Tropical & Travel Medicine Seminar
Location:
Twin Cities Shriners Hospital for Children
2025 East River Road
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 ten 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.
Please join us for a very special Tropical and Travel Medicine Seminar and help us welcome the visiting delegates from the Chiang Mai University in Thailand.
 | Niwes Nantachit, MD - Dean, Faculty of Medicine |
| Watana Kattipathanapong, MD - Director of Sriphat Center |
| Siwaporn Chankrachang, MD - Associate Dean for Foreign Relations |
| Muthita Trakultivakorn, MD - Head, Department of Pediatrics |
| Weerasak Nawarawong, MD - Head, Department of Internal Medicine |
| Thira Sirisanthana, MD - Director, Northern Thailand Research Institute |
| Chairat Kunaviktikul, MD - Vice Director of Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital
The schedule is as follows: |
6:00 Dinner & Introductions
6:15-6:45pm Chiang Mai University and the University of Minnesota; Continuing the Collaboration - Patricia Walker, MD, DTMH
6:45pm-7:30pm Chiang Mai University Overview - Members of the Thailand Delegation *DVD, Health Care Systems of Thailand, Faculty of Medicine and Pediatrics
7:30pm-8pm Penicillium Marneffei Infection in HIV Infected Patients - Professor Thira Sirisanthana M.D.Director, Research Institute for Health Sciences,Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
8pm-8:30pm “The Greatest Outbreak in the World”, Siwaporn Chankrachang, MD, FRCPCT Associate Dean for Foreign Relations, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Director, Northern Neuroscience Center Executive Member, Royal College of Thai Physicians President, Thai Neurology Society, Medical Council Member
8:30pm-9pm Open Discussion/Opportunities for Further Bilateral Exchange
9:00 Adjournment
All are welcome; there is no fee. We hope you may attend.
Sincerely,
Ann Settgast,
Brett Hendel-Patterson
Meghan Rothenberger
David Boulware
Bill Stauffer
Pat Walker
Last updated:17 Sep 2009