Agenda

September 10, 2004, Friday (Day 1)

05:00 PM BOD Meeting
07:30PM Welcome Dinner – St. Petersburg Restaurant

September 11, 2004, Saturday (Day 2)

08:00 AM Registration
Continental breakfast
Scientific poster presentations and drug companies displays

Administrative Session

08:30 – 08:45 Welcome speech from Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center and Tufts University – Nicolaos Madias, MD, Chairman, Internal Medicine, Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Boston, MA
08:45 – 09:00 R-AMA: The Good, the Bad and the Future. Annual report - Boris Vinogradsky, MD, R-AMA President, General Surgery, Cleveland, OH
09:00 – 09:05 Financial report - Julia Frantsuzov, MD, R-AMA Treasurer, Pediatrics, Cleveland, OH
09:05 – 09:20 R-AMA Grants and Awards Program – Nikolay Vasilyev, MD, Cardiology Research, Cleveland, OH
09:20 – 09:25 Announcement: The Student Chapter of R-AMA - Alla Kukuyev, NEOUCOM, Akron, OH

09:25 - 09:40 Break

09:40 – 09:50 The Help Initiative: R-AMA Charitable Foundation: Vladimir Bogin, MD, Internal Medicine, Longview, WA
09:50 – 10:00 “Zdorovie” Russian-American Health Magazine – Jacob Bogatin, Editor, SNB Publishing, Philadelphia, PA
10:00 – 10:10 Signing of the MA Group – R-AMA Affiliation Agreement
10:10 – 10:30 Elections of the Chairmen of the R-AMA Committees and the Board of Directors
Election of the Vice-President and the President of R-AMA
Questions and discussion

10:30 – 11:00 Break

Scientific Session I: Surgery

11:00 – 11:30 Neuromodulation in Neurosurgery: Past, Present and a Future – Konstantin Slavin, MD, Neurosurgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
11:30 – 12:00 Advances in the Treatment of Wounds – Daniel Medalie, MD, Chief of Plastic Surgery, UHS and the VA Medical Center, Cleveland, OH
12:00 - 12:30 Life Cycle Planning for Medical Professionals - Mark Rappoport, Senior Financial Services Representative, Principal Financial Group, New York, NY
12:30 – 13:00 Colon Cancer Prevention – Boris Vinogradsky, MD, Lake West Hospital, Cleveland, OH

Scientific Session II: Psychiatry, Pain Management and Behavioral Science

11:00 – 11:30 War Stress Adjustment in Children of Soldiers – Thomas Hardaway, MD, Chairman, Department of Behavioral Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX
11:30 - 12:00 Gender Issues in the Treatment of Depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorders - Dmitry Arbuck, MD, Psychiatry, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
12:00 – 12:30 Pain is Inevitable, Misery is Optional: The Management of Chronic Pain - Charles Argoff, MD, Neurology, New York University, New York, NY
12:30 – 13:00 Opioid Antagonists in the Treatment of Chronic Pain - Dmitry Arbuck, MD – Psychiatry, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Most Valuable Person Award
Tour of the Hospital

Scientific Session III: Basic Science Research

14:00 – 14:30 Advances in Reproductive Endocrinology - Masood A. Khatamee, MD, Professor, New York University School of Medicine, Executive Director, Fertility Research Foundation, New York, NY
14:30 – 15:00 NIH Roadmap for Translational Research in the New Millennium - Lyuba Varticovski, MD, Hematology/Oncology, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
15:15 – 15:45 Molecular Cardiology: Clinical Applications in Arrhythmias – Igor Efimov, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Stanley and Lucy Lopata Endowment, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
15:45 – 16:15 Dendritic Cells in Colon Cancer – Alisher Dadabayev, MD, Research, Texas Tech University, Amarillo, TX

15:00 – 15:15 Break

Scientific Session IV: Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

14:00 – 14:30 New Approaches to the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias - Michael Orlov, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
14:30 – 15:00 Gaucher Disease: Genetics, Clinical Manifestations and the Possibility of Enzyme Replacement Therapy – Dr. Natalia Frank, Research Associate, Harvard Medical School, Boston Childrens’ Hospital, Boston, MA
15:15 – 15:45 The Role of Vaccination Status Information in Evaluation of Children Arriving from the former Soviet Union – Dr. Alla Gordina, Pediatrician, Global Pediatrics, International Adoptions Medical Support Services, East Brunswick, NJ
15:45 – 16:15 Russian Orphans and the spread of HIV/AIDS – Jennifer Cherkasov, Director, The Magic House Project, Montpelier, VT

Closing Session
17:00 Adjourn

19:00 Reception Dinner – Longfellow Ballroom, Double Tree Guest Suites

September 12, 2004, Sunday (Day 3)

Cultural Program - Events can be arranged at the participants’ discretion