What a delightful review of 'Medicine & Art'. Perhaps you would
like to review our other 2 books in the same series, 'Surgical
and Medical Treatment in Art' (2006) and 'Mother and Child Care in Art'
(2007) - the latter being of interest to geneticists! All are
published by the RSM Press (London). I will bear in mind your very kind
invitation to perhaps contribute to your Ambassadors Magazine -
but want to complete my current commitment to a book I am
writing which will take some months before I can really think of
any other activity! I'm sure you will understand.
Emeritus Professor Alan E.H. Emery
Green Templeton College
University of Oxford
UK
Dr. Maya Bucan at the University of Pennsylvania,
Department of Genetics, has an interest in the
Amish/Mennonite group and affective disorders. I
spoke with her and she may be interested in the book
you are doing with Prof. Samia Temtamy entitled,
"Prof. McKusick and Inbred Populations." Her
publication on affective disorder appeared in PLoS
one Feb 2009, V4 No2, e4474.
Prof. Laird Jackson,
MD
Pennsylvania
USA
I looked through the latest edition of Ambassadors - Very
impressive.
Prof. Carl Abbot
Halifax, Nova Scotia
CANADA
As I mentioned to Prof. Samia Temtamy, I will be very busy until the
end of November 2010. Will it be possible to remind me about your
book project, "Professor McKusick and Inbred Populations" around the
end of September 2010? I will keep this correspondence in a special
file, as a reference to consult when I get your reminder at that
time.
Prof. Vazken M. Der Kaloustian, M.D.
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics
McGill University
CANADA
The Geneva Foundation for Medical
Education and
Research is implementing a distance learning course
entitled "From Research to Practice: Training Course
in Sexual and Reproductive Health Research
May-October 2010”. Most of the over 100 applicants
are from developing
countries ( Africa and
ME) and the lecturing will be through distance
online power point presentations to be viewed
individually or in groups with a local moderator
in the local country setting. All presentations will
be accessed freely at the website of the foundation.
For further details, please visit the course website
at
http://www.gfmer.ch/SRH-Course-2010/SRH-Course-2010-Brochure.htm.
Participants will be continuously evaluated,
examined and will have to produce a research project
at the end of the course. (List of participants can
be seen on the website, they are mostly primary
health care providers,
family doctors, obstetricians). I will be in
charge of the community genetics module, so together
with interested colleagues, I will have to prepare
about 20-30 pp presentations to be available to
participants on the website. I am herewith attaching
the outline of the community genetics module for
your interest. If
you feel that you have time and that you are
interested in joining the faculty for the community
genetics module, I would be grateful for your
response regarding the topic that you would like to
present. Deadline for submission of the pp documents
to my email is around mid-June 2010. Acknowledgement
is honorary
Prof.
Hanan Hamamy, MD
Geneva, Switzerland
I
would like permission to use the photo of Mustafa Amin and
Umm Kalthoum on your
Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada, February 5, 2010
“Guided
Tour in Oman”
