FEATURES
FEATURES
Global Academy of Tropical Health and Culure (GATH)
By Prof. Refaat Kamel, MD, FICS
Former President of the International College of Surgery
The First Congress of the Global Academy of Tropical Health and Culure (GATH) will be held in Cairo and Sakara, Egypt on September 29, 2009. This event will be 80 years after the big Congress which was held in Cairo entitled “CONGRES INTERNATIONAL DE MEDECINE TROPICALE ET D’HYGIENE – Le Caire, December 1928. Sous Le HAUT PATRONAGE DE SA MAJESTE LE ROI FOUAD I, Organized by Late Professor Mohamed Bey Khalil Abdel- Khalek.
The main goals of GATH are:
- To make Tropical Health an integral part of the medical curriculum.
- Establish Tropical Health Centers, Reference Centers for research, training and education.
- Low cost Surgery and medical practice without encroaching on health care privileges and quality of Life.
- Surgery of HIV and high risk diseases like hepatitis and new emerging diseases.
- Management of disasters whether man-made or natural
- We aim at having licenses and degrees after full evaluation and assessment.
- E-learning and Open University.
- The main objectives are teaching, research, training, practice and Developing Centers of Excellence.
- Data Bank for all Societies having the same interest and to make networking for the Societies adopting the same goals.
- Time Schedule for steps
- Promote Science and art of Tropical Health.
- Provide informed leadership and art of debate.
- Achieve the highest level of Ethical medical levels.
- Increase public awareness to combat tropical health problems.
The first step is the development of Committees which will take over all responsibilities based on volunteerism and love for a good cause and fulfillment of big achievements for the whole world. So far, we have GATH-Europe that is sharing in lots of activities related to tropical health in Europe. We have a group in Egypt about 150 top notched researchers and clinicians. We also have one in Yemen and starting in Africa. We are looking to have a chapter in Syria.
The proceedings of the congress will ultimately appear as an encyclopedia of tropical health and cultural development. During this important event, commemoration of great people who made modern science a reality, will be an integral part of the Congress and published as a separate memorial volume. The time of the congress will be the best chance to develop the Bylaws and identify the council, various committees and the Board of Trustees. The five suggested committees include the Steering, Organizing, Advisory, Scientific, and Fundraising Committees.
The GATH Congress will focus on the following nine topics:
1. Tropical Health: Prevention, Prediction, Early detection, space information technology, and Management .
2. Disasters: Natural and man made .
3. Accidents: Road traffic and transport accidents, Burns, and CBRNE .
4. Education: Training, Research, Current and advanced technologies, Nanotechnology, and E-Learning.
5. Alternative and Rural Medicine
6. low cost medicine: Without encroachment on health care and quality of life by bridging the gap between “the haves and have-nots” .
7. Environment, Pollution, Oncology, Genomics and Control of Global Warming.
8. Media , Politics , Globalization: Medical insurance .
9. Humanitarian medicine . Health promotion and Health education, and Culture and development .
Working Study groups for the following objectives:
· To set the table of contents for the Encyclopedia
· To establish curriculum for the graduate and post-graduate studies.
· To recruit eminent speakers for the Congress.
· To supply special and interesting case histories and anecdotes for the website.
· To select names for memorial book.
· To choose and edit subjects for an International Tropical Health Journal.
Thirty nine Study groups at GATH-International:
1- Paleopathology, Anthropology and Heritage.
2- Man-made and Natural disasters including
Road and Transport Traffic Accidents - Disaster Management
3- Tropical Paediatrics
4- Tropical Surgery and Tropical infections.
5- Tropical Hepatology and Gastroenterology (including biliopancreatic diseases)
6- Leadership and Debate
7- Tropical Chest Diseases
8- Maternal and Infant Mortality and Morbidity
9- Alternative Medicine
10- Urology
11- Medical Economics and Pharmaceuticals
12- Tropical Neurology
13- Global warming, Environment and Occupational Health.
14- Low cost
15- Tropical Nephrology
16- Tropical cardio-vascular diseases
17- Tropical Oncology
18- Nutrition and Obesity
19- Transplantation in developing world
20- Imaging in developing and developed world
21- Advanced Technology including Nanotechnology
22- Health promotion.
23- Surgery in Austere conditions
24- Transport and pre-hospital management
25- Gynecology and Obstetrics
26- Tropical orthopedics
27- Tropical ophthalmology
28- Tropical Haematology
29- Medical Education in the south, Humanitarian aid and international law
30- Metabolic disorders and diabetes
31- Trauma management and surgery in conflicts and Life support training.
32- Ageing population
33- Veterinary health.
34- Wild life.
35- Tropical genomics.
36- Statistics
37- Epidemiological studies and surveys.
38- HIV/AIDS group
39- Dental care in the tropics
The Social program at the Congress will include both an "Art of Physicians" Exhibit and Performances of "Music by Physicians", which will be organized by PROF. TAREK ALI HASSAN. Nile Cruses and tours will be organized before and after the Congress.
Chairman:-Refaat Kamel (Egypt)
Honorary Chairmen: Ibrahim Badran (Egypt), Bernd Domres (Germany), H.A.Al Gezairy (K.S.A), S. William Gunn (Canada), Nady Hakim (UK), Fidel R. Healy (Mexico), Raphael Kalengayi (Congo), John Lumley (UK), Mahmoud Mahfouz (Egypt).
Secretary General:- Michael Schneider (Germany)
