WALS- Type 2 Diabetes among Asian-Americans: Elevated Prevalence and Novel Risk Factors
Maria Rosario (Happy) G. Araneta, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, Division of Epidemiology. She received her BA in Biology from UCSD and her MPH and PhD in Epidemiology (with special emphasis in Perinatal Epidemiology) from Yale University. Dr. Araneta received the 2014 American Diabetes Association ’ s Vivian Fonseca Scholar Award for her research on diabetes among Asians and Pacific Islanders, and serves on the NIH Advisory Council for the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. Asian Americans continue to be the fastest growing immigrant group in the las...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 1, 2024 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
WALS J. Edward Rall Cultural Lecture: The Promises and Perils of AI in Biomedical Research and Health Care Delivery
Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he contributes to global policy development and continued standardization and spread of the Internet. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.From 1994 to 2005, Cerf served as the senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Cerf was responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. Previously, Cerf served as MCI ’ s senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineer...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 12, 2024 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
China Medical University Hospital aiming for multiple HIMSS digital maturity validations
The first Taiwanese recipient of the HIMSS Davies Award, China Medical University Hospital, is looking to achieve both HIMSS Stage 7 INFRAM and Stage 6 AMAM this year, says Professor Oscar Lee, vice superintendent. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - November 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Collaboration across borders enhances healthcare innovation
While sharing insights on the medical device industry in China at HIMSS23, David Chen, director of business development for Shine Technology, stresses the importance of partnering to further new technologies. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - July 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
NIH Medical AI Seminar Series: Leveraging AI for Smart Health Applications for Taiwan and Beyond
This is the first of seminar series that provides informative learning topics on how recent advances in medical AI research and applications being utilized in real world hospitals and medical centers in US and around the world to improve patient care and outcomes.
This presentation will describe smart digital health innovations from Taiwan's China Medical University and its hospital system (CMUH) that applies big data and A.I. combined with advanced medical technologies to optimize and improve patient care. The development and deployment of smart care appli cations at CMUH from optimizing community care to advanced hospi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 14, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH – FDA COVID SIG Lecture with Malik Peiris
In 2003, Professor Peiris and his research team discovered SARS-CoV, a novel coronavirus, as the etiological agent for SARS. He joined The University of Hong Kong in 1995, and is now Chair of Virology at the School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. He co-directs the WHO H5 Reference Laboratory and the WHO SARS-CoV-2 reference laboratory at The University of Hong Kong. Currently, he serves on many Hong Kong and WHO advisory committees, including the WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on COVID-19.
He is a clinical and public health virologis...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Global Medicine in China and Taiwan: A Diasporic History
By examining two case studies on how the Chinese diaspora became central in shaping biomedicine in China and Taiwan from 1937 to 1970, Dr. Soon will make a case for a new historical concept of global medicine. “ Global medicine ” highlights the multivalent and multidirectional flows of transnational medical practices and ideas that shaped Chinese East Asia in the twentieth century. The first case study examines how Chinese American medical personnel established the first Chinese blood bank in New York and Kunming during the Second World War. The second case study reveals how Singapore-born and Edinburgh-educated Dr. Ro...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
COVID-19, International Law, and Data Governance
Speaker Alexandra L. Phelan is an Adjunct Professor in Global and Public Health Law and Ethics, Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidate and General Sir John Monash Scholar at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Professor Phelan ’ s doctoral research examines the global governance of infectious diseases, with a focus on Australian, Chinese and US laws relating to the health and human rights of vulnerable population groups. Professor Phelan ’ s research explores the key legal issues of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases – such as Ebola, Pandemic Influenza, MERS, and Zika Virus – in the face of press...
Source: Videocast - All Events - September 21, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Why data quality is crucial to technology implementation
Haiqing Song, deputy director of the neurology program at the Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences in China, talks about his organization ' s approach to digitization and what is needed to effectively leverage technology. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: video
Stage 7 EMRAM hospital gives insight into China's HIT momentum
With 11 hospitals validated at Stage 7 on the EMRAM, China has made great inroads with digitizing healthcare. Yu Quan, CIO at China Medical University ' s Shengjing Hospital, which achieved Stage 7, talks about the next steps in the country ' s efforts. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: EHR, Interoperability, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Core Technologies Source Type: video
Lessons from China's digital healthcare challenges, opportunities
HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf discusses the digital healthcare market in China and how that technology can help improve access and quality of services in the country. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - June 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Tags: Strategic Planning, Leadership Source Type: video
Colobine monkey Mesopithecus pentelicus in late Miocene tropical forest in China
Artist's conception of the colobine monkey (Mesopithecus pentelicus) in a late Miocene tropical forest in China.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants BCS 0321893, BCS 1035897, BCS 1227964, BCS 1227927 and BCS 1227838.]
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COVID 19 Epidemiology and Transmission Dynamics: Contrasting South Africa, China and the U.S.
C é cile Viboud is a Staff Scientist based in the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, where she is part of the Multinational Influenza Seasonal Mortality Study (MISMS). Viboud specializes in the mortality of infectious disease. Viboud was involved with epidemiological analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.For more information go tohttps://oir.nih.gov/sigs/covid-19-scientific-interest-groupAir date: 1/21/2021 12:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Adult panda at Wolong Nature Reserve in China
An adult panda, one of 61 pandas currently living at the Wolong Nature Reserve in China, delicately perches on a small branch. The reserve is located in Sichuan Province in southwest China.
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Panda at the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda
A panda at the China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda at Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, southwest China. Pandas are rare in the wild, with likely fewer than 1,000 living in the shrinking and fragmented habitats of China.
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