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Featured Speakers at the Feb. 13th Global Health Evening are: Peter Cooch - Pete Cooch studied international relations at Dartmouth College and is currently a third year medical student at the University of Vermont. Together with his classmate Adam Ackerman, he is the cofounder of “The Microscope Exchange”, a non-profit committed to increasing diagnostic capabilities in resource-poor areas. Peter will be showing pictures from a series of trips he took to Guatemala with colleagues, in which they created a volunteer ambulance service and a diagnostic clinical laboratory for a rural community. He will also speak some about the student organization “The Microscope Exchange”. Jason Bae – Jason will talk about interest in Global Health (past, present, and future), and provide advice for those who are interested in Global Health. What should they be doing or not doing? Also, he will talk about the health care system in China. Jason Bae is currently a Masters in Business Administration student at Harvard Business School (HBS) where he is supported by Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. While at HBS, Jason briefly worked for Boston Consulting Group and served as an advisor for the Gates Foundation on contraceptive research and development. Prior to studying management, Jason completed three years at Yale School of Medicine where he co-directed the Tropical Medicine elective course for Yale students and residents and published three papers on HIV, substance use and psychiatric illnesses. Before medical school, he spent more than two years studying HIV mother-to-child-transmission and tuberculosis diagnostics in Botswana, Peru, and Brazil. Jason is interested in health care delivery in resource-limited settings and plans to pursue residency in internal medicine. Dr. Phan Thanh Lan – Dr. Lan is a cardiologist practicing at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. She will be observing here at Danbury Hospital for the next four months. Dr. Lan will discuss Cho Ray Hospital’s medical systems and medical education. Cho Ray Hospital in Vietnam is one of the many new collaborations Danbury Hospital’s Global Health Department is working on to strengthen medical education at the international level. For more information, please call Julie Kowaliw, Danbury Hospital Department of Medical Education and Research at (203) 739-7543. © Copyright by NorwalkPlus.com. Some articles and pictures posted on our website, as indicated by their bylines, were submitted as press releases and do not necessarily reflect the position and opinion of NorwalkPlus.com, Norwalk Plus magazine, Canaiden LLC or any of its associated entities. Articles may have been edited for brevity and grammar. Note: We reserve the right to delete posts at any time if we decide that they are offensive or distasteful. CURRENT HEADLINES: Top of Page |
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