Public Events
2007 Events
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 7:00pm
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
New York, NY
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
333 7th Ave, 2nd Floor
New York, NY
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November 4-8
American Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
MSF/DNDi/ Epicentre program presentations:
Isabela Ribeiro — Addressing Ethical Considerations In Undertaking Malaria Field Studies in Developing Countries
sanofi-aventis/DNDi Symposium on Implementation of a New ACT in African Endemic Countries: Opportunities and Challenges for Documenting Safety and Effectiveness in the Field. Chair: Wilfred F Mbacham, University of Yaoundé, Cameroon
Simon Croft — Screening Natural Products Against Neglected Infectious Disease Pathogens
Philippe Guerin — The Contribution of Médecins Sans Frontières to the Assessment of Efficacy of Antimalarial Treatment, 1996-2004
Klaudia Portens — Prevalence of Buruli Ulcer Cases in the Health District of Akonolinga, Cameroon: A Cross Sectional Survey Using Centric Systematic Area Sampling
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 7:00pm
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
New York, NY
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
333 Seventh Avenue
Second Floor
New York, NY 10001
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October 13-17
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA
Please visit our Information Booth, #2605, in the ASA Exhibit Hall to meet MSF anesthesiologists Chris Reveley, MD, and John Spieker, MD. Veteran MSF aid worker and recruiter, Molly Sweeney, RN, will be on hand to answer questions about joining MSF.
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Recruitment Information Session - 3:00pm
Not Only Doctors at Doctors Without Borders
Dallas, TX
One out of every three Doctors Without Borders aid workers is a logistician, administrator, or other non-medical specialist. These are the people who dig wells and rehabilitate hospitals, transport medical kits to emergencies, negotiate security agreements in conflict zones, hire staff, manage budgets...and much more.
What is a "log"? Could you be one? What other field opportunities does Doctors Without Borders offer to non-medical professionals? Join us to learn more about Doctors Without Borders and how you can put your ideals into practice. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
Dallas REI
4515 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX 75244
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - CANCELLED
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
New York, NY
The info session scheduled for this date has been cancelled. Please register for one of the other info sessions scheduled to take place in New York City.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 6:00pm
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
Dallas, TX
All prospective medical aid workers: join us for an evening presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
UT Southwestern Medical Campus
Stemmons Memorial Lecture Hall
South Campus - Room D1.700 (building 29 on campus maps)
Dallas, TX 75310
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October 8-11
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly
Seattle, WA
Please visit our Information Booth, #1611, at the ACEP Scientific Assembly to meet MSF emergency physicians David Lanier, MD, and Scott McKeon, MD. An MSF recruiter will be on hand to answer questions about joining MSF.
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October 7-11
American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress
New Orleans, LA
Please visit our Information Booth, #2640, in the ACS Exhibit Hall to meet MSF surgeons Bipin Patel, MD, and Sherry Wren, MD. An MSF recruiter will be on hand to answer questions about joining MSF.
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Saturday, October 6, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 3:00pm
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
Houston, TX
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
Rice University - Sewall Hall
6100 Main St.
Houston, TX 77005
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October 4-6
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Scientific Assembly
Chicago, IL
Please visit our Information Booth, #2129, at the AAFP Exposition to meet MSF aid workers Mark Johnson, MD, and Kevin Rodgers, MD. Veteran MSF aid worker and recruiter, Molly Sweeney, RN, will be on hand to answer questions about joining MSF.
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 3:00pm
Not Only Doctors at Doctors Without Borders
Twin Cities, MN
One out of every three Doctors Without Borders aid workers is a logistician, administrator, or other non-medical specialist. These are the people who dig wells and rehabilitate hospitals, transport medical kits to emergencies, negotiate security agreements in conflict zones, hire staff, manage budgets...and much more.
What is a "log"? Could you be one? What other field opportunities does Doctors Without Borders offer to non-medical professionals? Join us to learn more about Doctors Without Borders and how you can put your ideals into practice. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
REI Bloomington
750 W American Blvd
Bloomington, MN 55420
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 6:30pm
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
Twin Cities, MN
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Tours of the Doctors Without Borders exhibit A Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City, in Loring Park, will run until 5:30pm. We encourage you to tour this free exhibit, then head over to Loring Park Dunn Bros. Coffee House, located on the southwest corner of the park, for our presentation.
Location
Loring Park Dunn Bros. Coffee
329 W. 15th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Recruitment Info Session - 7:00pm
Put Your Ideals Into Practice
New York, NY
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation, film, and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Location
333 Seventh Avenue
Second Floor
New York, NY 10001
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Recruitment Information Session
Chicago, IL
All prospective medical aid workers: join us for an evening presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Program
6:00pm-7:30pm
- Welcome
- Video Screening: On the Medical Frontline
- Presentation on general requirements for field work
- Question and Answer session
Location
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Lurie Building - Hughes Auditorium
303 E. Superior
Chicago, IL 60611
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Recruitment Information Session - 6:30pm
Not Only Doctors at Doctors Without Borders
Chicago, IL
One out of every three Doctors Without Borders aid workers is a logistician, administrator, or other non-medical specialist. These are the people who dig wells and rehabilitate hospitals, transport medical kits to emergencies, negotiate security agreements in conflict zones, hire staff, manage budgets...and much more.
What is a "log"? Could you be one? What other field opportunities does Doctors Without Borders offer to non-medical professionals? Join us to learn more about Doctors Without Borders and how you can put your ideals into practice. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
NOTE: Due to building security requirements at this venue, participants must register by 3:30pm CST on Monday, September 17 to be admitted. Attendees must bring photo ID to enter the building.
Location
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP
71 S. Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60606
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Monday, September 17, 2007
On The Medical Frontlines: Ira Glass in Conversation with Doctors Without Borders
Chicago, IL
This program features several MSF aid workers, including Executive Director Nicolas de Torrenté, in a panel discussion moderated by Ira Glass, host and producer of the public radio program This American Life also includes a welcome address by Craig Davis, Director of Adult Services of the Chicago Public Library. Location
Chicago Public Library
Chicago, Illinois
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
Recruitment Information Session
Milwaukee, WI
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for a presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders' field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
Program
3:00pm-4:30pm
- Welcome
- Video Screening: On the Medical Frontlines
- Presentation on general requirements for field work
- Question and Answer session
Location
Urban Ecology Center
1500 Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53211
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
The World's Refugees and Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Doctors Without Borders aid workers join 4th Street Forum/Milwaukee Public Television for a discussion taped before a live audience. Location
Milwaukee Turner Hall
1034 N. 4th St. (4th and Highland)
Milwaukee, WI
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
The First Unitarian Society of Rockland County
Ruth Lagerberg - Maternity Care in Rural Southern Sudan
Pomona, NY
Nurse practitioner and midwife, Ruth Lagerberg, will share her experience working for MSF in Akuem, Sudan where the organizations runs a remote primary health care clinic. 10:30 AM
The First Unitarian Society
130 Concklin Road, Pomona, NY
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Wine Country Film Festival
Invisibles
Napa, CA
MSF is pleased to present "Invisibles", a film produced by renowned Spanish actor Javier Bardem, at the 2007 Wine Country Film Festival.
Inspired by the international humanitarian work of MSF, Javier Bardem worked with the organization to produce a film which highlights five neglected humanitarian crises taken from MSF's yearly "Top Ten" list of underreported humanitarian stories. Each topic is addressed in a separate short film, shot by different directors, creating the five-part film "Invisibles."
This dynamic film gives audiences the chance to encounter situations MSF's medical teams face every day, and helps shed some light on these forgotten humanitarian crises.4:30 PM
Cartlidge & Browne Winery
American Canyon, Napa Valley
Admission $9
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Friday, June 15, 2007
UAEM Panel Discussion at Weill Cornell Medical College
From Discovery to Delivery: The University & Global Pharma
New York, NY
Dr. Buddhima Lokuge, U.S. Manager of MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines, will join Roy Vagelos, Retired Chairman and CEO of Merck & Co, Inc., Barry Coller, Physician-in-Chief at Rockefeller University, Rashmi Barbhaiya, CEO of Advinus Therapeutics, and Ken Gustavsen, Manager at Merck Global Drug Donations for a panel discussion on intellectual property rights and patents and how they affect global access to medicines.
2:00 - 4:00 PM
Weill Auditorium, Education Center
1300 York Avenue, 2nd Floor
Reception to follow in Archibold Commons
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
Doctors Without Borders Recruitment Information Session
Put Your Ideals into Practice
Chicago, IL
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for an evening presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders’ field work. A Human Resources Officer will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Harold Washington Library Center
Third Floor, Room 3N-6
400 S. State Street
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Monday, May 14, 2007
MSF at the World Affairs Council of Oregon
Portland, OR
Join the Young Professionals of the World Affairs Council of Oregon as we share in the experiences of two professionals who have served overseas with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). Suniti Kumar completed college and medical school in Massachusetts before being trained by MSF to serve in Myanmar. She spent the whole of 2001 there and three years later served in Niger at a pediatric malnutrition project. After a stint with the Air Force and 30 years as an engineer, David Huntley was trained by MSF in logistics and immediately dispatched to central Java Indonesia after a massive earthquake in May of 2006. David helped implement a new method of using inflatable hospitals for an emergency orthapedic mission. Both Suniti and David live in the Portland area and will be presenting a MSF slide show interspersed with personal pictures and anecdotes of their experiences.
6:30 - 8:30
Souk
322 NW 6th Avenue, Suite 200
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Rush University Hospital Lecture
Aditya Nadinpalli, MD - Caring for Patients Without Electricity or X-Ray
Chicago, IL
Dr. Nadimpalli will share his experiences providing primary health care to people displaced by Liberia's years of internal conflict.
12 PM to 1 PM
Rush University, Armour Academic Center, Room 540
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Saturday, March 24, 2007
A Conversation with Doctors Without Borders
San Antonio, TX
University of Texas at San Antionio - Downtown Campus
7 PM - Buena Vista Building Theater
Join David Martin Davies, news director for Texas Public Radio and columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, in conversation with four Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) aid workers.
Epidemiologist Caitlin Meredith, physician Hansel Otero, logistician Erik Schuchmann, and nurse and MSF recruiter Molly Sweeney have worked in 14 projects delivering emergency medical care in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgia, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Sudan, and Uganda.
They will discuss the challenges of reaching people caught in conflict, treating malnutrition, and responding to epidemics, and tell how they have made working with MSF a part of their lives.
The program will be followed by a Q&A session that will include information about joining MSF.The program is free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible. Parking is available across from the theater at Cattleman’s Square on Buena Vista Street.
To RSVP or for more information: 1-800-601-1466 or event.rsvp@msf.org Please join us for a reception prior to the event in the Buena Vista Assembly Room at 6:00 PM.
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March 23-24
National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) National Conference
San Antonio, TX
Please visit our Information Booth, #53, in the NHMA Exhibit Hall to meet MSF aid workers Hansel Otero, MD, and Natalia Sanchez, MD. Veteran MSF aid worker and recruiter, Molly Sweeney, RN, will be on hand to answer questions about joining MSF.
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Monday, March 5, 2007
University of Florida
Presentation by Darin Portnoy, MD, President of MSF-USA
Gainesville, FL
Dr. Darin Portnoy will give a presentation on the organization’s work around the world, including how MSF responds to emergencies, and some of the major challenges facing the organization. He will also share his most recent field experiences treating victims of a measles outbreak in Nigeria.
The event is free and wheelchair accessible.
The programs begins at 7:00.
The Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
315 Hull Road
For more information, please contact Heidi Nagel at hnagel@ufl.edu
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February 25-28
Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
Los Angeles, CA
Mar Pujades, Epicentre, Daniel O’Brien, MSF, Pierre Humblet, MSF, and MSF HIV/AIDS Working Group
Abstract: Outcomes of Adults Receiving Second-line ART in Médecins Sans Frontières-supported Projects in Resources-limited Countries
Laurent Ferradini, MSF and S. Leakhena, MSF
Abstract: Efficacy of Kaletra-based Second-line ART in Cambodia
Gilles Van Cutsem, MSF and Eric Goemaere, MSF
Poster presentation: Clinical Outcomes and Emerging Challenges after 5 Years of ART in a South African Township
Suna Balkan, MSF, Daniel O’Brien, MSF, Pierre Humblet, MSF, Mar Pujades, Epicentre, and MSF AIDS Working Group
Poster presentation: The Burden of Opportunistic Infections in Adults Receiving ART in Resource-limited Settings in Médecins Sans Frontières-supported Projects
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Friday, February 2, 2007
National Laboratory Training Network
Becoming a Doctors Without Borders Lab Technician
Rancho Cucamunga, CA
Lab technician and Doctors Without Borders aid worker Victoria Shahrzad Radahd will share her experience working in Nigeria for the organization with colleagues at this regional conference. She will also detail what is required by the organization to qualify for field work.
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
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Thursday, February 1, 2007
National Laboratory Training Network Meeting
Victoria Shahrzad Radahd — Laboratory Technician Opportunities at MSF
Richmond, CA
Ms. Radahd will share her experiences as a laboratory technician for MSF, and discuss current opportunities for laboratory work in MSF’s programs.
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Opening Reception for Democratic Republic of the Congo: Forgotten War
Stone Ridge, NY
Kris Torgeson, Director of Communications for MSF-USA and Ron Haviv, photojournalist with the VII Agency will give a brief presentation.
Please see the full event description at the top of this page.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
San Diego Society of General Surgeons
Sandra Freiwald, MD — Surgery in War-Torn Liberia
San Diego, CA
Dr. Freiwald will share her recent experience working in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, at the monthly dinner of the San Diego Society of General Surgeons.
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
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Friday, January 12, 2007
Crozer Keystone Health Systems
Tom Comerci, MD – Six Months with MSF in War-Torn Sierra Leone
Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Comerci will give a brief presentation about his experience in Sierra Leone and accept a generous donation from the Crozer Keystone Health Systems in honor of their departing CEO, Gerald Miller.
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC
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Thursday, January 4, 2007
San Francisco Recruitment Information Session
Becoming an MSF Aid Worker
San Francisco, CA
All prospective medical and non-medical aid workers: join us for an evening presentation and question and answer session to learn more about how you can become part of Doctors Without Borders’ field work. Human Resources Officer Molly Sweeney, RN, will be on hand to discuss requirements and applications.
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