The University of Chicago Conference on Global Health brought together medical professionals from Chicago and their counterparts in China to discuss their recent, and ongoing, collaborations in health and medicine. Among the collaborations reviewed were joint projects in transplantation science, medical education, genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, and cancer pathogenesis. The event itself was a major success, honored by the attendance of high-level participants from Chinese academia which included, among others, the President of China Medical University, the Dean of Health Sciences from Wuhan University, and Vice-President of Peking University Health Sciences Center. Following the conference, Drs. Renslow Sherer and Scott Stern from the University of Chicago also paid successful visits to a number of local medical universities – including Peking University and Capital Medical University – that may result in opportunities for much closer inter-university collaboration in the future.
Organizers: Ka Yee Lee (Department of Chemistry), J. Michael Millis (Department of Surgery), Olufunmilayo Olopade (Department of Medicine and Human Genetics), and Renslow Sherer (Department of Medicine), with the participation of members of Project HOPE Shanghai, Beijing University, Hong Kong University, Peking Union Medical College, China Medical Board, and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
A detailed event schedule and list of participants can be found below:
Funmi Olopade
8:00 – 8:30 am Welcome
Dali YANG, Director, University of Chicago Center in Beijing
Welcome to University of Chicago Center in Beijing
Olufunmilayo I. OLOPADE, Associate Dean for Global Health, University of Chicago
University of Chicago Global Health Initiative
8:30 – 10:00 am Medical Education Reform in the US and China
Moderators
- Roy SCHWARZ, retired Chairman, China Medical Board
- KE Yang, Executive Vice President of Peking University and Peking University Health Science Center
Panel I: Medical Education Reform in Beijing and Chicago
- Scott STERN, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Innovations in the Pritzker Reform Initiative at the University of Chicago - KE Yang, Executive Vice President of Peking University and Peking University Health Science Center
Current Trends in Medical Education Reform in China and the Peking University Health Sciences Center
Panel II: An International Collaboration for Medical Education Reform
Renslow Sherer
ZHAO Qun, President, China Medical University
- ZHOU Yunfeng, Dean of the Health Sciences Center, Wuhan University Leadership and Process in Medical Education Reforms at Wuhan University
- Renslow SHERER, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago
Creating Life-Long Learners: New Strategies in the Implementation of Medical Education Reforms
Panel III: Chicago-China
Collaborations: Beyond Health Education Reform
- Lily HSU, Program Director, Project HOPE Shanghai Office
- SUN Kun, Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Shanghai Jiaotong University
- Donald C. LIU, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Chicago and Shanghai Children’s Hospital
Opportunities for Future Collaboration in Researchand Education
10:00 – 10:30 pm Break
10:30 – 12:00 pm Global Collaboration in Transplantation and Surgery
Moderators
- Jeffrey B. MATTHEWS, Dean for Clinical Affairs, Professor and Chair of Surgery, University of Chicago
- MAO Yilei, Professor of Surgery, Peking Union Medical College
Panelists
- J. Michael MILLIS, Professor of Surgery, Director, Transplant Center, Chief, Section of Transplantation, University of Chicago
Global Ethics and Transplantation - ZHU Jiye, Professor of Surgery, Peking University Medical School, Director Hepatobiliary Surgery Renmin Hospital
The future of Liver Transplantation in China - Chin-Tu CHEN, Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Chicago
Collaborative Innovations in Transplantation and Surgery - Sherwin S.W. HO, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago Collaborative Efforts in Sports Medicine: From Beijing to Chicago and Back
Lily Hsu
Everett Vokes, Funmi Olopade, Ava Kwong
12:00 – 1:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 – 3:30 pm Future Opportunities for Collaboration in Genetics, Genomics, and Cancer
Moderators
- Everett E. VOKES, Interim Dean and Chief Executive Officer, Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Medical Center, John E. Ultmann Professor of Medicine and Radiation and Cellular Oncology
- ZHAO Qun, President, China Medical University
Panelists
- Ava KWONG, Division Chief, Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong
Asia Breast Registry: Opportunities for International partnership - WEI Minjie, Professor of Pharmacology, China Medical University, Shenyang Epigenetic Mechanisms in Breast Cancer
- Olufunmilayo I. OLOPADE, Associate Dean for Global Health, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics, University of Chicago
Targeted Interventions for Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes - Everett E. VOKES, Interim Dean and Chief Executive Officer, Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine and the University of Chicago Medical Center, John E. Ultmann Professor of Medicine and Radiation and Cellular Oncology
Advances in the Multi-Modality Management of Aerodigestive Cancers - M. Eileen DOLAN, Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago Pharmacogenomics in the Era of Personalized Medicine
- Yang-Xin FU, Professor of Pathology, University of Chicago and Chinese Academy of Sciences
Immunologic Approaches to Cancer Treatment
3:30 – 5:30 pm Reception and Informal Discussions