Conference on Global Health: Chicago - China: Collaborations in Medicine

The University of Chicago Center in Beijing

20th floor, Culture Plaza

No. 59A Zhong Guan Cun Street

Haidian District Beijing 100872

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 Research

and Education

10:00 – 10:30 pm     Break

10:30 – 12:00 pm     Global Collaboration in Transplantation and SurgeryModerators

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