The Arizona Telemedicine Program at The University of Arizona College of Medicine is hosting its first international lecture series on health care in the Republic of Panama and Latin America. The series – which is using real-time videoconferencing technology to link the program's T-Health Institute in Panama City, Panama, and the UA College of Medicine in Tucson – began Tuesday.
The series of 12 lectures, which will be held through June 17, will be moderated by Ronald S. Weinstein, the program's director and executive director of the Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth, and Ana Maria Lopez, the program's medical director. All lectures will take place from 1-2 p.m. in the Arizona Cancer Center, Room 2920.
The lecture series will cover a wide range of topics related to health care in the Republic of Panama, including:
The first lecture, held Jan. 22, gave an overview of health education in Panama. The topics for future lectures are:
Since 2000, the Arizona Telemedicine Program has served as a technical adviser for the establishment of telemedicine programs in the Republic of Panama. The principal collaborators in Panama, who have clinical lecturer appointments in the UA College of Medicine's department of pathology, are housed in the program's T-Health Institute in Panama City.
The Panamanian collaborators are involved in education and telemedicine service programs and are working with the Arizona Telemedicine Program and the UA to develop electronic telehealth courses on telemedicine and telehealth in English and Spanish. The courses will be available this summer on DVD.
Jean Spinelli
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