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| 2011 CONFERENCE THEME: FROM RESCUE TO RESILIENCE |
This year is one marked by disaster and ongoing deprivation. The heartening response of many is to donate of their personal time, talent, and treasures to rescue those in crisis. But even well meaning rescue has its limitations. The 2011 Exploring Medical Missions Conference theme is From Rescue To Resilience. This event will emphasize 'training the trainers' - equipping participants to in turn empower leaders of marginalized communities to care for their own.
| OBJECTIVES |
At the completion of this conference participants will be able to:
- Utilize appropriate clinical skills in providing medical care
- Equip local healthcare personnel to care for their own
- Describe the connection of community health to economic development
- Facilitate literacy training and general education
| SEVEN YEARS RUNNING |
Since 2006 the annual INMED Exploring Medical Missions Conference has grown to become one of a premier opportunities for students and professionals polish their sense of calling and their skills on behalf of the world's most forgotten people. Previous Conference themes have examined the Fight Against HIV, Launching Into Medical Missions, Fighting The Diseases of Poverty, Serving The Forgotten, and From Rescue To Resilience. 350 enthusiastic individuals and 30 sending organizations participated in the 2011 Conference.
| CONFERENCE SCHEDULE |
Clinical Hands-On Skill Stations Track = blue color
Clinical Medicine Track = red color
Medical Missions Track = purple color
Public Health Track = green color
* Denotes presentation certified for CNE and CME
Identically named sessions are indeed duplicates
This event will emphasize 'training the trainers' - equipping participants to in turn empower leaders of marginalized communities to care for their own.
| Friday, May 20, 2011 | ||
| 8:00 - 9:00 | Sign In & Visit Exhibitors & Visit Posters | |
| 9:00 | Welcome - Dr. Betty Drees | |
| 9:10 - 10:00 | Plenary Session #1 From Dependency to Self-Sufficiency - Lani Ackerman* From Epidemics to Economics - John Wilson, MBA |
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| 10:10 - 11:00 | Group Session #1 Tropical Medicine Patient Rounds, Series 1 - Scott Armistead, John Gibson* Suturing & InterOsseous Infusion - Jennifer Flint* Evaluation Of The Febrile Patient - Himal Bajracharya* Preparing, Packing And Going - Fred Loper* Training Community Health Workers - Rob Cheeley* |
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| 11:10 - 12:00 | Group Session #2 Obstetrical Skills - Don Philgreen, John Gibson* Evaluation Of The Febrile Patient - Himal Bajracharya* Controversies In Short Term Medical Missions - Nicholas Comninellis* Mobile medical services for underserved American communities - John Crouch Following The Vision And Mission of Jesus (faith-based) - Rob Cheeley Exhibitor's Exclusive Session - Micah Flint |
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| 12:00 - 1:10 | Lunch (provided), Visit Exhibitors, Visit Posters & Optional Luncheon With Lani Ackerman | |
| 1:10 | International Medicine Awards Presentation | |
| 1:20 - 2:10 | Plenary Session #2 From Epidemics to Economics - John Wilson* |
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| 2:20 - 3:10 | Group Session #3 Tropical Medicine Patient Rounds, Series 1 - Scott Armistead, John Gibson* Suturing & InterOsseous Infusion - Jennifer Flint* Low Resource HIV Care - Brad Gautney* (sponsored by KC Free Health Clinic) Promoting Community Literacy - Pam Arlund* Following The Vision And Mission of Jesus (faith-based) - Rob Cheeley |
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| 3:10 - 3:40 | Visit Exhibitors & Visit Posters | |
| 3:40 - 4:30 | Group Sessions #4 Obstetrical Skills - Don Philgreen, John Gibson* Low Resource HIV Care - Brad Gautney* Preparing, Packing And Going - Fred Loper* Training Community Health Workers - Rob Cheeley* Transition to national centered development (faith-based) - Lani Ackerman |
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| 5:30 - 9:00 | INMED Social Event (Advance purchase tickets required) |
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| Saturday, May 21, 2011 | ||
| 9:00 | INMED Certificate & Diploma Presentations | |
| 9:10 - 10:00 | Plenary Session #3 Paradigm Shift: The New Medical Missions - Scott Armistead* |
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| 10:10 - 11:00 | Group Session #5 Tropical Medicine Patient Rounds, Series 2 - Scott Armistead, John Gibson* Helping Babies Breath - Cindy Obenhaus* From Surgical Teams to Surgical Infrastructure - Ted Higgins* Disaster Medicine Management - Kyle McPhee* Mobile medical services for underserved American communities - John Crouch |
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| 11:10 - 12:00 | Group Session #6 Fine Needle Aspiration - Maria Romanas* Controversies In Short Term Medical Missions - Nicholas Comninellis* Disaster Medicine Management - Kyle McPhee* Transition to national centered development (faith-based) - Lani Ackerman |
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| 12:00 - 1:10 | Lunch (provided), Visit Exhibitors, Visit Posters & Optional Luncheon With Lani Ackerman | |
| 1:10 - 2:00 | Group Session #7 Tropical Medicine Patient Rounds, Series 2 - Scott Armistead, John Gibson* Fine Needle Aspiration - Maria Romanas* Helping Babies Breath - Cindy Obenhaus* From Surgical Teams to Surgical Infrastructure - Ted Higgins* Promoting Community Literacy - Pam Arlund* |
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| 2:10 | Announce Poster Presentation Winners | |
| 2:20 - 3:10 | Plenary Session #4 From Rescue To Self-Reliance - Nicholas Comninellis* |
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| FEATURED SPEAKERS |
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Lani Ackerman, MD, served eight years in the countries of Nepal and Bhutan, where she worked in rural community hospitals and taught in a medical school. Dr. Ackerman also created the Health Environmental Learning Program to advance health through agriculture, animal husbandry, and equipping community health workers. Today Dr. Ackerman teaches at the Texas A&M College of Medicine |  |
Pam Arlund, PhD, is the Director of Training at All Nations Family, Inc. During ten years living in western China she assessed the literacy needs of Sarikol Tajik speakers (25,000), and created a writing system for that language. She also developed a system to assist Uighurs (10 million speakers) learn English. |
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Scott Armistead, MD, is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Family Medicine Residency. Since 2002 through today he has been living in Pakistan, providing medical care thru Bach Christian Hospital. Dr. Armistead was a first responder to the massive Pakistani earthquake of 2005. |  |
Himal Bajracharya, MD, is an infectious diseases physician with the Infectious Disease Associates of Kansas City. Prior to this position, he served as Lecturer in Community Medicine at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, and as a clinician at Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals, Lucknow, India. |
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Rob Cheeley, MD, is an emergency medicine physician living in China since 1992. His organization, Bless China International, empowers low-resource communities through the training and support of local community health workers. Dr. Cheeley and BCI were recognized with the China Friendship Award in 2000 - the highest governmental honor China bestows on non-Chinese citizens. |  |
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, is president of INMED and 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. Today he teaches public health at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |
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John Crouch, MD, is President of Christian Medical Dental Associations and of Good Samaritan Health Services, whose mobile medical van service provides over 9000 patient visits per year in poor access communities. Dr. Crouch is also Executive Director of the In His Image Family Medicine Residency program in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |  |
Betty Drees, MD, is Dean and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC), which houses the E. Grey Dimond Office of International Medicine and enjoys affiliations with medical schools in China, Austria and Mexico. |
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Jennifer Flint, MD, is a critical care pediatrics fellow at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Jennifer is one of the very first INMED International Medicine Certificate graduates, studying at Baptist Medical Center in Ghana during medical school and returning again as a resident physician. |  |
Brad Gautney, PNP, MPH, is President of Global Health Innovations, designing programs to serve those in nations most affected by HIV/AIDS. A graduate of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he and his family lived in Haiti four years running a health clinic providing HIV care. |
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John Gibson, MD, is Program Director of the International Medicine Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Health Sciences Center/John Peter Smith Hospital. He lived in Thailand from 1984-2004 training medical personnel and providing care for marginalized people throughout the nation. Dr. Gibson is an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) certified instructor. |  |
Ted Higgins, MD, is a general and vascular surgeon at Research Medical Center. He has volunteered in the Dominica Republic each year since 1995, guiding the transition of his team from directly providing surgical care to training Dominican national physicians in surgical skills to serve their own people. |
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Fred Loper, MD, is Executive Director of the Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship (BMDF), headquartered in Oklahoma City. BMDF supports safety net medical facilities through out the United States, and sends medical volunteer teams to serve in dozens of nations each year. |  |
Kyle McPhee, MS, is a specialist in biosecurity and disaster preparedness. Currently he works with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Congressionally mandated catastrophic planning initiatives. Previous, he served as leader of Global Crisis Response at Heart to Heart International and as Coordinator for Safety and Emergency Preparedness at Kansas City's Saint Luke's Hospital. |
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Cindy Obenhaus, RN, is a neonatal nurse and former director of the Maison de Naissance birthing center in Haiti, located in a community where infant mortality was before as high was 30 percent. Cindy is actively engaged in teaching neonatal resuscitation and management of obstetrical complications. |  |
Don Philgreen, MD, a certified Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) instructor, is a faculty physician at the Research Family Medicine Residency. Don's medical experience includes four years service on the Gila River Indian Reservation. In 2004 he was named the Missouri Family Physician of the Year. |
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Patrick Railey, MD, is Director of Operation Mobilization Medical Ministries an international Christian mission agency providing medical, dental, public health, relief, and development work in more than 100 countries. Dr. Railey is a leader in HIV prevention and protection of newborns, advocating de-stigmatization and compassion for those who are afflicted. |  |
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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John Wilson, MBA, PMP, a native Kenyan, is on the business faculty of Park University and is founder of Hope Kenya International - a not-for-profit organization that collaborates with American institutions to assist families break the pervasive cycle of poverty by providing access to education, health and micro-financial. | ||
| HOSTS |
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University of Missouri School of Medicine | |
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Institute for International Medicine | |
| SPONSORS |
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Bob & Janie Hodgdon | |
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College Park Family Care Centers | |
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Jack Hill Continuing Medical Education Foundation | |
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Kansas City Free Health Clinic | |
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Martin Kanne, MD | |
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Moyes Eye Center | |
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Physicians Reference Laboratory | |
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Research Medical Center | |
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Saint Luke's Health System | |
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Thomas Carr, MD | |
| REGISTERED EXHIBITORS |
A Cup of Water International
Agape in Action
Agape Unlimited
Baptist Global Response
Baptist Medical Dental Fellowship
Baptist Medical Center/Faile Foundation
CMDA
College Park Family Care/Hope House
Emmanuel Hospital Association
Gallagher International Insurance Services
Good Samaritan Health Services
HealthCare Ministries
Health Teams International
Heart to Heart International
His Healing Hands
International Nepal Fellowship
Loma Linda University School of Public Health
MAP International
Medicine Pak
Mercy Ships
Mexican Medical Ministries
Missionary Insurance
Operation Mobilization Medical Ministries
Project Helping Hands
Raptim International Travel
Research Medical Family Residency
Saboba's Hope
Saint Luke's Health System
SIM USA
TEAM
| CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT |
Physicians: Institute for International Medicine is accredited by the Missouri State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Institute for International Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of the participation in the activity.
This Live activity, 2011 Exploring Medical Missions Conference, with a beginning date of May 20, 2011, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 9.25 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses: Truman Medical Center 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.
9 continuing nursing education hours (contact hours) may be awarded if participants attend all continuing education sessions of this program.
Dentists: Continuing Education Credit is available for dentists.
Physical Therapists: Continuing Education Credit is available for physical therapists.
| 2011 EMMC PLANNING COMMITTEE |
Donald Philgreen, MD - Faculty Physician, Research Family Medicine Residency
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH - INMED President & CEO
Skylar Rolf, MA - INMED Chief Operations Officer
Donna Gum, BSN, RN-BC - Nursing Workforce Development, Truman Medical Center
Micah Flint, MPA - INMED Chief Programs Officer & Continuing Education Director
Teresa Sheppard, RN, MN, MSEd - Manager, Continuing Medical Education, Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics
Jennifer Flint, MD - Pediatrics Critical Care Fellow, Children's Mercy Hospital
Disclosure Statement
All individuals involved in the planning and providing presentations at the 2011 Exploring Medical Missions Conference have fulfilled the disclosure requirements set forth by the ACCME. A list of conference presenter disclosures can be found on the back of the 2011 EMMC evaluation forms.
Conference Speaker Disclosures:
| Lani Ackerman, MD | Faculty at Texas A&M School of Medicine | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Scott Armistead, MDvvv | TEAM - Physician | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Jennifer Flint, MD | Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics - Fellow | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Nicholas Comninellis, MD | President/CEO of INMED | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Himal Bajracharya, MD | Physician - Infectious Disease Assoc. of KC | Speaker's Bureau for Pfizer | ||
| Fred Loper, MD | CEO of BMDF | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Rob Cheeley, MD | Emergency Medicine Physician in China | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| John Wilson, MBA | Founder of Hope Kenya | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Brad Gautney, PNP, MPH | President of Global Health Innovations | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Pam Arlund, PhD | Director of Training at All Nations Family, Inc. | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Don Philgreen, MD | Faculty at Research Family Medicine Residency | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Patrick Railey, MD | Director of OM - Medical Ministries | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Kyle McPhee, MS | Owner Frontier Emergency Management Consulting | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Cindy Obenhaus, RN | Former Director of Maison de Naissance birthing center | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| Ted Higgins, MD | General Surgeon at Research Medical Center | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| John Gibson, MD | Faculty at John Peter Smith Family Medicine Residency | Nothing to Disclose | ||
| John Crouch, MD | In His Image | Nothing to Disclose |