<<February 23, 2007>>
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Nabila El-Bassel, D.S.W. <ne5@columbia.edu>
Louisa Gilbert <lg123@columbia.edu>
Susan S. Witte, Ph.D. <ssw12@columbia.edu>
Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>
Rifat Latifi, MD,FACS <latifi@surgery.arizona.edu>
Pamela R. Johnson, Ph.D. <pamela@voxiva.net>
Dear Nabila and Louisa:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I), in response to our list distribution of;
(02/19/07) Possible e-health project in Kazakhstan
http://tinyurl.com/2n6daz
Yes, it was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you by the kind introduction of Susan. My
thanks to your valuable time for my description of our projects.
(2) I have informed Linda your willingness to invite Linda’s maternal and child care project to your
project;
“Improvement of Community, Maternal and Child Healthcare in Altai Region,
Siberia, Russia”
<http://tinyurl.com/2tt488>.
Linda expressed her great thanks and excitement.
(3) During our mtg, you mentioned of the need of infrastructure in Kazakhstan. Pls visit the slide #15 of
the following;
The Impact of Telemedicine Project of Kosova in the Balkans Reach Far Beyond
http://tinyurl.com/3yl627
BTW, this is in the following previous list distribution;
(02/20/07)-B Telemedicine project of Kosovo
http://tinyurl.com/34ekzd
This slide shows that a half dozen telemedicine centers in Kosovo are connected with 2 Mbps Internet
lines, which would better be upgraded to much broader Internet, and which subject I will discuss with
Prof. Latifi in the evening of next Monday — see below.
You may emulate this for your project in Kazakhstan, and then to have relay antennas at each center for
WiMax broadband wireless Internet access in remote-rural areas, as shown in our following standard
diagram <http://tinyurl.com/22tyoe>;
Cadres can then visit patients homes in those areas with inexpensive portable laptop — see;
Presentation slides of Ink inexpensive laptop
http://tinyurl.com/yr3jz4
BTW, this was in the following previous list distribution;
(02/11/07) Valuable info on e-Healthcare from WHO,
WorldVistA and Ink Media
http://tinyurl.com/yvd5nv
The cadres can convey/disseminate messages/information about;
(a) Multimedia HIV/AIDS education program
For example, see Susan’s web site
<http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/presentations/connect/nimh/preview.html>
(b) Maternal and Child care program
Linda’s project mentioned in the above Item (2)
(b) Nutrition advise
With Prof. Ninfa Springer and others (University of Michigan, School of Nursing, retired)
-- you may invite her later.
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ninfa/vcond/>
Dear Linda:
(4) Many thanks for the copy of your msg to Prof. Latifi (ATTACHMENT II).
I am very delighted to see your quoting of Pamela’s web site, and I agree with you 100% that her Voxiva
project should be emulated in our projects.
Dear Pamela:
We will inform you as soon as our projects are firmed up for your participation either in
Altai/Siberia, Kazakhstan, or Kosovo.
I thank you again for your wonderful dinner when I was in DC in October of 2005.
I will let you know our next steps as soon as I hear from Nabila.
Dear Prof. Latifi:
(5) Many thanks for the copy of your msg to Linda (ATTACHMENT III).
I look forward to meeting with you at 7:00 pm of 2/26th (Monday) at the lobby of the Chemists Club at 40
West 45th Street (between 5th and 6th avenues) (tel: 212-626-9222) in Manhattan.
We have a lot of things to talk about.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT I
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From: <ne5@columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:58:47 -0500
To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Cc: Susan Witte <ssw12@columbia.edu>, <lg123@columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [gu-new] (02/19/07) Possible e-health project in Kazakhstan
Dear Takeshi,
We want to thank you very much for meeting with us and sharing your
wonderful projects.
We look forward to working with on our Global Health Center in Central
Asia .
On Monday, Louisa and I plan to meet with our collaborators from CU and
the Dean to present our collaboration.
I will get back you on Monday about the next steps.
Best,
Nabila
ATTACHMENT II
From: Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:14:13 -0800
To: <rlatifi@email.arizona.edu>, "Pak, Hon LTC" <Pak@TATRC.ORG>, "Pak, Hon S LTC
TATRC" <Hon.Pak@amedd.army.mil>, "Connolly, Nancy B" <connolly@TATRC.ORG>
Cc: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>, Mary Jesse
<maryjesse16@msn.com>, rhonda stengl <rstengl@sbcglobal.net>,
<jkumekawa@aya.yale.edu>, <rofeit@aol.com>
Subject: beginning discussion
Dear Dr. Latifi,
I am so pleased that you will be meeting with Dr. Utsumi in Manhatten next Monday evening. I believe
that the potential is great for a GUS program with Japan ODA funding to extend broadband out from
your Kosova Telemedicine Center to rural communities. Also, Tak Utsumi's framework and
international network of colleagues and universities could be an advantage for educational and peerreview exchanges with Kosovo medical sector.
MAMAS could potentially be involved as a track for both uses of telemedicine and telehealth
education. Perhaps US key universities could be Virginia Commonwealth University and University of
Washington. As you will soon see, Tak's associations with US univiersities are strong with his special
focus on grid technologies and economic modeling.
Perhaps we can discuss a mutually beneficial relationship where MAMAS helps develop rural
telemedicine for maternal healthcare, special focus on nursing and nurse-midwives, and use of
multimedia to support local radio outreach. Your Kosova Telemedicine Project could advise our
consortium on best approaches to development of telemedicine centers in versions appropriate to our
target communities. Our MAMAS focus with GUS is for community-based infrastructure and
strategies for sustainable operations. I think that this might be what we could help put in place.
Meanwhile, I send on with open hand any resources which it seems might be of value, such as the
following-1) http://www.voxiva.net/ The Phones for Health partners - the GSM Association's Development
Fund, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Accenture Development
Partnerships, Motorola, MTN and Voxiva - are initially focused on 10 African countries, building on an
already successful deployment in Rwanda. The partnership is also likely to be extended further in
Africa and Asia to address tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases.
GSM Association Development Fund and these links:
http://www.gsmworld.com/developmentfund/index.shtml http://wwwgsmworld.com/developmentfund/
aboutus.shtml
<http://www.gsmworld.com/developmentfund/aboutus.shtml> http://www.gsmworld.com/
developmentfund/projects/index.shtml
<http://www.gsmworld.com/developmentfund/projects/index.shtml>
http://www.gsmworld.com/developmentfund/contactus.shtml
2) http://www.bibalex.org/supercourse/assist/dev.htm University of Pittsburgh "Supercourse"
promises a magnificant library of public health courses in many languages.
http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/32/5/893 I spoke recently with Ron LaPorte, director, and
will be back in touch with him soon. It seems that you may have the infrastructure necessary to make
excellant use of this program, especially if there is a counterpart website and email exchange.
Take care,
Linda
ATTACHMENT III
From: Rifat Latifi <latifi@surgery.arizona.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:56:02 -0700
To: Linda Hawkin Israel <lindahi@earthlink.net>, "Pak, Hon LTC" <Pak@TATRC.ORG>,
"Pak, Hon S LTC TATRC" <Hon.Pak@amedd.army.mil>, "Connolly, Nancy B"
<connolly@TATRC.ORG>
Cc: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>, Mary Jesse
<maryjesse16@msn.com>, rhonda stengl <rstengl@sbcglobal.net>,
<jkumekawa@aya.yale.edu>, <rofeit@aol.com>
Conversation: beginning discussion
Subject: RE: beginning discussion
Dear Linda,
Thank you for detailed email. As I indicated during our conversation, I am happy to work with you and
your outstanding team of experts on many issues that you have outlined. I believe that" The
Balkan model" that we have matured in Kosovo and other countries in the Balkans, is an excellent
one, as it combines and integrated very closely the "telemedicine" and virtual education program. It is
this reason that we call our project the International Virtual e- Hospital. The Council of Europe has
adopted a resolution to use this model to create what we call it : The South Eastern
European Telemedicine and Virtual Education Network" last may and it was singed but all 46
countries.
We published the results of Kosova Telemedicine on June issue of Telemedicine Journal of 2007. It is
becoming a model that is being followed by countries coming out of wars, and all other countries that
need rebuilding of their medical systems.
I am looking very much to meet with Dr. Utsumi, and outline the future activities.
Best regards,
rifat
List of Distribution
Nabila El-Bassel, D.S.W.
Professor
Executive Director, Social Intervention Group
School of Social Work
Columbia University
in the City of New York
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 814
Mail Code 4600
New York, NY 10027-5997
212-851-2391
Fax: 212-851-2393
ne5@columbia.edu
cusswsig@columbia.edu
http://www.socialwork.columbia.edu/sig/
Louisa Gilbert
Co-Director
Social Intervention Group
School of Social Work
Columbia University
in the City of New York
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 818
New York, NY 10027-5997
212-851-2395
Fax: 212-851-2126
lg123@columbia.edu
Susan S. Witte, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
Columbia University
1255 Amsterdam Avenue, Room 813
Mail Code 4600
New York, NY 10027-3997
212-851-2394
Fax: 212-851-2126
ssw12@columbia.edu
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/web/index.html
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/sig/
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/presentations/connect/nimh/preview.html
Linda Hawkin Israel
Founder and Executive Director
Mobile Assessment and Media Systems (MAMAS)
LCDN Coordinator, Global University System (GUS)
6533 Seaview Ave. NW #211A
Seattle, WA 98117-6046
206-393-8576
lindahi@earthlink.net
Rifat Latifi, MD,FACS
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Director, Surgical Critical Care
Director, Telemedicine Services, UMC
Director, Telemedicine for Trauma and Critical Care
Associate Director, Arizona Telemedicine
Program, Telesurgery & International Affairs
Arizona Health Sciences Center
Department of Surgery
The University Medical Center
The University of Arizona
1501 N. Campbell Avenue, Rm. 5411
PO Box 245063
Tucson, AZ 85724-5071
Office 520-626-1988
Direct: 520-626-1537
Cel: 520-250-3293
Fax: (520) 626-5016
latifi@surgery.arizona.edu
www.surgery.arizona.edu
http://www.surgery.arizona.edu/faculty/Latifi.htm.
http://www.iveh.org/ Interview:
http://www.hoise.com/vmw/05/articles/vmw/LV-VM-06-05-7.html
Pamela R. Johnson, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President
Voxiva, Inc.
1725 K Street NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006
Tel: +1 (202) 419 0130
Fax: +1 (202) 419 0131
Cell: +1 (202) 251 1423
pamela@voxiva.net
www.voxiva.net
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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