ANMF Goes Country - Medicine in Rural Nepal

ANMF Eighth Annual Conference
June 18-20, 2004

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts

Program

Friday, June 18th

6:00 pm    Registration & Gathering - Kirstein Living Room at the Medical Center
6:30 pm    Welcoming Dinner - Kirstein Living Room
8:00 pm    Board of Directors Meeting (open to all) - Kirstein Living Room

Saturday, June 19th

8:00 am    Registration & Breakfast - Sherman Auditorium at the Medical Center
8:30 am    Welcome - Shiva Gautam, PhD & Sanjaya Khanal, MD
8:40 am    Keynote Address - Mark Zimmerman, MD, Director of Patan Hospital - “Medicine in Rural Nepal”
9:10 am    Geoffrey Tabin, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Vermont - “Himalayan Cataract Project”
9:40 am    Prem Timsina - “Public Health Management in Remote Hills of Nepal in the Wake of the Maoist Insurgency”
10:00 am    Break
10:15 am    Annual Meeting of Members (open to all)

10:15 am    Chairperson’s report – Sanjaya Khanal, MD
10:25 am    Executive Director’s & Treasurer’s report – Julia Shepardson
10:35 am    2003 Projects – Sanjaya Khanal, MD

Bir Renal Histopathology – Shiva Gautam, PhD

HRDC Anesthesia Machine – Subarna Pradhan, MD

HealthNet – Sanjaya Khanal, MD

KUMS/ASHA – Julia Shepardson & Brendan Thomson, MD

11:00 am    2004 Projects – Sanjaya Khanal, MD

Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital – Bob Gerzoff, MS

Speech Therapy Training for Cleft Palate Patients – Shankar Rai, MD / Libby Wilson, MD

Patan Hospital Echocardiography Training – Mark Zimmerman, MD / Sanjaya Khanal, MD

Other Projects – Sanjaya Khanal, MD

Project Timeline 2005 – Fred Shepardson

11:45 am    ANMF/Nepal – Aruna Pant / Julia Shepardson
11:55 am    CME – Roshan Shrestha, MD / Sanjaya Khanal, MD
12:05 am    Health Science University - Arjun Karki, MD / Robert M. Suskind, MD

12:30 pm    LUNCH
1:30 pm    Annual Meeting of Members continued

1:30 pm    Membership – Bhargab Dixit, MD
1:40 pm    Outreach – Don Blair, MD
1:50 pm    Scholarships – Hillary Liss, MD
2:00 pm    Web Site – Fred Shepardson
2:10 pm    Education Materials – Janak Koirala, MD
2:20 pm    Budget 2004/2005 – Julia Shepardson
2:30 pm    Fund Raising – Gaury Adhikary, MD
2:40 pm    Other Business – Sanjaya Khanal, MD
2:50 pm    Election of Directors – Sanjaya Khanal, MD

3:15 pm    Break
3:30 pm    Annual Meeting of Board of Directors (open to all)

Election of Officers

Appointment of Committee Coordinators

4:30 pm    Break
6:30 pm    Dinner

Sunday, June 20th

8:00 am    Light Breakfast - Kirstein Living Room
8:30 am    Annual Meeting of Board of Directors continued (open to all)

Objectives for 2004/2005

Approval of Budget

2005 Conference in Phoenix – Brendan Thomson, MD

Selection of 2006 Conference site, topic and coordinator

12:00 noon    Board of Directors meeting adjourns and Conference concludes

Venue:

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
330 Brookline Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02215

Accommodations:

Best Western Boston Inn at Longwood