Co-Chair, Michael Capello, Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Yale World Fellows Program. In conjunction with the world premiere of legendary South African playwright Athol Fugard’s Coming Home, the inaugural Global Health & the Arts program brought together leading researchers and global health experts, with a keynote address by Gerald Friedland M.D, the Director of the AIDS Program at Yale New Haven Hospital, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine, and Visiting Professor at the Nelson. R Mandela School of Medicine of the University of KwaZulu Natal in Durban, South Africa and the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
3:30 PM REGISTRATION
4:00 PM PROGRAM BEGINS IN STAGE II
WELCOME:
David Scheer, President, Scheer & Company
Dr. Robert Alpern, Dean, Yale School of Medicine
Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director of Long Wharf Theatre
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. Gerald Friedland, Director of AIDS Program at Yale-New Haven Hospital and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
5:00 PM DINNER SERVED AND PROGRAM CONTINUES
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Yorgo Modis, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
Dr. Michael Cappello, Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine; Director, Yale World Fellows Program
Dr. Erol Fikrig, Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Eric Rubin, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Elijah Painstil, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Choukri Ben Mamoun, Assistant Professor on Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
6:45 PM DESSERT SERVED AND PROGRAM CONTINUES
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Allan Saul, CEO, Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health
Dr. Roger Pomerantz, President, Tibotec; Worldwide Therapeutic Area Head of Virology for Johnson & Johnson
Dr. John Houston, Vice President, Applied Biotechnology and Discovery Biology, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dr. Robert Sebbag, Vice President Access to Medicines, Sanofi-Aventis
Dr. Milind Deshpande, Chief Scientific Officer, Achillion Pharmaceuticals
Dr. John Puziss, Director of Technology Licensing, Office of Cooperative Research, Yale University
Dr. Christopher D. Earl, CEO, BIO Ventures for Global Health
7:30 PM THANK YOU AND CLOSE: DAVID SCHEER, SCHEER & CO.
8:00 PM PERFORMANCE OF COMING HOME BY ATHOL FUGARD BEGINS, MAINSTAGE
(Please pick up your coat from the coat check prior to going to the performance.)
10:30 PM POST PERFORMANCE PANEL DISCUSSION WITH EVENT GUESTS AND THE AUDIENCE
PANELISTS:
Michael Fuchs, CEO, Concourse Health Sciences, LLC; former chairman of HBO
Gordon Edelstein, Director of Coming Home
Dr. Steven Phillips, Medical Director-Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil
Dr. Nancy Angoff, Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
Karina Danvers, Director, CT AIDS Education & Training Center, Yale School of Nursing
Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright; Chair of Playwriting Department, Yale School of Drama