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Please join us for an interactive workshop (8:30am-5:00pm) on current efforts, best practices, and gaps in teaching human rights within global medical education.  Presentations will highlight experiences in Haiti, Uganda, Malawi, China, and the US.

The program will be followed by a film screening (6:00pm) of the documentary Mozayik and a discussion with Augustin Mona (see details below).

The workshop is free and open to all. 

Monday, October 13, 2014 (8:30AM - 5PM)
Goldblatt Pavilion Entrance
860 E. 59th Street [see map]
Room L542 8:30AM - 1PM | Room H300 1 - 5PM 
Please use L elevators for morning sessions and A elevators for afternoon sessions. Signs and directions will be posted inside the Goldblatt Pavilion. 

Coffee and refreshments will be available throughout the day. Lunch will be provided for registered participants.

Program

Introduction: Susan Gzesh, Executive Director, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
Moderator:    Evan Lyon, MD
Respondent:  Renslow Sherer, MD

Each presenter will speak for 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of discussion.

8:30-9am
Breakfast (provided) & Introductions

9-10am
BRIAN CALLENDER, MD, University of Chicago; Faculty director for global health track Pritzker School of Medicine

10-11am
SRIRAM SHAMASUNDER, MD, University of California San Francisco; Co-director of Global Health Hospital Medicine Fellowship, University of California San Francisco and co-founder of HEAL Fellowship
REBECCA DEBOER, MD, University of Chicago; Global Health Hospital Medicinefocused on cancer care in Rwanda

11am-12pm
MICHELLE MORSE, MD, Partners in Health, Haiti, Boston; Co-executive director HUM and Chair of Medical Education PIH/ZL Haiti; Co-founder of Physicians for Haiti and lead faculty for a residential, international Social Medicine course in Port-au-Prince Haiti

12-1pm
CHRISTOPHE MILIENE, MD, Mirebalais University Hospital (HUM), Haiti; Founding director of OB / GYN residency at HUM

1-2pm
Lunch (catered)

2-3pm
MICHAEL WESTERHAUS, MD, and AMY FINNEGAN, MD, University of Minnesota; Co-directors SocMed and lead faculty; Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease a residential, international Social Medicine course in Uganda

3-4pm
PIERRE PAUL, MD, Partners in Health, Haiti, Malawi, Boston; HUM leadership team, medical program coordinator Haiti and Malawi

4-5pm
WEI WEI LEE, MD, University of Chicago; Faculty leader on Communication and Ethics; Wuhan University Medical Education Reform (WUMER) Project

For more information, please contact Evan Lyon.  RSVP coming soon.

Join us after the workshop for a short screening of Mozayik followed by a discussion with Augustin Mona.

This event is located in Cobb Hall Room 107.