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Jeffrey Noebels, M.D., Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine
Dept of Neurology
One Baylor Plz
Neurosensory Buldg, NB206
Houston, TX 77030
USA
Phone: +1 713 798 5860
Fax: +1 713 798-7528
Phone: +1 301 496 1505
Fax: +1 301 402 2871
E-Mail:
The activities of the commission revolve around three
projects:
We have been supporting the efforts of Dr Amza Ali
to organize a Jamaican Chapter. Eventually he hopes to include other
regions of the English Speaking Caribbean. Dr Ali is completing
the necessary processes for incorporating his chapter and registering
it with ILAE. He plans to have a formal ‘kick-off’ in the coming
months. Dr Ali will be spending some time in the US at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center in order to improve his own epilepsy
skills. He hopes to establish a modern epilepsy treatment center
in Jamaica. The Commission would like to support his efforts in
this regard as well, perhaps by helping to establish and facilitate
an international consultant group.
I have been attempting to serve as a liaison between
PAHO and the Global campaign, through meetings with Dr Miranda,
the PAHO Mental Health Director, and Dr Caraballo, an Argentinean
neurologist whom PAHO has recently hired as a consultant for a possible
demonstration project in Argentina. Recently I had a discussion
with Dr Miranda concerning the status of the project. Dr Miranda
informed me that he does not think the political situation in Panama
is conducive to carrying out a Demonstration project at the present
time. He said that Dr Caraballo has developed a formal plan for
a project in Argentina, which he promised to send me before I leave
for Basel in order to facilitate consultations on the project there.
Recently, I have imitated contacts with the Indian
Health Service, a branch of the US Public Health Service that is
responsible for health care for Native Americans living on tribal
reservations. I have located a neurologist on the Navaho reservation
with a special interest in epilepsy, and plan to meet with her at
the American Academy of Neurology meeting in May. Native Americans
may represent an underserved population in the midst of a developed
society, posing special problems with implications for the global
campaign and delivery of epilepsy care in general.
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