Peruvian Research, Efforts Drive 9th Annual 'ASTMH In Peru' on February 25
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The 9th Annual Alan J. Magill “ASTMH in Peru” took place February 25, driven by Peruvian research originally presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting. More than 250 attended. Five keynote lectures, nine oral presentations, 41 posters and a post-conference course were offered, including talks by ASTMH President Chandy John, Chandy C. John, MD, MS, FASTMH, and CEO Karen A. Goraleski. The meeting was organized by Cayetano and San Marcos University in Perú Tropical Medicine Institutes, the Peruvian National Institutes of Health (INS), the Society for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, and the Emerge Climate Change and Emerging Diseases Research Unit of Cayetano Heredia University. INS also served as host.
Pictured above, from left: Dr. Antonio Quispe, Institute of Evaluation of Health Technologies and Research, EsSalud; Dr. Edgar Manrique, Tropical Medicine Institute "Alexander Von Humboldt" Cayetano Heredia University; Dr. Orlando Sevillano, Researcher of Universidade de São Paulo; Karen Goraleski, ASTMH; Dr. Eduardo Ramos, Universidade de São Paulo; Dr. Chandy John, ASTMH; Kimberly Bale, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at University of California;. Dr. Mark Janko, Global Health Institute at Duke University; Dr. Andrés (Willy) Lescano, Research Unit on Emerging Diseases and Climate Change (Emerge); and María Guezala, Naval Medical Research Unit 6.