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Global Health Program

Annual Global Health Day

Annual Global Health Day Flier (PowerPoint)
"The Health Care Response to International Disasters, Lessons from the Tsunami" (Flash Presentation)
William Markle, MD

Friday, October 26, 2007

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Official Book Signing "Understanding Global Health" with Editors William Markle, MD and Melanie Fisher, MD, MSc, Health Sciences Center Bookstore

12:00 noon-2:00 p.m.

New Learning Center, Rm 1905
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center

Sponsored by the Global Health Program
of West Virginia University

12:05 p.m. -

12:15 p.m.

Welcome/Opening Remarks – Melanie A. Fisher, M.D., M.Sc. Director, Global Health Program

12:15 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

"The Health Care Response to International Disasters, Lessons from the Tsunami ” William Markle, MD

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Display Tables by Student Organizations – Students for International Health, Physicians for Human Rights, Circa Terra, Medical Spanish Club, and others

All WVU faculty, students, and staff and the Morgantown Community are welcome and encouraged to attend.

William Markle, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Program Director, Family Medicine Residency, University of Pittsburgh Medical Cente

Dr. Markle is currently a Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) where he serves as Program Director of the UPMC McKeesport Family Medicine Residency Program. He has extensive experience in global health including work in Papua, Indonesia, and Honduras. Dr. Markle also worked with disaster victims from the 2004 Asian tsunami with the American Refugee Committee.