IHO's Distinguished Lecture Series and Ground Rounds at Dr. SN Medical College, Jodhpur

[Guest guest]

Dear FORUM,

The International Health Organization's (IHO) Distinguished Lecture

Series and Grand Rounds took place on December 15, 2007 and December

17, 2007 at Dr. SN Medical College in Jodhpur in collaboration with

s Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Division of Infectious

Diseases, World Economic Forum/Global Health Initiative/ India

Business Alliance, Global Foundation for Humanity and Health and

Public Welfare Society.

Dr. Gita Sinha of s Hopkins University spoke and presented cases

on Fungal Infections among HIV patients and was on Clinical rounds for

five days in the ART Centre and in patient wards at the Medical

College Hospital. Dr. Shaloo Puri-Kamble discussed HIV-TB Co-infection

and Public-Private partnerships and spent couple days in the clinic

discussing cases with the clinicians from the Medical College

Hospital.

Among the Distinguished attendes included Principal and Controller,

Head of Chest and TB Dr. PK Gupta of Dr.SN Medical College, Former

Principals and Controllers Dr. SD Purohit who specializes in Chest and

TB, Dr. KR Joshi, Microbiologist, Dr. Dr. Mathur, Chief of Pathology

and Supritendent of the Dr. SN Medical College Hospital, Dr. BD Gupta,

Chief of Pediatrics and Supritendent of Medical College Hospital, Dr.

RS Gahlot, Head of Internal Medicine, Doctors from the Jodhpur

Military Hospital, Professor Arvind Mathur, Dr. KC Joshi, Dr. Diwakar

Tejaswi and various experts including the senior Faculty members of

the Medical College,Fellows, residents, interns and Medical students.

The collaboration between IHO, Dr. SN Medical College, WEF And JHU

Will present future lectures on Infectious Diseases, Cardiology,

Nutrition, Ethics, Stem Cell therapy among other topics.

In coming weeks we will announce the upcoming lecture series FOR 2008.

Please contact Anil Purohit of IHO at anilpurohit@... or Dr.

Arvind Mathur of Dr. SN Medical college at mathur_arvind@...

Respectfully

Anil Purohit

E-MAIL: apurohit@...