Expedition Medicine Sierra Leone: Sam Milne and Blair Dunlop at TEDxBathUniversity – Video

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Expedition Medicine Sierra Leone is a group of medical students that undertook a medically orientated expedition from July to October 2013. Their expedition ...

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Arroyo's alternative medicine doctor unlicensed

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MANILA, Philippines The alternative medicine doctor who took in former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2012 for possible stem cell therapy is not licensed to practice in the Philippines.

On Tuesday, April 1, Antonia Park of the Green & Young Health & Wellness Center admitted to Rappler in a phone interview she is not a registered physician in the Philippines because "I'm not from here." She is instead a registered medical practitioner in London and Korea.

"Thats why its a wellness center. If dito ako [registered], maglalagay na lang ako ng medical center," she said, referring to her center located in Tagaytay City. (That's why it's a wellness center. If I am registered here, I might as well put up a medical center.)

A document from the Professional Regulatory Commission (PRC) dated Aug 12, 2013 showed Park is not in the database of physicians which contains the names of those duly authorized to practice medicine in the Philippines.

Certification Antonia Carandang Park

Park and some of her clinic staff are facing charges of estafa and reckless imprudence resulting in homicide. The charges were filed last year by businessman Bernard Tan with the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) after his 23-year-old daughter Kate died.

Kate, an Ateneo student who graduated with honors in March 2013, died 4 months later on July 4, due to a tumor that blocked the entry of blood to her heart, secondary to Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The disease is an uncommon but curable cancer of the lymphatic system.

High-profile patient

Kate was diagnosed with cancer in 2009. After undergoing chemotherapy and radiotherapy, she was declared cancer-free in January 2012. The cancer recurred around May or June of the same year, however, prompting Kate to try something else besides traditional treatment.

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Sam Hawgood Takes the Helm at UCSF

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Renowned pediatrician and medical school dean Sam Hawgood, MBBS, became interim chancellor today of UC San Francisco, the nations leading public university exclusively dedicated to health.

The appointment, which The University of California Board of Regents approved Jan. 23, 2014, places Hawgood at the helm of the $4 billion university during the national search for its 10th chancellor. He assumes the role from Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, who will become chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on May 1.

Hawgood has been dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and vice chancellor for medical affairs at UCSF since September 2009, after serving as interim dean since December 2007. The school has excelled under his leadership. It currently is ranked first among all schools nationwide in funding from the National Institutes of Health, indicating the excellence of its research enterprise. It also ranks fourth nationwide in both research and primary care education, according to the recent survey conducted byU.S. News & World Report.

As dean, Hawgood has been a core member of the Chancellors Executive Council, playing an integral role in the universitys leadership and guidance during a time of profound growth.

Sam is a highly respected physician, scientist and leader, with a collaborative and inclusive style that will serve the campus well through this transition, said UC President Janet Napolitano. I have full confidence that his leadership will enable UCSF to maintain its renowned excellence in research, education and clinical care into the foreseeable future.

Napolitano appointed an advisory committee of university faculty, staff, students, alumni and foundation representatives in January to support the national search, which Napolitano will oversee.

As dean of the School of Medicine, Hawgood leads an organization with an operating budget of more than $1.7 billion, nearly 8,000 faculty and staff, and 3,655 medical and graduate students, residents, fellows and postdoctoral scholars.

The school received $439.6 million in NIH funding in 2013, with many of its departments also leading the nation in their fields in these highly competitive grants.

The schools clinical faculty is renowned for world-class medical care, carried out at its top-tier hospitals UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital, as well as Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, and the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center.

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Surgeon General Nominee To Speak at Medical, Dental Schools Class Day

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Embattled Surgeon General nominee Vivek H. Murthy 98, a physician at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Womens Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, will address graduates of the Medical School and School of Dental Medicine at Class Day on May 29.

Murthys selection as Class Day speaker was reported by Harvard Magazine on March 28. According to the Medical School Dean of Students, the graduating class of both schools select the speaker by class-wide nominations followed by an online, class-wide vote. Students send the invitation.

Murthy has had a much more difficult time in the U.S. Senate, where his nomination as Surgeon General has been stalled by Congressional conservatives. The National Rifle Association, many Republicans, and as many as ten conservative Democrats oppose Murthys nomination because he has advocated that gun policy be treated as a health issue. Others have called the move a political stunt.

In the face of Congressional opposition, the White House said in late March that it was recalibrating its approach to the appointment process.

Murthy is the co-founder of Doctors for America, a 16,000-member organization of physicians and medical school students that aims to expand access to affordable health care. The group was originally called Doctors for Obama.

Murthy also founded the non-profit Visions Worldwide, Inc., which focuses on AIDS education, and TrialNetworks, a system to improve clinical trial efficiency to bring new drugs to market in a faster and safer manner.

Despite the political controversy surrounding Murthys appointment, students and faculty members at the Medical School said that they are excited the nominee will be speaking at the annual Class Day festivities.

Vivek Murthy combines compassion and intelligence, plus consistent hard work, to help...families through health crises via increasing their access to care, Adam R. Frange, a teaching assistant in chemistry, wrote in an e-mail.

Medical School professor Gerald B. Pier said he first met Murthy during a Harvard Summer School program while Murthy was still in high school. The two kept in contact and conducted research together while Murthy attended the College and the Medical School.

Pier said that he believes Murthy can bring some perspective to the graduating Medical School class about what can they expect to await them once they begin their training.

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Study addresses depression in medical school

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Posted: Tuesday, April 1, 2014 4:01 am | Updated: 7:05 am, Tue Apr 1, 2014.

ST. LOUIS (AP) A new Saint Louis University study indicates that medical schools can go a long way in helping future doctors manage their own levels of stress and depression.

Dr. Stuart Slavin, associate dean of curriculum at the university's School of Medicine, published a paper in the April edition of Academic Medicine. It looked at the well-being of first- and second-year medical students before and after changes to the university's medical school curriculum designed to prevent depression, stress and anxiety.

Slavin says the changes led to dramatic improvements. Depression rates in first-year students went from 27 percent to 11 percent. Meanwhile, board scores rose.

The university says depression is a big issue in medical schools across the U.S., affecting 20 to 30 percent of medical students.

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