Location:

Twin Cities Shriners' Hospital for Children

2025 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-596-6100

We hope you will be able to join us to make this year’s seminars as informative and dynamic as it has been for the last 6 years.  All are welcome.  Dinner will be provided.  The seminar will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room (as usual) from 6:00 pm until 8:30 pm.  The schedule is as follows:

This night we will focus on "disaster medicine" through the cases and experiences of University of Minnesota medical volunteers after they return from providing care for victims of Hurricane Katrina. 

6:00 Dinner and Announcements

6:05-6:30  Case Presentation.  Aaron DeVries MD.  Infectious Disease Fellow.  University of Minnesota.  Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine.

6:50-7:30  Experiences from the field.  By  Christina Baker MD. Infectious Disease Fellows. University of Minnesota. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine.   Sound File

        Louisiana Public Health System – impact before and after Katrina by Aaron Devries MD. Infectious Disease Fellows. University of Minnesota. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine.

7;30-7:45  BREAK

7:45-8:30  Responding to a Humanitarian Crisis in the United States.  Colleen Striegel.  American Refugee Committee.

We would like to sincerely thank Shelly Golden, Peggy McDowell & Mark Prueter from GlaxoSmithKline for their ongoing support.