International Health

EM Development in India, Articles from January/February 2010 EM Pulse Magazine

INDO-US Emergency Medicine Summit

The USF EM Residency is the International Partner for the annual Emergency Medicine Summit held in India.

INDUSEM Website | 2010 Summit Information

Global Emergency Medical Sciences (GEMS)

One of the jewels of our department is our division of Global Emergency Medical Sciences (GEMS).

The architect for this was Dr. Sagar Galwankar (Class of 2007). Dr. Galwankar's untiring efforts and consistent contributions from Drs. O'Keefe, and Peckler have orchestrated incredible educational efforts from this division Through the work of several of our faculty this division has directly, positively impacted the emergency medicine knowledge of thousands and given the international educational outreach opportunity to many. I've placed below the names of the US faculty involved since our inception in 2004 and attached a review of our accomplishments.

Our most recent annual conference was held October 8-12 in Mangalore India. With our preconferences and main conference this year we reached 3000+ in attendance. In 2008, we launched our online international Emergency Medicine journal: JETS The International Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock.

Our next conference will be INDUS-EM 2009 hosted at PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore India in October 2009. If you have the time and energy we welcome your talents in our emergency medicine and trauma knowledge outreach mission.

Participants in GEMS outreach

University of South Florida faculty
- Dr. Cathy Carrubba
- Dr. Charlotte Derr
- Dr. Lewis Flint (Surgery)
- Dr. Jason Johnson
- Dr. Suneel Khetarpal (Surgery)
- Dr. Kelly O'Keefe
- Dr. David Orban
- Dr. Brad Peckler
- Dr. Lakshminarayan Rajaram
  (College of Public Health)
- Dr. Tracy Sanson
- Dr. Harry Severance
- Dr. Sanjay Shetty
Tampa General Hospital Emergency Department
- Anne Blevins, RN
- Maureen Ann Casoli, RN
- Cathy Currier RN
- Gina Quinn RN
USF Residents
- Dr. Sagar Galwankar (EM)
- Dr. Preeti Jois Bilowich (EM)
- Dr. Mamta Swaroop (Surgery)
USF Medical Students
- Aman Bhullar
- Shaila Kirpalani
- Shalini Patel
- Yashash Pathak
- Rahul Salooja
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
- Dr. Vikas Kapil
- Dr. Henry Falk
- Dr. Richard Hunt
Cleveland Clinic Department of Emergency Medicine
- Dr. Preeti Jois Bilowich
- Dr. Rakesh Engineer
- Dr. Jonathan Glauser
Emory University
- Dr. Brent Morgan
NIH
- Dr. Ann Dellinger
Individual Participants
- Dr. Mai Nguyen
- Cheryl Scheinberg
- Dr. Sam Scheinberg
SUNY Downstate Department of Emergency Medicine
- Dr. Bonnie Arquilla
- Dr. Simon Kotlyar
- Dr. Raj Mittal
- Dr. M Secko
- Dr. Sari Soghoian
- Dr. Michael Stone
- Dr. Sage Wiener
- Dr. Gentry Wilkerson
TeamHealth
- Dr. Gregory Brown
- Dr. Cary Pelto
- Theresa Tavernero RN
University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Dr. Irshad Chaudry, Research Mentorship
University of Illinois at Chicago
- Dr Valerie Dobiesz
- Dr Timothy Erickson
World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine
World Health Organization
- Dr. Ian Simpson

Guatemala Mission 2010
Nathan Stephens, D.O. - Class of 2011
(Click on photos to view Flickr slideshow)

Tracy Sanson, MD
Director, Global Emergency Medical Sciences Section
Division of Emergency Medicine
University of South Florida