Conference Schedule
Saturday, March 21st
| Health Innovations | Maternal and Child Health | Communicable Diseases | |
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| 8:10 | Opening Session Conference Executive Committee |
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| 8:20-9:20 | Human-Centered Design Isaac Holeman, MPhil |
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| 9:20-9:30 | Break | ||
| 9:30-10:45 | NASA’s Human Health and Performance Business Model to Accelerate Innovation Jeff Davis, MD, MS Lab-to-Market: An Intellectual Property Attorney’s Perspective on Navigating the Path to Commercialization Kurt Hammerle, JD | HIV in the Middle East: Mothers and Young Women at Risk Ariana Marnicio Global Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Susan Ramin, MD | Meningitis and Encephalitis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges Rodrigo Hasbun, MD, MPH Exemptions Gone Viral--The Global Impact of the Anti-vaccine Movement Anna Dragsbaek, JD |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-12:15 | Improving Lives Through Technology Innovation at Rice 360° Veronica Leautaud, PhD Healthcare Anywhere - Even Outer Space Dorit Donoviel, PhD | Preterm Birth: Why Being Born Too Soon is a Problem for Both Moms and Babies Kjersti Marie Aagaard, MD, PhD, MSCI, FACOG Measuring Improvements in Health: A Primary Care Perspective Shannon Barkley, MD, MPH | Understanding the Global Impact of Soft Tick-transmitted Pathogens Job Lopez, PhD Development of a preventive inactivated HIV vaccine Adan Rios, MD |
| 12:15-1:45 | Lunch and Poster Session | ||
| 1:45-2:00 | Break | ||
| 2:00-3:00 | Oral Abstracts: Mateo Prochazka Priyanka Jain Paul Hausknecht | Oral Abstracts: Stephanie Allen Y. Alicia Hong Patricia Bryan Jolene Damoiseaux | Oral Abstracts: Elizabeth Nichols Neima Briggs |
| 3:00-3:15 | Break | ||
| 3:15-4:30 | Nanopore Technology -“Small” platforms enabling “big” changes in disease detection Tony Hu, PhD Cardiac Ultrasound – Don’t leave home without it! Jennifer Carnell, MD | Sustainable approaches to turn the tide on childhood TB Anna Mandalakas, MD, MSEpi Global Medicine in Vietnam: Making a Difference Beyond Our Borders Thuy Phung, MD, PhD | Impact of parasites on intestinal microbiome and morbidity in children Rojelio Mejia, MD Animals, People, and the Environment: "One Health" Herbert Dupont, MD |
| 4:30-4:45 | Break | ||
| 4:45-5:45 | Peter Hotez, MD, PhD | ||
| 5:45-6:00 | Break | ||
| 6:00-7:00 | Cocktail Party | ||
Sunday, March 22nd
| Emerging Threats | Building Partnerships: Lessons from the Field | Non-Communicable Diseases | |
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| 8:10 | Opening Session Conference Executive Committee |
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| 8:20-9:20 | Ebola and the Shaping of U.S. and International Law Vickie Sutton, MPA, PhD, JD |
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| 9:20-9:30 | Break | ||
| 9:30-10:45 | Syrian Medical Team Under Siege Monzer Yazji, MD U.S. Drug Policy and Mexico Nathan P. Jones, PhD, MPH | The Architecture of a Shared Leadership Model for Health Systems Strengthening Initiatives Led by a U.S.-based Academic Hospital Michael Walsh, MHA, FACHE Doctors for Change: Improving Health Outcomes in Texas Lee Bar-Eli, MD, Claire Bocchini, MD, Wilson Lam, MD | Combating Cancer in sub-Saharan Africa through Training and Education Shubra Ghosh, MD, CCRP ASPIRE (A Smoking Prevention Interactive Experience): Past, Present and Future Karen Calabro, DrPH |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00-12:15 | The Problems of “Special Pathogens” Alfred Scott Lea, MD What Every Public Health Professional Needs to Know About “Global Health Security” Robert Emery, DrPH | Migrant Fatalities on the US/Mexico Border: Partnership-Building to Reduce Disparities in Prevention, DNA Sampling and Database Tracking Maria Jimenez, BA Coalitions that Work Gary Eagleton, BS | The Obesity Pandemic - is it ending or only the beginning? Shreela Sharma, PhD, RD, LD Global Mental Health: Lessons from Fiji Cheryl Person, MD |
| 12:15-12:45 | Break / Pick Up Lunch | ||
| 12:45-1:45 | Documentary: Hidden Pictures: A personal journey through global mental health | Oral Abstracts: Caroline Hawes Sarah Bredeson Rachita Murthy Oluwabusayo Alade | Oral Abstracts: Aisha S. Dickerson Kanchana Raja |
| 1:45-2:00 | Break | ||
| 2:00-3:15 | Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths Willa Friedman, PhD The Emergency Smart Pod: An Innovative Healthcare Solution to Emerging Threats Sarah Michel | Cancer Care in Low-Income Countries: the Current State & the Way Forward Andre Ilbawi, MD Local Public Health Planning, Response, Recovery: “The Big Picture” Mac McClendon | “Don’t our lives matter as much as the goods we produce?”: A global overview of disease and death among workers in low- and middle-income countries Bethany Boggess, MPH (c), BS, CHES Working conditions and health in Latin America George Delclos, MD, MPH, PhD |
| 3:15-3:30 | Break | ||
| 3:30-4:30 | The Ebola Crisis: Overcoming the Odds Lance Plyler, MD |
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| 4:30-5:00 | Closing Remarks/Awards | ||