Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad
29^th Annual Convention
held on July 21-27, 2002

Scientific Commission OBJECTIVES ACCREDITATION List of Speakers

Faculty Disclosure Contributors SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

“Medicine in African Americans”

Sponsored by

SVCMC
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers
an affiliate of New York Medical College

 27.5 CME credits

Casa de Campo
La Romana, Dominican Republic

Scientific Commission

Chairman and Nephrology Chair Eric L. Jerome, M.D., FACP Manhasset, New York	Family Practice Chair Michel Dodard, M.D. Miami, Florida
Program Director Psychiatry Roosevelt Clerisme, M.D. Westbury, New York	Internal Medicine Chair Alix Gay, M.D. Coral Springs, Florida
Psychiatry Chair Jacques Vital-Herne, M.D. Westbury, New York	Pathology Chair Jean Talleyrand, M.D. Newark, New Jersey
Infectious Diseases Chair Vladimir Berthaud, M.D., FACP Nashville, Tennessee	Critical Care Medicine Chair Ernest Benjamin, M.D. New York, New York
Infectious Diseases Edouard Hazel, M.D. Bayside, New York	Surgical Oncology Chair Louis Auguste, M.D., FACS St. Louis, Missouri
Cardiology Chair Alix Dufresne, M.D., FACC Elmont, New York	Anesthesiology Ketty Elysee, M.D. New York, NY
Obstetrics- Gynecology Chair Daniel Faustin, M.D., FAGOG Manhasset, New York	Surgery Chair Yves Manigat, MD Voorrhees, NY
Pulmonary Medicine Chair Frances Schmidt, M.D., FCCP, FACP Brooklyn, New York	Gastro-Enterology Chair Paul Nacier, MD, FACG NY
Obstetrics- Gynecology Roger Duvivier, M.D., FACOG White Plains, New York	Pediatric Chair Verlaine Brunot, MD, Hemptead, NY
Neurology Chair Serge Pierre-Louis,M.D, M.P.H. Chicago, Illinois	Nephrology Anthony Joseph, MD Old Brookville, NY

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OBJECTIVES

The goal of this year scientific activity is to provide an update on medical issues related to ethnic groups particularly African-Americans.  Emphasis will be placed on prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The target audience is Practicing Physicians and others Health Professionals.

Our guest faculty is selected primarily from renowned academic centers across the United States and abroad.

At the conclusion of this program, the participants will become familiar with the state-of-the-art presentations in important areas of their medical practice. They should particularly be able to:

1. Identify patients at high risk for major gastro-intestinal, cardiovascular diseases and assess them for any appropriate interventions.

2. Have a better approach to the patients with HIV/AIDS, malignancies.

3. Understand key aspects a) in the management of anemia and sickle cell Anemia, as well as the mentally affected patient b) in access to health care and women health in African Americans.

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ACCREDITATION

This activity has been planned and Implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (A.C.C.M.E) through the joint sponsorship of the Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers of Brooklyn/Queens accredited by the (A.C.C.M.E) through MSSNY to provide Continuing Medical Education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity.

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Faculty Disclosure

The “Faculty disclosure policy” of Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers requires that faculty participating in a CME activity discloses to the audience any discussion of unlabeled use of a commercial product or device or an investigational use not yet approved for any purpose.

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Contributors

This program has been partially supported by unrestricted grant of Pfizer, Co and Bristol Myers Squibb, Astra Zeneca

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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM – July 21-27, 2002

SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2002

4:00 to 8:00pm- Registration

 

MONDAY, JULY 22, 2002

8:15am            Opening Remarks

Eric L. Jerome, M.D.FACP /Roosevelt Clerisme, M.D.

 

GASTROENTEROLOGY  Moderator – Eric Duquella, M.D.

 

8:30am            H. Pylori: an update

                                    Paul Nacier, M.D.FACG

 

9:00am            Food borne Gastroenteritis

                                    Prosper Remy, M.D.FACG

 

9:30am            Colorectal Cancer in African- Americans

                                    Alerte Boucard, M.D.FACG

 

10:00am          Abnormal Liver Function Tests

                                    Frank Marsh, M.D.FACG

 

10:30am          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

10:45am          BREAK

 

 

WOMEN’S HEALTH Moderator –Fritz Appolon, M.D.FAGOG

 

11:00am          Mortality in African- American Women after 45.

                                    Antonio Senat, M.D., FACC

 

11:30am          Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortalities

                                    Roger Duvivier, M.D.FACOG

 

12:00pm          Geographical differences  in  access to health care in Women

                                    Sandra McCalla, M.D. FACOG

 

12:30pm          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

12:45pm          LUNCH

 

 

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

        

2:00pm            A Case of Liver Transplantation in Hepatitis C

                                    Panel: Wesner Moise, M.D,  Jean Talleyrand, MD, Eric Duquella, MD

 

3:00pm            A Case of Vavular Replacement in an ESRD Patient

                                    Panel: Alix Dufresne, M.D, Valiere Alcena, MD, Joseph Paul, MD

 

3:00pm            Acute Renal Failure in Pregnancy

                                    Panel: Sandra McCalla, MD,   Jean Talleyrand,MD  Eric Jerome, MD

 

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 2002

 

 

ONCOLOGY  Moderator – Carline Sangosse, M.D.

 

8:30am            Epidemiology of Breast Cancer in African-Americans

                                    Yves Manigat, MD, FACS

 

9:00am            Jean Claude Remy Memorial Lecture

                        Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

                                    Bernard Poulard, MD, FACS

 

9:30am            Genetics in Cancer

                                    Gardithe Joseph, M.D.

 

10:00am          Decatrel Mirville Memorial Lecture

                        Prostate Cancer in African- Americans

                                    Paul Blanc, MD, FACS

 

10:30am          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

10:45am          BREAK

 

 

PRIMARY CARE MEDECINE  Moderator – Christian Lauriston, M.D.

 

11:00am          Update in the treatment of Anemia

                                     Valiere Alcena, MD,FACP

 

11:30am          Insulin Resistance in African-Americans

                                    Saka Kazeem, M.D.

 

12:00pm          Primary care Medicine for OB-Gyn Cancer survivors

                                    Roger Duvivier, MD                                    

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2002

 

 

PSYCHIATRY Moderator – Jacques Vital-Herne, M.D.

 

8:30am            Dementia in African- Americans

                                    Roosevelt Clerisme, M.D.

 

9:00am            The Neuropsychiatry of Drug Abuse

                                    Jean-Lud Cadet, M.D.

 

9:30am            Pharmacological Update on the New Anti-Depressants

                                    Jacques Vital-Herne, M.D.

 

10:00am          Pharmacotherapy of Anxiety and Insomnia

                                    George J. Casimir, M.D.

 

10:30am          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

10:45am          BREAK

 

 

PEDIATRICS  Moderator – Micheline Dole,  M.D.

 

11:00am          Asthma in Urban Populations

                                    Michel David, M.D.FCCP

 

11:30am          Sickle-Cell Anemia

                                    Douge Barthelemy, M.D.

 

12:00pm          NIDDM in Children: is there an epidemic

                                    Verlaine Brunot, M.D

 

12:30pm          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

 

 

2:00pm            COMPUTER WORKSHOP- Use of Palm Computer in Medicine

                                   

                                    Reynald Altema, M.D.

                                   

 

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 25, 2002

 

 

INFECTIOUS DISEASES Moderator – Edouard Hazel, M.D.

 

8:30am            HIV/AIDS- Update of Vaccination Trial in Haiti

                                    William Pape, M.D.

                                  

9:00am            HIV Therapy

                                    Joseph Paul, M.D.

 

9:30am            Management of Infections in CRF Patients

                                    Anthony Joseph, M.D.

 

10:00am          Tuberculosis

                                    Frances Schmidt, M.D.FACP

 

10:30am          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

10:45am          BREAK

 

 

 

 

OBSTETRICS / GYNECOLOGY Moderator –  Louis Camilien, M.D.

 

11:00am          Maternal Mortality in Developing Countries

                                    George Dubuche, M.D.

 

11:30am          High Risk Pregnancy

                                    Daniel Faustin, M.D.

 

12:00pm          Fibroids in African Americans

                                     Leslie Kernizant, MD   .

 

12:30pm          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

  FRIDAY, JULY 26, 2002

CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE Moderator – Yves Jodesti, M.D.

 

8:30am            Hypertension: Are All Therapeutic Agents Equal?

                                      Eric Jerome, M.D.FACP       

 

9:00am            Atrial Fibrillation: Gender Differences in Rhythm Disorders

                                      Alix Dufresne, M.D.FACC

 

9:30am            Epidemiology of Stroke in African Americans

                                      Serge Pierre-Louis, MD

 

10:00am          Update in the treatment of Cerebral Vascular Accidents

                                      Jean Robert Desrouleaux, MD

 

10:30am          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

10:45am          BREAK

 

 

 

SURGERY    Moderator  Egel Francois, MD FACS

 

11:00am          Fat Embolism

                                    Ketty Elysee, M.D.

 

11:30am          Kidney Transplantation

                                    Devon John, M.D.FACS

 

12:00pm          Bone Infection in Sickle-Cell Disease

                                    Maxime Coles, M.D.

 

12:30pm          QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

 

SATURDAY JULY 27, 2002

International Medicine

 Moderator:  Alix Gay, MD

9:00am          Racial  Differences in cardiac Catherization

                                     Alan Bertoni, MD

9:30am            Public Health in Haiti

                                    Gabriel Thimothe, M.D.

10:00am          Healthcare in the Bateys

                                    David Simmons, MD

10:30am          Healthcare in the Dominican Republic

                                    Roberto Cerda-Torres, MD

11.00 am        Questions and Answers

 

11:30am          Closing remarks

                                   Roosevelt Clerisme, MD

                                   Eric L Jerome, MD FACP

12:00                Adjourn.

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List of Speakers

Alcena, Valiere.MD FACP Professor of Medicine Albert Einstein College of Medicine Altema, Reynald M.D. Internal Medicine UMDNJ Barthelemy, Douge, MD.FAAP Assistant Prof of Pediatrics Indiana University Bertoni, Alan MD Department of Epidemiology Wake Forest University Blanc, Paul MD, FACS Urology Attending Boucard, Alerte,MD Gastroenterology University of Sherbrooke Canada Brunot Verlaine, MD Instructor in Pediatrics Albert Einstein College of Medicine Cadet, Jean-Lud M.D. Department of Psychiatry National Institute of Health Casimir, George, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Kingsbrook Jewish Hospital Cerda-Torres, Roberto MD Dominican Republic Medical Association World bank consultant Camilien Louis, MD Associate Director Of OB-GYN New York Methodist Hospital Clerisme, Roosevelt M.D. Associate Chairman of Psychiatry Jamaica Hospital Coles, Maxime, MD. Orthopedic Surgery Yale New Haven Health Bridgeport Hospital David, Michele,MD.FCCP Assistant Professor of Medicine Boston University Desrouleaux, Jean-Robert, MD Neurology Attending Mercy Hospital Dole, Micheline MD.  Attending in Pediatrics Dubuche, George,MD.MPH Reproductive Health/ HIV Advisor Dufresne, Alix MD.FACC Associate Director of Cardiology Interfaith Medical Center Duquella, Eric, MD FACG Assistant Professor of Medicine Long Island Jewish Hospital Duvivier, Roger M.D.  Associate Professor of Ob-Gyn Cornell University Elysee, Ketty,MD. Anesthesiology Sloan- Kettering Memorial Hospital Faustin, Daniel,MD. Assistant Professor of Ob-Gyn SUNY Gousse, Angelo,M.D FACS University of Miami Urology  Hazel, Edouard, MD Director of Medicine Coller Hospital Jean -Noel Pierre, MD Director of Child psychiatry Brookdale University Hospital Jerome, Eric, M.D.FACP Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Director of Dialysis ST Mary's Hospital

John, Devon, MD. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery SUNY New York University  Transplant Surgery Unit Joseph, Anthony,MD. Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Director of Dialysis Downstate Joseph, Gardithe, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Hematology - Oncology Brookdale Universty Hospital Lauriston Christian, MD Family Medicine University of Montreal Kazeem, Saka, M.D. Chief Of Endocrinology St Mary's Hospital Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Manigat, Yves MD, FACS West Jersey Health System Surgery Marsh, Frank,MD.FACG Medical Director Chief of Gastroenterology Interfaith Medical Center McCalla, Sandra, M.D. FAGOG Assistant Professor of Ob-Gyn State University of New York Moise, Wesner M.D  Director of Geriatrics Interfaith Medical Center Nacier, Paul, MD. Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Director of Gastoenterology St Mary's Hospital Pape, William M.D Professor of Medicine Cornell University Institut National de Recherche Paul, Joseph,MD. Associate Director of Medicine Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Pierre-Louis, Serge, MD Assistant  Professor of Neurology Rush-Presbyterian Hospital Poulard, Bernard,MD, FACS Director of Surgery Queens General Hospital Remy, Prosper M.D.FACG Chief of Gastroenterology Bronx Lebanon Hospital center Albert Einstein College of Medicine Schmidt, Frances, MD.FACP Assistant Professor of Medicine SUNY Senat, Antonio, MD., FACC Michael Reese Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine Loyola University Simmons, David, MD DRMA Dominican Republic Talleyrand, Jean MD Director Of Pathology Newark Hospital Thimothee, Gabriel,MD. University Notre Dame State University of Haiti Vital-Herne, Jacques, M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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