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Programme
for year 2005 |
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Presenters
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Presenter:
Dr Alexandra Peltier |
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Dr Alexandra Peltier est Assistante technique
senior- projet ESTHER (INT 107) au TRAC/ CHUK + RWA 21 pour
Lux Development.
Elle est Pédiatre
infectiologue avec 10 ans d’expérience dans le VIH pédiatrique
au CHU Saint-Pierre à Bruxelles (ULB). Elle est diplômée en
Médecine tropicale à l’IMT d’Anvers en 1998, et en médecine
de catastrophe, soins
intensifs et soins d’urgence à l’ULB en 1999-2000. Elle
est aussi titulaire d’un DU (Diplôme Universitaire)
« Prise en charge de la douleur » à Paris (Saint
Antoine). Responsable des Soins d’Urgence pédiatriques au
CHU Saint Pierre, elle
est aussi Présidente
de l’association « Explain AIDS to children ».
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Eugene Mutimura |
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Title:
The influence of aerobic exercice on lipodystrophy, metabolic
function and quality of life among adults with HIV infection |
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Eugene
Mutimura is a lecturer at Kigali Health Institute. He completed
his BSc (Hons) degree and MSc degree from
South Africa
in 2001. He started his Doctoral studies in 2004 at the
University of the Witwatersrand (
South Africa
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partnership. |
His
PhD studies focus on “Randomised controlled
trial of aerobic capacity on HIV lipodystrophy and metabolic
function”, exploring a possible relationship between aerobic
exercise capacity, anthropometric variables and metabolic
dysfunction that may occur in lipodystrophy syndrome. In
response to public health issues,
Eugene
has attended and
presented at several regional & international conferences. He
presented papers on HIV/IDS, such as “Response of Higher
Institutions of Learning to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic” and “Psycho-Social
and Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education System”. He
is currently involved in an intervention on “Strategic
approaches to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care & Rehabilitation of
People living with HIV/AIDS”. He
presented research papers in June 2004 at the 14th
International World Confederation for Physical Therapy in
Barcelona
,
Spain
(“The role of caregivers in rehabilitation of their
children with disabilities” and “Health promotion
needs of physically disabled individuals with lower limb
amputation in selected areas of
Rwanda
”). In 2003 he presented papers in
Cape Town
on “Public health
consequences of landmines in post war
Rwanda
” and “Promotion
of Health-enhancing programs for physically handicapped
individuals”. Responding to the current public outcry of
low back pain in
Rwanda
, he recently completed a research on ‘Low back pain
predictors, its classification and patient satisfaction with
management.”.
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Louis Munyakazi
, Ph.D.,
M.Sc. Ir. |
| Title: Introduction to the Design and Analysis
of Clinical Trials |
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Louis Munyakazi
, Ph.D., M.Sc. Ir.
is currently
the Director of the
Treatment and Research for AIDS Center (TRAC) in
Kigali
,
Rwanda
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TRAC is the primary level
national agency for HIV/AIDS. As such, he provides leadership
in the development of national standards and curriculums for
various areas of HIV/AIDS care and research including Care and
Treatment, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission,
Voluntary Counseling and Testing, Epidemiology and Monitoring
and Evaluation of health sector programs. |
Prior
to his current position, Dr. Louis was a scientific researcher
at Amgen, a leading Biotechnology company in Southern
California and a senior statistician at Monsanto, a
pharmaceutical company in St-Louis, MO where he took charge of
the most challenging projects related to the optimum use of
BST, Bovine SomatoTropine hormone. He became uniquely
qualified in modeling techniques known as Linear-Plateau
Models generally appropriate for growth curves and for
evaluation of the stability of field crops. His interests
extended to the application of Linear and Non-Linear Mixed
Models of Pharmacokinetic data, Repeated Measures designs,
Longitudinal or growth data, Calculation of the Minimum
Effective Dose (MED) of drug product and its Shelf-life,
Application of Principal Components to stability studies, and
Partial Least Squares to the data mining for multivariate
data. He has shown leadership in statistical support of major
projects, including providing assistance to other
biostatisticians’ especially in modern statistical
techniques such Equivalence Tests, Meta-analysis, Generalized
Linear Mixed Models, and Data Mining Techniques.
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| Etien L. Koua, Ph.D. |
| Title:
GIS and exploratory visualization tools for the exploration of
health statistics |
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Dr.
Etien L. Koua is
currently a Senior Technical Advisor for
Tulane
University
Payson
Center
and Acting Chief of TRAC’s Information Technology and
Applied Statistics Unit. He holds
a PhD in Geoinformatics (Spatial Information Theory and
Applied Computer Science, Computational Analysis and
Visualization) from the
University
of
Utrecht
(The Netherlands).His research interests include
Self-organizing Neural Networks, Information Visualization and
geovisualization, Data mining and Knowledge Discovery in
Databases,
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Usability and Human-Computer Interaction. He worked
as Research Fellow at the Centre for Telematics and
Information technology (CTIT), faculty of computer science at
the
university
of
Twente
, The Netherlands, and researcher at the International Institute for
Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in
Enschede, The Netherlands. Since 1998, he has been working
for
Tulane
University
Payson
Center
for International Development and
Technology Transfer, under a USAID project FHA (Family Health
and AIDS) for West and
Central Africa
and CDC project in
Rwanda
. He
has been actively involved in operational research,
institutional development and capacity building, information
systems development, instructional technology, database and
GIS development for public health mapping and monitoring in
West and
Central Africa.
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Miriam
Schneidman
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Title: Using
Data for Decision Making
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Miriam
Schneidman is a Senior Health Specialist in the Human
Development Department of the Africa Region of The World Bank.
She holds degrees in Economics from University of
Maryland and in Public Health from The Johns Hopkins
University.
She has over twenty years of experience at The World
Bank on human development issues in Latin America and Africa.
Miriam has written on the subject of vulnerable youth,
demographic issues, community financing of health care, health
problems of women, and HIV/AIDS.
During the last few years she has been part of a team
working on the Bank-funded Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Program
(MAP) for Africa and is currently responsible for the Rwanda
MAP.
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During the past several years there has been a surge of new
epidemiological data and information about the HIV/AIDS
epidemic in Africa.
This presentation will discuss key highlights from
these new findings, identify ways which this data can be used
to inform investments, and discuss some key gaps which remain
to be addressed.
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Michael
L. Rich, MD, MPH
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Clinical and Programmatic Aspects of Multidrug-Resistant
Tuberculosis (MDR-TB)
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A Harvard
School of Public Health and University of Massachusetts
Medical School alumnus, Michael L. Rich, MD, MPH has been
working with Partners
in Health (PIH), a charitable organization based at
Harvard
Medical
School
bringing TB and HIV treatment to underserved
communities. He
has been involved in the largest Multidrug-Resistant
Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment program located in
Lima
,
Peru
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He has
helped to treat over 2000 cases of MDR-TB. Dr.
Rich served in the United States Peace Corps in
Cameroon
, West Africa, and as a medical doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières in
Uzbekistan
. Dr. Rich is
also a member of the World Health Organization's Green Light
Committee of the Working Group on DOTS-Plus for MDR-TB.
The Green light committee gives both access to preferentially
low priced second-line drugs to treat MDR-TB and technical
support to countries applying for these drugs.
He is the lead author on new WHO guidelines for the
management of MDR-TB. In 2005, Dr Rich has moved to
Rwanda
to help develop a community-based antiretroviral treatment
(ART) for two rural areas in
Rwanda
(Rwinkwavu and Kirehe) based on the PIH treatment models
developed in
Haiti
and
Peru
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