Multicultural and Global Health Symposium

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Friday, November 11, 2022

Networking: 6:00 – 6:30 pm

Dinner: 6:30 – 7:30 pm

Keynote Speaker (tentative)

Sudha Jayaraman, MD MSc FACS
Professor of Surgery, Director, Center for Global Surgery, Director of Research, Center for Medical Innovation, University of Utah

Saturday, November 12, 2022

Registration / Breakfast

Welcome - 9 am 

Denis A. Foretia, MD MPH MBA FACS
Director - Center for Multicultural and Global Health, Associate Director - Global Surgery Institute, Assistant Professor of Surgery - UTHSC

Welcome / Opening Remarks: 9:15

Opening Keynote: 9:30 – 10:30 am

Sudha Jayaraman, MD MSc FACS
Professor of Surgery, Director, Center for Global Surgery, Director of Research, Center for Medical Innovation, University of Utah

Break/Networking

Panel 1: Healthy Planet, Healthy (10:40 – 11:30 am)

Panel Moderator: 

Tait Keller, PhD
Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Rhodes College

Panel Speakers: 

Marquita Bradshaw
Executive Director, Sowing Leadership, Environmental Activist

Cosmas Ochieng, PhD
Global Director, Center for Equitable Development, World Resources Institute, Associate Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at the Pardee   School of Global Studies, Boston University       

Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, Director, Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, Flint, Mich.

Break / Networking

Panel 2: Equity, Partnerships and Decolonization: Recalibrating the Center of Gravity for Global Health and Global Surgery (11:45 am – 12:45 pm)

Panel Moderator: 

Denis A. Foretia, MD MPH MBA FACS
Director - Center for Multicultural and Global Health, Associate Director - Global Surgery Institute, Assistant Professor of Surgery - UTHSC     

Panel Speakers: 

Salome Maswime, MBChB PhD
Professor and Health of Global Surgery, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Desmond Jumbam, MSGH
Director of Health Policy and Advocacy, Operation Smile

Rondi Kaufmann, MD MPH
Director of Global Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Shan Khan, DO
Hospice and Palliative Medicine / Nephrology, Memphis, Tennessee

Lunch: 12:45 – 1:45pm

Panel 3: Healthy People – Accompaniment in Health (1:45 – 2:45 pm)

Panel Moderator: 

Ugochi Ogu, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine UTHSC, Medical Director of the Diggs-Kraus Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center

Panel Speakers: 

Nasreen Quadri, MD
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Hospitalist, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Global  Medicine Faculty in the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine

Eric Jarvis, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at McGill University, Director of the Cultural      Consultation Service and the First Episode Psychosis Program at the Jewish General Hospital

Linda Zhang, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director of Global Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Surgery, Chair of the Global Affairs Committee in SAGES

Rapid Fire Topics on Global Health (3:00 – 4:00 pm)

Panel Moderators: 

Rebecca Gerrity, MD
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics PGY4, UTHSC

Yasmin Ali, MD 
Assistant Professor of Trauma and Critical Care, UTHSC  

Speakers: 

Selamawit Tesema, MD
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics PGY4, UTHSC, Local Partnerships in Refugee Health Education

Khadijat Aregbe, UTHSC 2^nd Year Medical Student
Cardiac Surgery in Zambia – Challenges and Opportunities

Jane Yao, UTHSC 2^nd Year Medical Student
Availability and Use of Essential Opioid Analgesics in Sub-Saharan Africa – A Scoping Review

Odette Kibu, PhD
Senior Health Policy Analyst, Nkafu Policy Institute, Cameroon, Perceptions on health insurance in Cameroon

Sessen Dudek, UTHSC 3^rd Year Medical Student 

Closing Remarks: 4 – 4:15PM

Austin Dalgo, MD MA
Associate Director - Center for Multicultural and Global Health, Director - Center for Bioethics and Health Equity, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics - UTHSC

Dr. Ken Brown
Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer, University of Tennessee Health Science Center