bioethics at the University of California Davis, Sacramento. She took her M.D. at the University of California, San Francisco in 1969, was Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 1973 and has been teaching medical students and residents ever since. She has written on a wide variety of topics in medicine, including protean disease states, medical education, physical diagnosis and bioethics. She is a Master of the American College of Physicians, current Regent of the American College of Physicians and sees patients in both hospital and clinic. • Breakfast with the Professors II, Keynote Address IV •

Julio Frenk, MD, PhD, recently concluded his six-year term as the Minister of Health of Mexico. In addition to strengthening public health programs, his central contribution was an ambitious reform to provide universal health insurance. This program is expanding access to quality care and financial protection for 50 million Mexicans, most of them poor, who were uninsured. Since February 2007, Julio Frenk is Senior Fellow at the Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Since May 2007 he is the President of the CARSO Health Institute, a new foundation focusing on health-systems innovations in Latin America. His career has included executive positions at the WHO and the Mexican Health Foundation. He was founding Director-General of the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, is a Visiting Professor at Harvard University, and was awarded the position of National Researcher in his country. He is a member of several professional associations, including the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science in the United States. His written production includes 29 books and monographs, 49 book chapters, 95 articles in academic journals, and 108 articles in cultural periodicals and newspapers. Two of his books are best-selling novels for youngsters explaining the functions of the human body. Dr. Frenk holds a medical degree from the National University of Mexico, and a Master's of Public Health and a joint doctorate in Medical Care Organization and in Sociology from the University of Michigan. • Keynote Address I, Plenary Panel II •

Pierce Gardner, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Senior Advisor for Global Health Activities at Stony Brook School of Medicine. For nine years he served as liaison representative of the American College of Physicians to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the CDC. He also served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC as Chief of the Central Nervous System Viral Surveillance Unit. He has done extensive international work and has been a consultant for the WHO and CDC. Most recently he has served as Senior Advisor for Clinical Research and Training at the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, and continues as a consultant to the Global Health and Clinical Research Training Program. Dr. Gardner is also a consultant to the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board and has published more than 125 articles, reviews, and books, primarily dealing with immunization issues and health issues of international travel. He has a long interest in adult immunization, and has served as editor of the edition of the "Guide for Adult Immunization" published by the American College of Physicians and Infectious Diseases Society of America. Dr. Gardner graduated from Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington and at Case Western Reserve. Dr. Gardner did his fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His major academic appointments were at Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I, Session C5 •

Jerry Gillespie, DVM, PhD, July 1, 2007, Dr. Gillespie stepped down as Director of the Western Institute for Food Safety and Security (WIFSS), University of California, Davis, and has recently returned to WIFSS to serve part time as Director of the Homeland Security Division. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Oklahoma State University in 1961, and completed his doctorate in comparative pathology at the University of California, Davis, in 1965. After a postdoctoral fellowship with the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the UC San Francisco Medical Center, he joined the faculty of the UC Davis Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine. During his tenure he served as Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Associate Chair of Physiological Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine. During his tenure at UCD he received numerous extramural grants to support his research in respiratory and cardiovascular pathophysiology. He has published more than 100 original scientific publications contributing internationally to a fuller understanding of respiratory disease, equine exercise physiology and food safety. In 1985, Dr. Gillespie was appointed Head of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital and Department of Clinical Sciences, Kansas State University, and in 2000 he was appointed Director of the Joint Institute for Food Safety Research, Washington, DC. In 2002, he returned to UCD. Currently, he has four major grants supporting his work in food safety and defense. He has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards. – Jerry Gillespie, DVM, PhD, Director, Homeland Security Division, Western Institute for Food Safety and Security, • Session E1 •

Brandon Green, MS3, is the outgoing Secretary-General of the International Federation of Medical Students' Association – USA chapter (IFMSA-USA), and the newly appointed Development Exchange Officer working to expand the IFMSA exchange structure within the American Medical Student Association nationwide. He has participated in an IFMSA clinical exchange to Lille, France, doing an OB/GYN rotation, and has successfully created a clinical exchange chapter at his medical school (Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine) which welcomes 4 foreign medical students every academic year to Tulsa, OK, in a variety of medical specialties. Brandon is considering a residency in general surgery to the end of becoming a full-time human aid worker for an NGO, and is also interested in expanding his career into global health policy and diplomacy. • Lunchtime Topic Tables II •

Thomas Hall, MD, DrPH, is lecturer in the UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Executive Director of the Global Health Education Consortium. He received undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Harvard and his DrPH degree in international health from Johns Hopkins. He has held faculty appointments in the schools of public health of the Univ. of Puerto Rico, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill, and the Univ. of Washington (Seattle). At UNC he was director of the Carolina Population Center. Non-academic positions have included medical director of a rural hospital, director of a regional health planning agency, and Chief Medical Officer (Research) in the New Zealand Dept. of Health (1985-86). He joined UCSF in 1988, directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV prevention research (1989-96) and since then has taught and mentored students in international health. He has consulted frequently with WHO, the World Bank and many countries on strategic health workforce planning. He is the lead editor/author of the WHO monograph, “Health manpower planning: Principles, methods and issues," primary author of the WHO ToolKit for Human Resources Development, and has published extensively in the health workforce field.
• Lunchtime Topic Tables I, Session C1 •

Cynthia Haq, MD, received her medical degree at Indiana University, completed her residency at the University of Wisconsin, and joined the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School before returning to Wisconsin. Early in her career she served as the medical director for a rural health center in Kasangati, Uganda, and then in Karachi, Pakistan to establish the first family medicine post-graduate training program in Pakistan. She served as a Fulbright Scholar at Makerere University in Uganda to assist the development of family medicine in East Africa in 2005. Dr. Haq teaches family medicine, primary health care, community medicine and global health to students, post-graduate students, and faculty and community physicians. • Session B4 •

Eva Holsinger, MD, is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and completed her pediatric residency training at Akron Children’s Hospital. She has worked in general pediatrics and completed a Global Child Health Fellowship at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in 2006. She is currently on faculty at University of Hospitals of Cleveland in the Division of Global Child Health, where she works with the Rainbow Adoption Health Service. She also co-directs the annual course “Complex Humanitarian Emergencies: Focus on Children and Families.” She has served short-term as a health care provider in a variety of locations in Central and South America, and often speaks about the overlooked needs of children in developing countries. Her special interests include child prostitution and gender-based violence. • Session E5 •

Cindy Howard, MD, MPHTM, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; the Associate Director of the Global Pediatric Program at the University of Minnesota; Division Chief of General Pediatrics and the Director of the International Adoption Program. Dr. Howard received her M.D. degree at the University of North Carolina, completed her residency at the University of Alabama Children’s Hospital. She completed her pediatric infectious disease fellowship and MPH in tropical medicine at Tulane University. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota Dr. Howard practiced in Germany, Nigeria, Uganda and inner city Baltimore. She developed and coordinated an educational exchange program between the departments of pediatrics at the University of Maryland and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda • Lunchtime Topic Tables II •

Judy Illes, PhD, is Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Dr. Illes directs the National Core for Neuroethics at UBC and a research team devoted to ethical, legal, social and policy challenges specifically at the intersection of the neurosciences and biomedical ethics. These include advances in functional neuroimaging in basic and clinical research, commercialization of cognitive neuroscience, clinical findings detected incidentally in research, regenerative medicine, and stakeholder engagement on a global scale. Dr. Illes has written numerous books, edited volumes and more than 60 journal articles. Her latest book, Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice and Policy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Dr. Illes is a member of the Internal Advisory Board for the Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction (INMHA) of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Institute of Medicine, Forum on Neuroscience on Neurological Disorders, a the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, and co-Chair of the Committee on Women in Neuroscience for the Society for Neuroscience. Most recently she was named as Chair of the Working Group on Women in World Neuroscience, a new initiative of the International Brain Research Organization. • Keynote Address III, Lunchtime Topic Tables II •

Ilene Jacobs has devoted her 28 year legal career to advocacy for the housing and civil rights of minority, farmworker, homeless and other low income communities. She has undertaken federal and state litigation and related advocacy emphasizing fair housing civil rights, slumlord tort litigation and receivership, land use litigation for fair and affordable housing, employment and housing retaliation and discrimination cases, homeless shelter and constitutional rights advocacy. Ms. Jacobs has taught law for both U.C. Davis Law School and Yuba Community College. She attended Boston University and the Northeastern University School of Law, started her practice in 1979 in Washington, D.C., and practiced with the Legal Aid Bureau in Baltimore, Maryland from 1983-1986. Ms. Jacobs is the CRLA delegate to the 2010 Census Advisory Committee, the co-chair of the CRLA Housing Task Force, project director for the CRLA Rural Fair Housing Center and on the Board of Directors of the California Coalition for Rural Housing and the California Endowment/RCAC Agricultural Worker Health and Housing Advisory Committee. She has co-authored and authored several papers centered on farmworkers and the Mexican Indigenous Communities in California. She has presented and published "Farmworker Housing in California" for the La Raza Law Journal Symposium on housing discrimination, served as a Daily Law Columnist in Baltimore, was featured on In the News and The News Hour, McNeil/Lehrer Productions. She served on The California Endowment CEO Task Force on farmworkers and the agricultural worker health and housing advisory committee and The California Department of Housing and Community Development housing element task force. • Session B1 •

Lovell S. (Tu) Jarvis, PhD, is Divisional Associate Dean for Human Sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. His research focuses on agriculturally-related policy in less developed countries, particularly Latin America. His research on livestock economics developed theoretical and empirical frameworks to explain the unusual dynamics of livestock sector behavior, while his recent research on livestock economics has analyzed the effect of animal diseases like Foot and Mouth Disease and BSE on agricultural prices and trade. He also conducts research on the domestic welfare effects of international commodity agreements, especially the International Coffee Agreement, on the process of agricultural development in Chile, especially the transfer and adaptation of technology, the role of land and economic reforms, and the development of new labor market mechanisms to incorporate and motivate agricultural workers, and on nutrition-related topics such as the effect of village infrastructure on child development and on the economics of obesity. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Bank and other international organizations, US corporations, and an adviser to two foreign governments. • Session E3 •

Dave Jones (D-Sacramento) represents the 9th District in the California State Assembly. Jones chairs the Assembly Judiciary Committee and serves on the Budget, Health, Agriculture and Utilities and Commerce standing committees. He also serves on the Select Committee on Youth Violence Prevention. In his first year, seventeen of his bills made it to the Governor and twelve were signed into law – the highest percentage of bills signed of any freshman legislator. In his second year, fifteen of his bills made it to the Governor’s desk and ten were signed into law. These bills demonstrate his commitment to children, affordable housing, environmental protection, health care, privacy rights, and improving access to the courts. Prior to his election to the State Assembly, Jones served as a Sacramento City Councilmember for five and a half years. Before that, Jones worked for six years as a legal aid attorney with Legal Services of Northern California, providing free legal assistance to the poor. He also served in the Clinton Administration for three years first as Special Assistant and then Counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. Jones is a graduate of DePauw University, Harvard Law School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. • Plenary Panel I •

Evaleen Jones, MD, President, Medical Director & Founder of Child Family Health International. Evaleen Jones' commitment to the underserved stems from growing up in a lower income family and living for a time in southwestern Virginia where poverty prevails. She began her work in global health as a medical student.   Within five years she founded Child Family Health International (CFHI) providing responsible and equitable placements for health science students in international clinical rotations. Fifteen years later, CFHI has 163 global partners in 6 countries and sends over 750 students abroad annually. She hopes to help rectify gross inequalities of basic health care access by creating future Global Health Ambassadors at all levels of society~ future Agents of Change for underserved and marginalized communities. Dr. Jones is a tireless advocate of the ‘informal curriculum’.  Her passion is mentoring aspiring doctors about cultural humility and patient advocacy through transformational experiences such as Global Health and Mind Body Medicine electives. She maintains a clinical practice at Stanford Family Medicine. She is a 2008 recipient of the AMSA “Recognizing Women Leaders in Medicine Award”, the 2007 Oprah Winfrey Recipient honoring “Women with Heart”, and the 2006 Virginia Tech Distinguished Achievement Award, one of VT’s highest awards bestowed on an individual for achievements of enduring significance and value to society. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I, Breakfast with the Professors II, Session C4 •

Jay Kravitz, MD an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, where he has taught global health courses for 14 years, served as faculty advisor to the student-organized Global Health Alliance, and is currently a Board Member of the Global Health Education Consortium. He was Director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Training Program for public health physicians at OHSU from 1995-2005. He recently retired as the Washington County, Public Health Officer. He earned degrees in economics and medicine at Tulane University, attended the London School of Economics, and earned a Masters Degree of Public Health at the University of Washington. Board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Preventive Medicine, his international health experiences include refugee and displaced persons health care in Thailand and Ethiopia, disaster response in Mexico, and epidemiological studies in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and South Africa. In the recent past he lectured on various public health topics in academic settings in Germany, Ecuador, Cambodia, and several U.S. universities. • Session A2 •

Steven Larson, MD, is Asst. Dean for Global Health Programs and an Assoc. Prof. in the Dept. of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania. He serves as the faculty advisor for the student-run Global Health Interest Group. Since the late 1980s, Dr. Larson has been immersed in the examination of the history and economy of Central America and their impact on health care delivery. In 1993, Dr. Larson established Frontline Medicine at Penn to help students and residents to explore the complex issues facing underserved populations. From 1993-2006, he served as the volunteer medical consultant for Project Salud, a nurse practitioner-managed migrant health clinic located in southern Chester County, caring for the predominantly Mexican labor force employed in the local agricultural industry. He is engaged in the organization and building of Puentes de Salud, a Latino immigrant health clinic in south Philadelphia. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Judy Lewis, M.Phil, is a medical sociologist who has been on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center for over 30 years. She is Professor of Community Medicine and Pediatrics. Prof. Lewis developed and directed the Community Based Education Program for almost 25 years, working with communities and organizations throughout the state of Connecticut. She developed one of the first school-based health care delivery programs in the U.S., which continues to serve 26,000 low income children in Hartford, Connecticut. Prof. Lewis has led many courses and educational initiatives at UCHC, including women’s health, community and international health research and cross cultural skills. She is currently the Director of Global Health Education for the medical school and working with medical, dental mph students. She has also conducted research in training in many countries including Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Tanzania, Uganda, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Cambodia, China, Central Asia (Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan) and Haiti. She is the author of the chapter on Maternal and Child Health in Understanding Global Health. Prof. Lewis has served GHEC in many leadership positions, including the presidency. She chairs the International Health Committee of the American Public Health Association and is a member of the Management Committee for the Women and Health Task Force of the Network-TUFH. • Session B5 •

Sofia Lombera, B.Sc. is the Research and Global Partnerships Manager for the National Core for Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia. She is co-author on several peer-reviewed papers in neuroethics including an analysis of the international neuroethics literature. Currently her work at UBC focuses on building international partnerships and developing an online neuroethics course. Ms. Lombera also manages the International Neuroethics Network headquartered at the Core. • Lunchtime Topic
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Breyette Lorntz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Coordinator of Health Education, Physical Education and Family Life Education, Charlottesville City Schools, holds a PhD and a MA in Education and a BA in Mathematics. Dr. Lorntz has worked and taught in countries across Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Since joining the faculty of the Univiversity of Virginia in 2001, she has worked with faculty across schools and departments to create courses, seminars and other educational activities related to global health. She has also worked with UVA faculty to found and expand a scholarship program for UVA students to conduct international fieldwork focused on global health. She has mentored and collaborated with international fellows from Bangladesh, Brazil, and South Africa to in areas such as MCH, HIV/AIDS and Diarrhea.
• Session A4 •

Fred Meyers, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine. Dr. Meyers graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, and completed his post-doctoral training in Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Meyers is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, in Hematology, and in Medical Oncology. Dr. Meyers’ clinical, education, and research activities have focused on advanced malignancies. He has acknowledged expertise in genito-urinary cancers and in palliative care. His commitment to medical education is seen in his training program supervision, national leadership, and faculty development activities. He leads several funded training programs including the K30/Mentored Clinical Research Training Program and co leads the UCD stem cell training program. He serves as the Program director for the UCD CTSC research training and education program. Over the past decade he has been a leader in the national discussion about the provision of supportive and palliative care for cancer patients and their families. As the Medical Director of the UC Davis Hospice Program since 1986, he has been in a position to develop novel educational programs, establish models of research in end of life and palliative care, and provide expert consultative and on-going care for patients and families with advanced disease. • Session A5 •

Dennis Mull, MD, MPH, is one of ten founding members of IHMEC – the International Health Medical Education Consortium – which after a decade changed its name to GHEC. He is currently Professor of Family Medicine at Keck-USC School of Medicine in Los Angeles and Emeritus Professor of Family Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. He also serves as a Commissioner on the California Healthcare Workforce Policy Commission. With Dr. Esther Kawira, a U.S. – trained Family Physician, he co-founded the Sota Village Health Project and Clinic in Shirati, Tanzania on the shore of Lake Victoria. Since the founding of the clinic in 2006, he has returned to Shirati every January and July with students and residents, who are housed in a hostel that he developed. Dr. Mull is President of the Shirati Health Education and Development (SHED) Foundation-U.S. Branch, a 501(c)(3) organization providing support for the Sota Clinic. A video showing Dr. Kawira, Dr. Mull, and the clinic can be viewed on the SHED website at www.shedfoundation.org. Students or residents interested in going to Tanzania may contact Dr. Mull at dmull@sbcglobal.net for details. • Breakfast with the Professors I •

Ricardo F. Muñoz, PhD, immigrated to San Francisco from Perú at age 10. He obtained his B.A. from Stanford University (1972) and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon (1977). He is Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, where he serves as Chief Psychologist at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), and directs the Clinical Psychology Training Program. He is also Director of the UCSF/SFGH Latino Mental Health Research Program (http://medschool.ucsf.edu/latino/), and Director of the Internet World Health Research Center (www.health.ucsf.edu). He specializes in cognitive behavioral approaches to the prevention and treatment of major depression, smoking cessation, and evidence-based Internet interventions. He has published over 75 articles and chapters, and co-authored or edited five books: Depression Prevention: Research Directions, The Prevention of Depression: Research and Practice, Social and Psychological Research in Community Settings, Control Your Depression, and Controlling Your Drinking. He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. He is currently serving on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse.
• Session A1 •

Thomas Novotny, MD, MPH, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF); he is affiliated with the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UCSF Global Health Sciences, and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies International Program. He has served as Assistant Surgeon General in the US Public Health Service, as CDC liaison to the World Bank, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Refugee Health. At the World Bank, he worked on public health systems development, tobacco control, and HIV/AIDS, particularly in Eastern Europe. He has published numerous scientific articles on tobacco, HIV/AIDS, public health practice, and epidemiology, and he has contributed to several Reports of the Surgeon General on Tobacco and Health. At UCSF, he is Director of International Programs in the School of Medicine, with responsibility for curriculum development and an Area of Concentration in Global Health for medical students. His research now focuses on tobacco control in developing countries, the interaction between tobacco use and infectious diseases, global health diplomacy, and medical education. He teaches courses on global health, clinical research skills, health diplomacy, and tobacco control to medical students, graduates students, and residents. He is a member of the Oxford Health Alliance (a private-public partnership focusing on global chronic diseases), the steering committee for the UC-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the UC-wide Senior International Leaders Council, and the UCSF Faculty Council of the Academic Senate. In 2007, he was recognized by the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators for teaching excellence. • Breakfast with the Professors I •

Robin Paetzold, MBA, has been the Director of Global Programs at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine since 2002 following a previous position of International Coordinator for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Iowa. She directs three on campus elective courses- Global Health Issues in International Communities, Global Health Issues in Domestic Communities, and Introduction to the US Healthcare System, and oversees all medical students involved in cross cultural global medicine electives and clerkships. She also serves on various University global health and human rights committees, and works on several University diversity initiatives. She obtained her B.A from Stony Brook University and MBA from the University of Iowa. • Lunchtime Topic Tables II •

Robert Pearl, MD, is Executive Director and CEO of The Permanente Medical Group. As CEO of the largest medical group in the nation, Dr. Pearl is responsible for the health care of over 3 million Kaiser Permanente members. The Permanente Medical Group is comprised of over 6,000 physicians and 25,000 staff members and operates 19 medical centers in Northern California. Board certified in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Dr. Pearl received his MD from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University where he has been a faculty member since 1978. In addition to being Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Pearl served as the Residency Director of Stanford’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery program from 1984 to 1990. Selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the most powerful physician-leaders in the nation, Dr. Pearl has published more than 100 articles in various medical journals and has been a contributor to many books. Dr. Pearl was a featured speaker at the 2006 World Health Care Congress and addressed the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in 2003. At present, he is on the faculty of the Stanford Business School and teaches classes in Strategic Thinking and Strategic Change. • Keynote Address II •

Nick Penco joined CFHI in the spring of 2005. He is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated with a bachelor's in International Relations from San Francisco State University. He worked full time while in school in the hospitality industry, which served as a great benefit to CFHI, where he now works as a primary person communicating and supporting CFHI's 700 yearly students on a daily basis. Penco travels extensively for CFHI, facilitating bilingual evaluation site-visits around the world. He is also fluent in French, German and conversational Portuguese. Penco sits on the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization Family Link in San Francisco, California. • Session B3 •

Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA, is Vice Chancellor for Human Health Sciences at UC Davis and Dean of UC Davis School of Medicine. She is a professor of internal medicine and microbiology and immunology and an expert in infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS. She oversees UC Davis Health System and its academic, research and clinical programs, including the medical group and the medical center. With an operating budget of $1 billion and $135 million in external research funding, the health system is a major contributor to the health and economy of Northern California Dr. Pomeroy joined UC Davis in 2003 and guided a new strategic plan while working to fully integrate the school and hospital. She also founded the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities. She is a member of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee that governs the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, approved by California voters in 2004. Dr. Pomeroy received bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Michigan and completed her training at the University of Minnesota. She held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and, later, the University of Kentucky, where she earned an M.B.A. served as associate dean for research and informatics and on the University Board of Trustees. • Plenary Panel I •

Ronald E. Pust’s 40-year career as an international health physician interfaces curriculum development with teaching, and field research with clinical practice. After 4 years with CDC (2 in Nigeria on TB and smallpox) and 6 as a generalist doctor in rural Papua New Guinea, he earned board-certification in both Preventive Medicine and Family Practice. In 1982 he designed the interdisciplinary Arizona intensive summer course, “International Health: Clinical & Community Care” (www.globalhealth.arizona.edu). Revised annually, by 2007 this course had attracted and graduated 547 participants from over 70 medical and health profession schools, who have since gone to over 70 developing nations. In 1991, Dr. Pust hosted in Tucson the founding meeting the Global Health Education Consortium (www.gh-ec.org), and served as GHEC's second president. As Director of Predoctoral Education in Arizona’s Family and Community Medicine Dept, he is PI on $3,728,953 in USPHS/HRSA family medicine grants (1981-2006). On a 2004-5 sabbatical, he was founding head of Family Medicine at Moi University in Kenya. His research deals with field assessment of tuberculosis and chronic lung disease, leprosy, family planning and CHW diagnostic accuracy. Most of his other publications concern medical education for careers in underserved regions. • Session A3 •

Rohan Radhakrishna, MPH, completed a BA with Honors at Stanford University in 2002. As a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador, he then examined indigenous health disparities. Later he worked as the Assistant to the United Nations Liaison for Médecins Sans Frontières. As a 2006 Summer Fellow of the Human Rights Center at UC-Berkeley, Rohan spent two months consulting for UNICEF assessing the health needs of displaced “night commuting” children in war-torn Northern Uganda. In 2007 he completed a MPH at UC-Berkeley and he is currently a third year MD/MS student in the UC-Berkeley/San Francisco Joint Medical Program. He is the 2007-2008 Health and Human Rights Coordinator for the American Medical Students Association and plans a career in health diplomacy as a primary care doctor and human rights advocate. • Session C4 •

Isha Ray, PhD, Isha Ray is Assistant Professor at the Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley. She has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, and a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University. Professor Ray’s research interests are water and development, technology and development, and common property resource management. Her research has covered problems of drinking water and irrigation management in India, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Mexico. Professor Ray serves on the advisory committees of several non-profit groups that work on water, technology and sustainable development, and also serves on the editorial committee of Annual Review of Environment and Resources. • Session E2 •

Don C. Reed is co-chair of Californians for Cures, and writes a web blog, www.stemcellbattles.com. He was citizen-sponsor for California’s Roman Reed Spinal Cord Injury Research Act of 1999, named after his paralyzed son; a grassroots advocate for California’s Senator Deborah Ortiz’s three stem cell regulatory laws, executive board member for Proposition 71, the California Stem Cells for Research and Cures Act, and is Vice President of Policy Outreach for Americans for Cures Foundation. The retired schoolteacher is the author of five books and thirty magazine articles, and has received the National Press Award. • Plenary Panel I •

Robert K. Ross, MD is president and chief executive officer for The California Endowment, a health foundation established in 1996 to address the health needs of Californians. Prior to his appointment in September 2000, Dr. Ross served as director of the Health and Human Services Agency for the County of San Diego from 1993 to 2000, and Commissioner of Public Health for the City of Philadelphia from 1990 to 1993. Dr. Ross has been actively involved in community and professional activities at both the local and national level. He served as a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and on the boards of the National Marrow Donor Program, San Diego United Way and Jackie Robinson YMCA. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pediatrics, served on the President’s Summit for America’s Future and as chairman of the national Boost for Kids Initiative. Dr. Ross received his undergraduate, masters in Public Administration and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. During his tenure at The California Endowment, the foundation has focused on the health needs of underserved Californians by championing the cause of health coverage for all children, strengthening the capacity of community health centers, improving health services for farm worker and ex-offender populations, and strengthening the pipeline for bringing racial and ethnic diversity to the health professions. He has received numerous awards and honors; recently he was named by Capitol Weekly as one of California’s most influential civic leaders in health policy in 2006. • Plenary Panel II •

Menraj Sachdev, M Phil, Program Development & Quality Manager at Child Family Health International. Menraj has recently completed his Masters of Philosophy (Research Degree) from the University of Sydney, titled: Higher Education in a Transition Economy: The Case of India 1991-2003, for which he spent approximately 6 months in India interviewing Education and Information Technology Professors at various higher education institutes. As an ardent traveler and an international educationist, Menraj brings his wealth of experience and insight gained through travel to assist CFHI in its goal to be at the forefront of providing students and academic institutions with the highest quality of Global Health Education Programs. • Session D4 •

Christian Sandrock, MD, a physician and an expert in infectious diseases, and pulmonary and critical care medicine at the UC Davis Medical Center, specializes in disaster preparedness, emerging infectious diseases, terrorism and other threats to public health. As medical director of the California Preparedness Education Network, he develops educational materials, primarily for providers in rural, border, inner-city and underserved areas of the state. He was medical director of the Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness Program for the state of California and currently, as medical adviser to the state Emergency Medical Services Authority, he contributes his expertise to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness Program, and many other Homeland Security projects. He is working with the California Department of Health Services and the Emergency Medical Services Authority in pandemic influenza and other infectious disease outbreak planning, disease surveillance and hospital infection-control preparedness. • Session B1 •

Steven Schmidbauer joined CFHI as Executive Director in 2004. Prior to 2004, he served six years as a program manager and director for one of the largest child and family service agencies in California, where his work in innovative program development was recognized at state and national levels. Steve received the Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the California State University at Hayward in 1998. Prior to working in California, Steve was a volunteer teacher in Namibia (1982-1985) and from 1990-1993, he worked to support international relief efforts in Central and South America. Steve holds a B.A. in Journalism, Broadcasting, and Speech from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, and an M.Div. from the University of Toronto. Steve travels extensively, making annual visits to CFHI sites worldwide. • Session D4 •

Joseph Silva, MD, is a professor of internal medicine and dean emeritus of the School of Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Previously, Dr. Silva served as chair of the Internal Medicine Department at UCD for 15 years. He received his MD from Northwestern University Medical School (Illinois). His internship and residency training were undertaken at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a fellowship in infectious diseases was completed at the University of Michigan Medical School. After serving two years in the U.S. Air Force, Silva returned to the University of Michigan, where he was a Professor of Internal Medicine in the division of infectious diseases before he joined UC Davis in 1983. He is a renowned clinician, with specialty and research interests in bacterial diseases particularly clostridium difficile colitis. He has advised the US Department of Defense on biological weapons. He was on the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and was formerly governor of the Northern California Chapter. Currently he has been appointed for a second two year term to the Defense Health Board which is advisory to the US Secretary of Defense on health matters to active and reserve military and their dependents. • Session C1 •

Blanca Solis, MD, is an Associate Physician, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, at the University of California Davis Medical Center. She also serves as a volunteer clinical faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at the UC Davis Medical Center. She received her medical degree from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in 1997 and completed a combined residency in Family Practice and Obstetrics at the UC Davis Medical Center in 2001. She currently is active in the Teen Clinic and the Women’s Midlife Assessment Clinic at the UC Davis Medical Center. She’s served as a Medical Co-Director as well as an Instructor-of-Record for the UC Davis Medical Center’s student run Clinica Tepati. In 2007, she received a special citation for “Diversity and Principles of Community” from UC Davis. • Session E3 •

Hanni Stoklosa is a 3rd year medical student at Tufts University SOM and President of the International Federation of Medical Students'Associations-USA. Hanni graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with a BA in Biological Basis of Behavior, and began medical school at the University of Pittsburgh. She spent the last year as the University Coalitions for Global Health Fellow at the Global Health Council where she catalyzed coalitions among global health organizations with a university presence. Hanni has extensive experience fighting disparities abroad in Egypt, Guatemala, the Philippines, Thailand, Australia, China, and Taiwan with a particular interest in women's health and emergency medicine. She is on the American Medical Student Association's AIDS Advocacy Steering Committee and as the AMSA Region 1 Director, in addition to serving on the Global Health Education Consortium's board. • Morning Welcome •

David Strug, PhD, MPH, MSW, is editing a book on community-oriented health care in Cuba. His research interests and publications concern health care in Cuba, the social problems faced by Hispanics in the US, the impact of travel restrictions on Cuban American families, social work and health care in Cuba, HIV/AIDS, and substance abuse. He has conducted ethnographic research in a number of US and Latin American cities. He is also a psychiatric social worker in private practice in NYC. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Andrew Suchocki, MD, is a second year resident at the University of Cincinnati/Christ Hospital Family Medicine residency program. Prior to medical school at Ohio State, Andrew worked on grass roots policy reform in rural western Kenya. At Ohio State, he created a collaborative between OSU, the UN Development Program, and the Swaziland HIV/AIDS council. Fourteen students were involved in this comprehensive internship program for 8 weeks. Andrew is also a co-founder of Ride For World Health, a cross-country bike ride raising awareness and funds for global health issues. Now in its third year, the ride has raised over $275,000 and given over 60 lectures to thousands nationwide. Andrew currently serves on the Board of Directors and is an advisor to the 2008 leadership team. During residency, he has worked with Shoulder to Shoulder in Honduras and will soon work with Village Health Works, an NGO working in Burundi. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Silvia Sweidan is responsible for literacy service projects and fundraising initiatives in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Guam, and British Columbia, Canada for Better World Books. Sweidan came to Better World Books through her strong commitment to education especially about the Middle Eastern/ African cultures and their people. She is a firm believer that education leads to continued development and awareness about one’s self and the world one’s a part of, and in turn, creates responsible and awake individuals who will more readily challenge their own assumptions and biases in favor of rationality, harmony, and peaceful co-existence on planet Earth. Sweidan has traveled to numerous places from Jordan to Dubai, from France to Italy, from the busy streets of Jaipur, India to the delightful streets of Hong Kong to the back roads of rural China, and have established relationships with various people representing numerous worldviews and cultures. Additionally, she believe in education as an essential tool to empower women in the Middle East and Africa. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Gayle Tang, MSN, RN, Director of National Linguistic & Cultural Programs in Kaiser Permanente’s National Diversity, is a diversity champion and leader in the improvement of language access throughout Kaiser Permanente and the community. Gayle has led multiple strategic initiatives and created service delivery systems that have supported the provision of culturally and linguistically competent care to patients and their diverse communities. Gayle is the principal investigator on several research projects funded by The California Endowment and continues to build coalitions to ensure quality of care and patient safety thereby reducing health disparities. Gayle is the principal architect of the Health Care Interpreter Certificate Training Program and the Qualified Bilingual Staff Model Program. Both programs focus on building linguistic and cultural expertise capacity to serve the limited-English proficient population. Gayle’s community involvement includes serving as an advisory board member and former president of the Chinese Newcomers Service Center; and also as a former board member of Operation Access and Community United Against Violence. She also serves on various national committees addressing issues of health disparities. Gayle completed her undergraduate studies in nursing at the University of San Francisco. She received her Masters of Nursing degree with a focus on leadership and diversity from Sonoma State University. • Session D5 •

Melanie Tervalon MD, MPH. As Director of the Institute for Culturally Competent Care, Dr. Tervalon leads the vital work of helping to increase Kaiser Permanente’s organizational capability to deliver culturally competent medical care reduce health disparities, and assist the Centers of Excellence in Culturally Competent Care to develop, validate and replicate effective culturally competent care practices across the Program. Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Tervalon served as Director of Education for the National Center for Minority Health Disparities at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute and UC Davis. Concurrently, she provided consultative services for public health departments, business groups, and individual clients. Other past positions include: co-lead for culture and behavior in the curriculum at UCSF School of Medicine, Senior Advisor Special Projects at The California Endowment, and Director of the Multicultural Curriculum Program at Children’s Hospital Oakland. Dr. Tervalon is also the author of several articles addressing culture and inclusion in health care and medical education. Dr. Tervalon received her MPH from UC Berkeley, MD from UCSF School of Medicine, and is a board certified pediatrician. • Session A2 •

Hendry Ton, MD, MS, received his A.B. degree in Psychology and Molecular Cell Biology at the University of CA, Berkeley. He graduated from the U.C. Berkeley-San Francisco Joint Medical Program where he attained M.S. degree in Health and Medical Science, a Division of Public Health and an M.D. Degree and completed his residency at U.C. San Francisco. Currently, Dr. Ton is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Education at the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at UC Davis, where he has authored “Providing Quality Care with CLAS: A Curriculum Toolkit For Healthcare Leaders.” He operates the Sacramento County Cultural Consultation Service and is the medical director of the Transcultural Wellness Center. He has received the UC Davis Chancellors Achievement Award for Diversity and Community in 2005 and the 2007 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement for his work with communities, ethnic minorities, and cultural competence. Dr. Ton has also received teaching awards for his work with medical students, residents, and faculty. • Session D5 •

Alan O. Trounson, PhD, is President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco, California. Prior to joining CIRM in January 2008, Dr. Trounson was Professor of Stem Cell Sciences and Director of the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories at Monash University. Dr. Trounson founded the National Biotechnology Centre of Excellence – ‘Australian Stem Cell Centre’. Professor Trounson graduated from the University of New South Wales in 1971 with an M.Sc. in Wool and Pastoral Sciences. In 1974 he was awarded a Ph.D. in animal embryology by Sydney University. In 1977 he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, and by 1984 was a Reader in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was appointed Director of the Centre for Early Human Development in 1985, was awarded a Personal Chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology/Paediatrics in 1991 at Monash University, and in 2003 was awarded a Personal Chair as Professor of Stem Cell Sciences, also at Monash University. His scientific accomplishments include; the pioneering of human in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and associated reproductive technologies; the diagnosis of inherited genetic disease in preimplantation embryos; the discovery and production of human embryonic stem cells and their ability to be directed into neurones, prostate tissue and respiratory tissue. • Plenary Panel I •

Peter Tugwell, MD was Chair of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics from 1979-1989 at McMaster University followed by Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and the Ottawa Hospital from 1991-2001. Dr. Tugwell was Founding Director of the International Clinical Epidemiology Network Training Centre at McMaster University, and currently serves as Secretary General to INCLEN’s North American group. In 2002 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair. Dr. Tugwell is co-director of a WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation & Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, and Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group. Dr. Tugwell recently lead the BMJ’s International Campaign to Revitalize Academic Medicine. He is North American Editor of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and also serves as a member of a number of journal editorial boards. Dr. Tugwell was also appointed Councilor of the newly formed Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
• Session D4 •

Larry Vanderhoef, MD Larry N. Vanderhoef was appointed chancellor of the University of California, Davis, in April 1994. During his tenure as chancellor, the campus was invited to join the Association of American Universities (AAU); increased its extramural awards from $169.1 million to $544 million annually, earning a National Science Foundation (NSF) research funding ranking of 12^th in the U.S. among public universities; expanded classroom, lab, clinical and office space by 2 million square feet; completed the transformation of an ailing county hospital to an academically distinguished and financially sound regional medical center; and made distinctive strides in recruiting a diverse and accomplished faculty and student body. The 2006 Northern California International Leadership Award was presented to him by the Northern California World Trade Center and the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency in recognition of his efforts to increase the campus’s international engagement. Also that year, he was elected an honorary member of the World Innovation Foundation. In 2004 he led a UC Davis delegation to Iran to promote dialogue and scholar exchange, and the notion of crossing boundaries to build greater understanding and good will – a continuing personal and professional effort. • Morning Welcome •

Anvar Velji, MD, FRCP(c), FACP, FIDSA, is a Co-Founder and treasurer of GHEC, President of the Northern California Infectious Disease Society and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and of the Infectious Disease Society of America. He was Founding Director  of the Medicine House Staff program (South Sacramento Kaiser/UCD). He served as Asst. Editor for International Health, Western Journal of Medicine, and was the Guest Editor for two seminal volumes on Global Health-"International Health" & "International Health Beyond The Year 2000" (1991/1995) in the Saunders series of Infectious Disease Clinics.He recently Co-authored a text book chapter on the newly emerging discipline of Global Health Ethics.He has been recognized for his diverse humanitarian efforts and improvement of multicultural health by receiving The Kieran J Fitzpatrick Award & The R J Erikson National Diversity Award. Anvar was born in Kenya and is currently the Chief of Infectious Disease at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, South Sacramento, and Clinical Prof. of Medicine at the Univ. of California School of Medicine at Davis. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, and completed his Internal Medicine residencies at St. Raphel's Hospital (Yale), Univ. of Ottawa, and Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton. He completed his Fellowship in Infectious disease at UC Davis.
• Morning Welcome, Awards, Introduction to Special Symposium | Keynote Address •

Daren Wade, MSW, received his MSW in 1994 from the School of Social Work at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Health and work with communities, organizations and administration. Mr. Wade has experience as a career counselor, social worker and international education/student services professional. Mr. Wade has been working in the fields of international education, multicultural education and student services for over 10 years with experience at the American Friends Service Committee, Hostelling International, University of Pennsylvania, Reed College and the University of Washington. As the program coordinator for the University's Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program (2000-2003), he gained experience working with student placements in Peru, Ecuador, Mexico and Zimbabwe. Currently Mr. Wade serves as the Director for the Global Health Resource Center (GHRC) and provides administrative support for the Puget Sound Partners for Global Health Training and Education program, www.pspgh.org, primarily administering global health exchange programs for graduate, professional and undergraduate students. Mr. Wade also maintains a GHRC website, http://depts.washington.edu/deptgh/ghrc and a listserv which coordinates information on global health activities, funding sources and education. • Lunchtime Topic Tables I •

Robert K. Washino, PhD, served on the faculty in Entomology at U.C. Davis from 1964 through 1994, Department Chair from 1981-87, Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences (CAES), 1990-93, Director of the Center for Pest Management Research & Extension, U.C. Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources, 1993-4. He retired in 1994 but served on administrative recalls from his Department, the College (CAES) and the School of Veterinary Medicine. His teaching and research interest is in the area of medical entomology and parasitology. He has received numerous awards for his past achievements and amongst them, the 2001 College Award of Distinction, CAES, and the 2005 Harry Hoogstraal Award for outstanding achievement in medical entomology (American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene). • Session E2 •

Emily White is a medical student at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). She is currently completing a Master of Public Health at San Diego State University, and will return to medical school this summer to finish her final year. Throughout medical school she has been active in increasing access to and awareness of global health opportunities to fellow students. She has served as an officer for the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association for the past three years, working on public health and global health curriculum issues. She has also been an active member of the Global Health Education Consortium’s module project, as well as various standing committees, including the Student Advisory Committee. This year will mark her third attendance to the annual GHEC convention. She will be pursuing a residency in psychiatry next year, and is interested in increasing cross-cultural psychiatry curriculum as well as medical student and resident participation in psychiatric rotations abroad.   
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Michael S. Wilkes, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Global Health Programs at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. He has worked in Public Health for the New York City Department of Health and with the World Health Organization (Sri Lanka). As Vice Dean of the School he was instrumental in recent innovations in medical education at UCLA, UCD, and internationally. He is an award-winning journalist having worked for ABC News, CBS News, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Sacramento Bee, and National Public Radio. Dr. Wilkes has received awards from local and national organizations for his teaching skills, his medical journalism, and innovations in medical education. In addition to his two research areas (health services research and T3/T4 translational research), he specializes in the care of high-risk adolescents. • Sessions B4, D1 •

Gavin Yamey, MD, MA, MRCP(UK), is Magazine Editor at PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor to PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, two open access journals published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS). He studied medicine at the University of Oxford and University College London, graduating in 1994. After five years of working as a physician in a variety of London hospitals, he joined the British Medical Journal in 1999 as a trainee in medical journalism and editing. In 2001, he moved to San Francisco to be the deputy editor of the Western Journal of Medicine and in 2004 he joined PLoS. Gavin has written extensively on global health, malaria, and HIV/AIDS, commented on these issues for NPR, and has trained medical editors at workshops in Barcelona and Addis Ababa. He is on the board of the journal Health and Human Rights, edited by Paul Farmer, and is advising the journal on how to transition to an open access format. • Breakfast with the Professors I, Session D3 •

Tilahun Yilma, DVM, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Virology and Director of the International Laboratory for Molecular Biology at UC Davis. He has developed a number of genetically engineered vaccines for both human and livestock, especially that of rinderpest, a deadly disease of cattle. Yilma’s research efforts have advanced our knowledge of vaccine biology, created new vaccines, and empowered lives in developing regions of the world, particularly in Africa. Dr. Yilma has received numerous awards and recognition and a few are highlighted here. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. In addition, he has received the Ciba-Geigy Award for Research in Animal Science (Highest International Award in Animal Science), the University of California (Davis) 2001-2002 Faculty Research Award (UC Highest Research Award), the University of California (Davis) Distinguished Public Service Award (UC Highest Service Award), and the University of California, School of Veterinary Medicine, Class of 2004 Outstanding Teaching Award. Yilma's dedication to developing a rinderpest vaccine was matched by a passion to encourage and train young scientists in developing nations. Yilma has earned three degrees from UC Davis, a BS in 1968, a DVM in 1970, and PhD in microbiology in 1977. • Session E1 •

Dianne E. Young, MPH, is the International Electives Coordinator in the Office of Global Health Education (OGHE) at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. She helps Weill Cornell medical students arrange elective rotations abroad and coordinates the Weill Cornell visiting international student program. She has an MPH in Community Health Education from the Urban Public Health Program at Hunter College in New York City. Her Global Health interests are reflected in a concern for health disparities and inequities faced by New York City communities of underprivileged and underserved women and children, especially in health and nutrition. Since 2006 Ms.Young has been as an active board member of New Directions Services, a food pantry with health education services in Staten Island. She has also volunteered as a health literacy educator at the Gouverneur Hospital, Chinatown, New York. • Session E5 •

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, based at the University of Toronto, is Dir. of the Faculty of Medicine's Centre for International Health. He is also Assoc. Prof. in the Departments of Public Health Sciences &Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. His education is from the University of Saskatchewan (BSc in Biochemistry); York University, Toronto (Masters in Environmental Studies); and MSc and PhD in Community Health/Health Services Management from the University of Toronto. Past positions include: President and CEO of Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief; Director of International Health and a WHO Collaborating Centre at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto); and IFI Projects Director for InterHealth Canada, Ltd. He has worked in some 25+ countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe in both academic and consultancy roles; and continues with major collaborations in China, Cambodia, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Namibia. His work specializes in community based health systems and primary health care. Dr. Zakus was also the President of GHEC (2005 to 2007). • Session B2, Lunchtime Topic Tables I, II •

Maja Zecevic, PhD, MPH is the North American Senior Editor for The Lancet medical journal. She peer-reviews and commissions manuscripts, attends major medical and scientific conferences, discusses research with leading Principal Investigators and gives publication speeches and workshops at major medical institutions. Originally from Serbia and after living several years in Latin America, Maja decided to come to the United States to pursue her passion for biomedical research. She received her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Virginia and a subsequent Master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Before joining The Lancet, she was a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute and at MD Anderson Cancer Center where she performed translational research using colon and uterine malignancies as models for cancer prevention interventions. • Session D3 •

John L. Ziegler, MD, MSc, was educated at Hotchkiss School and Amherst College where he received a bachelors degree in English Literature in 1960. Later he received an M.D. at Cornell University Medical College and undertook residency training at Bellevue Hospital and Memorial-Sloan-Kettering Hospitals. He joined the National Cancer Institute in 1966, was founding Director of the Uganda Cancer Institute in 1967 and was honored by the Albert and Mary Lasker Award in 1972 for his research on the cure of Burkitt’s lymphoma. During the 1970s he was Chief of Pediatric Oncology and later Director of Clinical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute. In 1981 he moved to UCSF as professor of medicine in residence, and Chief of Staff for Education at the VA Hospital. Here, he participated in the early research on the AIDS epidemic, being the first to show an association with malignant lymphoma. Ziegler became the Director of the UCSF AIDS Clinical Research Center and made many scientific contributions in the area of HIV-associated malignancies. In 1997 he earned a masters degree in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Ziegler has directed the UCSF Cancer Risk Program at the Comprehensive Cancer Center and in 2007 was named Interim Director of the UCSF Global Health Sciences Graduate Program. He has authored over 240 scientific articles, chapters and reviews and is the recipient of numerous awards that honor his work in cancer and global health. As a recipient of two Fulbright awards, Ziegler has taught clinical medicine for eight years at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He has also taught at Cambridge University and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Visiting Professor. • Session D3 •