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International Physician Update
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| NOVEMBER 2002 |
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Recent International Collaborations by Hopkins Physicians
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| Hopkins facial surgeon Patrick Byrne, M.D., center, with plastic surgeons John Hodges from Memphis, Tennessee, and Weiru Shao, from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The three were in China to repair congenital defects in children. |
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As this issue of International Physician Update was being prepared, Johns Hopkins faculty have just returned from the Hopkins/ Brazil AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, now in its fifth year and one of the largest medical gatherings in Brazil. Nearly half the faculty of the Department of Infectious Diseases participates each year, including Richard Chaisson, M.D., who is active in the field of tuberculosis and HIV. Last March, he chaired and lectured in the First JHU/Brazil course on TB, which drew 425 participants from Brazil. Other HIV and TB-related activities included trips to Paris and Annecy, France, South Africa, and Barcelona, Spain.
In July, Jonathan Zenilman, M.D., professor of infectious diseases, conducted a field visit to Tel Aviv, Israel, to work on collaborative research on HIV/STD risk in Tel Aviv commercial sex workers and to participate in symposia sponsored by the Israel Center for Disease Control and the Israel Army Medical Corps. In September, Yukari Manabe, M.D., from the Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research, traveled to Naples, Italy, to deliver a talk on “The Rabbit Model of Tuberculosis: Past, Present, and Future” at the Cepellini School of Immunology.
The Department of Otolaryngology celebrated this summer as it was again named number one in its specialty in this year’s U.S. News & World Report ranking. Among a very busy faculty were otolaryngologist Patrick Byrne, M.D., who traveled to China last April to lecture on “Facial Reanimation” at the Third International Maxillofacial and Plastic Surgery Conference in Linyi. While in China, he also took part in Face to Face, a humanitarian/educational committee of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, doing volunteer reconstructive surgery on children with congenital defects.
His colleague John Carey, M.D., conducted research and lectured on “Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome” at the University Hospital of Zurich. His visit to Switzerland in July 8-19, 2002, was sponsored by the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neurology at the Zurich Hospital and the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders. Finally, in June and July, Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Chairman Charles Cummings was a guest of the Academies of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery in Spain and Poland, lecturing on “Carotid Body Tumors: The Johns Hopkins Experience” and “Surgical Management of the Paralyzed Larynx.”
John Walkup, M.D., of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, traveled to Beijing, China, and Tokyo, Japan, in September to lecture on various aspects of Tourette Syndrome. Endocrinologist Paul Ladenson traveled to Brasilia, Brazil, in September to lecture on “Recombinant TSH: Its Role in Diagnosis and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer,” “Hypothyroidism and Atherosclerosis: Risk Factors and Outcomes,” and “T4 Plus T3 Combination Therapy,” all sponsored by the Brazilian Endocrine Society. In June, his colleague, endocrinologist Adrian Dobs, M.D., traveled to Singapore to lecture on “The Role of Hormone Replacement in the Aging Male” at the National University of Singapore.
In September, pediatric urologist John Gearhart, M.D., was appointed a special consultant to the National Health Service of the United Kingdom. While in England, he reviewed pediatric surgery and urology and lectured on “The Duplex Urinary System and the Modern Management of Bladder and Cloaca Exstrophy.” His visit to England was sponsored by the British Association of Pediatric Urologists and Pediatric Surgeons.
Neurologist David Zee, M.D., traveled to Heidelberg and Lubeck, Germany, in October to attend the Eye Movement Conference and deliver the keynote lecture at the German Neurophysiology Society meeting. Interventional radiologist Hyun Kevin Kim, M.D., traveled to Nassau, Bahamas, in September, to deliver a lecture on the latest interventional radiology surgical techniques during the U.S. Medical Trade Show. The event was attended by local health leaders from the private and public sector, including the Honorable Marcus Bethel, Minister of Health, Bahamas.
A surgical team from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center traveled to La Havana, Cuba, in September, to perform heart surgery on Cuban children at the William Soler Children’s Hospital. The team was led by Duke Cameron, M.D., director of pediatric cardiac surgery, and included Philip Spevak, M.D., pediatric cardiologist, Jackie Martin, M.D., anesthesiologist, and perfusionist Larry Wolff. The Hopkins doctors were hosted by Felipe Cardenas, M.D., who had come to Baltimore on a similar exchange in November 2001. The physicians operated on five children in collaboration with their Cuban colleagues, sharing advanced echocardiographic and perfusion techniques.
Steve Thompson, CEO of Johns Hopkins International, spent most of September traveling in Asia, first speaking on “Brand Development in Healthcare” at the Hospital Management Asia Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, and then attending a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, announcing the implementation of Hopkins-developed infection control protocols in Japanese hospitals. He then attended a signing ceremony in Istanbul, Turkey, announcing a collaboration with the Anadolu Foundation to upgrade health care services in that country.
Burn surgeon Robert Spence, M.D., a principal investigator in a multicenter trial of the scanning laser Doppler as a device to determine burn injury depth, traveled to Axminster, England, June 9-12. Hepatobiliary surgeon Michael Choti, M.D., traveled to Tokyo, Japan, April 22-30 for the International Hepato-Biliary Association meeting, where he presented his work on robotic liver tumor ablation.
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