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Professor Murray Turoff <turoff@njit.edu>

Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>

Dr. Pablo Pulido <pablopulido1@compuserve.com>

Dr. Alejandro Pisanty <apisan@servidor.unam.mx>

Reference:

(04/18/08) "Social Mission" in medical field
http://tinyurl.com/57dq94

Dear Murray:

(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) in response to my last list distribution mentioned above.

Yes, I have been working in e-health/telemedicine field for sometime, as currently focusing on the prevention of maternity and infant mortality with Linda — see;

(a) GUS/Sierra Leone
http://tinyurl.com/2ku9b8

(b) GUS/Siberia
“Improvement of Community, Maternal and Child Healthcare in Altai Region, Siberia, Russia”
http://tinyurl.com/2tt488

As reading my last list distribution mentioned above, you may now know why I focus on this issue.

(2) Many thanks also for your following excellent write-up;

Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz Final Report Prepared for the National Library of Medicine “Information Seeking Behavior and Viewpoints of Emergency Preparedness and management professionals concerned with Health and Medicine”
http://tinyurl.com/4e9pvd

I browsed it with great interest — it is certainly excellent voluminous (167 pages) document, indeed!!

BTW, I regularly receive a newsletter on this subject from the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), which you mentioned in this document.

Dear Linda:

This may be of your interest, too, since you organized a similar workshop at NYU hospital in the summer of 2006, just prior to our trip to Siberia.

Dear e-Colleagues in e-health/telemedicine field:

This is certainly a comprehensive compilations of almost all of information resources about this topic around the world. I am sure that you will find it very valuable.

Dear Pablo:

(3) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II) with kind words, in response to my last list distribution mentioned in the reference above.

Many thanks also for your msg (ATTACHMENT III) with kind words, in response to my following list distribution;

(03/09/08) 2007 Annual Report of Project Globe Consortium
http://tinyurl.com/4pwq8y

Dear E-Colleagues:
Pablo is a former Minister of Health of Venezuela, and a good friend of James D. Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank.

Dear Alejandro:

(4) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT IV) with kind words, in response to my last list distribution mentioned in the reference above.

I am very happy to know that your career path is similar to mine, -- though I was educated as a chemical engineer compared with yours as a chemist, and then computer, Internet and e-learning, etc.

Your LinkedIn profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty> is very impressive.

Many thanks also for your msg (ATTACHMENT V) with kind words, in response to my following list distribution;

(08/30/07) Videoconferences for the Mayors for Peace and the 2020 Vision Campaign
http://tinyurl.com/23yc9j

It is good to know your extensive videoconferencing network in Latin American countries. When need will arise, I shall come to your help.

(5) As reading your msg of ATTACHMENT IV, I recalled an episode appeared in TIME magazine.

When President Reagan took the White House, his first photo as relaxing with his foot on his desk in the Oval Office appeared in the TIME magazine.

A few weeks later, I then found a “letter to editor” from a teacher in Kyoto City, the ancient capital of Japan where customs, traditions and rituals are very much cherished as following the Japanese imperial court. It said “Mr. President, please do not put your foot on your desk!! My elementary school children start imitating your pose, and this is very BAD manner according to the Japanese custom.”

I thought this was the very legitimate request to the President of the United States of America, the most powerful person of the world.

At that time, I also noticed a plaque on his desk, which said something like “You can have a maximum freedom if you do not seek any return to what you have done good to others.” With this, I ranked him as one of the great presidents of America, and this might be similar to your father’s deed. “Freedom” is the most precious commodity on earth.

Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: Murray Turoff <murray.turoff@gmail.com>
Reply-To: <turoff@njit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:41:14 -0400
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (04/18/08) "Social Mission" in medical field

I did not realize you were interested in teh medical field, i think you might find this an interesting study that roxanne and i did. It has very useful links that work for those in emergency management and preparedness with some emphasis on medical areas.

ATTACHMENT II

From: Pablo Pulido <pablopulidom@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:18:55 -0400
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: 'Tom Thomson' <tmthomson@gmail.com>, 'Honorio Silva' <honorio.silva@globecpd.org>
Subject: RE: [gu-new] (04/18/08) "Social Mission" in medical field

Dear Tak,
Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece,
Best regards,
Pablo

ATTACHMENT III

From: Pablo Pulido <pablopulidom@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 18:44:58 -0400
To: <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: 'Fundación Venezolana para la Salud/Irene Bustillos' <fuvensa@viptel.com>
Subject: RE: [gu-new] (03/09/08) 2007 Annual Report of Project Globe Consortium

Dear Tak,
Thank you so much for your kind comments.
I was at Harvard for 4years and 1/2, mainly at the Peter Bent Brigham ( now
Brigham and Women's Hospital and at the Medical School Dept.of Medicine &
Research Lab's as Research Associate, then a Biology degee from MIT, but
above all, I am your friend and respect you very much.

We shall keep in touch,

Pablo

ATTACHMENT IV

From: Alejandro Pisanty <apisan@servidor.unam.mx>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:16:54 +0000 (UTC)
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: personal response - my father too - Re: [gu-new] (04/18/08) "Social
Mission" in medical field

Tak, Utsumi-san, Sensei,

I have been deeply moved and touched by your narration of your father's
story as a doctor and other parts of your childhood and youth.

As it happens, my father was a doctor too, in Mexico. He immigrated as a
small child with his parents; his father died when he was about 15 and my
grandmother managed to put her two sons through medical school with great
difficulty. My father studied Medicine in the fateful years of 1939-1945
though fortunately our country was not hit by the war as yours was.

My father did his mandatory social service (this is a
Constitutionally-mandated half-year of service to society for all
professions in Mexico) in a small, isolated town in the mountains of
Western Mexico, a place of poverty, isolation, and other troubles like
drug-cultivation even at that time. He did well and good for the
community. Many years later some of his former patients would still send
all the way to Mexico city presents like crates of mangos, live turkeys,
and an occasional venison leg. My father died when he was 58, in 1978, and
I was 25.

I went into Chemistry and then into computing and the Internet and over
the years I found that I had to strive for my work to be of such benefit
to people as possible in my father's model, not for wanting the presents
or the gratitude, but indeed to achieve measurable, identifiable benefit
to those who are on the receiving end. I've tried to do that in the
University and particularly until recently as its CIO and leading other
projects on the Internet. A high, almost unachievable standard. You are in
a stronger position because of the deep philosphy which you have absorbed
from the centuries-old culture of Japan which you so much appreciate.

If reading your emails is often interesting, this one in particular really
hit a sensitive nerve.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico

*Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
*LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
*Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614

---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, www.isoc.org
Participa en ICANN, www.icann.org
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ATTACHMENT V

From: Alejandro Pisanty <apisan@servidor.unam.mx>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:06:42 +0000 (UTC)
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (08/30/07) Videoconferences for the Mayors for Peace and the 2020 Vision Campaign

Tak,

if any of the mayors are in my region I'll be very glad to contribute! We
run out of UNAM, the National University of Mexico, a VC network with
about 550 classrooms in the country, and connect to regional networks in
Latin America with which we work quite regularly. Most of our links are
through academic networks so costs are extremely low. We connect to the US
and to Europe directly.

Yours,

Alejandro Pisanty

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
Director General de Servicios de Computo Academico
UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
Tel. (+52-55) 5622-8541, 5622-8542 Fax 5622-8540
http://www.dgsca.unam.mx
*
---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, www.isoc.org
Participa en ICANN, www.icann.org
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

List of Distribution

Professor Murray Turoff
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ 07102
turoff@njit.edu
http://is.njit.edu/turoff
http://is.njit.edu/hiltz

Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
Mobile Assessment & Maternal Aid Solutions (MAMAS)
LCDN Coordinator, Global University System (GUS)
6533 Seaview Ave. NW #211A
Seattle, WA 98117-6046
206-420-2941
lindahi@earthlink.net
http://mamasnet.org/default.aspx

Dr. Pablo Pulido
Executive Director
PanAmerican Federation of Associations of Medical Schools
Apartado de Correos 60411
Caracus 1060-A
VENEZUELA
+58-212-945-0857
Fax: +58-212-945-2840
pablopulido1@compuserve.com
pablopulido@cantv.net
fepafempafams@viptel.com
www.fepafem.org.ve
or
President
Fundacion Universidad Metropolitana
Autopista Petare - Guarenas
La Urbina, Apdo
70450 Caracas
Venezuela
Tel: (0212) 242-4320 / 242-3087
(0212) 241-77-34 / 242-43-72 (direct)
Fax: (0212) 242-5148
www.fundamet.org.ve
http://www.unimet.edu.ve
or
Sede de la Direccion Ejecutiva
Caracas, VENEZUELA
Calle el Torreon, Quinta FEPAFEM
Urb. Sorocaima, La Trinidad
+58-2-93-0875 / 943-2840 / 93-0857
Fax: +58-2-943-285-40
73000.1447@compuserve.com
http://www.fepafem.org.ve
or
Project Globe Consortium
for continuing projessional development
New York Office Headquarters
708 3rd Avenue 6/38
New York, NY 10017, USA
212-209-3852
Fax: 212-209-7100
info@globecpd.org
www.globecpd.org
or
Caracas Office
Apartado 60411
Caracas, 1060-A
Venezulela
+1-(58+212)-945-0875
Fax: +(58+212)-943-2840
FEPAFEM-PAFAMS <fepafempafams@viptel.com>

Dr. Alejandro Pisanty
Director General de Servicios de Computo Academico
UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico
Tel. (+52-55) 5622-8541, 5622-8542
Fax 5622-8540
apisan@servidor.unam.mx
http://www.dgsca.unam.mx
www.isoc.org --->> Unete a ISOC Mexico
www.icann.org --- Participa en ICANN
Mi blog/My blog: http://pisanty.blogspot.com
LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty
Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614
Unete a ISOC Mexico, www.isoc.org
Participa en ICANN, www.icann.org

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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA                           *
* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)          *
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education           *
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of                         *
*   Global University System (GUS)                                            *
* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A.                        *
* Tel: 718-939-0928; Email: utsumi@columbia.edu                               *
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* Tax Exempt ID: 11-2999676                                                   *
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