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Connect Conference 2014 Connecting Houston to the World through Global Health March 22 & 23 Baylor College of Medicine One Baylor Plaza Houston, TX 77030 CONTENTS Acknowledgements 2 Saturday Tracks Infectious Diseases 8 Welcome 3 Building Partnerships 10 Schedule 4 Global Health, Technology & Innovation 12 Keynotes 6 Sunday Tracks Tracks 8 Maternal & Child Health 14 Poster Presentations 18 Hot Topics 15 Lessons From the Field 16 Map 19 Sponsors 20 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We want to thank the following people for their help and contributions: Conference Executive Committee Chair: Rachel Davis, BCM Vice Chair: David Philpott, UTSPH Abstracts Committee Fundraising Committee Logistics Committee Chair: Daniele Swetam, UTMB Chair, Gulf Coast: Alaina Brinley, UTMB Chair: Cathy Chen, UTHMED Buchi Akpe, UTSPH Chair, TMC: Becky Geck, UTSPH Jessica Bauldry, UTSPH Wafa Duhaim, UTSPH Sophie Fuller, Institute of Orthopedic Research & Education Amy O’Neil, UTHMED Thanh Hoang, UTSPH Conor Holton-Burke, BCM Humsini Viswanath, UTSPH/BCM Sydnee Lucas, UTSON Mirae Kim, UTSON Stephanie Wedgeworth, UTSON Michael Morales, UTSON Alina Mohanty, Debakey High School Fahim Pyarali, UTMB Katherine Verity, UTHMED Shannon, Ronca, UTMB Savannah Wiley, UTSON Program Committee Public Relations Committee Technology Committee Chair: David Philpott, UTSPH Chair: Jamie Chu, UTHMED Chair: Jennifer McKinney, BCM/UTSPH Gabriela Austgen, BCM Vice Chair: Jen Rodriguez, BCM Jina Dcruz, UTSPH Sumita Ghosh, TAMU-SRPH Srividya Bhadriraju, MD, BCM Kathryn Kramer, UTSON Erica East, UTSON Web Design and Marketing Hillary Lapham, UTSPH Faeeza Faruq, UTSPH Andria Rusk, UTSPH Elizabeth Gaston, UTHMED Tahani Hamdan, UTSPH Ahlam Mohammed, UTSPH Rojelio Mejia, MD, BCM Adina Schultz, UTSON Yue Xu, UTSPH Thanks to the Houston Global Health Collaborative Board of Directors, without whose support this conference would not be possible: Patricia Brock, MD, MD Anderson Cancer Center Bruce MacFadyen, MD, University of Texas Medical School in Houston Susan Ramin, MD, Baylor College of Medicine Eric Crowell, MD MPH, University of Texas Medical School in Houston Michael Goodman, MDiv MPH DrPH(c), University of Texas School of Public Health Veronica Leautaud, PhD, Rice University Rohith Malya, MD, MS(c), University of Texas Medical School in Houston And to the founders of the Houston Global Health Collaborative’s Inaugural Conference: Eric Crowell, MD, MPH Michael Goodman, M.Div, MPH, DrPH(c) Ed Pettitt, MPH 2 Connect Conference 2014 Connecting Houston to the World through Global Health Executive Committee Welcome Conference Chair It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the second annual conference of the Houston Rachel Davis Global Health Collaborative, Connect: 2014! MD Candidate, BCM The Houston Global Health Collaborative (HGHC) was born in recognition of Conference Vice-Chair the many impressive service, research, and educational opportunities within the David Philpott Texas Medical Center (TMC) member institutions and across Houston. We desire to MPH Candidate, UTSPH promote these efforts while expanding the possibilities for new ones, by connecting those interested in or actively pursuing global health research, service, and education. Abstracts Chair Daniele Swetnam This weekend you will hear inspiring stories of efforts to improve the health of the PhD Candidate, UTMB world’s most vulnerable people. You will learn what academic institutions within the TMC are doing to train tomorrow’s global health leaders. And you will discover the latest Fundraising Chair: Gulf Coast ground‑breaking research findings by students and faculty, revealing new pathways to Alaina Brinley promote health and prevent disease in Houston and around the globe. With dozens of MD Candidate, UTMB institutions represented this weekend, we hope you will meet someone with whom you share a passion that will grow into sustained action to advance global health. Fundraising Chair: TMC Becky Geck The planning team has been working for months to connect, promote, and mobilize the MSN-Family Nurse Practitioner forerunners in global health within the events of the conference. You will find the schedule MPH Candidate, UTHSC organized into six tracks, with “Building Partnerships,” “Global Health, Technology, and Innovation,” “Infectious Disease” on Saturday and “Hot Topics,” “Lessons from the Field,” Logistics Chair and “Maternal and Child Health” on Sunday. Please feel free to stay within a chosen track Cathy Chen or pick and choose sessions according to your interests. At the end of the conference, MD Candidate, UTHSC please take a moment to fill out the survey to help us make improvements. Check back regularly with our website, www.HoustonGlobalHealth.org for future events and news. Public Relations Chair Jamie Chu MD Candidate, UTHSC Again, welcome! It is good to have you here. We trust this will be a rich weekend for you, full of past lessons, new innovations, and the opportunity to CONNECT with your Public Relations Vice-Chair colleagues to advance global health. Jen Rodriguez MD Candidate, BCM Sincerely, Technology Chair Jenny Robicheaux McKinney MD Candidate, BCM Houston Global Health Collaborative MPH Candidate, UTSPH Connect Conference 2014 3 SATURDAY SCHEDULE Saturday March 22 7:30 - 8:30 Registration & Breakfast (Alkek/1st Floor Lobby) 8:30 - 8:45 Opening Session Conference Executive Committee & Dr. Robert C. Robbins, MD 8:45 - 9:20 Expanding Access to Safe Water Malcolm Morris, JD, MBA 9:20 - 9:30 Break Global Health, Technology & Infectious Diseases Building Partnerships Innovation 9:30 - 10:45 Sante A -Go-Go-Health Promotion Improving Lives Through Technology Why End Polio? Because We Can!! Partnerships in Haiti Innovation at Rice 360 Wayne Staton Lael Kucera, PA & Jason Rosenfeld, MPH Veronica Leautaud, PhD HIV Prevalence, Prevention, Issues and Building Global Partnerships to Metals in the air we breathe and Ideas: How Houston Can Help Others Advance Cancer Care: MD Anderson’s microorganisms in the water we drink: Gabriel Hanson, PhD, MSEd Global Academic Programs Characterization and putrification Shubra Ghosh, MD Shankar Chellam, PhD 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:15 The Galveston National Laboratory: Local discoveries. Global impact. Science in Extreme Environments: James W. Le Duc, PhD My Career So Far Building Extraterrestrial and Earth- Global TB – How are we fixing (and Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD based Research Capabilities breaking) things Kate Rubins, PhD Lisa Armitage, MD, PhD 12:15 - 2:00 Lunch and Poster Session (Alkek/1st Floor Lobby) 2:00 - 3:00 Building Community-Academic Partnerships Oral Abstracts Alexandra Nolen, PhD, MPH Oral Abstracts Abinav Kumar Singh Bethany Boggess Meghna Dara Bahrani Eman Rojelio Mejia Oral Abstracts Rahul Rekhi Tabitha Ward Carol Chen Stephanie Tzouanas Andrew Childress 3:00 - 3:15 Break 3:15 - 4:30 Infectious Disease Panel Building Partnerships Panel Technology and Innovation Panel Moderator: Leila Woc-Colburn, MD, Moderator: Patricia Brock, MD Moderator: Veronica Leautaud, PhD FACP Doctors for Change: Tackling Health Technology Step 2… Step 1? Engaging health and media Care Challenges in Houston, Texas Katherine Meese, MPH professionals to address global health Lee Bar-Eli, MD & Claire Bocchini, MD problems: A case study of Ghana Crowdfunding as an Avenue to Fund Bernard Appiah, B.Pharm, MPS, MS, DrPH Developing long-term partnerships with Global Health Projects hard-to-reach populations Robert Ricketts, MD Global health burden of Chagas disease Sheryl McCurdy, PhD Nisha Garg, MS, PhD The Next Generation of Global The Vietnam Vascular Anomalies Health Education: Introducing the A Simplified Approach to Diagnosis and Center: A Global Health Partnership Interdisciplinary Health Network Treatment of Neurocysticercosis Thuy L. Phung, MD, PhD Lucy Zhu, BS, BA Jose Serpa-Alvarez, MD, MS, CTropMed 4:30 - 4:50 Break 4:50 - 5:20 Program Development in North Korea David C. Hilmers, MD, EE, MPH 5:20 - 6:30 Cocktail Reception (2nd Floor Lobby) Networking area on 2nd and 3rd floors available for use at all times during conference Kleberg Auditorium Room M423 Room M323 Room N315 4 SUNDAY SCHEDULE Sunday March 23 8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast (2nd Floor Lobby) 8:30 - 8:40 Welcome Conference Executive Committee 8:40-9:20 Saving Millions: Innovative and Entrepreneurial Solutions in Global Health Eric G. Bing, MD, PhD, MBA & Marc J. Epstein, PhD, MBA 9:20 - 9:30 Break Maternal and Child Health Lessons from the Field Hot Topics 9:30 - 10:30 Careers in Global Health Panel Moderator: Michael Goodman, MDiv, MPH, DrPH(c) The Intestinal Microbiome in Health & Disease BCM/CLI Obstetrics and Gynecology Life as a Development Professional Herbert DuPont, MD, MACP Global Health Initiative Annette Emiko Taylor Michael A. Belfort, MD, PhD & Susan P. Mitigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks Raine, MD, JD, LLM Nursing in the Field and At Home in Global Company Workplaces Diane Santa Maria, DrPH, MSN, RN Malick Diara, MD A Rural Surgeon in East Africa: Experiences of a US-trained general surgeon in Tanzania Anne Morrison, MD 10:30 - 10:40 Break 10:40-11:40 Oral Abstracts Oral Abstracts Margaret Nosek How to Write Winning Grants Rebecca Jeun Mohammad Rahbar Christine Markham, PhD Julia Gerson Serena Rodriguez Mary Glasheen 11:40-11:50 Break 11:50-12:50 Challenges to Developing Health Care Best Practices in Global Health Research Panel Health of Arab Immigrants Living in Programs… Wherever You Are Moderator: Charles Chima, MBBS, MSc, Colorado: A Socioecological Perspective Judy Levison, MD, MPH & DLSHTM, DipGrad, DrPH(c) Dana El Hajj, PhD Jennifer Robicheaux McKinney Matthew Dacso, MD, MSc, FACP The Challenges and Barriers to Effective Global Health Ethics Rebecca S.B. Fischer, MPH, PhD(c) Diabetes Self-Monitoring in Rural Nigeria Rachel Jamison, MD Beatrice J. Selwyn, ScD, MScHyg Ngozi Mbue, PhD, APRN, ANP-C 12:50-1:10 Pick up lunch 1:10-1:45 Teleoncology: the Use of eHealth for Cancer Care at a Distance Robert Satcher, MD, PhD 1:45-2:00 Awards & Closing Remarks Networking area on 2nd and 3rd floors available for use at all times during conference Kleberg Auditorium Room M423 Room M323 Room N315 OPENING REMARKS Robert C. Robbins, MD President and CEO, Texas Medical Center Robert C.