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Visionary Undertaking for Global E-Health Education
Date:12/17/2008

burgh -- Jerome P. Kassirer, MD; Distinguished Professor, Tufts Univ. SoM, Former Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine -- Jeff Koplan, MD, MPH; Former Director, CDC, EVP for Health Affairs, Emory University -- Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD; Professor, Social Marketing, George Mason University -- Anne Margulies, BS; Executive Director, Open Course Ware, MIT -- J.B. McGee, MD; Assistant Dean for Medical Education Technology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine -- Pat Moholt, EdD; Executive Director, Global Health Care Learning, International and Corporate Health, NewYork-Presbyterian -- Hugh Tilson, MD, DrPH Clinical Professor of Epidemiology/Health Policy, Senior Advisor to the Dean, UNC SPH

"HSO is an incredible resource for health professionals all over the world. Open access to health information should literally save millions of lives and lead to important new discoveries," said Anne Margulies, Advisory Committee member and Executive Director of Open Course Ware at MIT.

HSO has succeeded where other initiatives have not, because our vision of a democratization of health sciences knowledge has tremendous appeal to a wide variety of supporters. This ranges from an endocrinologist who donated $50,000 because "HSO will change the world", to an Armenian specialist in preventive medicine who volunteered more than 1,000 hours because "HSO will finally make top-quality information available to all the world's doctors", to Senator Sam Nunn's Global Health and Security Initiative stating that, "HSO has abundant high quality resources, so it's not like putting in keywords in a normal search engine -- this will create revolutions in health education, disease surveillance, and telemedicine."

HSO's next phase will be developing programs using the gathered materials to help train and educate public and clinical
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