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Pamela Orr is Professor of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. She is a clinician, teacher and researcher with am interest in the health of indigenous peoples, particularly in relation to tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. She is President-elect of the North American Region of the IUATLD, and a member of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee. Her research focuses on susceptibility and resistancee to infectious diseases, the social determinants of health, and health care delivery, with special interest in indigenous populations. Dr. Orr is a scientific editor of the international Journal of Circumpolar Health.
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 VICE-PRESIDENT.& PROGRAM CHAIR
Dr. Kevin Schwartzman, MD, MPH, is a pulmonologist-epidemiologist and a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Tuberculosis is the focus of his clinical practice at the Montreal Chest Institute, and of his clinical and epidemiologic research program, which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has served as a consultant to the Montreal public health department, to the Immigration Subcommittee of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (Public Health Agency of Canada), and to the Vaccines Working Group of the WHO/STOP TB. He is currently director of the McGill pulmonology residency training program. He has extensive experience with peer review, having chaired research salary award committees for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Quebec Health Research Foundation. Dr Schwartzman will assume the Program Chair in March 2012
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Dr. E. Jane Carter is Associate Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Disease, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University, Providence, RI. Dr. Carter has directed the Brown Kenya Medical Exchange Program for over 10 years, partnering with Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya as part of the AMPATH Consortium. Trained in Pulmonary Medicine, Dr. Carter has focused her career on Tuberculosis, working both domestically as well as internationally. She is the TB/HIV technical consultant for USAID AMPATH partnership in Kenya. Her present work is in intensied case nding for TB, the intersection of TB with both reproductive health as well as diabetes in the developing world, and practice models for management of MDR TB. With her additional focus on medical education, Dr. Carter is the US pulmonary PI for the NHLBI CardioPulmonary Center of Excellence Award, the US PI for the Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows program both partnered with Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya and the Kenya country representative for the Lifespan-Tufts Fogarty Aids International Training Research Program. Dr. Carter assumed the presidency of NAR In March 2011.
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 IMMEDIATE PAST VICE-PRESIDENT.& PROGRAM CHAIR
Ann Raftery, RN, PHN, began her TB career in Alberta, Canada where she provided Community Health Programming in Indigenous communities as the Alberta Region TB Elimination Coordinator for Health Canada, First Nations & Inuit Health Branch. Presently as TB Nurse Consultant for UCSF, Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC), Ann leads the development of TB curricula for nurses and serves as a facilitator and faculty for courses on program management, TB case management and contact investigation. Internationally, Ann works with the Caribbean HIV and AIDS Regional Training Network Coordinating Unit to enhance TB and HIV integration and with Tanzania’s National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program to train and mentor staff from the National Tuberculosis Hospital and Districts on MDR TB management. Ms Raftery is the current program chair and led the recent revision of the NAR Charter.
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Scott McDonald is CEO of the British Columbia Lung Association, one of Canada’s most highly-respected voluntary health agencies. Scott graduated from the journalism program at Ryerson University in Toronto and worked in the Canadian publishing industry and in media relations with Canada Post Corporation before joining the Lung Association in Vancouver. In his three decade career with the Lung Association, Scott has served on numerous committees, panels and working groups with both the Canadian and American Lung Association and has recently served as Chairman of the Communications and Development Committee of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease, based in Paris, France. Scott has an interest in many areas of public health, health policy development and in particular in air quality and tobacco control, two areas in which the Lung Association is a recognized leader.
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 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Menn Biagtan, MD, MPH, is the Program Manager for the British Columbia Lung Association. Her interest in public health includes health policy developments, program development, and health promotion in the areas of air quality, tobacco control, Asthma, COPD, TB and other lung diseases. Serving on numerous committees both local and national, to pursue those interests, she also been the conference secretariat for the past 12 years.
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