Update to flier content...but event is still on, same time, same speakers, same place! <br><br>Health Care as a Human Right: The Venezuelan Experience<br><b><br>Friday February 27th, 4:00 to 6:00PM</b><br>
Tufts University School of Medicine - Boston Campus<br>
Behrakis Auditorium – 1st Floor, Jaharis Building<br>
150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA.<br>
<br>MBTA <br>Orange Line to "Chinatown or Tufts-New England Medical Center"<br>Green Line to Boylston<br>Red Line to South/Station or Downtown Crossing<br>Silver Line to Tufts New England Medical Center <br><br>
Panelists:<br><br>Dr. Michael Phillips MD. Clinical Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at the University of Illinois in<br>Chicago. Specialty Coordinator for Ophthalmology at the ChristianMedical Association and organizer of<br>
humanitarian medical missions to Ghana and Haiti with Global Health Outreach.<br><br>Dr. Arachu Castro. Ph.D., MPH Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Academic Director Program in<br>Infectious Disease and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical<br>
School<br><br>Dr. Padma Balasubramanian, MD, Endocrinologist, Internal Medicine and Diabetes Specialist, Fellow<br>American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Consultant staff at Caritas Norwood Hospital<br><br>Mission Milagro is Venezuelan-Cuban anti-blindness program that has restored sight to close to 700,000 people from<br>
30 countries . It aims to reach 6,000,000 blind people by 2015.<br><br>Barrio Adentro (Inside the Neighborhood) is a public health initiative that provides preventive, primary,<br>secondary and specialized health care to millions of Venezuelans through a network of community clinics located mostly in<br>
poor urban and rural communities. It is a partnership between the Venezuelan Ministry of Health and the Cuban Medical<br>Mission in Venezuela.<br><br>Sponsored by the Tufts University School of Medicine:<br><br>Latin American Medical Student Association (LAMSA), <br>
Global Health Interest Group <br>Student National Medical Association (SNMA) <br><br>For more information contact: <a href="mailto:info.venezuela.event@gmail.com">info.venezuela.event@gmail.com</a> / <a href="mailto:eugene.schiff@tufts.edu">eugene.schiff@tufts.edu</a><br>
<br>*Open to the Public* Medical Students, Nursing and Public Health Students, Clinicians,<br>Researchers, Undergraduates and interested community members are encouraged to attend!<br clear="all"><br><br>