This is a multi-day event from August 13 – 22, 2024.
Registration is required for all sessions.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Trends in Global Child Health with an Emphasis on Infectious and Tropical Diseases
George W. Rutherford, MD, AM, FAAP, FACPM, FIDSA
9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PST
MH 1106
Mission Hall
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Career Development in Global Adolescent Health
Jason Nagata, MD, MSc
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST
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Establishing and Maintaining a Pediatric Subspecialty Practice in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
Tiffany Lucas, MD
11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. PST
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Global Nursing and Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Rebecca Silvers, DNP, CPNP-AC
1:30 to 2:30 p.m. PST
MH 1106
Mission Hall
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Thursday, August 15, 2024
Asylum Medicine
Zarin Noor, MD, MPH
8 to 9 a.m. PST
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Building Global Consensus to Advance Tuberculosis Diagnostics for Children and Adolescents
Devan Jaganath, MD, MPH
9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PST
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Sickle Cell Disease – Care from the Pediatric Perspective
Neha Bhasin, MD
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST
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Under-5 Child Mortality: Keeping Kids Alive
Rajesh Daftary, MD, MPH
11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. PST
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Friday, August 16, 2024
Global Health Career: Choose Your Own Adventure
Yousef Turshani, MD
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST
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Applying Structural Analysis to the Patient in Front of You – A Tool for Global Health Equity
Robin Goldman, MD, MPH
11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. PST
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Learning From the Implementation of Pediatric Development Clinic in Rural Neno Malawi
Emilia Connolly, DO, MPH and Chisomo Deborah Kondowe, RN (Health Service Management), MPH
11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. PST
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Climate Change, Health, and Equity
Lisa Patel, MD and Amanda Millstein, MD
9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PST
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Thalassemia in Afghan Refugees
Madhav Vissa, MD
9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PST
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Using Novel Human and Vector Behavioral Monitoring Tools to Improve Malaria Prevention in Uganda
Paul Krezanoski, MD, MAS
9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PST
MH 1401
Mission Hall
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Developing an Enhanced Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Tanzania
Anneka Hooft, MD, MPH and Joel Manyahi, MD, PhD
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST
MH 1401
Mission Hall
550 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Thursday, August 22, 2024
Global Health Career Path – Peru
Holly Martin, MD and Angela Quiñones Hermosa, MD
9:15 to 10:15 a.m. PST
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Pediatric Sepsis in Resource Limited Settings
Teresa Kortz, MD, MS, PhD
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. PST
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Speaker Bios
George W. Rutherford, MD, AM, FAAP
George Rutherford, MD, AM, FAAP, is an emeritus professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at UCSF and past director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences. He specializes in emerging infectious and tropical diseases and has worked on HIV, measles, tuberculosis, Ebola, Zika, COVID-19 and influenza. His current work focuses on HIV in East and Southern Africa.
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Jason Nagata, MD, MSc
Jason Nagata, MD, MSc, is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at UCSF and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Global Health Sciences. He co-founded the International Association for Adolescent Health Young Professionals Network. He will discuss research priorities for adolescent health in low- and middle-income countries based on his work with the World Health Organization. He is a commissioner for the Lancet Commission for Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.
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Tiffany Lucas, MD
Tiffany Lucas, MD, is a pediatric hematology oncologist at Kaiser Oakland who conducts global health work with a population of bleeding disorder patients in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Her work began after spending three years between pediatrics residency and fellowship and again during her two research years of fellowship.
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Rebecca Silvers, DNP, CPNP-AC
Rebecca Silvers, DNP, CPNP-AC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner and holds clinical positions in pediatric critical care and pediatric neurosurgery at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. Silvers is the founding director of the Center for Global Nursing at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences. She works on research projects with partners worldwide and is the nursing lead for the UCSF WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical and Operative Care.
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Zarin Noor, MD, MPH
Zarin Noor, MD, MPH, is a pediatrician at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland primary care clinic. She is the director of the international clinic within the primary care clinic, which focuses on the medical care of pediatric immigrants and refugees. She is an associate program director for the UCSF Benioff Oakland Pediatric Residency Program, where she teaches medical students and residents. Noor has a United States Civil Surgeon designation and provides medical exams for immigration purposes. She is a co-director of the UCSF Center of Excellence for Immigrant Child Health and Wellbeing, an institutional and community hub to support interventions that contribute to equitable healthcare and healthy, resilient children regardless of immigration status. Noor also serves as the pediatrics co-director of the UCSF Health and Human Rights Initiative.
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Devan Jaganath, MD, MPH
Devan Jaganath, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health. His research focuses on improving the care of children with tuberculosis (TB). In his talk, Jaganath will discuss the results of a multi-stakeholder, international Delphi consensus process that guided when and how to include children and adolescents in developing and evaluating new TB diagnostics. Devan completed his MD degree at UCLA, MPH degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins, and pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at UCSF.
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Neha Bhasin, MD
Neha Bhasin, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Division of Hematology. She is the medical director for the UCSF Sickle Cell Center of Excellence, leading the comprehensive sickle cell clinics. Her research interests include issues related to reproductive health in sickle cell disease, bleeding and thrombosis, in addition to anemias. Bhasin strives to optimize sickle cell care and develop evidence-based solid guidelines for treating individuals with sickle cell disease worldwide.
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Rajesh Daftary, MD, MPH
Globally, the rate of under-5 mortality was halved from 1960 to 1990, but more recently, there has been a slowing in the reduction. Rajesh Daftary, MD, MPH, identifies current progress in mortality reduction and identifies effective interventions. Daftary is the medical director for Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, has previously led the schools response team for the SFDPH COVID Command Center, and led the creation of the pediatric emergency department at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Daftary has led research in quality improvement in care delivery in African emergency departments and disaster medical response. He is developing outreach interventions to support community emergency departments caring for sick and injured children.
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Yousef Turshani, MD
Yousef Turshani, MD, is the chief medical officer at the San Mateo Medical Center and serves on the County of San Mateo leadership team. He cares for pediatrics outpatients at Fair Oaks Health Center in Redwood City. He is a pediatric nocturnist at San Francisco General Hospital, a director at the American Board of Pediatrics, and a clinical assistant professor (affiliated) at Stanford University.
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Robin Goldman, MD, MPH
Robin Goldman, MD, MPH, is an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at UCSF. She is an internal medicine hospitalist at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a pediatric hospitalist at Washington Hospital. In addition to her clinical work, she is the director of evaluation for the UCSF HEAL Initiative, a global health equity fellowship. Goldman completed her HEAL fellowship with Zanmi Lasante (Partners in Health) at a hospital in rural Haiti. She completed her MPH degree at UC Berkeley. Her interests include applying social medicine to practice, global health education, program evaluation and creating systems to empower local providers to care for their communities.
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Emilia Connolly, DO, MPH
Emilia Connolly, DO, MPH, is a pediatrician and public health professional working as the chief health systems policy advisor seconded to the Malawi Ministry of Health, helping implement the Health Sector Strategic Plan, and adjunct faculty in hospital medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. As part of the inaugural cohort of the UCSF’s HEAL fellowship, she served at Tséhootsooí Medical Center in Fort Defiance, AZ and at Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo/Partners In Health in Malawi. Her residency was completed at Jefferson University Hospital and DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. She received her MPH degree from Berkeley and her DO degree from Rowan University School of Osteopathic Medicine. She is pursuing a DrPH degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Chisomo Deborah Kondowe, RN (Health Service Management), MPH
Chisomo Kondowe, RN, MPH, is a state registered nurse with 25 years of health care experience focusing on pediatrics. She has an MPH degree and works in a pediatric development clinic as a nurse mentor in Malawi.
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Lisa Patel, MD
Lisa Patel, MD, is the executive director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. She trained in pediatrics at UCSF and completed the Global Health Pathway. She is also on the executive committee for the Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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Amanda Millstein, MD
Amanda Millstein, MD, is a primary care pediatrician and co-founder of Climate Health Now, which organizes and mobilizes the California health community around equitable climate advocacy. She practiced primary care in Richmond until 2023 and now works clinically at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. Millstein is also the co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter 1 Committee on Climate Change and Child Health. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees at Stanford University and completed a pediatrics residency at UCSF.
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Madhav Vissa, MD
Madhav Vissa, MD, completed a pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland after a combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency in Pittsburgh, PA. His current clinical and research interests are caring for children and adults with inherited hemoglobin disorders such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
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Paul Krezanoski, MD, MAS
Paul Krezanoski, MD, MAS, is an associate professor of medicine and pediatrics at UCSF. He has 20 years of experience working on global health research projects in Madagascar, Uganda, Cote d’Ivoire and Eswatini, with expertise in malaria prevention and innovative global health technologies. He attended Middlebury College as an undergraduate and is a former Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar. He attended the Boston University School of Medicine and completed his training in the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. He obtained a master’s degree in clinical research from UCSF in 2019. He is also the founding director of Opportunity Solutions International, a non-profit focused on using rigorous research approaches to evaluate innovative solutions for improving global health.
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Anneka Hooft, MD, MPH
Anneka Hooft, MD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UCSF. Her research projects are primarily in East Africa and center on diagnosing and managing non-malarial fever, antibiotic use, integrating traditional medicine providers into the biomedical health system, and healthcare-seeking behavior in resource-limited settings.
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Joel Manyahi, MD, PhD
Joel Manyahi, MD, PhD, is a senior lecturer in microbiology at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and a clinical microbiologist at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He has a PhD degree from the University of Bergen, and his thesis focused on antimicrobial resistance in people living with HIV and its implications for infection prevention and control. His research areas include diagnosing infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance (antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship, epidemiology, detection, surveillance, and resistance mechanisms). He has more than 35 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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Holly Martin, MD
Holly Martin, MD, is an associate professor of pediatrics and the director of the San Francisco General Hospital Pediatric Nocturnist Program. She has worked in Peru on public health issues affecting children since 2007.
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Angela Quiñones Hermosa, MD
Angela Quiñones Hermosa, MD, is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of Saint Mary, Arequipa- Perú. She is also the director of the Health Center Mariano Melgar. She has been working in public health and primary care since 2002.
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Teresa Kortz, MD, MS, PhD
Teresa Kortz, MD, MS, PhD, is an associate professor of clinical pediatrics in critical care medicine at the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences Affiliate Program, and director of the Pediatric Global Health Pathway at UCSF. She has a PhD degree in global health sciences clinical research, is an NIH-funded researcher in East Africa, is a former WHO sepsis consultant, and is the pediatric critical care lead for the UCSF WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency, Critical and Operative Care. She studies pediatric critical illness and sepsis in resource-constrained settings.
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