<<October 1, 2006>>
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Rita Hindin, Ph.D., MPH <rhindin@gmail.com>
Dr. Ronald E. LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>
Alexander V. KALINICHENKO <econom@medin.nsc.ru>
Alexander V. KARPOV <karpov@medin.nsc.ru>
Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>
Marina V. Tyasto <marinatyasto@yandex.ru>
Carol Hiltner <carol@altaibooks.com>
Dear Rita:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) about Supercourse of Global
Health Network University at the University of Pittsburgh. I visited its
web site with great interest. It is certainly impressive one.
I shall wait your first vision statement of GUS Tanzania/East Africa soon.
Dear Ronald:
(2) It has been some time since you once joined in our ÒGlobal Lecture Hall
(GLH)Ó videoconference which was originated from the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville in July 1994 which connected with a conference on distance education
held in Moscow and many other universities in Europe and the US. Since then,
I met you at the mtg of Surgeon General Dr. Koop and the conferences of the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO) in Washington, DC several years ago.
(3) I read your essay in the attachment below, with great interest.
I agree with your contention 100%, i.e., if you have something to do after
retirement, you can keep you young!!
(4) I also sincerely congratulate your accomplishment of establishing Global
Health Network University <http://www.pitt.edu/~super1>.
As you know, we are creating Global University System (GUS), as focusing to set
up the network of facilitators and learner support system which are often
forgotten or ignored by many providers of distance education.
Thus, your system and ours may have well matched synergy.
(5) I just came back from my fact-finding and assessment trip to create
GUS/Alta Mir in Novosibirsk and Altai region in Siberia.
We were overwhelmed with astonishing interest in our project at all levels of
governments, municipalities, higher educational and healthcare institutions,
NGOs, etc.
Dear E-Colleagues:
(6) Pls
retrieve my following previous list distribution;
(a)
(09/21/06) (1) Fact-finding and assessment trip to create GUS/Altai Mir in
Siberia and (2) Proposed direction for the Working Group on Infrastructure
http://tinyurl.com/pedfk
(b)
(09/23/06) Planning activity of the working group ÇGlobal Collaborative
Research and DevelopmentÈ of GUS/Altai Mir
http://tinyurl.com/q7zuu
(c) (09/26/06) GUS/Alti Mir; Working Group on Community Development
http://tinyurl.com/jvaf4
This distribution is about the working group on ÒGlobal
e-healthcare/telemedicineÓ out of 5 working groups mentioned in Item (6)-(a)
above.
Dear two Alexanders at Novosibirsk State Medical Academy:
(7) It was certainly our great pleasure to have had the privilege of visiting
your academy in Novosibirsk.
Dear
Alexander:
I also sincerely thank you for your kind hospitalities and driving to
Gorno-Altaisk. It was such memorable days with you in beautiful Altai
regions.
Pls convey our sincere thanks to Professor, Rector, Dr. Anatoly Ephremov for
his kind support letter provided to us <http://tinyurl.com/ztavn>.
It is certainly our great honor and privilege to receive it.
(8) Pls visit the URL of the Global Health Network University mentioned above.
Should you be interested in some of those courses, pls inform me, though there
may have language difficulty. This is because you indicated me of your
desire to import some Continuing Medical Education (CME) program from the US.
We will then configure to organize a workshop, say, in Novosibirsk, to have
meeting of the desired course instructors with your facilitators, learner
supporters and learners. We believe that such face-to-face mtgs would be
crucial and vital necessity for the success of distance education, which are
often ignored.
Distance
education providers often forget tremendous capacity of human brain — for
example, once you meet with someone, you can recall his/her face with the
circumstances and surroundings when you talk with him/her over the phone even
after many years.
After having such face-to-face meetings with instructors and learners at the
latterÕs locations, they can more intimately communicate through email and list
with occasional videoconferencing. Bringing instructors to learners
locations (rather than other way round) would keep brain drain, thus saving
US$80,000/learner which is mentioned in RonaldÕs essay below.
Also, the essence of education is not mere transfer of knowledge, but
inheritance of wisdom which can effectively be done with human contacts.
Dear Rita:
(9) Rector Ephremov of Novosibirsk State Medical Academy also requested me to
locate some medical institutions for cooperative relationship.
Pls discuss this matter with Zena;
Zena
Stein
Professor (Emerita) of Public Health (Epidemiology)
and Psychiatry at Columbia University and Co-Director, HIV Center for Clinical
and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute
Columbia University
Department of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168 Street,7th floor
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-9081
zas2@columbia.edu
http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=att&disp=vah&attid=0.2&th=10c20d5a68f2aa3c
Pls convey her my sincere thanks for her providing us with a conference room
last time for our discussion of forming GUS/NYC Chapter.
Dear
Alexander:
The following
persons have also already indicated their willingness to help our GUS project
to name but a few;
Professor Rashid Bashshur, Ph.D. -- on CME
President of the American Telemedicine Association
Editor-in-Chief of the Telemedicine Journal
Director of Telemedicine
Professor Emeritus of Health management & Policy
The University of Michigan Health System
Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D. -- on CME
Associate Professor
Department of Dermatology
Harvard Medical School
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull -- on CME
Principle Investigator
Bangladesh-Ottawa: Partnership in Medical Education
University of Ottawa
Susan S. Witte, Ph.D.
-- on HIV/AIDS Education Program
Associate Director, Social Intervention Group
Columbia University
Ninfa Saturnino
Springer, PhD, RD, FAAMR, FADA — on nutrition course
Virtual Class on Nutrition (VCON)
The University of Michigan
Joanne K. Kumekawa, MBA — on public health policy
Director, Kingston eHealth
Dear Marina:
Pls translate the pertinent portion of the
above to Alexander. Pls also tell him that I am waiting his write-up in
English to be included in our report to the Eurasia Foundation. Thanks.
Dear Linda:
(10) Many thanks for your excellent summary of our fact-finding and assessment
on e-health/telemedicine
in Altai region in Siberia <http://tinyurl.com/ndsno>.
You may also be very interested in visiting the URL of the Global Health Network University
mentioned above, since you are affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh.
Dear Carol:
(11) Pls summarize the
above (including LindaÕs reports mentioned above and about her three mtg
reports in her recent msgs) and revised your next-to-final report to the Eurasia
Foundation. Thanks.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
> From: Rita Hindin <rhindin@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:17:19 -0400
> To: Winston O Soboyejo <soboyejo@Princeton.EDU>, Takeshi Utsumi
> <utsumi@columbia.edu>
> Cc: Mohamed Yunus Rafiq <mwalukere@gmail.com>
> Subject: re: Super Course
>
> Greetings Takeshi, Wole, Yunus,
>
> This very interesting e-mail from the folks who started the
> Supercourse, an on-line repository of epidemiology (and, increasingly,
> also other) lectures, made me want to re-open the conversation about
> linking GUS with them. The home page of the Supercourse is:
> http://www.pitt.edu/~super1.
>
>
> Takeshi,
>
> I hope your recent travels have gone very well and welcome back to the
> United States.
>
> We're hoping to get a first vision statement of GUS Tanzania/East
> Africa to you before too long.
>
> Best,
>
> Rita
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. <super1+@pitt.edu>
> Date: Sep 8, 2006 11:08 PM
> Subject: Super Seniors
> To: super2@pitt.edu
>
>
> Supercourse Newsletter
> www.pitt.edu/~super1/
> September 8, 2006
>
> "Wired, Tired and Retired"
>
> During the past few weeks we have been talking to several groups about
> helping to build an expert "Reach back" system. The concept is
simple.
> Suppose you are responding to the Bam Earthquake in Iran, and you are
> a public health person. You see a building leaning but with people
> crying inside. You do not have expertise in structural engineering,
> however, perhaps you can "reach back" to experts in Los Angeles,
> Tokyo, or Santiago who can help. We have been thinking about this as
> we have the largest network of public health people in the world, who
> have already responded during the Tsunami, the Bam Earthquake,
> Katrina, etc.
>
> It might be interested to build a new network, a "retirement
network".
> I am 57 years old, the arrows and knives of academia are festering in
> my back. I begin to think of retirement as a way to leave the life
> table of academia. There are many of us around the world like me,
> "wired", "tired" and "retired".
>
> Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
> ~Author Unknown (science is fun, politics is not)
>
> I was wondering that perhaps we should build a network of retired
> scientists to provide reach back capabilities to help world wide.
>
> I am trying to think of ways to network those who are about to be
> retired, or who are retired, not only in Global Health, but
> engineering, physics, psychology, etc. Please write to me at
> ronlaporte@aol.com if you would like to help build a Retirement
> Supercourse.
>
> Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
> ~Harry Emerson Fosdick (Let's retire to a Senior Supercourse)
>
> Supercourse Pedagogy: We received considerable comments concerning
> Pedagogy. One thing that is perfectly clear, is the very, very few
> universities have training on how to teach. Graduate students wrote
> to us indicating how much they need programs like this. Many of us are
> thinking now: No training in teaching, no Ph.D. Each world
wide that
> teaching about prevention should have a program to teach students how
> to teach.
>
> Legacy Lectures:
>
> Sadly, James van Allen died Aug. 10, 06 at age 91. Two months before
> his death he contributed a Supercourse legacy lecture of his life,
> something we will all cherish. He was very pleased to discuss his
> scientific life in the Supercourse.
>
> When I was a child, Van Allen was indeed a "rocket"
scientist, the
> brightest of the bright. He was an icon to many people my age of the
> power and excitement of space science. Few scientists discover
> something in space, the van Allen radiation belt, and then to have it
> named after you. Here is a NYTimes article describing Dr. van
Allen.
>
> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50813FA345B0C738DDDA10894DE40
> 4482
> .
>
> It is indeed an honor that right before his death he contributed an
> overview of his life and accomplishments so that future generations of
> young scientists could understand him, and his accomplishments. We
> have developed a first draft of the van Allen Legacy lecture and this
> can be found at:
> http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec24841/index.htm
. We are
> indeed pleased to present this to honored scientists such as you.
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had legacy lectures for all IOM, NAS
> and Nobel Prize winners like Dr. van Allen's?
>
> It is wonderful for us to able to immortalize the words, life and
> reflection of great people like Dr. Van Allen. His lecture will live
> on, and we hope that yours will also.
>
> "He was a legend among scientists, the father of physics in space in
> the United States,"
>
> "Space is the hole we are in -- a vast area of human ignorance. The
> history of the world shows that attacking ignorance is fruitful.''
>
> This brilliant man spent a few minutes developing a lecture for the
> Supercourse for future generations. It is indeed a legacy for us all.
> This is very humbling.
>
> Supercourse translation milestones.
> Dr. Nicolas Padilla from University of Celaya in Mexico has been one
> of the strongest supporters of the Supercourse development. Dr.
> Padilla translated 175 Supercourse lectures from English into Spanish,
> allowing Supercourse to reach into remote areas of Mexico and other
> Spanish speaking countries. Dr. Padilla's next milestone is to have
> 250 translated lectures by December. Dr. Padilla is an excellent
> epidemiologist and a great friend. Thank you Nicolas!!!!
>
> Lecture of the week
> Supercourse is proud to have another lecture from India in the
> Supercourse collection. Dr. Ashish Trivedi, Assistant Professor in the
> Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Government Medical
> College, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India provided us a beautiful lecture
> entitled "Cohort Study". It provides a beautiful outline of what
is a
> cohort study, the aims of cohort studies, and ways to analyze them.
> This lecture can be accessed at
> http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec24751/index.htm
>
> Best regards from PittsburghÉ
> Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, Nicholas, Ali, Julia, Francois, Saida,
> Legacies of the world
>
>
>
> If you would like to unsubscribe from future mailing of the
> Supercourse Newsletter, please reply to this message and resend it to
> us with the word "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Thanks.
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Rita Hindin, Ph.D., MPH
Consultant in Epidemiology and Public Health
6 Franklin Street
Shelburne Falls, MA 01370
(h) 413-625-9528
(c) 413 329-1518
rhindin@gmail.com
http://www.aangserian.org.uk
Dr. Ronald E. LaPorte
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
For the Global Health Network
Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Center,
Disease Monitoring and Telecommunication
WHO Collaborating Center
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
5100 Rangos Research Center
3460 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
412-692-5203
Fax: 412-692-8329
super1+@pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1
http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHNet.html
http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHNet.html#ghn
http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHMC.html
http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/GHKR.html
Alexander V. KALINICHENKO
D.M., Professor, Vice Rector for Economics
Head, Chair of Management of Public Health
NOVOSIBIRSK STATE MEDICAL ACADEMY
52, Krasnyj prospekt, Novosibirsk, 630091, RUSSIA
Tel/Fax: (3832) 22 2532, 29‑10‑92
econom@medin.nsc.ru
http://www.medin.nsc.ru
Alexander V. KARPOV
D.M. Chair of Medical Informatics
Dean for International Medical Education
NOVOSIBIRSK STATE MEDICAL ACADEMY
52, Krasnyj prospekt, Novosibirsk, 630091, RUSSIA
Tel/Fax: (3832) 22 32 04
Tel.: (3832) 22 52 27
karpov@medin.nsc.ru
karpov621@yandex.ru
http://www.medin.nsc.ru
Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
Mobile Assessment and Media Systems (MAMAS)
1525 NW 57th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98107
206-393-8576
lindahi@earthlink.net
http://www.discoverytel.com/
Marina V. Tyasto
Head of International Relations Department
Siberian Academy of the Public Administration
Nizhegorodskaya Street, 6
Novosibirsk, 630102
Russia
Tel/Fax: 7-383-210-12-52 (direct)
Cel: 7-913-920-67-69
marinatyasto@yandex.ru
tyasto@sapa.nsk.su
oms@sapa.nsk.su
http://mail.yandex.ru/monitoring/
Carol Hiltner
Initiator, GUS/Altai Mir
Director, Altai Peace International
12345 Lake City Way NE #121
Seattle, WA 98125-5401
206-525-2101
495-915-6828
Cel: 0117-916-116-1040 in Moscow
carol@altaibooks.com
carol.hiltner@gmail.com
www.altaibooks.com
Professor Rashid Bashshur, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief
eHealth International Journal
International eHealth Association (IeHA)
President of the American Telemedicine Association
Editor-in-Chief of the Telemedicine Journal
Director of Telemedicine
Professor Emeritus of Health management & Policy
The University of Michigan Health System
Am Arbor
Michigan 48109-2029
USA
734-763-0555
Tel: +1 734 647 3089
Fax: +1 734 647 3329
bashshur@umich.edu
http://www.med.umich.edu/telemedicine/symposium2004/index.htm
Joseph C. Kvedar, M.D.
Vice Chairman
Associate Professor
Residency Program Director
Department of Dermatology
Harvard Medical School
and
Corporate Director
Partners Telemedicine
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Two Longfellow Place, Suite 216
P.O. Box 8941
Boston, MA 02114
Tel: 617‑726‑4447
Fax: 617‑228‑4609
Patient Care: 617‑726‑2914
jkvedar@partners.org
http://telemedicine.partners.org/telemedicine/
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O17D325E9
Dr. Jeffrey Turnbull
Principle Investigator
Bangladesh-Ottawa: Partnership in Medical Education
The Ottawa Hospital
University of Ottawa
Email: turnbull@ottawahospital.on.ca
Susan S. Witte,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Associate Director, Social Intervention Group
Columbia University
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 813
Mail Code 4600
New York, NY 10027-3997
212-851-2394
Fax: 212-851-2126
ssw12@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/sig/
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/presentations/connect/nimh/preview.html
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/draft/lizday/sig/preview.html
-- HIV/AIDS education program
Ninfa Saturnino
Springer, PhD, RD, FAAMR, FADA
Virtual Class on Nutrition (VCON)
8234 Woods Trail
Whitmore Lake, MI 48189-9583
Fax (707) 897-2949
ninfa@umich.edu
http://www.umich.edu/~ninfa/
http://www.umich.edu/~ninfa/vcond
Joanne K. Kumekawa, MBA
Director, Kingston eHealth
Port Townsend, WA
360-385-1219
Cel: 202-607-8333
jkumekawa@aya.yale.edu
jkumekawa@hotmail.com
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