Nov
29
Tue
ID Lecture Series – “Skin/Soft Tissue Infections” @ LK209
Nov 29 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am

Jose G. Montoya

Presenter: Jose G. Montoya, MD. Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine) and Infectious Disease Doctor.

Dec
6
Tue
ID Lecture Series – “Febrile Neutropenia” @ LK209
Dec 6 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am

Jose G. Montoya

Presenter: Jose G. Montoya, MD. Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine) and Infectious Disease Doctor.

Jun
26
Wed
Medicine Grand Rounds: African Medicine/ African Spines @ LKSC Berg Hall
Jun 26 @ 8:00 am – 9:00 am
Medicine Grand Rounds: African Medicine/ African Spines @ LKSC Berg Hall | Palo Alto | California | United States

Presenter: Rick Hodes, MD

Medical Director, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Ethiopia

Rick Hodes, MD, is an American doctor who has lived and worked in Ethiopia for nearly 30 years. He is the Medical Director for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Ethiopia, a 105-year old NGO. He has been in charge of the health of Ethiopians immigrating to Israel. He has also worked with refugees in Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania, Somalia, and Albania. Currently, he is the senior consultant at a Catholic mission helping sick destitutes with heart disease (rheumatic and congenital), spine disease (TB and scoliosis), and cancer. He practices in the basement of a busy Addis Ababa hospital, concentrating on spinal deformities and rheumatic and congenital heart disease. A colleague recently said, “Rick has the largest collection of the worst spines in the world.”

Hodes is a graduate of Middlebury College and University of Rochester Medical School and trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins. Hodes first went to Ethiopia as a relief worker during the 1984 famine. He returned on a Fulbright Fellowship to teach internal medicine at Addis Ababa University, and in 1990 was hired by the JDC as the medical adviser for the country. His original position was to care for 25,000 potential immigrants to Israel. In 1991, he was an active contributor during “Operation Solomon,” helping the Ethiopian Jews airlifted to Israel.

In 2007, Dr. Hodes was selected as a “CNN Hero,” a program that highlights ordinary people for extraordinary achievements. He was honored as ABC’s Person of the Week in 2010. He is the holder of five honorary degrees and has been a commencement speaker at Brandeis, and UC Davis and University of Rochester Medical Schools. The American College of Physicians has awarded him “Mastership” and the Rosenthal Award for creative practice of medicine.

His work is the subject of the HBO documentary “Making the Crooked Straight” as well as the book “This is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes” by Marilyn Berger. A recent documentary, Zemene, highlights the life of a young spine patient and her journey from rural Gondar to Addis Ababa, spine surgery in Ghana, and speaking in New York City.

Nov
19
Fri
PHS Trainee Research Colloquium | PEdTalks: PHS Education Talks @ Online Event
Nov 19 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
PHS Trainee Research Colloquium | PEdTalks: PHS Education Talks @ Online Event

PHS Trainee Research Colloquium
PEdTalks: PHS Education Talks

Event Information and Registration

The Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) Trainee program comprises pre- and postdoctoral research fellows. We aim to train the next generation of population health scientists, scholars, and leaders. Please join us on Friday, 11/19/2021 for our first series of PHS Education Talks (PEdTalks), where we will showcase the research of 5 of our trainees.

  • Kayla Kinsler: Influence of Incentive Amount on Physician Participation
  • Cesar Vargas Nunez: Feeling ill:  the infectious effect of perspective-taking on attitudes toward healthcare access for undocumented immigrants
  • Alice Milivinti: Revisiting the Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health
  • Sven van Egmond: Unnecessary care for skin cancer
  • Jackie Ferguson: Virtual Disparities: Identifying differences in how Veterans use VA video healthcare