Expert Panel Discussions
GHDonline Expert Panels are a convenient, efficient, and low-cost way to share lessons learned and know-how on a specific topic with a community of professionals with similar interests and challenges. Expert Panels last between one and two weeks and while they can take place in conjunction with an in-person conference or event, we also host Expert Panels as virtual, stand-alone events. To suggest a topic, or learn more about participating in an Expert Panel, please click here.
Past Expert Panels
Creating, Working in, and Evaluating Telemedicine Projects, February 20-24, 2012
Panelists: Antoine Geissbuhler, Professor of Medical Informatics and Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics at Geneva University, Director of the Division of Medical Informatics at Geneva University Hospitals, and President of the Health-On-the-Net Foundation; Richard Wootton, head of research at the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine; Dr. Shariq Khoja, Director of the Aga Khan Development Network's eHealth Resource Centre, Assistant Professor at the Aga Khan University in Kenya, and adjunct faculty at the University of Calgary.
Management of Second Line anti-TB Drugs: Getting it Right, February 20-24, 2012
Panelists: Dr. Lucica Ditiu, Executive Secretary, StopTB Partnership; Dr. Kaspars Lunte, Team Leader MDR TB supply WHO-Global Drug Facility; Dr Ernesto Jaramillo, WHO HQ, policy guidance and palliative care. Portfolio Manager of the Global Fund, Sandra Irbe, also joined in this discussion.
Surgical Training in Resource-Limited Settings, February 6-10, 2012
Panelists: Emmanuel Ameh, MBBS, FWACS, FACS, Ahmadu Bello University & Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital; Eric Borgstein, MD, University of Malawi, School of Medicine; David Spiegel, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Organized in collaboration with UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Annual ASAP Meeting (Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence).
Strengthening Health Systems: The Role of NGOs, November 7-11, 2011
Panelists: Dr. Agnès Binagwaho, Minister of Health, Rwanda; Ted Constan, Chief Operating Officer, PIH; Dr. Felix Kayigamba, Access Project Country Director; Christina Bethke, Program Coordinator, Tiyatien Health; James Pfieffer, NGO Code of Conduct author and Director of Mozambique Operations, Health Alliance International. Organized in collaboration with Partners In Health.
Building Nurse Mentoring Programs focused on Quality Improvement, September 19-23, 2011
Panelists: Manzi Anatole, Director, Mentorship and Enhanced Supervision at Health Centers (MESH) Program, Partners In Health Rwanda; Dr. Lisa Hirschhorn, Associate Director of International Monitoring and Evaluation at Harvard Medical School; Debbie Winters, Nurse Advisor at the International Training & Education Center on Health (I-TECH); Dr. Mukendi Kazadi, Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute for HIV Research
Linkage and Retention in HIV Care, September 19-23, 2011
Panelists: Tom Giordano, Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and Health Services Research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, Researcher at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center’s Health Services Research Center of Excellence, and Medical Director of the Thomas Street Health Center, one of the largest HIV clinics in the United States; Ingrid Katz, Infectious Disease physician whose research focuses on the social and behavioral determinants of health promotion in sub-Saharan Africa; Ingrid Bassett, Massachusetts General Hospital; Edward Gardner, ID Physician at Denver Health whose work ranges from primary clinical care for HIV-infected individuals to researcher in the areas of adherence to antiretroviral therapy and engagement in HIV care and public health evaluation and planning; Michael Mugavero, Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Delivering Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests: Challenges from End-Users to Policy - July 5-20, 2011
Over 30 million malaria RDTs were delivered by ministries of health in 2009. These simple and easy-to-use tests can diagnose malaria from blood in about 15 minutes making a laboratory diagnosis possible in decentralized settings. Experts from the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), USAID, and the College of Medicine in Nigeria joined in this panel.
Funding Challenges for Non-Communicable Diseases in resource-limited settings - June 17-24, 2011
Panelists: Rachel Nugent, PhD, senior research scientist in the Department of Global Health at University of Washington; Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, Director for Health Systems Strengthening at ICAP Columbia and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Sumi Mehta, Senior Technical Manager, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves; Brian Bilchik, MD, Director of ProCor; Charlanne Burke, Senior Associate, and Robert Marten, Associate at the Rockefeller Foundation; Kyle Peterson, Managing Director at FSG Social Impact Consultants; Representatives from The Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network
Enhancing Training Capacity to Strengthen Pre-hospital Trauma Care in Developing Countries - June 13-17, 2011
Panelists: Manjul Joshipura, MBBS, MS, is a technical advisor to the WHO on global trauma systems development; Paul Bollinger, MPH, oversees the Emergency Medical Care Train the Trainer education and systems development programs for Medical Teams International; Ross Donaldson, MD, MPH, is the global head of International Medical Corps' emergency and disaster care development programming and a UCLA medical and public health professor; Amado Alejandro Báez, MD, MPH, is the chair a department of emergency medicine and critical care in the Dominican Republic General Hospital and co-director of the Operational Medicine Institute; Junaid Abdul Razzak, MD, is the chair of emergency medicine at Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan.
Challenges in Rolling-out the Xpert MTB/RIF Diagnostic Test in Resource-Limited Settings - May 9-20, 2011
Panelists: Dr. Daniela Cirillo, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy; Dr. Gerrit Coetzee, National TB Reference Laboratory of the National Health Laboratory Service in South Africa; Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Peru; and Dr. Mark Perkins, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
Sharing Nursing Lessons on Improving ART Adherence in Patients with Complex Needs - April 11-15, 2011
Panelists: Christopher Shaw, a registered nurse working in the Infectious Disease Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital with almost 20 years of nursing experience, including several years working with sub-Saharan African HIV treatment sites; Pat Daoust, MSN with more than 30 years of clinical, educational and managerial experience who has worked with the CDC on building nursing capacity in Ethiopia and led projects in Botswana and Swaziland; and Dehne Mengiste, RN, the nursing director at I-TECH Ethiopia. Organized with the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.
Building sustainable partnerships to strengthen surgical and anesthesia capacity in resource-poor settings - March 28-April 1, 2011
Panelists: Kendra Bowman, M.D., Ph.D., general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and currently working in Zambia with the Center for Surgery and Public Health; Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, pediatric surgeon and cofounder of Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery; Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, trauma surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and GHDonline moderator; and Hamed Umedaly, MD, anesthesiologist at the University of British Columbia. Organized with the University of British Columbia's Branch for International Surgery.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): A promising, novel HIV prevention strategy - March 7-11, 2011
Panelists: Andrew Mujugira, MBChB, MSc, East Africa regional medical director for the Partners PrEP study and Douglas Krakower, MD, a fellow in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School.
Wireless Technologies for Monitoring and Adherence - November 15-19, 2010
Panelists: Jessica Haberer, MD, internist at Massachusetts General Hospital working on wireless technologies for real-time adherence monitoring in rural Uganda, and Rowena Luk, senior engineer at Dimagi, an e-health developement shop.
Local Software Development for Global eHealth - July 19-30, 2010
Panelists: Ahmed Maawy, DataDyne; Melissa Loudon, University of Cape Town; Jacob Mtalitinya, ITIDO, Tanzania; William Aviles Monterrey, Sustainable Sciences Institute, Nicaragua; Lim Chanmann, InSTEDD iLab, Cambodial; Ali Habib, Interactive Research and Development, Pakistan.
Health IT for Disaster Relief and Rebuilding: Lessons from post-earthquake Haiti - April 19-30, 2010
Panelists: John Brooks, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders; Ed Jezierski, INSTEDD; Josh Nesbit, FrontlineSMS.
The primary role of the expert panelsit is to be a discussion guide. Panelists first help frame the discussion by identifying the topic and a few key questions to be addressed. During the panel discussion, they offer reflections and provide ongoing commentary throughout the duration of the panel. The ability to respond via email or the web interface at a convenient time makes participation easy.
Please contact us if you are interested in organizing a panel discussion or being a panelist.
Updated March 5, 2012