 Arizona Telemedicine Program Director Ronald S. Weinstein, MD and Associate Director Sandra J. Beinar in Tucson, Ariz., videoconference with students at the School of Nursing at the University of Panama, Panama City, Panama. |
The Arizona Telemedicine Program (ATP) of The University of Arizona College of Medicine will host its first international lecture series on health care in the Republic of Panama and Latin America -- using real-time videoconferencing technology to link the ATP’s T-Health Institute in Panama City, Panama, and the UA College of Medicine in Tucson -- beginning Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1-2 p.m., in the Arizona Cancer Center, Room 2920.
The series of 12 lectures, which will be held through June 17, will be moderated by Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, ATP director and executive director of the Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), and Ana Maria Lopez, MD, ATP medical director.
The lecture series will cover a wide range of topics related to health care in the Republic of Panama, including:
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The lecture schedule is as follows:
Jan. 22 Overview of Health Education in Panama: Medicine, Nursing, Public Health
Presenters Silvio Vega, MD, director, National Telemedicine Program, and infectious disease specialist; and Ivette Marciscano, RN, MHA, coordinator, Panama National Telemedicine Program, and an administrative nurse with expertise in public and occupational health
Jan. 29 Medical Research, Residency Programs, and Continuing Medical Education Programs in Panama
Feb. 19 Tropical Diseases, Dengue Fever and Tuberculosis in Latin America and Panama
March 4 The Nursing Profession in Panama and Latin America
March 11 Cancer in Panama
March 18 The Practice of Pathology in Panama: Access to Laboratory Services
April 15 Infectious Disease as a Medical Specialty in Panama
April 29 The Practice of Radiology in Panama and Latin America
May 13 Health Care Infrastructure in Panama: Ministry of Health, Social Security
May 20 Health Care Infrastructure in Panama: Private practice of medicine
June 10 Health Care Overview: The Integration of Health Care Services in Panama
June 17 Overview of Panamanian Health Care Human Resources: a Summary
Since 2000, the ATP has served as a technical adviser for the establishment of telemedicine programs in the Republic of Panama. The principal collaborators in Panama, who have clinical lecturer appointments in the UA College of Medicine Department of Pathology, are housed in the ATP’s T-Health Institute in Panama City. (T-Health develops novel health-care delivery systems that leverage telemedicine, information technologies and telecommunications to improve health care worldwide.)
The Panamanian collaborators are involved in education and telemedicine service programs and are working with the ATP and the UA to develop electronic telehealth courses on telemedicine and telehealth in English and Spanish. The courses will be available Summer 2008 on DVD and distributed through the ATP. The ATP also is seeking to establish collaborations in research and student-exchange programs among the UA, the T-Health Institute and the Republic of Panama.
All of the international lecture series presenters are health-care professionals who have worked with the ATP since 2000, including the first lecture presenters Silvio Vega, MD, and Ivette Marciscano, RN, MHA; and Juan Ramon Arosemena, MD, pathologist and cancer specialist; and Manuel Lobo, MD, radiologist, who has a special interest in teleradiology.
For more information about the ATP International Lecture Series on Health Care in the Republic of Panama, contact Sandra J. Beinar, ATP associate director for governmental affairs, (520) 626-2493, or Ronald S. Weinstein, MD, ATP director, (520) 626-2971.
MEDICAL WRITERS/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS NOTE: Media are welcome to cover these lectures, which are open to the public as well as the UA community. Drs. Weinstein and Lopez will be available for interviews; to make arrangements, please contact AHSC Office of Public Affairs, (520) 626-2531.
