Television Documentary & News Coverage of Global Medic Force
Selected International Media Coverage of Global Medic Force
Selected Global Medic Force International Medical Presentations
16th Annual HIV/AIDS Update conference, South Padre Island, TX, October 2008
17th Annual HIV/STD conference, Springfield, IL, October 2008
IDSA-ICAAC, Washington, DC, October 2008
PENTA/ESPID, Rome, Italy, October 2008
NHIVNA study day, London, UK, October 2008
BHIVA Autumn Conference, London, UK, October 2008
International AIDS Society–USA 2008 course, New York, NY, October 2008
Controversies in HIV - symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, September 2008
Annual Resistance meeting, London, UK, September 2008
IUSTI, Milan, Italy, September 2008
BHIVA/BASHH Course, London, UK, September 2008
Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, August 2008
2008 International AIDS Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, August 2008
NHIVNA 10th Annual Conference, Glasgow, UK, June 2008
Westchester Medical Center Training, Westchester, NJ, June 2008
12th Annual HIV Update: Contemporary Issues in Management, Cambridge, MA, May 2008
2nd Annual CHIVA Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 2008
International AIDS Society–USA 2008 course, Chicago, May 2008
Geneva Forum: Towards Global Access in Health, Geneva, Switserland, May 2008
International AIDS Society–USA 2008 course, Washington, May 2008
International AIDS Society–USA 2008 course, San Francisco, May 2008
Social Venture Network, NJ, May 2008
23rd Emerging Clinical Issues in Infectious Diseases, Dana Point, CA, May 2008
2nd Eastern Europe and Central Asia AIDS Conference, Moscow, Russia, May 2008
HIV Management 2008: The New York Course, New York, NY, April 2008
BHIVA 14th Annual Conference, Belfast, UK, April 2008
Unite For Sight Conference, New Haven, CT, April 2008
CANAC Conference: The power of HIV nursing context and connections, Ottowa, Canada, April 2008
Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford, UK, March 2008
International AIDS Society–USA 2008 course, Los Angeles, CA, March 2008
WHO First Global Forum on Human Resources in Health, Kampala, Uganda, March 2008
HIV Vaccines: Progress and Prospective and HIV Pathogenesis. Keystone Symposium, Banff, Canada, March 2008
17th Annual HIV Conference of the Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Center, Orlando, Florida, March 2008
HIV Congress 2008, Mumbai, India,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, March 2008
3rd International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence, Jersey City, NJ, March 2008
International AIDS Society USA 2008 course, New York, NY, March 2008
International AIDS Society USA 2008 course, Georgia, Atlanta, February 2008
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Kauai, HI, February 2008
Medical Management of AIDS (UCSF). San Francisco, CA, December 2007.
Bloomberg Leadership series, John’s Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, DC, December 2007.
WHO conference “African Health Care Shortage: Forum on Public Sector Responses”, Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Durham, NC, November 2007.
“ICEHA, an Undeniable Part of the Answer”. Tibotec Therapeutics HQ, World AIDS Day Event, Mechelen, Belgium, November 2007.
Annual Conference, American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Traveller’s’ Health (ASTMH), Philadelphia, PA, November 2007.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) 20th Annual Conference. Orlando, CA, November 2007.
Special Session House of Commons, London, UK, November 2007.
AIDS Medicine: An Intensive Case-Based Course, Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA, October 2007.
British HIV Association (BHIVA) Autumn Meeting. London, UK, October 2007.
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 25th Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA, October 2006.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Florida Chapter’s monthly Meeting, October 2007.
Annual Conference, Social Venture Network, San Diego, CA, October 2007.
11th European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Conference. Madrid, Spain, October 2007.
Global Health Forum, the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, October 2007.
24 Cube Event, the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, October 2007.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Chicago, September 2007.
International AIDS Society Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2007.
Clinical Educators’ Symposium, ASHM, Sydney, Australia, July 2007.
AIDSImpact Conference, Marseille, France, July 2007.
Seminar on Global Health, Act II Conference, the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, June 2007.
National HIV Nurses Association (NHIVNA) Conference. London, UK, June 2007.
Award Ceremony National Medal of Honour Vietnam, Opening of National Assembly Meeting, Hanoi, Vietnam, June 2007.
The American Conference for the Treatment of HIV (ACTHIV). Dallas, TX, May 2007.
The 8th Annual Symposium Clinical Care Options for HIV, Albany, NY, and May 2007.
Children’s HIV Association (CHIVA) of the UK and Ireland Conference. Birmingham, UK, May 2007.
HIV Management: The New York Course. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. May 2007.
13th Annual Conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA). Edinburgh, UK, April 2007.
Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC) 15th Annual Conference. Vancouver, Canada, April 2007.
Unite for Sight 5th Annual International Health Conference, Stanford University, CA April 2007.
Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Centre 16th Annual HIV Conference. Orlando, FL, March 2007.
The 2nd International Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence (IAPAC). Jersey City, NJ, March 2007.
15th Texas HIV/STD Conference. Austin, TX, December 2006.
Medical Management of AIDS (UCSF). San Francisco, CA, December 2006.
8th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection. Glasgow, UK, November 2006.
Australian Society for HIV Medicine Annual Conference (ASHM), October 2006, Melbourne, Australia, October 2006.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) 19th Annual Conference. Las Vegas, NV, October 2006.
British HIV Association (BHIVA) Autumn Meeting. London, UK, October 2006.
Infectious Diseases Society of America 24th Annual Meeting. Toronto.
United States Conference on AIDS (USCA). Hollywood, Fl, September 2006.
Seminar, Harbor-UCLA, Dept. of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, September 2006.
Web cast. “Clinical Mentoring, an innovative and effective tool for rapid skill building for HIV/AIDS in developing countries, and the greatest opportunity for western physicians to have an individual impact on the HIV pandemic”. Clinical Directors Network, September 2006.
Web cast. “Brazil: The Overlooked Blueprint for National Scale-Up of HIV Programs”, Clinical Directors Network, NY, August 2006.
Global Institute of the Ryan White CARE Act All Grantee Conference, Washington DC, August 2006.
Nurses at the Forefront of HIV/AIDS: Prevention, Care and Treatment Forum. Toronto, Canada, August 2006.
Lunch Seminar, Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, PEPFAR and USAID, Washington, DC, August 2006.
International AIDS Society Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 2006.
Henry Crown Fellows Seminar, The Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, August 2006.
National Conference on Latinos and AIDS. Miami, FL, July 2006.
Renaissance Weekend, Old Quebec City, Canada, July 2006.
National HIV Nurses Association (NHIVNA) Conference. London, UK, June 2006.
Expanding Horizons in HIV Practice, Prevention and Policy. Seattle, WA, June 2006.
HIV Management: The New York Course. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY. May 2006.
“ICEHA: Not the Solution, but an Undeniable Part of the Answer”, Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Syracuse, May 2006.
Canadian Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (CANAC) 14th Annual Conference. Montreal, Canada, April 2006.
Web cast. “Rapid Skill Building for HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: An Opportunity for Western HIV Healthcare Providers”. Clinical Directors Network, NY April 2006.
New Orleans City Wide HIV Grand Rounds, New Orleans, LA, April 2006.
Unite for Sight 4th Annual International Health Conference, Yale University, New Haven CT, and April 2006.
Global Philanthropy Forum, Washington, DC, April 2006.
International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID). Atlanta, GA, March 2006.
Brown Bag Seminar, CFAR – Brown University, Rhode Island, March 2006.
12th Annual Conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA). London, UK, March 2006.
Florida/Caribbean AIDS Education and Training Centre 14th Annual HIV Conference. Orlando, FL, March 2006.
The 2006 National Conference on African-Americans and AIDS. Philadelphia, PA, February 2006.
13th Conference on Retroviruses and opportunistic Infections (CROI), Boston, MA, February 2006.
Lunch Seminar, Family Health International HQ, Arlington, VA, February 2006.
Medical Management of AIDS (UCSF). San Francisco, CA, December 2005.
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) 18th Annual Conference. Orlando, FL, November 2005.
AAHIVM HIV Update. Los Angeles, California, November 2005.
AAHIVM HIV Update. Orlando, Florida, October 2005.
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 43rd Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, October 2005.
Treatment and Management of HIV Infection in the United States Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 2005.
FOCAS Annual CEO Conference, the Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO, August 2005.
National Conference on Latinos and AIDS. Chicago July 2005.
3rd IAS Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2005.
Renaissance Weekend, Banff, Canada, July 2005.
HIV Grand Rounds, UCLA Care Centre, Los Angeles, June 2005.
HIV Inner City Rounds, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, June 2005.
15th Annual Clinical Care Options for HIV, Symposium, Laguna Niguel, CA, May 2005.
Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada. Ottawa, Canada, April 2005.
14th Annual Conference of the Florida/Caribbean AETC. Orlando, Florida, April 2005.
HIV Grand Rounds, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada, April 2005.
Annual Joint Meeting on Immunology Teaching and Research 2005 (AJMITR), Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2005.
Global Philanthropy Forum, Market Place Competition (finalist), Stanford, CA, March 2005.
12th Conference on Retroviruses and opportunistic Infections (CROI), Boston, MA, February 2005.
Renaissance Weekend, Charleston, NC, December 2004.
Medical Management of AIDS (UCSF). San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
AIDS Medicine: An Intensive Course (Harvard CME). Boston, MA, November 2004.
Renaissance Weekend, Monterey, CA, September 2004.
International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2004.
Central Committee for Science and Education (CCSE), Communist Party Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam, July 2004.
Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2004.
Lunch seminar on ICEHA, PATH HQ, Seattle, February 2004.
Selected Global Medic Force International Medical Publications
Charles M.: “The International Center for Equal Healthcare Access: Defeating the developing world’s dependence on perpetual western charity in the field of healthcare.“ in The New Humanitarians, by Chris Stout, Editor. In press
Onagan M., Graves-Abe K., Bomlitz L., Charles M.; “Clinical mentoring: effective and rapid tool improves clinical care skills for TB/HIV in developing countries”. Accepted for oral presentation. American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Travellers Health, November 2007.
Glaser K., Graves-Abe K., Ahlrich J., Famiglietti M., Boyle BA., Charles M.; “Nurse clinical mentors: transferring knowledge on clinic management and infection control to resource-poor settings dramatically increases number of patients accessing HIV care across Africa and Asia”. Accepted for oral presentation and panel discussion. ANAC 20th Annual Conference, October 2007.
Schechter M., Charles M.; “Universal Access to Anti-retroviral Therapy: the Brazil experience”; in Global HIV Management, Chapter 61. In press.
Farley S., Bomlitz L., Charles M., Kauffman R., Nelson M., Schechter M., Boyle B., Mayer K.,; “From 0 to 1500 patients in 6 months: Clinical mentoring boosts local healthcare workforce’s ability to put AIDS patients on ART in developing countries”. Accepted abstract. 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, July 2007.
Graves-Abe K., Bomlitz L., Charles M., Kauffman R., Nelson M., Schechter M., Boyle B., Mayer K.,; “Clinical mentoring in series of short-term assignments: Rapid, sustainable and effective HIV workforce development”. Accepted abstract. 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, July 2007.
Bomlitz L., Graves-Abe K., Mayer K., Boyle BA, Charles M.; “Clinical mentoring: a cost-effective and essential component of effective, rapid ART scale-up”. Accepted for poster presentation. AIDSImpact Conference, July 2007.
Aggett S., Graves-Abe K., Charles M., Boyle BA., Mayer K., Schechter M.; “Nurse clinical mentors: crucial to developing AIDS treatment expertise within the local healthcare workforce in developing countries”. Accepted for oral presentation and panel discussion. 9th Annual Conference of HIV Nurses (NHIVNA), June 2007.
Bomlitz L., Charles M., Mayer K., Boyle BA.; “Rapid skill transfer through clinical mentoring: a universal, fast approach to scaling up HIV practical expertise in developing countries, effective and easily replicated across countries and continents”. Accepted for oral presentation and panel discussion. Unite for Sight 5th Annual International Health Conference, April 2007.
Medland N., Nguyen TKN, Vu NP, Bomlitz L., Graves-Abe K., Charles M.; “The experience of clinical mentoring in a new HIV healthcare service in Thu Duc, Vietnam”. Accepted for poster presentation. Australian Society for HIV Medicine Annual Conference, October 2006.
Medland N., Bomlitz L., Graves-Abe K., Charles M.; “Clinical mentoring provides clinical expertise for rapid scale-up of HIV/AIDS services in developing countries”. Accepted for oral presentation. Australian Society for HIV Medicine Conference, October 2006.
Fitzgerald B., Bales M., Bohanan R., Bomlitz L., Charles M.; “Impact of individual nurses on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in resource-poor settings in the developed and developing world”. Accepted for oral presentation. ANAC 19th Annual Conference, October 2006.
Farley S., Bomlitz L., Charles M., Schechter M., Mayer K., Kauffmann R., Nelson M., Boyle BA.; “Clinical mentoring: tapping into the vast, mostly neglected western resources to make a fast, sustainable, and effective contribution to putting AIDS patients on ART in developing countries”. Accepted for poster presentation. International AIDS Society, August 2006.
Farley S., Charles M., Mayer K., Sun J., Ramatlapeng M.; “Clinical mentoring shown to be a safe, effective and necessary pillar of the national strategy to combat HIV/AIDS in Lesotho”. Accepted for oral presentation and panel discussion. International AIDS Society, August 2006.
Farley S., Charles M., Mayer K., Boyle BA.; “Clinical Mentoring as an effective, innovative, scalable, and replicable tool for rapid skill building for HIV/AIDS in developing countries”. Accepted for oral presentation and panel discussion. Global Health Council Annual Conference, May 2006.
Charles M.; “The HIV epidemic in Cambodia, one of the poorest countries in South East Asia: a success story”. Editorial. Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy. February 2006, Volume 4, Issue 1, pages 1-4.
Kato M, Charles M,; “AIDS Care and the importance of Community involvement – Lessons from Developing Countries” Medscape HIV/AIDS. 2006; 12 (1) available at: www.medscape.com
Charles M., Boyle BA,; “Simplification of HAART – Lessons from Developing Countries” Medscape HIV/AIDS. 2005; 11(2) available at: www.medscape.com
Charles M.; “Improving HIV care in Western Countries: Lessons Learned in the Developing World” Medscape HIV/AIDS. 2005; 11(2) available at: www.medscape.com
Charles M., Boyle BA., Mayer K., Schechter M.; “Leveraging Western Medical Expertise to rapidly build healthcare systems for HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries” Abstract MoPe11.7C10 International AIDS Conference, July 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Malave M., Charles M., Boyle BA., Mayer K., Mean Chhi Vun, Schechter M. ; « The effectiveness of clinical mentoring for healthcare professionals in Cambodia”. Abstract MoPe11.4C06 International AIDS Conference, July 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Charles M., Boyle BA.; “The HIV Pandemic: The Power of Acting Early” AIDS Read. 2004; 14(6):295-8,303-4,336
Hakim J., Charles M., Flanigan T., Gudza I., Boyle BA.; “Difficulties in Providing Antiretroviral (ARV) Medication to HIV-infected Healthcare Workers in Harare, Zimbabwe.” Abstract MoPeD3660 International AIDS Society Conference, July 2004, Bangkok, Thailand
Charles M., Boyle BA.; “Excess and access: the continuing controversy regarding HIV and healthcare in Africa” AIDS Read. 2002; 12(7):288-92
Charles M., Boyle BA.; “Innovations in HIV Therapy” Infectious Disease Special Edition, 2002, Volume 5.