
Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar
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Location:
Twin Cities Shriners Hospital for Children
2025 East River RoadWe 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 nine 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 8:15 pm. The schedule is as follows:
6:00 Dinner & Introductions
6:10 Global Health Update - Meghan Rothenberger MD, Chief Resident, Dept. of Medicine, University of Minnesota
6:30 Review of the Wild World of Worms and Neglected Tropical Diseases for the Primary Practitioner - Stephen J. Swanson, MD, DTM&H, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota; Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
7:30 Rapid Impact Packages and the Basic Right to Health - A Story of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Mrinal Patnaik MD, 3rd year Internal Medicine Resident, Dept. of Medicine, University of Minnesota. Low bandwidth version with audio.
8:30 Adjournment
We would like to sincerely thank Peggy McDowell, Shelly Golden, and Mark Prueter from GlaxoSmithKline for their ongoing support.
All are welcome; there is no fee. We hope you may attend.
Sincerely,
Ann Settgast,
David Boulware
Bill Stauffer
Jonathan Sellman
Pat Walker
Last updated:16 Apr 2009