MSF Spring Speaker Series
This is a rare opportunity to hear from clinicians who are working on relief projects in the field.
One Patient at a Time: Dr. Sanjay Gupta in Conversation with Doctors Without Borders
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Reception at 6pm Discussion at 7pm
Tishman Auditorium
New School University, 66 West 12th Street, New York
Join Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent, and physicians from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to discuss MSF’s response to infectious diseases in some of the world’s most neglected communities.
Rowan Gillies, MD, is President of MSF’s International Council, and has worked in Afghanistan, Liberia, Sudan, and Sierra Leone; Lulu Oguda, MD, has treated people living with HIV/AIDS with antiretroviral therapy in Malawi, one of the world’s poorest nations; as a health adviser for MSF, Unni Karunakara, MD, oversees programs in Latin America, southern Africa, and the Middle East, and advises on sleeping sickness and ebola; Jill Seaman, MD, has spent the past 15 years in war-torn southern Sudan treating kala azar, a deadly yet little-known disease that can devastate entire villages.
With 14 million people worldwide dying every year from treatable infectious diseases, how does MSF choose which diseases to treat, and where? What medicines are available, and are they effective? And how do doctors decide who to treat first when faced with so many people in need?
The event is free, wheelchair accessible, and open to the public. To reserve a seat, please call 212-847-3151, or for more information, call 212-679-6800.
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