Medical Consequences Conference Local Faculty

Last updated 3/20/06

LOCAL FACULTY

	Nader Ajluni DO Dr. Ajluni is a pediatrician at the Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines. He is interested in violence prevention and peaceful conflict resolution.
	William Basinger Korean War veteran. Bill is also a veteran peace activist. He and his wife Jean have been to Iraq twice, most recently in February and March 2004 as part of Christian Peacemaker Teams.
	David Bedell MD Dr. Bedell is an Associate Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Medical Director of the Lone Tree Family Practice Center for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City Iowa USA. From 1986 to 1994 he worked in El Salvador as a volunteer physician for Concern America. Six of those years were during the Salvadorian civil war. Dr. Bedell current teaching focuses on: community medicine, global health issues / international health, culturally effective health care, health disparities and the medically undeserved. The Lone Tree Family Practice attends a rural population that is 50% Hispanic. Last year Dr. Bedell received the Michael Doheny Humanitarian Award from Concern America for his work in El Salvador.
	Karyn L. Berlin MSW LISW Ms Berlin is a licensed independent social worker at the Veteran’s Administration Health Care System in Iowa City. She has worked with veterans in the hematology oncology clinic for the past twelve years.
No photo	William Brock World War II veteran.
	Alexis Bushnell Ms Busnell is a senior in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She worked at the Cambodian Mine Action Center in Phnom Penh during the Summer 2005. The Center’s mission is to clear Cambodia of the millions of landlines left over from years of civil war. While there, she interviewed former Khmer Rouge communists, edited reports going out to the U.S. Embassy (one of the group’s funders), visited minefields, worked on grant proposals, drafted some the Center’s annual report, and visited the facilities where they trained dogs to detect mines. She also questioned the downsides of having so many Western NGOs in a poor country. Currently she works as an intern for the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights.
	Marc Campbell PhD Marc Campbell is a first year osteopathic medical student at Des Moines University. While completing his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, too many of his fellow international graduate students were murdered or committed suicide. He volunteered in Suicide Prevention Research and Peer Sexual Health Education. His current interest in mental health is to use his experience of living in dictatorships to improve health care in the U.S. In particular, he is exploring health care worker and student emotional re-empowerment.
No photo	Jennifer Carr Senior medical student at the University of Iowa Carver School of Medicine. Ms Carr has been a leader of Iowa Student Physicians for Social Responsibility and plans to specialize in psychiatry.
	David Drake DO Dr. Drake is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Des Moines University, runs a solo family psychiatry private practice in Des Moines. A graduate of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry, he is board certified in psychiatry and is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Active with the American Friends Service Committee, he serves as clerk of the Iowa Program Committee. He is married and has two high school aged children.
	Laurence Fuortes, MD University of Iowa College of Public Health. Dr. Fuortes conducts international research on rural agricultural worker health. Over the last five years he has led programs to screen former Atomic Energy workers and to assist them in filing claims under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. Much of this work has involved Department of Defense Contract Workers at military munitions plants in Iowa.
No Photo	Colleen Gallagher Nursing student at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.
	Katy Hansen Executive Director, Iowa United Nations Association, President of Iowa Shares. Founder of the Iowa Peace Corps Association and the Iowa Returned Peace Corps Volunteers for Environment and Development, and past president of the National Peace Corps Association. Her undergraduate training is in mathematics and she has a master's degree in chemistry.
	Lisa Heineman PhD Associate Professor of History, University of Iowa. Professor Heineman's research activities have included work on gender, sexuality and conflict; her publications include "Sexuality and Nazism: The Doubly Unspeakable?" (Journal of the History of Sexuality, 11/1-2 (2002):22-66. She is currently co-organizing a conference, sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, on the History of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones.
	Peggy Huppert Peggy Huppert is the director of Iowans for Sensible Priorities, a grassroots, nonprofit and nonpartisan campaign aimed at educating Iowans about our national budget priorities and advocating for a change. Peggy, who is from Des Moines, has more than 20 years of experience leading nonprofits as an executive, communications and development director. She serves on the boards of three nonprofits and has been a volunteer with many political campaigns ranging from school board to president.
	Lauris Kaldjian MD PhD Dr. Kaldjian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he is also Director of the Program in Biomedical Ethics and Medical Humanities. He received his M.D. from the University of Michigan and PhD in ethics from Yale University. He did his residency and fellowship training at Yale in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Dr. Kaldjian practices general internal medicine at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. His current research includes a focus on the relationship between physicians’ personal beliefs and professional ethics. In 2002 Dr. Kaldjian received a Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Since 2003 he has been the Law & Ethics column editor for Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Medicine.
	Lisa Skemp Kelly PhD RN University of Iowa College of Nursing. Dr. Kelly 's areas of research include gerontological nursing especially in rural and international and global settings. She mentors a group of nursing students who work with refugee populations in the Iowa City area.
No Photo	Ron Knief Ron is on the dietary staff of the Iowa City VA Medical Center, is a Board Member of the Iowa Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and is a regular contributor to the Chapter newsletter, IPSR News.
	Maureen McCue MD PhD Dr. McCue has traveled and worked extensively as a peace maker, researcher, and physician. She is the coordinator for the Iowa Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a founding member and former Director of the University of Iowa Global Health Studies Program, where she remains active on the governing board, and a founding member and executive committee member of the UI Center for Human Rights. She has helped organize many forums on cross cultural, global health, and refugee health issues and has regularly interacted with international and domestic representatives of many programs, disciplines, and perspectives regarding global health issues, and participated in several unique peace, health and human rights events in the former Soviet Union, Nicaragua, Cuba, Ecuador and Bangladesh.
	Kathleen McQuillen Director, Iowa American Friends Service Committee, Des Moines. Originally from Buffalo, NY, she was spurred to social activism by the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s. She was a VISTA volunteer, a factory worker and union organizer, and an at-risk youth social worker before settling into a leadership role with the Quaker-affiliated AFSC 11 years ago.
No photo	Brandi Missel Nursing student, University of Iowa College of Nursing
	John Rachow PhD MD University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Medicine. Dr. Rachow is a Board Member of the Iowa Chapter Physicians for Social Responsibility and edits the Chapter newsletter IPSR News and Chapter web site www.iowa-psr.org. Creators of Peace Herky, Dr. Rachow and his alter ego, Smarterman, are prominent Iowa supporters of PSR's SMART Security Platform.
	Mohamed Radhi MD University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Radhi graduated from medical school at Al-Mustansiriah University in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a military physician in Iraq prior to 1991 before coming to the U.S. where he did pediatric residency training at Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines and a fellowship in pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Emory University Children's Hospital in Atlanta, GA.
No photo	Anne G. Sadler, RN PhD Acting Chief, Psychology Service Iowa City VA Medical Center and Post-Traumatic Stress Clinical Team Coordinator. Research interests include: Screening for PTSD in primary care settings. Medical and psychological sequelae of trauma for the victim and family. Physical & Sexual Assault in Deployed Women. The effects of trauma on women’s health care utilization. Military environments and women’s risk of physical & sexual violence exposure, access to reporting of victimization, and associated health care.
	Robert Schultes MD Dr. Schultes is a Board Member of the Iowa Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. He practices family medicine at MercyCare in Cedar Rapids. He is also a member of Women for Peace.
No photo	Michael Totten Viet Nam veteran.
	Rajeev Vibhakar MD PhD University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Vibhakar is a pediatric oncologist with research interests in pediatric brain tumors. He is a Board Member of Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility and mentor for the Iowa Student PSR group.
	Rogaia Hassan Ibrahim Zaki Rogaia is a registered nurse from Sudan who, with her family, came to the United States in 2000. She has a diploma in nursing from Khartoum University, Sudan and advanced certificates in diabetes education and health management from King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. Nurse Zaki has practiced nursing in Sudan, Ireland, and Saudi Arabia; and has recently she obtained her RN license to practice in the US. She has established good connections and relationships with the growing Sudanese community in Iowa City, serving as Community Foreign Relations Executive for the Iowa City Sudanese Society Association from 2002-2004.