IMI's 11th International Conference

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IMI 10th International Conference
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Dec 2019

Monday: Pre-Conference Workshop

  • Career Guidance Workshop: get advice from international faculty on your options for furthering your career in health fields 

24

Dec 2019

Tuesday: Conference Day One, Karachi 

  • Opening Session: The President of Pakistan, His Excellency, Dr. Arif Alvi will inaugurate the conference
  • Full day of multi-disciplinary CME sessions 
  • Parallel Young Leaders workshops and sessions
  • Social activities planned for the evening

25

Dec 2019

Wednesday: Conference Programming 

  • Full day of multi-disciplinary CME sessions 
  • Parallel Young Leaders workshops and sessions
  • Social activities planned for the evening

26

Dec 2019

Thursday: Post-Conference Workshop & Sightseeing

  • Post-conference workshops
  • Sight-seeing and social activities highlighting the best Karachi has to offer

27

Dec 2019

Friday: Travel

  • Group travel from Karachi to Islamabad

28

Dec 2019

Saturday: Young Leaders' Programming

  • Workshop: Keeping Your Audience Engaged: Presentation Skills
  • Workshop: Resolving Conflict: Effective Communication
  • Panel: Meet the Mentors: Health Fields 
  • Panel: Meet the Mentors: Non-Health Fields 
  • Workshop: Advocacy Strategies
  • Workshop: Time Management
  • Applying for med school/professional schools/graduate schools 
  • Applying for your undergraduate degree
  • Residency Guidance
  • Careers in Research
  • Research Symposium (Poster Session)

24

July 2016

Sunday: Scientific Programming 

  • Fetal Origins of Adult Cardiovascular Disease – Why Asian Immigrants to the US and UK are at risk (Naweed Husain)
  • Quality Improvement in Healthcare (Hasan Shabbir)
  • Overview of childhood Leukemias (Ahmed Naqvi)
  • Impact of the ACA on emergency care: Experience from Urgent Care (Irfana Ali)
  • Update in Non Hodgkins Lymphoma (Nehal Masood)
  • "10 patients I almost killed but God saved them" (Azmat Husain)  
  • Advances in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Management  (Farah Quyyumi)
  • Multi drug ressitnace dilemma (Farook Bandali)
  • Islamic vs Medical definition of Death (Is brain stem death the Islamic definition of death)
  • Does Islam allow organ transplantation (religious ethics of human organ transplantation (Yadullah Syed)
  • Controversies in assisted reproduction; multicultural approaches (M Haider)
  • Perspectives in psychiatry, spirituality and religion (Nargis Fakhri)
  • Spirituality and medicine: Role of the Clinician? (Farook Bandaali)

24

July 2016

Sunday: Young Leaders' Programming

  • Meet the Mentors: Networking Breakfast
  • Showcasing Young Leaders: Meet Your Peers
  • Confronting Islamophobia in Professional & Academic Life
  • Research Symposium (Poster Session)
  • Young Leaders Networking

24

July 2016

Sunday: General Programming

  • Islamic vs Medical definition of Death (Is brain stem death the Islamic definition of death) 
  • Does Islam allow organ transplantation (religious ethics of human organ transplantation (Yadullah Syed)
  • Controversies in assisted reproduction; multicultural approaches (M Haider)
  • Perspectives in psychiatry, spirituality and religion (Nargis Fakhri)
  • Spirituality and medicine: Role of the Clinician? (Farook Bandaali)
  • Closing Luncheon

25

July 2016

Monday: Side Event (TBD)

  • IMI YL Committee is planning side events to include area attractions.