University of Kansas Medical Center’s Global Bridges

University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) would like to share two collaborative opportunities sponsored by KUMC’s Office of International Programs. The detail of the programs are shown as follows:

GLOBAL BRIDGES

  • Global Bridges is a service offered by the Office of International Programs which connects you with a partner on campus, in the community, or abroad virtually who shares an interest in developing multi-cultural awareness. Sharing information and experiences about culture and language, history, values and lifestyles through Global Bridges will help participants meet new people, grow as an individual, prepare for and adapt to international experiences and increase in understanding of the world.
  • Goals:
    • To connect individuals who are interested in sharing about culture, language, customs, and beliefs for inter-personal and inter-professional exchange
    • To develop diverse connections and friendships across campus and throughout the world
    • To increase knowledge, awareness, and understanding of self and others

https://redcap.kumc.edu/surveys/?s=RDLJYH97CC

 

Foundations of Global Health

During this time, while international travel, exchange, and International Educational Experiences (IEE’s) are suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions and concerns, KUMC wants to “feed the minds” of residents, students, learners, and others who have a keen interest in and affinity for global health.

 This pause in activity is a great opportunity for our community to learn from those who are involved in global health activities here and around the world and increase our understanding of the field of global health. This may include global health research, philosophy, approaches, attitudes, and the efforts in the areas of health disparities, health inequities, and community health.

  • PRESENTATION FORMAT:  KUMC would like this platform to be an opportunity for participants to share about their personal journey, educational background, mentors, books, and articles that inspired them, challenges and lessons learned, successes and epiphanies, life-changing moments and the heart breaks.
    • These presentations can be either formal or more conversational with 20 minutes of presenting and 20 minutes of engaging with the audience. You decide your preference.
  • GOAL of the PROGRAM: The goal is to provide some foundational information on pathways into global health as well as informing the attitudes of KUMC’s students to help them become strong partners in global health who engage others in reciprocal relationships that are mutually beneficial.
  • PROCESS: If you are willing to present, KUMC would ask you to fill out this survey at Foundations of Global Health.
    • The survey will collect various information, including a few dates/times you are available to present Kansas City Central Time by Zoom.
    • KUMC typically provide presentations/programming at 12:00. However, KUMC can promote and support these presentations between 12-7:00 pm KC time.
    • KUMC hopes that students, residents, learners, and faculty from KUMC’s international partner institutions will also join for these educational presentations.  KUMC realizes that the time/day difference could be a barrier, so all presentations will be recorded and accessible for viewing.
    • Christine Hernandez chernandez12@kumc.edu  will manage the scheduling calendar and confirm your day/time based on the submissions received.
    • Please feel free to email directly with any questions, comments, suggestions, or needs. kconnelly@kumc.edu

 

INTRODUCING 2020-2021 OIP PROGRAMMING:  FOUNDATIONS of GLOBAL HEALTH

Global Health is a varied and exciting field to which many health care providers, researchers, and faculty aspire to being professionally engaged.  With KUMC’s being a globally connected world, and with COVID-19 uniting the world to solve an issue, global health has never been more relevant.  This year-long programming is designed to feature KUMC’s experts in the field of global health – KUMC’s faculty, researchers and clinicians; our international partners and our community partners.  Each presenter will share his/her personal journey, educational background, mentors, books and articles that gave inspiration, challenges, lessons learned, successes, epiphanies, life-changing moments and the heart breaks.

  • This series is created to support the development of global health professionals, giving participants inspiration as well as shaping attitudes around global health so that we at KUMC are trendsetters who move beyond the “us-them” “haves and have not” mentality to a platform of equality and mutualism which garners true collaboration and global health exchange for everyone’s equal benefit.
  • The goal of this series is to inform participants about the field of global health in its entirety to include global health research, philosophy, approaches, attitudes, and the varied efforts in the areas of health disparities, health inequities, and community health.

Foundations of Global Health is designed to inform and expose residents, students, learners, and faculty to leaders in global health; however, KUMC hopes that the faculty who contribute to this program will also attend to learn from and support colleagues from around the world.

Selected Candidates for Exchange Program 2021

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We are pleased to announce the name list of selected candidates (4th & 6th year medical student) to undertake a clinical elective under Siriraj Medical Student Exchange Program (the academic year 2020) as shown in the images below:

 

THE World University Rankings 2021

Mahidol University has remained the top rank among Thai Universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021, released by THE World Universities Insights Limited of UK, with a total score นด 34.89!

The University of Oxford tops the rankings for the fifth consecutive year, while the Tsinghua University of China becomes the first Asian university to break into the top 20 under the current methodology (launched in 2011).

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021 include more than 1,500 universities across 93 countries and regions, making them the largest and most diverse university rankings to date.

The ranking is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

This year’s ranking analysed more than 80 million citations across over 13 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.

Trusted worldwide by students, teachers, governments and industry experts, this year’s league table provides great insight into the shifting balance of power in global higher education.

Congratulations MU! #mu #timeshighereducation #topuniversityranking

Webinar Q-AOS Symposium 2020

On September 3rd, 2020, Professor Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, was invited as a guest speaker at the International Teleconference Webinar “Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies（Ｑ－AOS）Symposium 2020” and delivered the presentation on the topic “Current COVID-19 situation in Thailand: how do we manage the outbreak?”. The “Kyushu University Institute for Asian and Oceanian Studies Ｑ－AOS Symposium 2020” was well-attended by the renowned speakers from around Asia and Oceania region. #siriraj #qaossymposium

Elective Study at Siriraj Nephrology

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Welcome! Mr. Ratchawin Sawasjirakij from Medical University of Lublin, Poland, to undertake an elective Study at the Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, from September 1st – 30th, 2020. #irsiriraj #sirirajelectiveprogram

Research Management Webinar Series on “Turning Threat into Research Opportunities in COVID-19 Pandemic”

On August 28th, 2020 – Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital presided at the Research Management Webinar “Turning Threat into Research Opportunities in COVID-19 Pandemic”, which was held by Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management Unit (SiCORE-M).

This webinar conference performed in both Online and On-site with the purpose to share and exchange the knowledge on research opportunities through the experiences during the initial COVID 19 pandemic.

On this occasion, we had distinct honor from the reputed panelists include;

Prof. Prasert Auewarakul, MD, PhD Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital

Prof.Sirirurg Songsivilai, MD, PHD Secretary-general, NRCT

Prof. Gavin Screaton, MBBS, DPhil(Oxon) Head, Medical Sciences Division University of Oxford

Prof.Kiat Ruxrungtham, MD Director of COVID-19 Vaccine Development Program, ChulaVRC and

Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, DPhil(Oxon) Instructor, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

Please visit following link for post video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpoiVxyz2mqTt6KARFuqwAr2obH23_D9/view?usp=sharing

or Facebook: Siriraj Conference (https://www.facebook.com/sirirajconference/videos/2414342802191511/)

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Post Video: Siriraj Channel (Youtube)

If there are any questions, please feel free to contact us at our Website (https://www2.si.mahidol.ac.th/en/research/sicore-m/ ) or Email:  sicore.management@gmail.com

 

Siriraj Faculty Abroad at UCLA

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Congratulations! Lecturer Dr. Jomjit Chantharasamee from Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, who has completed her role as a ‘Visiting Scholar’ at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, between September 2018 – August 2020.

During her services, Lecturer Dr. Jomjit has delivered the poster presentations on two topics: “Retrospective Analysis of Adjuvant Treatment for Localized, Operable Uterine Leiomyosarcoma” and “A Randomized Phase 2 Study of Nivolumab Monotherapy Versus Nivolumab Combined with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic or Unresectable Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)”, she also delivered an abstract text presentation on the topic “Molecular Profile and Clinical Characteristic of Malignant Melanoma in Younger Patients”. She’s the First Author of the Chapter: Chordoma in the book “Sarcomas: Evidence-Based Diagnosis and Management” published by Springer Publishing in 2020.

For the research fields, Lecturer Dr. Jomjit has co-conducted the on-going research with UCLA researchers on two projects:

  1. “A Simple High-Throughput Approach Identifies Actionable Drug Sensitivities in Patient-Derived Sarcoma Organoids: Organoid-Clinical Correlation”
  1. “Efficacy of Immune Check Point Inhibitor in the Patients with Metastatic Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma”

Congratulations!

#sirirajfacultyabroad #irsiriraj #siirnews

Meeting with Program Management Unit – Brain Power (PMUB)

On 30th July 2020, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Prof. Dr. Prasert Auewarakul, Deputy Dean for Research along with SiCORE-M team (led by Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumethee, Manager) visited Program Management Unit – Brain Power (PMUB) at KX (Knowledge Exchange for Innovation) building. On this occasion, Dr. Kanyawim Kirtikorn, Acting Director of PMUB and her team welcomed the delegates. The purpose of this meeting was to provide a brief introduction of Faculty’s research management systems and SiCORE-M Unit. In addition, Dr. Kanyawim provided us an introduction of PMUB and the related research support policies. From the discussion on the procedure for research support and manpower development, we do realize that this would be of a great benefit to our research direction-setting and let us to become a part of cooperative research pathway under the National strategy.

 

Turning Threat into Research Opportunities

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On August 28th, 2020, Prof. Dr. Prasit Watanapa, Dean of Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital presided over Research Management Webinar “Turning Threat into Research Opportunities in COVID-19 Pandemic” at SiMR Building.

The webinar conference was held by Siriraj Center of Research Excellence Management (SiCORE-M) under the objectives to provide and share knowledge on the research opportunities during the COVID-19 crisis. The webinar was seasoned by reputed experts with interesting topics as the following;

Prof. Gavin Screaton, Head of Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford on “How Oxford Contributed to the Fight against COVID-19 Pandemic”

Prof. Sirirurg Songsivilai, Secretary-General of National Research Council of Thailand on “Role of Research Granting Agencies amid the COVID-19 Crisis”

Prof. Kiat Ruxrungtham, Director of COVID-19 Vaccine Development Program, Chula Vaccine Research Center on “A Path of Rapid Development of COVID-19 Vaccine in Thailand”

Prof. Dr. Prasert Auewarakul, Deputy Dean for Research, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital on “Research Landscape of COVID-19 in Thailand”

Assoc. Prof. Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Nuffield Department of Medicine, the University of Oxford on “A New Weapon against SARS-CoV2”

Watch online here: https://www.facebook.com/sirirajconference/videos/2414342802191511/

#irsiriraj #siirnews #sicorem #covid19webinar

English Interview for Student Exchange Program 2021

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On August 27th – 28th, 2020, the committee of Siriraj Medical Students Exchange Program 2021 led by Assoc. Prof. Prapat Wanitpongpan, Deputy Dean for International Relations, together with the Assistant Deans for International Relations: Assoc. Prof. Sith Sathornsumetee, Prof. Woraphong Manuskiati, Asst. Prof. Warut Pongsapich, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chantacha Sitticharoon, Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, conducted the English Interview to select the most eligible of Siriraj 4th & 6th year medical students to undertake a clinical elective in the year 2021 (academic year 2020).

This year, sixty-nine 4th & 6th year Siriraj medical students applied for the elective program. #irsiriraj #siirnews #sioutbound #sirirajstudentexchangeprogram