GUMC Experts Participate in World Malaria Today
April 30, 2008
To mark the first annual World Malaria Day, Georgetown University hosted World Malaria Today, a conference that joined University and Medical Center experts with other health care and policy leaders from across the country to discuss the current and future threats arising worldwide from malaria, as well as recent technological breakthroughs in research. The conference was sponsored by the Center for Infectious Diseases, O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and Mortara Center for International Studies and featured experts from the National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, and several medical schools, such as Cornell and University of Pennsylvania.
The following faculty represented GUMC at the conference:
- Jeff Collmann, Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, appeared on a panel on policy challenges surrounding the prevention and treatment of malaria.
- Daniel Lucey, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, chaired "The Intolerable Global Burden of Malaria," a panel which addressed some of the threats malaria presents to the global community.
- Paul Roepe (above), Co-Director of the Center for Infectious Disease, chaired a session that addressed the prevention and cure of malaria, particularly recent progress in malaria vaccinations and new antimalarial drugs. He also presented a lecture in the afternoon titled, "The Genetics, Pharmacology, and Physiology of Quinolone Antimalarial Drug Resistance."
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