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Healthcare Globalization: Can We Optimize Opportunity?

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Numerous projects within the federal medical agencies and between these agencies and the private sector offer new opportunities to share experience across the globe, improving the lives of the disadvantaged in the process. This forum will examine some of the global collaborations currently taking place, assess the opportunities offered by technology, and determine how best to enhance and expand such collaborations.

February 27, 2002
Charles Sumner Museum and Archives
1201 17th St., NW, Washington, D.C
Moderator: George K. Anderson, MC, USAF Ret.,
former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, Past President, American College of Preventive Medicine

8:30 - 10:15 AM DRAWING ON FEDERAL EXPERIENCE
A sampling of federal agency activities with impact beyond U.S. borders

Panelists:

• Larry Laughlin, MD, Dean, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, USUHS
• John R. Feussner, MD, Chief Research and Development Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs
• Anne Peterson, MD, MPH, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development

10:15 - 10:45 AM Break

10:45 - 12:00 Noon REAL-TIME PARADIGMS

Panelists:

• Panel Moderator: Dan Peterson, MD, MPH, CEO Cereplex, Inc.
• BGen George "Peach" Taylor, MC, USAF, Assistant Surgeon General for Expeditionary Operations, Science and Technology, U.S. Air Force
• James Bagian, Director, VA Patient Safety Program
• James LeDuc, Acting Director, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC

12:00 - 1:00 PM Buffet Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 PM TECHNOLOGY ROUNDTABLE

Panelists:

• Ross Fletcher, MD, VA Computerized Patient Record System
• Richard Satava, MD, Yale University
• Christoph Kaufmann, MD, USUHS Simulation Center

2:15 - 3:00 PM CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT

2:30 - 3:00 PM DRAFTING CONSENSUS STATEMENT

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