AAHPO supports all health professionals including nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, dentists and physicians in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Our mission is to improve healthcare awareness, increase disease prevention and early detection, and provide medical support and education to our local communities as well as our brethren in Armenia.
AAHPO, host of the Tenth
Armenian Medical World Congress,
is honored and proud to welcome you
to New York City. We are planning
a Congress that promises to be
very exciting!
Attendees may delve deeply into their own specialty or learn more about a related specialty. Anesthesiology, Dentistry, Nursing, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Physical Therapy, Mental Health will be represented. Please direct questions to individual chairpersons listed at www.aahpo.org/AMWC09.
Scientific Meeting Schedule
Thursday, July 2, 2009 Plenary Sessions on Comparative Health Care Systems
Distinguished Plenary Speakers: • Aram Chobanian, MD, President Emeritus, Boston University, Program Moderator
• Harutune Kushkian, MD, Health Minister of Armenia
• Lord Ara Darzi, MD, Health Minister of England
• Myron Allukian, Jr., DDS, MPH., Past President, American Public Health Association
• Congressman Frank Pallone, Chairman, Congressional Committee on Health Care, United States Congress (to be confirmed day of)
Distinguished Plenary Panelists: • Gohar Kyalyan, MD, Rector, Yerevan State Medical University
• Armen Khachatrian, MD, Health Minister of Karabakh
• Ara Babloyan, MD, Former Minster of Health, Armenia
• Annette Choolfaian, RN, MPA, Department Chair of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, New York Medical College
Friday, July 3, 2009 Innovation in Medicine
Distinguished Plenary Speakers: • Lord Ara Darzi, MD, Robotic Surgery
• Ara Hovanessian, PhD, Disease Discovery/Vaccine Development
• Vazken Der Kaloustian, MD, Medical Genetics in the 21st Century
• Raymond Damadian, MD, Radiology (Inventor of the MRI)
• Harutune Armenian, MD, Dr. P.H., Dignity in Health Care
Saturday, July 4, 2008 Two Mini-Symposia, Tele-medicine, Diaspora Issues
Continuing Medical Education in Armenia: Mini-Symposium • Hambardzum Simonyan, MD, Progress of Armenian Continuing Education, Medical Director, FAR Medical Initiatives, Pediatrician
• Gevork Yaghjyan, MD, PhD, Vice Dean, Postgraduate Education and CME, Yerevan State Medical University
• Anna Shirinyan, Director, National Medical Library of Armenia
• Garnik A. Nanagoulian, Executive Director of Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR)
