Call for abstracts and registration for Global Surgery Conference "Extreme Affordability: Innovative Solutions for Surgical Care"
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Call for abstracts and registration for Global Surgery Conference

Extreme Affordability:
Innovative Solutions for Surgical Care

Salt Lake City, Utah, March 22-23, 2012

University of Utah
Rice Eccles Stadium Tower

Keynote Speakers: Clayton Christensen and Geoffrey Tabin, M.D. More than 20 speakers will address challenges to the ecosystem of surgical care and offer tested and innovative solutions.

Online abstract submission deadline March 5, 2012 Abstract submission and registration can be found at the conference website: http://medicine.utah.edu/globalsurgeryconference/

Course Topics

  • Extreme Affordability: Innovation for Surgical Care
  • The Surgical Ecosystem
  • The Need: Essential Surgery
  • Measuring Cost
  • Conceptualizing Sustainability
  • BioDesign: Engineering for Extreme Affordability
  • Surgery for Low Resource Environments
  • Supply and Demand: What do we want, What do we need?
  • From Entrepreneurship to Global Health
  • Programs That Work: From the Himalaya to Africa, From Mongolia to Utah

Clayton Christensen, MBA

Harvard School of Business Author:

The Innovator's Dilemmma
The Innovator's Prescription

Presented by the Intermountain Healthcare Healthy Dialogues Lecture Series.

Geoffrey Tabin, MD

University of Utah Moran Eye Center Founder:

Himalayan Cataract Program

Accreditation: The University of Utah School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit:The University of Utah School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

About the Center for Global Surgery
The Center for Global Surgery brings together the extensive resources of the University of Utah to address the needs for affordable, accessible surgical care in the United States and internationally. The Center considers Surgery as an ecosystem within healthcare, which has specific needs for education; technology, business and resource supply chains. The Center supports a collaborative network including academic research and training in partnership with business and bioengineering communities, nonprofits, professional societies and public health programs, globally.