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| 2009 CONFERENCE THEME: FIGHTING THE DISEASES OF POVERTY |
Vast wealth and medical knowledge benefit the world's affluent, while some three billion persons still lack basic nutrition, housing, safe water and health care. As a result diseases of poverty continue to afflict the most vulnerable children, women and elderly. It should not be so! The 2009 Exploring Medical Missions Conference equipped health care professionals with skills to prevent and treat the most prevalent diseases of poverty. Participants also enjoyed the opportunity to network with sending organizations about specific opportunities.
| OBJECTIVES |
At the completion of this conference participants will be able to:
- Plan effective interventions against the leading diseases of poverty
- Promote community development as it relates to health
- Effectively diagnose and treat the leading diseases of poverty
- Effectively lead healthcare professionals in a new cultural context
| FOUR YEARS & RUNNING... |
393 enthusiastic individuals attended this Conference, included 86 physicians, 89 nurses, 2 dentists, 5 pharmacists, 8 therapists, 3 physicians assistants, 11 nurse practitioners, 110 students, and 77 others. 30 states were represented, and some 8 nationalities. 28 sending organizations were represented at the conference, giving attendees the chance to connect with service opportunities.
| ANONYMOUS CONFERENCE FEEDBACK |
"These were outstanding presentations. They made me keenly aware of my own need for more formal education and hands-on experience in order to better fight the diseases of poverty. I had a vision but I lacked adequate training to have the maximal impact."
"Speakers were demonstrably humble persons who seem like one beggar telling another where to find bread...not know-it-alls."
"Excellent. I learned so much that I had no previous knowledge about!!!!"
"Good value, good setting, financially affordable."
"Next year's conference I will most definitely attend!"
| CONFERENCE SCHEDULE |
| Friday, May 29, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Sign In & Visit Exhibitors | |
| 9:00 | Welcome - Dr. Betty Drees, Dean, University of MO-Kansas City School of Medicine | |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | Plenary Session #1 Why Care For The Poorest? - Gary Morsch |
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| 10:00 - 10:50 | Group Session #1 Preventing Maternal Death - Elizabeth Wickstrom Money Management for a Life of Serving - Mike Searcy Progress Against HIV - Dennis Palmer Reducing TB & Malaria - Kevin Raymer |
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| 11:00 - 11:50 | Group Session #2 Arrive Alive At Age Five - Stan Shaffer Appropriate Technology: Fine Needle Aspiration - Maria Romanas What Would Jesus Say About The Poor? (faith-based) Cameron Gongwer Plight Of The Disabled - Richard Bransford INMED Diploma Student Debriefing: Part One - Skylar Rolf, Nicholas Comninellis |
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| 11:50 - 1:30 | Lunch (provided) & Visit Exhibitors | |
| 1:30 - 2:20 | Plenary Session #2 Fighting The Diseases of Poverty - Nicholas Comninellis |
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| 2:30 - 3:20 | Group Session #3 Preventing Maternal Death - Elizabeth Wickstrom Appropriate Technology: Fine Needle Aspiration - Maria Romanas What Would Jesus Say On Community Development? (faith-based) - Lani Ackerman Chronic Disease Amid Chronic Poverty - Todd Stephens Malnutrition: Prevention, Assessment & Management - Cameron Gongwer |
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| 3:20 - 4:00 | Visit Exhibitors | |
| 4:00 - 4:50 | Group Sessions #4 Arrive Alive At Age Five - Stan Shaffer Reducing TB & Malaria - Kevin Raymer Ethical Issues In International Medicine - Jean Fields Exclusive Session for Exhibitors: Part One - Micah Flint, Nicholas Comninellis |
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| 5:30 - 9:00 | INMED Social Event (Advance purchase tickets required) |
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| Saturday, May 30, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Visit Exhibitors | |
| 9:00 | Welcome - Nancy Seelen, VP Global Health Initiative, St Lukes Health System | |
| 9:10 - 9:50 | Plenary Session #3 Fighting Disease In A New Culture - John Zhang |
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| 10:00 - 10:50 | Group Session #5 Progress Against HIV - Dennis Palmer Chronic Disease Amid Chronic Poverty - Todd Stephens What Would Jesus Say On Community Development? (faith-based) - Lani Ackerman Ethical Issues In International Medicine - Jean Fields Malnutrition: Prevention, Assessment & Management - Cameron Gongwer |
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| 11:00 - 11:50 | Group Session #6 Eliminating Preventable Blindness - Scott Murphy Money Management for a Life of Serving - Mike Searcy Reducing TB & Malaria - Kevin Raymer Plight Of The Disabled - Richard Bransford INMED Diploma Student Debriefing: Part Two - Skylar Rolf, Nicholas Comninellis |
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| 11:50 - 1:30 | Lunch (provided) & Visit Exhibitors | |
| 1:30 - 2:20 | Plenary Session #4 Promoting Health Thru Community Development - Lani Ackerman |
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| 2:20 - 3:00 | Visit Exhibitors | |
| 3:00 - 3:50 | Group Session #7 Chronic Disease Amid Chronic Poverty - Todd Stephens Eliminating Preventable Blindness - Scott Murphy What Would Jesus Say About The Poor? (faith-based) - Cameron Gongwer Exclusive Session for Exhibitors: Part Two - Micah Flint, Nicholas Comninellis |
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| 3:50 - 4:00 | Plenary Session #5 Closing Session |
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| FEATURED SPEAKERS |
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Gary Morsch, MD, MPH, is President of Heart to Heart International, a relief and development organization based in Kansas City. Dr. Morsch has served in refugee camps and mission hospitals throughout the world. He is also founder of Docs Who Care and author of Heart and Soul: Awakening Your Passion to Serve. |  |
Cameron Gongwer, MD, graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1999 he became the first physician to serve at Ankaase Methodist Hospital in Ghana, West Africa, where he has mentored INMED students since 2005. |
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Jean Fields, RN, MSN, CNS, is a nurse educator teaching community health nursing at the Research College of Nursing. Her service in Africa, India, Central and Latin America, and Eastern Europe has focused on the illuminating the cultural aspect of health care. |  |
Elizabeth (Betsy) Wickstrom, MD, is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist in Kansas City, mother of two wonderful girls and one thriving birthing center in Haiti, "Maison de Naissance" - a birthing center where more than 300 babies born each year under vastly improved conditions. |
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Stan Shaffer, MD, is Director of Neonatology at St. Luke's Health System, in Kansas City, and founder/medical director of the Maison de Naissance in Haiti, a birthing center and community health program where more than 300 babies born each year under vastly improved circumstances. Shaffer is an E. Gray Diamond Professor of International Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |  |
Michael Searcy is a Certified Financial Planner and President of Searcy Financial Services - a firm specializing in money management needs of medical professionals. He is an adjunct faculty member at the College for Financial Planning and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. For the last decade, Michael has traveled with medical mission teams to Guatemala. |
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Lani Ackerman, MD, is a family physician who served eight years in the nations of Nepal and Bhutam, just north of India. She taught in a national university and served in mission hospitals and orphanages in the Himalayas. Dr. Ackerman also created a community development project to advance health through agriculture, animal husbandry, training birth attendants, and equipping community health workers. |  |
Todd Stephens, MD, DTM&H, is Director of the Post-Residency International Family Medicine Fellowship at Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Stephens served six years in Kenya and Rwanda. The Fellowship he leads today is designed to equip physicians with the unique knowledge and clinical skills necessary to serve effectively in developing countries. |
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John Zhang, MD, is the CEO of the Liaoning International General Health Trainers (LIGHT), a medical, charitable organization in Shenyang, China. LIGHT hosts one of the most advanced family medicine residency programs in China, and provides a wide range of medical care in the northeastern region with assistance from US trained physicians. |  |
Maria Romanas, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center and fellowship trained in cytopathology. She is a leader in pathology resident and medical student education, and has been recognized by the National Science Foundation. |
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Scott A. Murphy, MD, is a board certified ophthalmologist and fellowship trained ocular plastics surgeon trained at the University of Oklahoma Dean McGee Eye Institute. He volunteers at the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission, providing eye care in the region of St. Louis du Nord. |  |
Richard (Dick) Bransford, MD, is a surgeon with Africa Inland Mission since 1975, serving in the Congo, the Comoro Islands and Kijabe Hospital in Kenya. Dr. Bransford is particularly passionate about care for disabled children, and today is medical director and pediatric rehabilitation surgeon at Bethany Crippled Children's Centre in Kijabe, Kenya. |
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Dennis Palmer, DO, and his wife Nancy currently live in Cameroon, West Africa, where they lead an innovative program to prevent mother-to-newborn transmission of HIV prevention and run an HIV treatment project that has 6,000 patients enrolled. |  |
Kevin Raymer, MD, spent two months at Kudjip Nazarene Hospital in Papua New Guinea as part of the INMED Diploma Program and is currently participating in the Via Christi International Family Medicine Fellowship. |
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Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, is president of INMED, and is board certified in both public health and family medicine. Nicholas trained in tropical medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and served four years in Shanghai, China and Angola, Africa. | ||
| HOSTS |
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University of Missouri School of Medicine | |
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Institute for International Medicine | |
| SPONSORS |
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Kansas City Free Health Clinic | |
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Children's Mercy Hospital | |
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Operation Mobilization (OM) Medical Ministries | |
| Bob and Janie Hodgdon | ||
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Adams & Associates International | |
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Raptim Travel | |
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College Park Family Care | |
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Humanitarian Studies Program | |
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Physicians Reference Laboratory | |
| CONFERENCE EXHIBITORS |
Adams & Associates Int'l - Arthur J. Gallagher
Agape Unlimited
Baptist Medical Center - Ghana
Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Bethany Relief and Rehabilitation, International
College Park Family Care Center
Commerce Bank
Emmanuel Hospital Association (USA)
Health Teams International
Healthcare Ministries
His Healing Hands
International Nepal Fellowship North America
International Service Learning
Kuffel, Collimore & Co
Maison de Naissance
Medical Missions Foundation
Mexico Medical Missions
MTS Travel
New Life International
OM Medical Ministries
Raptim Travel
Research Residency
Saboba Medical Centre
Score International
The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM)
University of Missouri-Kansas City Family Medicine Residency
World Witness, ARP Church
| CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT |
Physicians: Joint Sponsorship
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Missouri State Medical Association through the joint sponsorship of Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics and Institute for International Medicine (INMED). The Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is accredited by the MSMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is approved as a provider of continuing medical education by the Missouri State Medical Association which is accredited by the ACCME, to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians.
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics designates this educational activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity.
Nurses: This offering/program has been approved for 9 contact hours.
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Missouri Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Dentists: Continuing Education Credit is available for dentists.
Physical Therapists: Continuing Education Credit is available for physical therapists.
Missouri Paramedics & Missouri EMT's: Continuing Education Credit is available.