Invitamos A nuestros Miembros A participar en el X Symposium Anual Dr.Carlos Finlay, Organizado por la SILAMP…Society ibero american Medocal Professional, en Filadelfia. PA.

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Dia: Sabado Abril 30 2011.

Lugar' place: at the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia PA 19130.

Time: 1 PM – 5 PM. From 5 PM to 6 PM we will have a social gathering with food and refreshments.

PreguntAS: If you have questions please feel free to call to 267-467-0520. Costo: The entrance will cost $10 dollars.

I am encouraging people to make donations since this year we do not have access to the financial support of pharmaceutical company as we did in the past. Donations may be addressed to SILAMP. If directed to support the Malaria Eradication Program in Haiti/Dominican Republic please address your checks to the Rotary Club where we have a matching grant for $1,000 dollars from the Gundaker Foundation.

Programa general:

Thank you for your support. Diana Larisgoitia, Ph.D. SILAMP President.
CARLOS J. FINLAY CONFERENCE PROGRAM

· Dr. Cesar A. Fabiani M.D.,D.L.F.A.P.A., First SILAMP Secretary and Founder Member: “Carlos J. Finlay, life and heritage and SILAMP .”

· Dr. Christiaan Morssink, M.A, MPH, PhD. “"Socio-ecological Modeling in Global health, the case of Malaria"
· Dr. Shannon P. Marquez, Executive Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs, Mayes College of Healthcare Business & Policy University of the Sciences:

“Health Diplomacy and Malaria Control: The Gambia-Cuba Partnership for Health Systems Strengthening”
· Enrique Hernandez, MD, FACOG, FACS., The Abraham Roth Professor and Chairman, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Temple University School of Medicine: “Preventing Human Papilloma virus infection-associated cancers.”

· Katie Dolan, Akhila Vasthare, Temple Emergency Action Corps, Temple University School of Medicine. "TEAC: Temple Emergency Action Corps, Service learning and International Disaster Response.”
· Frances A. Rhoads, MD, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Drexel School of Medicine. “Improving birth outcomes in Guatemala by Training local clinic staff and birth attendants.”

· Lois Grau, PhD, RN. Associate Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Public Health. “Providing basic medical preventive services to Haitian migrants living in the Dominican Republic.”

· Akira Kaji, Ph.D, Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania: “Mechanism of ribosomes recycling in eukaryote cytoplasm.”
· Fred Honigman, Ph.D., Managing Director of the Malaria Prophylaxis Initiative (MPI): “A Multi-Dimensional Approach to Combating Vector-Borne Diseases in Tropical Venues”.

Poster presentations:

1. Melissa Drennan, Sofia Carreno, B.S.N. Degree Candidate 2012, Thomas Jefferson University, the Global Nursing Club is of the greater Philadelphia region.: "A Student Nurse Model for professionalization in Global Health: An interactive forum of the nurse's role within the interdisciplinary team."
2. Hong Truong: "Prepare in Calm to Respond to Crisis"-USNS Mercy Pacific Partnership 2010. Enhancing Civil-Military Cooperation in Humanitarian Civic Assistance and Disaster Preparation”.
3. Ritwik Lodhiya: "Hydra Vita: High Speed Water Sterilization System for Developing Countries".
4. Katie Dolan, Akhila Vasthare, "Temple Emergency Action Corps, Temple University School of Medicine: “Temple Emergency Action Corps: Service Learning and International Disaster Response.”
5. Diana Larisgoitia, Ph.D.: “Mental Health Status of Latino Adults in the State of Pennsylvania.”
6. Elias Gonzalez, Candidate for Political Sciences Bachelor Degree 2012, University of Pennsylvania. “Institutional Cacophony: Malaria Eradication in the Dominican Republic”

About Dr.Carlos Finlay:

Carlos Juan Finlay was born in the city of Puerto Principe (now Camaguey), in the Island of Cuba, on the 3rd of December, 1833. His father was Edward, a Scotch physician, and his mother, Isabel de Barres a native of France. Like another great Antillean, Alexander Hamilton, he was born of two great races, the Scotch and the French.

Graduated in Medicine on the 10th of March 1855 from the Jefferson Medical College, the same institution which had contributed to the development of the genius of Marion Sims and of Brown-Sequard. Of the members of that distinguished Faculty, the one who seems to have the most profoundly influenced the mind of our student, was John Kearsly Mitchell, the first to maintain systematically the germ theory of disease. The son of Professor Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, famous today as physician and author, then recently arrived from the laboratories of Claude Bernard, was the private preceptor of the Cuban student, and a bond of friendship that has endured to this day, was established between them. "I endeavored, Dr. Mitchell writes me, in vain to persuade Finlay, who was three years a student in my office "was my first student" to settle in New York where there were many Spaniards and many Cubans. Fortunately he made up his mind not to take my advice".

Dr. Finlay incorporated his diploma in the University of Havana in 1857, and began the practice of his professi

The great work of Finlay may be expressed in very few words: He discovered
the fact that yellow fever is transmitted by the bite of one species of mosquito, and he invented a sure method for the extinction of the disease. On contemplating the benefits that humanity has reaped from the labors of our compatriot we were led to exclaim at the meeting of our last Medical Congress: "Great as our satisfaction must be, how much greater must be that of the man, illustrious as he is modest, who has made all this possible through a mental effort equaled by very few in the history of the human mind".