Videos from the 2014 Cayman Islands Healthcare Conference
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Healthcare 2014 Press Briefing
Thursday, November 20
Opening Remarks, Her Excellency the Governor, Mrs Helen Kilpatrick CB
Keynote Speech
Are we winning the war on CNCD’s globally and in the Caribbean: Need to reframe the argument to accelerate inter-sectoral action
Presented by Dr. James Hospedales,
Executive Director, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA)
Friday, November 21
An Overview of Mental Health in Cayman
Presented by Dr Marc Lockhart, Chairman of the Mental Health Commission
Friday workshop – Adult Focused
Sponsored by Health City
Community first response to mental health
Presented by Shannon Seymour
Director of the Wellness Centre & Registered Clinical Psychologist
Genetics and DNA sequencing applications in cancer treatment
Presented by Dr Shayma Kazmi
Hematologist-Oncologist & Medical Oncologist | Cancer Treatment Centers of America
The new frontier for cancer treatment: Personalized cancer immunotherapy
Presented by Dr George Peoples
Chief Medical Officer, Orbis Health Solutions; Director, Cancer Vaccine Development Programme; Professor of Surgical Oncology (adjunct), M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Obesity: facts vs beliefs
Presented by Dr Robert Cywes
Neonatal, Pediatric Surgery and Adolescent Surgery, Tenet Florida Physician Services
Global Trends in type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity and correlates. Is there an existential threat?
Presented by Dr Edward Anim-Addo
Chief Medical Officer, Tenet Florida Physician Services
Not such a ‘sweet spot’: The rising tsunami of diabetes and its complications
Presented by Dr Mikhail Kosiborod
Staff Cardiologist, Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute & Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri-Kansas City | Medical Director, The Heart Health Centre
Track 2: Child focused workshop – An early start to winning the war against CNCDs
Sponsored by Health City Cayman Islands
Track 3: Adult focused workshop – Developing a winning strategy to bridge the gap against CNCDs
Sponsored by The Heart Health Centre/Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute
Track 4: Child focused workshop – An early start to winning the war against CNCDs
Saturday, November 22 – Food security, nutrition and NCD control in the Caribbean
Presented by Dr Fitzroy Henry
Professor of Public Health Nutrition at the University of Technology, Jamaica
Using new technology to improve diabetes and cardiovascular disease
The role of electronic medical records and mobile monitoring
Presented by Dr Lawrence Friedman
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the University of California, San Diego
Conquering the cardiovascular leviathan
Presented by Dr Ravi Kishore Amancharla
Chief Interventional Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist, Health City Cayman Islands