Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Abstract
Can you imagine Canadian, Israeli, Jordanian, and Palestinian medical students singing, volunteering, and working together to develop programs to address issues related to global pediatric emergency medicine? Such a program was first held in Toronto in 2003 and continues annually. Can you imagine Canadians, Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians jointly teaching and developing solutions, via video teleconference, to address behavioral neurological problems affecting elderly populations? Such an initiative began in 2006 and continues to expand today. Can you imagine senior Jordanian and Israeli ear surgeons operating together, successfully carrying out pioneering cochlear implant surgery on deaf infants, on Jordanian national television? Such a surgery was performed in Amman in December 2003. Can you imagine every newborn baby in Jordan having her or his hearing tested? Such a program began in January 2005 as a result of Canadian, Israeli, Palestinian, and Jordanian service, educational, and scientific research cooperation, becoming national health policy in Jordan in 2007. All of this and much more are the result of the Canada International Scientific Exchange Program (CISEPO) and its cooperation network of knowledge.
DOI
10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181baa22d
PMID
19858799
Recommended Citation
Sriharan, A., Abdeen, Z., Bojrab, D., David, S., Einasser, Z., Patterson, T., Shprintzen, R. ...Noyek, A.. (2009). Academic medicine as a bridge to peace: Building Arab and Israeli cooperation. Academic Medicine, 84(11), 1488-1489.
Publication
Academic Medicine
Volume
84
Issue
11
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Pages
1488-1489
Comments
Response to the 2009 Question of the Year.
At the time of publication, Robert J. Shprintzen was director, Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome International Center, professor, UpState Medical University, Syracuse, New York, and a founding member of American CISEPO. He is now also Adjunct Professor of Speech-Language Pathology at Sacred Heart University.