Events

The Three Days, One World Conference promises opportunities for advancing your knowledge on global health and development issues, exploring solutions to critical health issues for women and children in developing nations, reuniting with and making new friends, playing a challenging game on a world-class golf course, expanding your world through music and dance by sharing with others in celebrating the nations, supporting the mission of Physicians for Peace by “Building Peace and International Friendships Through Medicine,” and making a world of difference!

Charles E. Horton, Sr. Memorial Golf Classic

The Three Days, One World event will kick-off June 7th with the Charles E. Horton, Sr. Memorial Golf Classic at the world-class Tournament Players Club course in Virginia Beach. In the early 1980’s, Dr. Horton founded Physicians for Peace to provide medical training and assistance in developing countries. Dr. Horton, who died in October 2006, was a pioneering plastic surgeon, educator and leader in international humanitarian work. Gather with friends, support Physicians for Peace, and enjoy a day of fabulous food and fun!

When: Thursday, June 7, 2007
Where: Tournament Players Club, 2500 Tournament Lane, Virginia Beach, VA, (757) 563-9440
Price: $225 per person; $400 per pair; $750 per team
Fee includes: Green fees, cart, practice balls, and luncheon cookout

Agenda

• 9:00 am - Shot gun Start
• 1:00 pm - Golf Clinic ($35)
• 2:30 pm - Cookout

Notes

• Golfers who register as "pairs" will be included in a team.
• Rental clubs are available for an additional charge of $42 (including tax). Please complete the golf registration form to specify your clubs: left/right; men’s/women’s clubs no later than Thursday, 5/31.
• Pairings are due by Friday, June 1.
• Proper golf attire is required. Collared shirts are required.
• Soft spikes only please.

Global Health and Development Summit

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>>View the detailed summit agenda

On June 8-9, the Global Health and Development Summit in Virginia Beach will host hundreds of health professionals from around the world. The summit will feature keynote speakers, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Kent R. Hill, Ph.D, Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, USAID. Other distinguished speakers from organizations such as The George Washington University, U.S. Agency for International Development, World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will be participating.

During the summit, health professsionals will learn about international programs focusing on HIV/AIDS, women’s and children’s health. Attendees to the summit will also earn credits toward their annual continuing education requirements.

Maternal Health in the Developing World

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for maternal health is to reduce by three-quarters the ratio of women dying in childbirth. In the developing world, the risk of dying is one in 48, compared with one in 10,000 in the U.S. According to Refugees International, childbirth remains an unnecessarily dangerous and life-threatening risk for women throughout the developing world. Almost all of the women who die in developing countries during childbirth would still be alive if they had pre- and post-natal care, access to a skilled midwife or doctor in childbirth and effective emergency care for obstetric emergencies.

Child Health in the Developing World

This MDG calls to reduce by two-thirds the mortality rate among children under five. According to the United Nations, every year nearly 11 million young children die before their fifth birthday, which equals 30,000 children a day, mostly from preventable illnesses. The vast majority of these children (94 percent) lived in sixty countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, with only twenty percent of the world’s young children, accounted for half of the total deaths, a situation that has shown only modest improvement.

Infectious Diseases- HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria

The MDG target for 2015 is to halt and begin to reverse the spread of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB. Forty million people are living with HIV. The UN reports that, in the fight against HIV/AIDS, several developing countries have reported some success in reducing infection rates. However, rates of infection overall are still growing and the number of people living with HIV has continued to rise, from 36.2 million in 2003 to 38.6 million in 2005. The epidemic remains centered in sub-Saharan Africa and is the leading cause of premature death there. With just over 10 percent of the world’s people, the region is home to 64 percent of HIV-positive people and to 90 percent of children living with the virus.

The number of new tuberculosis cases is growing by about one percent per year, with the fastest increases in sub-Saharan Africa. Tuberculosis kills 1.7 million people a year. Of the nearly nine million new cases in 2004, people living with HIV accounted for 741,000 of those .

Program Co-Chairs

• Dr. E. Andrew Balas, Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professor of Community Health at Old Dominion University
• Arthur Garson, Jr., MD, MPH, Dean, University of Virginia Medical College
• Gerald Pepe, Ph.D , Dean, Eastern Virginia Medical School
• Dr. Jerry Strauss, Dean, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School

Celebrating the Nations International Gala

Experience and delight in the sights, sounds and tastes of Latin American, Asian, and African countries as we celebrate the global work of Physicians for Peace. As you walk through the reception area, you will be magically transported to different countries via a path that will allow you to listen to flamenco guitars, or the rhythm of African drums or participate in a Filipino dance, all while sampling cuisine from the various continents.

During dinner, sit back for a very special performance of the African Children’s Choir as seen on American Idol – consisting of delightful African children ages 7 through 11. The evening is topped off by rousing, hard-to-resist-dancing. Join us as we celebrate the nations and build peace and international friendships!

When: Saturday, June 9, 2007
Where: Virginia Beach Convention Center Ballroom - 1000 19th Street, Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Attire: Black tie optional, international attire encouraged

Agenda

• 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm - Reception
• 7:30 pm - Dinner, entertainment and dancing

Companion Tour

Go back in time to experience when America was first settled. Visit Jamestown Settlement, founded in 1607, where a group of 104 English men and boys began America’s first settlement on the banks of Virginia’s James River. Be a part of this summer’s excitement as we commemorate the 400th Anniversary of our nation’s birthplace!

Also visit Colonial Williamsburg where you will experience what life was like during the 18th century as you visit the Historic District of Williamsburg. You will tour the streets, inns and view the homes and lives of Colonial America. You will interact with shopkeepers, blacksmiths, politicians and cooper smiths wearing period dress and demonstrating their daily tasks as it was lived during the 18th century.

When: Friday, June 8, 2007
Time: 8:00 am – 5:30 pm
Fee: $99 per person includes:

• Personal Guided Tour of Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Settlement
• Admissions for Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Settlement
• Lunch in a colonial tavern (including taxes and gratuities)
• Deluxe coach transportation

Agenda

• 7:45 am - Board shuttle in front of the Oceanfront Hilton, Virginia Beach
• 8:00 am - Bus departs for Colonial Williamsburg
• 5:30 pm - Bus returns to Oceanfront Hilton, Virginia Beach

For information on Jamestown Settlement and the 400th Anniversary Celebration, visit:
http://www.americas400thanniversary.com/
http://www.historyisfun.org/jamestown/jamestown.cfm

For information on Colonial Williamsburg, visit:
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com