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September 6 – 8, 2013
Hosted by Duke University School of Medicine
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Durham, NC 27703
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Our annual meeting is an opportunity to move forward with the agenda of fostering sustainable, safe and cost effective surgical interventions through education, training, research and collaboration with nonprofit organizations committed to surgical delivery.


Course Directors:

• Sandhya A. Lagoo-Deenadayalan, MD, PhD
  Associate Professor of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center
  Affiliate Faculty, Duke Global Health Institute
• Holly A. Muir, MD
  Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center
• Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH
  Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology
  Director of Vanderbilt Anesthesia Global Health & Development
  Affiliate Faculty, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2013 Call for Abstracts
The ASAP Program Committee invites papers of high quality in the areas of global anesthesia, surgery, obstetrics, burden of disease and other related public health topics. Abstract submissions are reviewed for scientific content, logical presentation, and current interest of the topic to the global health community.

Abstracts should be submitted to Bridget Long (bridget.long@dm.duke.edu) by 5PM, July 15th, 2013. All submitted abstracts should report new information not previously published or presented at a national or international scientific meeting.

You will be notified by August 1st, 2013 whether your poster has been accepted. Email with poster session details will follow. Individuals submitting abstracts that are accepted agree to attend the meeting and present their abstract as a poster as scheduled by the Program Committee.

All abstracts should include the following:

• Background: a concise statement of the issue under investigation or a hypothesis
• Methods: the experimental methods used (including the statistical analyses employed)
• Results: specific findings
• Conclusions: a summary of findings that are supported by your results (statistical analyses used to support the conclusions, where appropriate, should be included)
• Title: Titles are limited to 150 characters (this includes spaces).
• Authors: Authors’ names should be typed in upper- and lowercase letters (please do not use all capital letters). Use first name and last name. The author presenting the paper must be designated. There is a limit of 10 authors per abstract.
• Affiliations: Each author should be listed by institution, city, state and country.
• Abstract Body: Abstracts are limited to 2,500 characters (this includes spaces). If your abstract includes tables or graphics, please save them as either JPEGs or GIFs. Tables embedded as JPEGs or GIFs do NOT count toward the character limit. Your abstract, including images and tables, must fit on one page.

Other events of interest:
• International Surgical Week | August 25th – 29th, 2013 | Helsinki, Finland | website
• ASAP 2012: Archives | Click here to view pdf presentations.
• ASAP 2011: Archives | Click here to view pdf presentations.

Below you will find a list of themes and topics to be discussed during this year’s ASAP meeting. Our program includes a combination of workshops, keynote addresses, mini presentations and networking opportunities.

Lectures and Workshops
• Metrics for Emergency and Essential Surgery
• Building Sustainable Partnerships
• Surgical Delivery and Outcomes
• Academic Partnerships
• Funding Opportunities
• Pre Hospital Systems of Care
• Developing Global Health Programs at a University
• Surgical Safety Checklist Implementation
• Operations Research: Pediatric Surgery Network
• Ethical Considerations in Global Health Programs
• Global Surgery Rotations Abroad
• Pain Management – low-income pain issues
• Austere Anesthesia – building on the first American Course
• Family Medicine: addressing the Global Burden of Medical and Surgical Disease
• Cancer care and control in developing countries


List of Confirmed Speakers:

Victor J. Dzau, MD
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Global Health and
Chancellor for Health Affairs, Duke University

Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA
Harvey M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Patricia J. Numann, M.D.
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Lloyd S. Rogers Professor of Surgery
President, American College of Surgeons 2011-2012

Linda C. Degutis, DrPH, MSN
Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Marilyn W. Butler, MD, MPhil
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Oregon Health and Science University

Michael H. Merson, MD
Founding Director
Duke Global Health Institute

Kim Lyerly
George Barth Gellar Professor of Cancer Research
Professor of Surgery
Duke University

James C. Cusack, Jr., MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Director, Division of Surgical Oncology Laboratoreis

Clifford Y. Ko, MD, MS, MSHS, FACS
Professor of Surgery and Health Services, UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health
National Surgical Quality Improvement Program, American College of Surgeons

Miliard Derbew MD. FRCS. FCS – ECSA
Associate Professor of Surgery
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon
Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine
Ethiopia

Michael Cotton, MA (Oxon), FRCS (Eng), FACS, FCS (ECSA), FMH (Switzerland)
Médecin Associé, Service des Urgences
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
ICES (International Collaboration on Essential Surgery): its vision and scope.
(formerly Founding Professor of Clinical Practice, National University of Science & Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe).

Roger Goucke FANZCA, FPMANZCA
Clinical Associate Professor Pain Medicine
University of Western Australia
Pain Management – Teaching and Practice in Low and Middle Income Countries

Noemi “Mimi” Doohan MD, PhD
Family Physician, Director of Family Medicine Inpatient Service
Eisenhower Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program
George and Julia Argyros Health Center
La Quinta, CA

Angela Enright, OC, MB, FRCPC
Clinical Professor of Anesthesia, University of British Columbia,
Victoria, BC, Canada

Theodore N. Pappas, MD
Distinguished Professor of Surgical Innovation
& Interim Chairman, Department of Surgery,
Chief, Division of General & Advanced GI Surgery
Vice Dean for Medical Affairs, School of Medicine

Mark F. Newman, MD
Merle H. Harmel Professor and Chairman
Department of Anesthesiology
Duke University Medical Center

David E. Matthews, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Indiana University School of Medicine

John L. Tarpley, MD
Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology,
Department of Surgery,
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN.

Samuel R. G. Finlayson, MD, MPH
Kessler Director, Center for Surgery & Public Health
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Anthony M. Roche, MB ChB
Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dr. Moshi Ntabaye
Executive Director
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center
Tanzania

Dr. John Bartlett
Professor, Medicine and Global Health
Co-Director, The Center for AIDS Research
Associate Director for Research, Duke Global Health Institute
School of Medicine

Anthony Charles MD,MPH,FACS
Associate Professor of Surgery
UNC School of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina

Thomas S. Ivester, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
UNC School of Medicine

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