Course Details

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Dr. Comninellis lecturing at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

• Assess community health status based on the leading determinants of health
• Prevent, diagnose and treat the leading diseases of poverty
• Assure that health interventions are culturally appropriate
• Design effective health interventions as part of a health leadership team
• Successfully adapt one's lifestyle to a new cultural context

TARGET AUDIENCE

Health care professionals and students, including physicians, dentists, nurses, physicians associates, therapists, pharmacists, public health professionals, resident physicians, students of medicine, dentistry, nursing, physicians associates, therapy, public health and pharmacy.

FACULTY

Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH
Department of Community & Family Medicine
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
President, Institute for International Medicine - INMED

Nicholas Comninellis is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and founder and president of the Institute for International Medicine - INMED. He served inner city citizens for a year at Shanghai Charity Hospital during the communist era and initiated a health ministry over a two-year period in the war-besieged city of Huambo, Angola, in southern Africa. Nicholas has also served one-month medical assignments in Honduras, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Kunming, China. He attended medical school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, completed public health school at St. Louis University, and was a family medicine resident at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center/John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Comninellis has a diploma in tropical medicine from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He is board certified in both preventive medicine and family medicine, and he is the author of numerous scientific articles and books on contemporary issues.

SUPPORTERS

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