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Dr. Besa, Dr. Maramba, speak at Slice of Life / CHES 2001
(Date: 2001-08-06 05:20:00)
Topic: Alumni Societies: UPMAS/UPMASA
A UP Medical Alumni Society in America member and a faculty member of
the UP College of Medicine gave presentations at the Annual Slice of
Life / Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium, held 1 - 4 August
2001 at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. Dr.
Emmanuel Besa (UPCM '67), chair of the UPMASA Computer Committee and
Associate Professor at the MCP Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, PA,
presented "UPGRADING A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR THE NEW
MILLENNIUM
(From Zero to Broadband: Lessons Learned in Building a Network
Infrastructure for a College of Medicine in the University of the
Philippines). His co-author in this paper was Dr. Alvin Marcelo (UPCM
'91), chair of the Medical Informatics Unit, UPCM. The paper presented
the efforts of the UPMASA to upgrade the computer infrastructure of UPCM.
Dr. Cito Maramba (UPCM '93), also of the Medical Informatics Unit, UPCM,
presented a poster entitled: "Penguins with Stethoscopes: Free and Open
Source Software for Healthcare Education". Co-authored with Eric Pareja,
Dr. Herman Tolentino and Dr. Alex Yu, the poster detailed the use of
Free and Open Source Software such as GNU/Linux as part of the
Healthcare Education environment in UP Manila and UPCM . A web version
of the poster may be viewed at http://upcm.net/%7eidcm/bigpenguin/
Dr. Maramba also assisted Dr. Besa in his auditorium presentation
More information about the SOL/CHES conference may be found at
http://slice.gsm.com. Pictures of the event can be found at
http://sol.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de/
You can read interesting articles at UPCM Web Portal
http://www.upcm.net/
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