Havana, May 3, 2003.

 

 

Rodolfo Stusser, M.D.’s Tentative Program of Scientific Exchange in the University of San Francisco and University of California, San Francisco on May 3-16, 2003 --or in some days later.

 

Goals:

 

1) To see & learn the last developments & advances on scientific research & training programs, and on informatics, telematics, internet, in medicine, surgery, nursing, technology & public health in the UCSF, USF & SF City Health Care Department, with emphasis, in primary care & family practice

2) To talk about the Havanan experience in biomedical & socio health sciences, and to discuss some own non conventional scientific research, training & collaboration projects & program

3) To strengthen the scientific collaboration, partnership & friendship between our Havanan health care & scientific centers, university, societies, and the UCSF, USF & other SF homologues, achieving a first & modest collaboration project

 

NOTE: I would like to see if UCSF Dean Professor Haile Debas could concert with UCSF Nobel Prize Chancellor, Professor J. Michael Bishop, a very special visit to the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases. It could be inserted in any place of this schedule.

 

Activities:

This schedule is very tentative & will be subjected to precisions in the next weeks. The activities suggested by Dean Debas, Prof. Rodnick & Prof. Barter’s offices are in blue, awaiting to be confirmed by them where & when (like the wonderful Frank Sinatra’s song).

I am open to have some meetings, exchanges and talks at the evening too. The talks could be selected from the List of 26 possible talks at www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/systems/1000/lectures.html

 

Saturday 3rd/Sunday 4th of May:

Reception at SF airport: USF Prof. Marjorie Barter, Chair, Nursing School Graduate Dept., & friends. Arrive to Carl Hotel (www.citysearch.com/sfo/carlhotel). Informal personal and/or phone contacts: UCSF Prof. Jonathan Rodnick & Peter Lovett; USF Prof. Robin Buccheri, Nursing School; UCSF Profs. John Peabody, Biostatistics & Epidemiology Dept.; USF Prof. David Batstone, Social Ethics, Theology Dept. Visit to SF City & share with Prof. Barter, Mrs. & Mr. Stilsons, Ms. Eileen Berry, RN, Ms. Mary Ho, and other friends. 

 

Monday, May 5:

9-1 pm: Completion of US government form in UCSF IS&S Office. Meet USF Prof. John Lantz, Dean, School of Nursing, Prof. Barter, Prof. James Wiser, Provost, and Rev. Stephen A. Privett, President USF. Visit USF nursing academic & research facilities, services, libraries, scientific research & research training programs, nurse informatics & tele nursing projects, specially for family nurse practitioners. Talk on “Cuban Health Care, Education & Science” to Nursing students.

1-Open: Visit USF Computing & Tech, Computer Support, Information Technology Services, Training (CIT) & Statistical Units. “Global Nursing Science & Scientists” Project discussion with faculty staff.

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Tuesday, 6th of May:

9-1 pm: Visit USF School of Business & Management, Education, Law, Colleges of Arts & Sciences, of Professional Studies, Centers for Child & Family Development, for Latin American Business, for Latino Studies in the Americas, Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning, academic & research facilities.

1-open: Talk on “Cuban Health Care, Education & Sciences” to a pool of students of USF Schools, colleges & institutes. “Global Human Development” Project discussion with faculty staff.

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Wednesday 7th of May:

9-12 pm: Meet with UCSF substitute of Prof. Stephen Hulley, Chair, Epidemiology & Biostatistics Department. “Unified Methodology Approach” Project discussion with faculty staff. 

12-3 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Thomas Ferrin, Director, Biological & Medical Informatics (BMI) & Prof. Isa Sim & Patricia Babbitt, Ass. Directors, Medical & Bio Informatics. Visit academic & research facilities, scientific research & training programs. “Intuitive Mathematic, Computer, Internet Solution to Health Scientific Programs' Integration-Differentiation Problem” Project discussion with faculty staff.

3-open: Meet UCSF Prof. Philippe Bourgois, Anthropology, History & Social Medicine Department. Talk on “Cuban Health Care, Education & Science”. “US Biomedical Positive Influence in Cuban Biomedicine” Project discussion with faculty staff. 

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Thursday 8th of May:

9-1 pm: Meet with UCSF Profs. Haile Debas & Susan Wall, Vice-Chancellor Medical Affairs, Dean & Vice-Dean, School of Medicine. Introduction to Profs. Dorothy Bainton and Zach W. Hall, Vice-Chancellor for Academic & Research Affairs, and to Nobel Prize Professor J. Michael Bishop, Chancellor UCSF--at hour to fix. Visit UCSF academic & research facilities & services, libraries, specially the scientific research & research training programs, computer & technology resources. Talk on “Cuban Health Care, Education & Science” at San Francisco General Hospital 12:00 – 1:00 pm, Grand Rounds.

1-3 pm: Exchange with UCSF Prof. James Ostroff, Director, Endoscopic Unit & Gastroenterology. Visit to the hospital care, educational & research facilities, and specially the informatics & tele surgical, tele endoscopic, tele radiological-US & tele cardiological systems.

3-open: Meet UCSF Prof. Nancy Ascher, Chair, Surgery Dept. Talk on “Cuban Health Care, Education & Science”, and dinner with Surgery staff--at hour & place to fix.

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Friday 9th of May:

9-1 pm: Exchange with UCSF Prof. Jonathan Rodnick, Chair, Family & Community Medicine Department. Visit academic & research facilities & services, libraries, scientific research & research training programs, primary care & family medicine informatics, internet & other high tech comm. projects. Visit a SF Community Health Dept. Clinic. Two talks to FM students & FM residents on “Medical Education & Practice in Cuba” –at hours & places to fix.

1-3 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Nancy Adler, Director, Center for Health & Community. Visit to the CHC care, academic & research facilities & services, library, scientific research & research training programs, informatics, tele medicine, internet & high tech communication projects.

3-open: Meet UCSF Prof. Sandra Weiss, Chair, Community Health Systems Dept. & Prof. Charles Mead. “FM New Research Spaces & Methods” Project discussion with FCM, CHC & CHS faculty staffs. 

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Saturday 10th/Sunday 11th of May: Visit & sharing in the UCSF Prof. Abraham Rudolph & Rhona's Seminoma house; meet there to Dr. Peter M. Miller, Pediatrician adviser on maternal & child health, disable children & health needs, and wife; and meet Prof. Dennis Patton, University of Arizona & his cousins of the HIV Unit-SFG Hospital; and other friends.

 

Monday 12th of May:

9-12 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Frank McCormick, Director, Research Cancer Institute & Comprehensive Cancer Center. Visit academic & research facilities & services, libraries, scientific research & training programs, informatics & tele oncology systems & projects.

Talk on “Cuban Research Program for Cancer” with the staff.

12-3 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Shaun R. Coughlin, Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute with Prof. Abraham Rudolph. Visit academic & research facilities & services, libraries, scientific research & training programs, informatics, tele cardiology & tele pediatrics projects. Talk on “Cuban Research Program for CAD” with the staff.

3-open: Meet UCSF Prof. Chris Kiefer, Director, Human Development & Aging, Department of Psychiatry. Talk on “Cuban Health Care, Education & Science”. “Global Human Development” Project discussion with faculty staff.

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Tuesday 13th of May:

9-12 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Thomas J. Coates, Director, AIDS Research Institute. Visit ARI academic & research facilities, library, scientific research & training programs, informatics & tele AIDS systems.

12-1 pm: Talk to Surgery residents in the SFG Hospital.

1-open: Meet UCSF Prof. Susan Folkman, Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, and discussion with its staff of an “Integration Science Program on Medicine, Surgery, Nursing, and Technology & Public Health”, and with all USF/UCSF Professors interested.

 

Note: I would like to see if UCSF Professor Jonnathan Rodnick could concert with UC Davis Prof. Thomas Nesbitt, an exchange in Sacramento. In this I will have transportation guaranteed by my friend Prof. Barbara McClain, Contracosta College, his husband & other friends.

 

Wednesday 14th of May:

9-1 pm: Trip with Barbara McClain, his husband and friends from San Francisco to Sacramento.

1-open:  Meet UC Davis Prof. Thomas Nesbitt, Ass. Dean for Outreach, Tele Health & Continuing Medical Education, Director, Center for Health & Technology an exchange in Sacramento. Talk on “Vedado Community Polyclinic Project for Informatics, Telemedicine and Internet” with the staff. Project discussion with faculty of the center and family medicine staff. 

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Thursday 15th of May:

9-12 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Lee Goldman, Chair, Medicine Department, and Andrew B Bindman. “Emergentist Research Strategy” Project discussion with faculty staff.

12-open: Meet UCSF Profs. John Peabody & George Rutherford, Vice-Deputy & Director, Institute for Global Health, and Tom Novotny. Visit IGH academic & research facilities, library, biostatistics unit, computer & info tech resources. Talk on “Cuban NHS System Response to HIV/AIDS” to the institute staff. “Global Brain-Network” Project discussion with IGH research staff.

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Friday 16th of May:

9-12 pm: Meet UCSF Prof. Harold S. Luft, Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies, Prof. Robert Miller & Jonathan Showstack. Visit IHPS academic & research facilities, library, biostatistics unit, informatics & tech resources. Talk on “National Health Policy & Health Care System Research & Development in Poor Countries” with staff.

(Informal exchange & sharing with friends)

 

Afternoon, farewell at SF Airport by UCSF Prof. Rodnick and other friends. Departure to Miami Airport.

 

Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th of May: Visit & sharing in Hollywood, Fl, with Vera, Jose Javier, Patricio, and family, Mercy and Theresa, Purita, Faustico, and family, and other friends.

Afternoon, farewell at Miami Airport by Vera, Jose Javier, family and friends. Departure to Havana Airport.

 

It could be deferred for other times due to lack of time the activities as follows:

 

Exchange with my friend Prof. Thomas Hall, who will be out of the country in these days.

 

Meet with UCSF Prof. Charles Bertolami, Dean, School of Dentistry. Visit UCSF dentistry academic & research facilities, library, and scientific research & training programs, informatics & tele dentistry systems. Talk to Dentistry post grade students & faculty staff.

 

Meet with UCSF Prof. Kathleen Dracup, Dean, School of Nursing. Visit academic & research facilities, scientific research & training programs, informatics & tele nursing projects, specially for family nurse practitioners. Talk to Nursing students. “Global Nursing Science & Scientists” Project discussion with faculty staff.

 

Meet with UCSF Prof. Mary Anne Koda Kimble, Dean, School of Pharmacy. Visit UCSF pharmacy academic & research facilities, library, scientific research & training programs, pharmacy informatics & tele pharmacy systems. Talk to Pharmacy students & faculty staff.

 

 

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