International Meeting

International Meeting Presentations 2020

The pandemic has impacted many areas of health care. An unusual and perhaps an enduring positive outcome of the pandemic has been the use of video platform technologies in academic medicine. Before 2020, remote video lectures were uncommon and often used in emergency situations such as weather-related travel disruptions. Over the last year, we have all become accustomed to local and remote web-based meetings on video platforms such as Zoom, Adobe Connect, Cisco WebEx, Microsoft Teams and others. Many organizations pivoted major annual meetings to skillfully orchestrated virtual meetings thanks to the advances in these numerous web-based video technologies. Due to social distancing requirements, our department like many others converted our faculty meetings and Grand rounds conferences to virtual meeting platforms. A consequence of this conversion is our ability to share our CME certified grand rounds to a wider local, national and international audience (see page 21).

EXAMPLES OF VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Our faculty was able to participate virtually without cancelling due to travel restrictions.

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1 Dr. Gomella presented the Patrick C. Walsh lecture at the 21st Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference. The annual international meeting is organized by Dr. Anthony Costello, Executive Director at The Australian Prostate Centre in Melbourne, Head of the Department of Urology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Australia.

2 Philadelphia International Medicine (PIM) links patients, leading physicians, and healthcare professionals from around the world to a comprehensive network of medical treatment, medical education and healthcare management services. Jefferson Health is a member of PIM and in addition to bringing patients to receive care in Philadelphia, they coordinate educational activities for international health care providers.

On August 10, 2020, Dr. Gomella presented, “Therapeutic Options for NonMuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer” virtually to Urologists across the Central American Urologic Association from countries such as Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and others. The program was coordinated by Arturo Aceves-Serrano from PIM and hosted by Dr. Angel Alvarado from The Panama Clinic, Pacific Center in Panama City.

Seen in the computer photo are Dr. Angel Alvarado, Dr. Leonard Gomella and Philadelphia International Medicine Director of Market Development and Communications Arturo Aceves-Serrano during the August 10, 2020 bladder cancer presentation to urologists in Central America.