Last updated 2/1/06
CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
8:00-8:30 AM
Registration
8:30 AM
Introduction
and Welcome
8:45-10:15 AM
Plenary
#1
Varied
Presentations of War–wounded
Moderator:
David Drake DO, Family
Psychiatry Des Moines.
Gene
Bolles
MD "A Neurosurgeon’s
Experiences of Modern War Casualties." Chief of
Neurosurgery for two years at Landstuhl Medical Center
in
Germany, where he treated thousands of casualties from the wars in
Afghanistan
and Iraq.
Judith
Cook
MD "Health and Health
Care
Challenges in
Post Conflict Situations: The Cases of Afghanistan
and Liberia."
Physician from the United Kingdom and
volunteer, Médecins du Monde.
Evan
Kanter
MD "Veterans and PTSD."
Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and social
activist, practices in
the
Seattle VA Hospital and is active in the Washington Chapter of PSR.
10:15-10:45
AM
Break and Visit
Exhibits
10:45-11:45 AM
Round
Tables:
Making the global local
(simultaneous,
choose one)
A. Local Physicians
Share:
experiences/perceptions with war impacted populations.
Facilitator:
Family physician, David Bedell MD
who worked in El Salvador in a time of civil war.
Discussants:
Des Moines Area VA psychiatrist, Erle
Fitz DO and
Iraqi physician and University of Iowa pediatric oncologist, Mohamed
Radhi MD
B. Students Share: experiences
perceptions challenges working
with war impacted populations.
Facilitator:
Des Moines University student, Marc
Campbell PhD OM1.
Discussants:
Alexis
Bushnell on Cambodian landmine victims; University of Iowa
medical student, Jennifer Carr M4
on VA PTSD
sufferers; and University of Iowa nursing students Brandi Missel and Colleen Gallagher on working with
refugee children.
C. Veterans Share:
experiences/perceptions of war and its health challenges in the
aftermath. (TBA)
12:00-1:45
PM
Luncheon
Speaker
John
Pastore MD, National President of PSR. "Ethical imperatives of
health care providers to speak out
against
unjust war and
unnecessary suffering."
1:45-3:00
PM
Plenary
#2
War’s Less
Visible Chronic Wounds
Moderator:
Robert Schultes MD, Family Medicine Cedar Rapids.
Lisa Heineman
PhD "Women and war."
University of Iowa historian.
Len Rubenstein JD
"Torture & ethical considerations for
medical
personnel in war and beyond." Director, Physicians
for
Human Rights.
Jeff Ritterman, MD "Health impacts on environment, social and
public health
infrastructure." Bay Area PSR and Chief of
Cardiology
Kaiser-Richmond.
3:00-3:15
Break
and Visit Exhibits
3:15-4:00
PM
Plenary #3
War’s
Invisible Victim: Health Care & Public Health Infrastructure.
Introduction:
Maureen McCue MD PhD,
Iowa
PSR Coordinator.
Salam
Ismael MD "Evidence of
Systematic Violations of Medical
Neutrality in Iraq"
Iraqi Physician and Chief of Continuous Medical
Education Program
Committee,
Doctors for Iraq.
4:00-5:00 PM
Round
Tables:
Responding Appropriately to Conflicting
Imperatives
(simultaneous, choose one)
D. Conflict survivors and
refugee children in Iowa:
Responding to their difficult behaviors.
Facilitator: Lisa Kelley
PhD, Professor Community Health Nursing
Discussants:
Des
Moines pediatrician, Nader Ajluni DO
and Des Moines family psychiatrist, David
Drake DO.
E. Ethical
Implications of Dual-loyalty for
Health Care Providers in the Military.
Facilitator:
Robert Schultes MD, Family Practice.
Discussants:
University of Iowa biomedical ethicist, Lauris Kaldjian MD; PSR President John Pastore
MD; and Peoples Health Movement USA organizer, Laura Turiano PA.
F. Financing
War and Financing Health: Can We
Afford Both?
Facilitator:
Katy Hansen Director, Iowa
UNA.
Discussants:
Peggy Huppert,
Representative of
Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities and Kathleen McQuillen, Director Iowa
American Friends Service Committee.
5:00-5:30
Wrap Up.
Conference
participants answer the challenge: "Where do we go from here?"
5:30 PM
Adjourn afternoon session
6:00-7:30
Dinner on Your Own
- or -
Attend Reception
and Dinner with Conference Faculty.
(Separate
registration required for Reception & Dinner)
7:30-8:30 PM
Providing Health Care in an Undeclared War:
The Case of Haiti
Evan
Lyon, MD, Partners in Health, Boston & Haiti
