Fyi,
Bob Pyke Jr
Tak Utsumi wrote:
> <<November 14, 1998>>
>
> Julius Edlavitch MD
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>
> Prof. Shigekoto Kaihara
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> Shunichi Homma, M.D., F.A.C.C.
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>
> Shin Takuma, M.D.
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>
> Hiroto Hatabu, M.D., Ph.D.
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> Mitsugu Shimmyo, M.D., P.C.
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> Takahiro Kiuchi, M.D., Ph.D.
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> Yasutaka Onuma
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> (1) Dear Julius:
>
> Many thanks for your enthusiastic, prompt reply (ANNEX I) to my recent
> post (ANNEX II -- sorry for this duplicate).
>
> I hope you can make your submission of your educational media materials
> by the deadline of November 30, 1998 -- I am sorry for this short
> notice, since I receive the URL of this event
> <http://square.umin.ac.jp/medforum/> from Dr. Kaihara just last night.
>
> (2) Bob Pyke:
>
> The home page of this web is in Japanese. However, you can find
> English" on right hand side of the top frame. If you click it, you
> will get English version.
>
> (3) This event was firstly conceived by Dr. Taro Nakayama, former Minister
> of Foreign Affairs and who has a medical background, and who is a good
> friend of Dr. Nakajima, former Director General of the WHO.
>
> When I met him last April, he requested me to organize a videoconference
> in global scale on April 7, 1999 (next day of the event mentioned in the
> aforementioned URL).
>
> Dr, Kaihara, General Chairman of the event, is now working with the
> program chairman on this possibility.
>
> (4) Dr. Kaihara:
>
> Many thanks for your msg of last night.
>
> My current thought of this videoconferencing is in ANNEX III -- all of
> them listed there are still tentative.
>
> I would appreciate it very much if you can kindly inform me of your
> decision on the possibility of the videoconference at your earliest
> convenience.
>
> Your previous msg indicated your concern on the time difference
> between the Tokyo afternoon time and the very early morning in the
> U.S. East Coast time. Drs. Homma and Takuma at Columbia
> -Presbyterian Medical Center and Dr. Hatabu at Beth Israel
> Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School indicated their
> willingness to present their works, in spite of the time
> difficulty. (BTW, they were kindly introduced to me by Dr.
> Shimmyo, President of Japanese Medical Society of America.)
>
> Of course, we would greatly appreciate it if you can kindly
> arrange our GLH videoconference to be held in the morning of Tokyo
> time.
>
> When this GLH is to be held, we have to rely on technical support from
> Space Communications Corporation and others in Tokyo and elsewhere.
>
> (5) Julius Edlavitch and Bob Pyke:
>
> Pls visit Prof. Kiuchi's web about MINCS-UH (see ANNEX III).
>
> We had his presentation during our GLH from Manaus, Amazona, Brazil last
> month which was aired via AMAZONSAT throughout South America and via web
> around the world so that our Ukrainian colleagues enjoyed watching it
> via Internet.
>
> We proposed Brazilians to establish a similar network in order to
> connect many hospitals in Brazil, South, Central and North America.
>
> Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center has already indicated their strong
> interest (since they have many patients from the Caribbean). President
> of SIVAM (a huge environmental project in Amazons with $6 billion funds
> from Brazilian and the U.S. governments) has also showed his strong
> interest in our proposal.
>
> The World Bank has already provided us with a fund for an international
> workshop/conference to brainstorm how to go by this project, which will
> be held in Tampere, Finland next year.
>
> Best, Tak
> ****************************************
> ANNEX I
>
> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:25:14 -0600
> To: [log in to unmask]
> From: Julius Edlavitch MD <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: HELLO FROM MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA USA
> Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
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>
> Dear Prof. Shigekoto Kaihara and Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
>
> My name is Julius Edlavitch MD and I administrate and founded International
> Pediatric Chat (IPC).
> IPC has over 1640 members in 109 countries. We have given over 100 LIVE
> virtual interactive education sessions over the Internet.
> Our web address is http://www.pedschat.org
> Our education partners are
> Yale University
> Case Western University
> University of Arizona
> The Children's Hospitals and Clinics of the Twin Cities
>
> I would love to be considered as a presenter in the
> International Forum for Educational Media and Distance Learning in Health '99
>
> I would need to know soon since I have several speaking engagements being
> planned
> Julius Edlavitch MD
> International Pediatric Chat
>
> http://www.pedschat.org
> "What Wisdom Can One Have That Is Greater Than Kindness"
>
> ****************************************
> ANNEX II
>
> <<November 14, 1998>>
>
> Prof. Shigekoto Kaihara
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>
> Dear Electronic Colleagues in Telemedicine and Healthcare:
>
> (1) ATTACHMENT I below is an excerpt from the web site
> <http://square.umin.ac.jp/medforum/> on the International Forum for
> Educational Media and Distance Learning in Health '99," which will be
> held in Tokyo on April 6, 1999. This event is to help the general
> public to understand distance medical treatment and medical distance
> learning through lectures and panel discussions.
>
> In order to promote the production of software related to medical
> education and contents thereof, this event will widely recruit software
> on new media such as CD-ROMs, web and VCRs.
>
> (2) This event will also have the International Grand Prix for Educational
> Media and Distance Learning in Health '99." This Grand Prix contest
> will discover works on medical education using the new media in the
> midst of the Information Age. There will be some awards for excellence
> in this area and to thus give those works worldwide recognition.
>
> (3) I strongly suggest you to attend this event and/or apply to the contest.
>
> Pls visit the aforementioned web site for more details.
>
> Pls feel free to distribute this msg to other listserves.
>
> Best, Tak
> ****************************************
> ATTACHMENT I
>
> Problems in health and medical treatment are common throughout the world
> without respect to borders. Although medicine and medical technology are
> making constant progress worldwide due to continuous efforts to improve
> health, now, more than ever, medical education is in high demand for spreading
> the results of and new knowledge about medicine, health, and medical
> technology.
>
> Since we are living in the Information Age, which is symbolized by the
> Internet, medical education should make the best and most creative use of the
> new media. In fact, many people throughout the world are making every effort
> to conduct the lifelong education for those concerned with medical treatment
> and health, and also to spread knowledge about health to the general public.
>
> The Organizing Committee of the International Forum for Educational Media and
> Distance Learning in Health '99 has planned the International Grand Prix for
> Educational Media and Distance Learning in Health '99 which will be held in
> conjunction with the 25th General Assembly of the Japan Medical Congress in
> order to recognize such efforts and to develop health and medical education
> more efficiently. We wish to present some awards, including the Grand Prix,
> for excellence in this area and to thus give those works worldwide
> recognition. This Grand Prix contest has been initiated to discover works on
> medical education using the new media in the midst of the Information Age.
> Works which are already being utilized or sold on the market are also welcome
> to apply. We hope that all of you will take part in this Grand Prix contest.
> ****************************************
> ANNEX III
>
> Proposed Agenda
> of
> Global Lecture Hall (GLH)"
> Multipont-to-Multipoint, Multimedia, Interactive Videoconferencing
> on
> Telemedicine and Electronic Distance Education
> Tokyo, Japan
> April 7 (Wednesday), 1999
>
> NOTE:
> This GLH videoconferencing may be broadcast via Japanese domestic satellite
> (e.g., MINCS-UH) and web broadcasting via Internet around the world.
>
> I. Greetings (tentative)
>
> A. Dr. Brandtland, Director General of WHO
> Delivery: Recorded videotape
>
> B. Dr. C. Everett Koop,
> Delivery: Either live via ISDN or recorded videotape
>
> C. High ranking echelon of the U.S. National Institute of Health
> Delivery: Either live via ISDN or recorded videotape
>
> D. High ranking echelon of a telemedicine professional society in the
> U.S.
> Delivery: Either live via ISDN or recorded videotape
>
> II. Presentation of the Medical Information Network by Communication
> Satellite for University Satellite (MINCS-UH)", which connects about two
> dozen university hospitals around Japan with two-way, broadband (45
> Mbps) digital satellite channels for medical diagnosis with HDTV.
> By: Dr.Takahiro Kiuchi of the University of Tokyo
> Delivery: Live with videotape and web/slide show, etc.
> Reference: http://square.umin.ac.jp/kiuchi/ohp/ -- for slide show.
> http://www.umin.ac.jp/vod/contents/h10/jimaku.htm -- for
> transcript of videotape in English
>
> III. Presentation of Echocardiograph
> By: Drs. Homma (see his bio in ATTACHMENT A below) and Takuma at
> Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
> Delivery: 3D image of a living heart via ISDN; operation of an
> echocardiography machine via ISDN; slide show
> Note: Dr. Homma is conducting a research with the machine with
> NIH funds. There are only a half dozen of the machine in
> the U.S., none in Japan yet.
>
> IV. Presentation of Radiology
> By: Dr. Hatabu at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of
> Harvard Medical School
> Delivery: Videotape with live presentation via analog telephone
>
> V. Presentation of 3D virtual reality model/video of knee joint
> By: Someone at Engineering Department of Columbia University
> and/or Presbyterian Medical Center
> Delivery: Web retrieving via broadband Internet
>
> VI. Presentation of 3D virtual reality model/video of human heart
> By: Someone from the School of Medicine of Yale University
> Delivery: Web retrieving via broadband Internet
>
> VII. Presentation of 3D human body (or frog)
> By: Someone from the U.S. National Institute of Health
> Delivery: Web retrieving via broadband Internet
>
> VIII.Preentation of Global Electronic Distance Education
> By: T. Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
> Delivery: Web retrieving via broadband Internet, slide show, video
> clipping of previous GLHs, etc.
> ****************************************
> ATTACHMENT A
>
> Dr. Homma is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and Dartmouth
> College. He went on to graduate from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
> Subsequently, he trained at Massachusetts General Hospial in Boston and
> Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in NYC, specializing in cardiac imaging.
> He now serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine, and the director of
> Echocardiography Laboratories at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He is
> an author of over 200 scientific publications and his laboratory has received
> over $4 million in research funding in the last 4 years from the National
> Insitutute of Health (NIH). He serves on the Board of Directors of American
> Heart Association (AHA), Heritage Affiliate as well as N.Y. Society of
> Echocardiography. He also serves on the scientific review committee for NIH
> and AHA, and is active as the Chair for Scholarship Committee of the Japanese
> Medical Society of America.
> ****************************************
> Distribution List
>
> Julius Edlavitch MD
> International Pediatric Chat (IPC)
> Minneapolis, MN
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> http://www.pedschat.org
>
> Prof. Shigekoto Kaihara
> Director, National Okura Hospital
> 2-10-1 Okura
> Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8535
> Japan
> +81-3-3416-8840
> +81-3-3416-0181
> Fax +81-3-3416-0336
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>
> Shunichi Homma, M.D., F.A.C.C.
> Chair for Scholarship Committee
> Japanese Medical Society of America
> Associate Professor of Medicine
> Director, Echocardiography Laboratories
> Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, #883 (8th Flr)
> Columbia University
> 620 West 168th Street
> New York, NY
> 212-305-3068
> 212-305-7934
> 212-305-9875 (laboratories)
> laboratory facility is on the 9th floor (212-305-9875)
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>
> Shin Takuma, M.D.
>
> Cardiology Division
> Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
> Department of Medicine
> College of Physicians & Surgeons
> Columbia University
> 630 West 168th Street
> New York, NY 10032-3784
> 212-305-9875
> Fax: 212-305-9049
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>
> Hiroto Hatabu, M.D., Ph.D.
> Section Co-Chief, Chest Radiology
> Assistant Professor of Radiology
> Radiology Department
> Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
> Harvard Medical School
> 330 Brookline Avenue
> Boston, MA 02215
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> 617-667-2387 (Voice)
> 617-667-8000 (main)
> Fax: 617-667-8212
> Page: 617-667-5555 (8260)
>
> Mitsugu Shimmyo, M.D., P.C.
> President
> Japanese Medical Society of America
> Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Surgery
> 345 East 37th Street, Suite 203
> New York, NY 10016-3217
> 212-867-5700
> Fax: 212-867-5731
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>
> Takahiro Kiuchi, M.D., Ph.D.
> Associate Professor
> Faculty of Medicine
> University Medical Information Network (UMIN) Center
> Hospital Computer Center
> The University Of Tokyo Hospital
> 7-3-1 Hongo
> Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113
> Japan
> +81-3-3815-5411 Ext. 5241,
> +81-3-5689-0729 (direct)
> +81-3-5800-8685
> +81-3-3815-5411 X5241 or 5248
> Fax: +81-3-3813-7238
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> http://square.umin.ac.jp/kiuchi/kiuchieng.htm -- for bio
> http://square.umin.ac.jp/kiuchi/image/MVC-014F.jpg -- for photo #1
> http://square.umin.ac.jp/kiuchi/image/MVC-015F.jpg -- for photo #2
> http://square.umin.ac.jp/kiuchi/ohp/ -- for slide show.
> http://www.umin.ac.jp/vod/contents/h10/mincsjpn.htm -- for transcript of
> videotape in Japanese
> http://www.umin.ac.jp/vod/contents/h10/jimaku.htm -- for transcript of
> videotape in English
>
> Yasutaka Onuma
> Assistant Section Manager
> Marketing & Sales Dept. B
> Communication Network Div.
> Space Communications Corporation
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> Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 140-0002
> JAPAN
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> * Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA *
> * (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
> * Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education *
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