Planning Meeting: Healthcare and Medical Research Collaborations between the United States and South Asia
Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, Virginia
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Salon D/E
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Agenda
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1:00pm - Vision of Global Healthcare and South Asia Perspective
Doug van Houweling and/or Heather Boyles, Internet2
- Welcome Comments, building up the day’s discussions
Dr. Lawrence S. Lessin , Associate Director of Washington Cancer Institute
- Opening Remarks, The Vision of Global Healthcare and case for South Asia-US Collaboration
Thomas Mampilly, Fogarty International Center, NIH, USA
- South-Asia: Existing projects and the future from the perspective of international research and education.
Roundtable discussions in two sessions
2:00pm - Panel Session I: Updates from the region
Chaired by Mohamed Muhsin, The Centennial Group
Roundtable Discussion continued with reports from the countries relevant to the health sector and NRENs, summarizing key issues to national, regional and inter-regional collaborations.
Panelists to include following delegates from India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and hopefully from Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
India
Dr. Gulshan Rai , Executive Director, ERNET
Dr. Nandakumar, Deputy Director General, National Cancer Registry Programme, Indian Council for Medical Research [htm] [ppt]
Nepal
Prashant Manandhar, Nepal Research and Education Network [htm] [ppt]
Pakistan
Anwar Amjad, Project Director PERN
Dr. Arshad Ali, NUST Institute of Information Technology
Sri Lanka
Nimal Ratnayake, Lanka Education and Research Network
Bangladesh
Javad Khan, Kent State University [pdf]
3:00pm - Break
3:30pm - Panel Session II: The importance of international research collaboration and R&E networking in South Asia.
Chaired by Don Riley, University of Maryland; SURA IT Fellow; Chair, IEEAFMichael McGill, Internet2
- Joint HIMSS and Internet2 Work Group on Remote Clinical Practice using Advanced Networks
Bob Bollinger, Johns Hopkins University
- Lessons Learned from bringing the National AIDS Institute of India and JHU researchers together: What was possible, what wasn’t possible with the level of connection in place [htm] [ppt]
Parvati Dev, Stanford University
-Stanford Summit demonstration, collaborations and the future mission towards the regional collaborative tele-education.
Dr. Hina Sharma
- Experience of Florida International University to conduct telemedicine experiment in the Andaman Nicober Islands. [ htm-part1] [ppt-part1] [htm-part2] [ppt-part2]
4:30pm - Moving Forward
Concluding remarks by Don Riley, Internet Educational Equal Access Foundation
5:00pm - Adjourn
