Multicultural and Global Health Symposium
2022 UTHSC Multicultural and Global Health Symposium: Healthy People, Healthy Planet, Social Justice
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Mooney Building, Library, Room 201
875 Monroe Avenue | Memphis, TN 38163
Fundraising Dinner
Friday, Nov. 11, 2022 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Symposium
Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022 | 8:30 am - 4:15 pm
Brochure
Registration information and additional details
Up to 6 hours of CME / CEU will be provided.
Contact Information
Rebecca Gerrity, MD, UTHSC | Phone: 901.448.0278 | Email: rgerrity@uthsc.edu
Agenda
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 2nd Year Medical Student
Cardiac Surgery in Zambia – Challenges and Opportunities
Jane Yao, UTHSC 2nd 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 3rd 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