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Resources and Tools

Webinars

Career Trajectory Series

  • Session with Shahid Shah on Health IT – April 18, 2013
  • mugshot_2009_2Shahid is an internationally recognized enterprise software analyst that specializes in healthcare IT with an emphasis on e-health, EHR/EMR, Meaningful Use, data integration, medical device connectivity, health informatics, and legacy modernization. Over the last 15 years the health IT positions he’s held include CTO for Cardinal Health’s CTS unit (now CareFusion), CTO of two Electronic Medical Records (EMR) companies, a Chief Systems Architect at American Red Cross, Architecture Consultant at NIH, and SVP of Healthcare Technology at COMSYS.

  • Session with Abdulrahman El-Sayed on Social Epidemiology – February 17, 2013
  • safe_image-1.phpDr. Abdulrahman El-Sayed is a social epidemiologist, physician-in-training, and health policy commentator. His academic research considers how social circumstances may us sick. He has authored over 30 scientific articles, over 40 national and international conference presentations, and several commentaries and book chapters. Abdulrahman graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Science with Highest Distinction in Biology and Political Science in 2007, where he was the top graduate from the College of Literature Science and the Arts, as well as the student commencement speaker alongside President Bill Clinton.

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    Community Based Organizations

    Child Family Health International
    Doctors Without Borders
    Doctors Worldwide
    Health Volunteers Oversees
    Palestine Children’s Relief Fund
    Physician for Social Responsibility