BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:201@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20160218T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20160218T181500 DTSTAMP:20231222T084048Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/alaskan-doctors-ebola/ SUMMARY:WorldMatters: How I Ended Up Working on Ebola - the Journeys of Two Alaskan Doctors DESCRIPTION:\n\nThis program is presented as a part of WorldMatters\, a ser ies engaging Alaska's young leaders in global dialogue.\n\n\nJoin us at 4: 30pm for a social mixer with our guest speakers prior to the program start at 5:15pm. Beverages and light snacks will be available for purchase from Cyrano's Cafe.\n\n\n\nSpeaker Bios:\n\nDr. Michael Bruce\, Epidemiology T eam Leader\, Centers for Disease Control\nMichael Bruce is a public health physician and medical epidemiologist trained in both Internal and Prevent ive Medicine. He is the Epidemiology Team Leader at the Centers for Diseas e Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Arctic Investigations Program in Alaska \, USA. He graduated cum laude from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in Ant hropology\, then graduated with an MD/MPH from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He completed an Internal Medicine residency at Oregon Health Sciences University then began his career at CDC in 1997 as an Epid emiologic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer in the Meningitis and Special Pathogens Branch\, Atlanta and then went on to complete a Preventive Medi cine Residency in Seattle\, Washington.\n\nFor the past 15 years\, his wor k has focused on improving health in Alaska Native communities\, creation of a sentinel surveillance system in Alaska for detecting infection caused by Helicobacter pylori\, and setting up\, managing and analyzing data fro m the international circumpolar surveillance (ICS) system for invasive bac terial diseases to include Alaska\, Canada\, Greenland\, Iceland\, Norway\ , Sweden\, Finland and Russia. He is the Principal Investigator of 9 diffe rent active studies and co-investigator on 15 other active studies. He has received numerous awards and has published over 100 scientific articles a nd book chapters.\n\nDr. Bruce speaks French fluently\, and his current ar eas of interest include meningococcal disease in the north\, ulcer disease and gastric cancer associated with Helicobacter pylori infection\, invasi ve respiratory illness caused by Haemophilus influenzae &\; Streptococc us pneumoniae\, avian influenza\, human papilloma virus infection and cerv ical cancer. He is currently the Chairman of the ICS Steering Committee an d the Invasive Bacterial Disease Working Group\, and is the former Preside nt of the American Society for Circumpolar Health\, and former President o f the International Union for Circumpolar Health.\n\n \;\n\nDr. Timoth y Thomas\, Director\, Clinical and Research Services Department\, Division of Community Health Services\, ANTHC\nDr. Timothy Thomas currently works as Director of Clinical and Research Services Department in the Division o f Community Health Services\, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTH C).Dr. Thomas was born and grew up in Kenya with secondary and college edu cation in England and the USA respectively. He is a medical epidemiologist with broad clinical and research experience in Kenya and Alaska\, address ing issues of health disparity among impoverished and minority populations . He attended medical school in Indiana and completed a residency in Famil y Practice in Huntington\, West Virginia with a focus on International Hea lth and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAfter residency he returned to East Africa f or two years where he worked for a short period for Doctors without Border s in Somalia and then in a mission hospital in central Kenya. He returned to the United States in the mid-90s to work as a Family Practice doctor in Bethel\, Alaska for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation (YKHC)\, a Tri bal Health organization owned by and serving the indigenous people of west ern Alaska. After Bethel he joined the CDC as an ‘Epidemic Intelligence Service’ Officer where he did the two year CDC epidemiology training bas ed at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Field Stat ion in Anchorage. He subsequently returned to Kenya for seven years as hea d of the HIV research department at the Kenya Medical Research Institute ( KEMRI)/CDC Field station in western Kenya.\n\nHe returned to Alaska in 200 8 to work with the CDC Arctic Investigations Program\, primarily on water and sanitation and oral health issues and then in October 2011 joined the ANTHC in his current position where he oversees a staff of 30 involved in multiple research projects including hepatitis\, adolescent health (primar ily addressing violence and STDs)\, cardiovascular disease\, diabetes\, or al health\, water and sanitation and tobacco cessation.\n\n\n\nThe WorldMa tters Series is sponsored by\n\n       \n\nThank you to our generous venue sponsor:\n\n\n\nThe WorldMatters Series is presented in partnership with\n\n                         \n\n \;\n\n&nb sp\; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2015/08/WorldMattersLogo-Draft.jpg CATEGORIES:International Program Series,WorldMatters LOCATION:Cyrano's Theatre Company\, 411 D St\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, Uni ted States GEO:61.218267;-149.88908400000003 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=411 D St\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Cyrano's Theatre Company :geo:61.218267,-149.88908400000003 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20151101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0900 TZNAME:AKST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR