Brown Faculty with Foreign Opportunity Contacts
Short biographies on some faculty members are listed on the Brown Medical School webite. To view please click the Brown website link listed for the faculty member.
Elaine L. Bearer, M.D/PhD
Phone: (401) 863–3478
Email: Elaine_Bearer@Brown.edu
Brown website: Elaine Bearer
Foreign Institution and Country:
Guatemala
Contact Name: Paroquia San Lucas
Address: San Lucas Toliman, Solola, Guatemala
Student must work through Dr. Bearer only.
Please contact Dr. Bearer for further information.
Joseph Bliss, M.D., PhD
Phone: (401) 274-1122, ext. 1348
Email: Joseph_Bliss@Brown.edu
Brown website: Joseph Bliss
Foreign Institution and Country:
The God's Child Project, Guatemala
Email:ahijados@conexion.com.gt
Project website:http://www.godschild.org/
For information contact Patrick Atkinson
PO Box 1573
Bismark, ND, 58502-1573
Phone: (701) 255-7956Jonathan Bolton, M.D.
Phone: (401) 621-7870
Email: Jonathan_Bolton@hms.harvard.edu.
Foreign Institution and Country:
a) Caroll Berhorst Clinic, Guatemala
b) Dept of Psychological Medicine, Oxford, England
Foreign Institution Contact Information: Guatemala through Tulane University.
Please contact Dr. Bolton for further information.Sidney S. Braman, M.D.
Phone: (401) 444-8410/444-5914
Email: Sidney_Braman@Brown.edu
All professors of Pulmonary Medicine or Critical Care Medicine. Opportunities to study pulmonary medicine, TB control, or critical
care medicine.
Please contact Dr. Braman for further information.Eugene Chin, M.D., PhD
Phone: (401) 863-2540
Email: Y_Eugene_Chin@Brown.edu
Brown website: Y. Eugene Chin
Foreign institution contact information:
Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine/Beijing University School of Medicine, China
Please contact Dr. Chin for further information.Barry W. Connors, PhD
Phone: (401) 863-2982
Email: Barry_Connors@brown.edu
Brown website: Barry Connors
Foreign institution contact information:
Ben-Gurion University in Israel
Please contact Dr. Connors for further information.Susan Cu-Uvin, M.D.
Phone: (401) 793-4775
Email: scu-uvin@lifespan.org
Brown website: Susan CuUvin
Foreign institution contact information:
YRG Care (Chennai, India);
Contact Name: Dr. Suniti Solomon (India) YRGcare@vsnl.com
Please contact Dr. CuUvin for further information or information on the Philippines.
Joseph Diaz, M.D. and Mark Fagan, M.D. (co-directors)
Phone: (401) 729-3400 or 444-5344
Email: Joseph_Diaz@Brown.edu or Mark_Fagan@Brown.edu
Brown website: Joseph Diaz
Division of General Internal Medicine
Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence RI 02903
Foreign institution contact information:
Dominican Republic Medical Exchange Progran,
Hospital Regional Universitario de Jose Maria Cabral y Baez, Santiago, Dominican Republic
Please contact Drs. Diaz or Fagan for further information.Timothy Flanigan, MD
Phone: (401) 793-7152
Email: Tflanigan@Lifespan.org
Brown website:Timothy Flanigan, MD
Web link:Missionaries of Charity
Foreign Institution and Country:
1) Opportunities are available for students to work overseas in clinical research projects with a particular interest in working in Southern India, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Ghana, the Philippines or Kenya.
2) Missionaries of Charity provide ourstanding care for poor individuals in all five continents of the world. They provide a great opportunity for students in the pre-clinical years who wish to donate their time. There are also numerous other programs run by the Missionaries of Charity in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and even Europe. Individuals interested in providing service either as undergraduates or between the first and second years should contact Dr. Flanigan.
Generoso Gascon, M.D.
Phone:( 401) 444-4345
Email: Generoso_Gascon@postoffice.brown.edu
Brown website: Generoso Gascon
Foreign Institution and Country:
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Contact Name: Pinar Ozand, M.D., PHD, Director, Dept. of Genetics Biological and Medical Research Dept., Research Centre, P.O. Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia
E-mail: ozand@kfshrc.edu.sa
My initial contact there was a pediatric neurologist:
Dr. Najoua Miladi
National Institute of Neurology
La Rabta 1007
Tunis, Tunisia
Tel: 00216-1-227882
FAX: 00216-1-516579
I do have other contacts I know well, since I have been directing a
multicenter International Treatment Study on Subacute Sclerosing
Panencephalitis, a disease found mostly in developing countries.
Please contact me for information on academic centers in Ankara, Turkey, Bombay, India, and Manila, the Philippines. I've also just returned from a brief medical mission to San Jose, Costa Rica, and have some contacts there.
Please contact Dr. Gascon for further information.Professor Ronald M. Harden, Postgraduate Dean and Director,
Centre for Medical Education
Foreign Institution and Country:
University of Dundee
Tay Park House
484 Perth Road
Dundee, DD2 1LR, Scotland, UK
Tel. +44 (0) 1382 631972 Fax. +44 (0) 1382 645748
Email: p.a.wilkie@dundee.ac.uk
Please contact Professor Harden for further information.Joseph Harwell, M.D.
Phone: (401) 793-4713
Email: jjharwell@lifespan.org
Brown website: Joseph Harwell
Specialty: Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS
Foreign Institution and Country:
Multiple contacts in Cambodia, Kenya, and China
Please contact Dr. Harwell for further information.Orna Intrator, PhD
Phone: (401) 863-3579
Email: Orna_Intrator@Brown.Edu
Brown website: Orna Intrator
Foreign Institution and Country: Israel
Please contact Dr. Intrator for further information.Julianne Ip, M.D.
Associate Dean of Medicine (PLME and Visiting Int'l Med Students)
Phone: 401-863-3098
Email: Julianne_Ip@Brown.edu
Brown website: Julianne Ip
Brown UniversityBox G A-1, Providence, RI 02912
There are formal exchange programs for Brown Medical School (an exchange program is one wherein students from the exchange school come to Brown Medical School tuition free, and in exchange, our students may go there (usually for tuition, room and board). There are criteria that are specific for each exchange and these are spelled out in the contract agreements that the Dean approves.
Current Foreign Institutions and Countries:
1. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm Sweden
2. Rostock University, Rostock Germany
3. Tuebingen University, Tuebingen Germany
4. Technion University, Haifa Israel
5. Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
Please contact Dr. Ip for further information.
Carole Jenny, M.D., MBA
Phone: (401) 444-3996
Email: cjenny@lifespan.org or Carole_Jenny@Brown.edu
Specialty: Pediatrics
Hasbro Children's Hospital, Potter 005
593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903
Foreign Institution and Country:
Ankor Hospital for Children
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Please contact Dr. Jenny for further information.
Rami Kantor, M.D.
Phone: (401) 793-4997
Email: rkantor@Brown.edu
Brown website: Rami Kantor
Specialty: HIV/AIDS
The Miriam Hospital
RISE 157,
164 Summit Ave., Providence, RI 02906
Foreign Institution and Country:
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya and multiple sites around the world.
Please contact Dr. Kantor for further information.Robert Kohn, M.D.
Phone: (401) 455-6277
Email: Robert_Kohn@brown.edu
Foreign Institution and Country:
Pan American Health Organization in Guatemala,
Honduras, El Salvador, Argentina;
Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile;
Ministry of Health Israel,
I also have contacts in Brazil at various universities, I also have collaborators in South Africa, Ethopia, and Sweden, as well as in Geneva at WHO headquaters
Contact Name:Jose Miguel Caldas de Almeida, M.D.
Address:Washington, DC
Please contact Dr. Kohn for further information.
Philip Lieberman, M.D.
Phone: (401) 863-1857
Email: Philip_Lieberman@brown.edu
Brown Cognitive Science website: Philip Lieberman
Foreign institution contact information:
Kathmandu Medical School, Nepal
Contact Name: Dr. Arjun Kharki
Phone: 9771 490 636 (time shift ten hours so his home number: 9771 410 464 is useful)
email: kums@wlink.com.np (note his name on subject line)
Please contact for further information.Lewis P. Lipsitt, Ph.D
Phone: (401) 863-2332
Email: Lewis_Lipsitt@Brown.edu
Brown website: Lewis P. Lipsitt
Specialty: Child Development
Brown University, Hunter Laboratory, Room 263,
Providence, RI 02912
Foreign institution contact information
Various contacts in England, Japan, Isreal, Cuba, Australia, and
New Zealand.
Please contact Dr. Lipsitt for further information.Richard Long, M.D.
Phone: (401) 729-2235
Email:Rick_Long@mhri.org
Brown website: Richard Long
Department of Family Medicine
Brown Medical School/Memorial Hospital of RI
111 Brewster Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860
Foreign institution contact information
Various foreign clinical experiences in:
1. Santiago and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
2. Los Pinares, Honduras
Please contact Dr. Long for further information.
Carmi Z. Margolis, M.D., M.A.
Specialty:: Professor of Pediatrics and B.S. Hersch
Professor of Health in the Community
Foreign Institution and Country:
Ben Gurion University
Faculty of Medicine; Beer-sheva; 84371, Israel
Email; mcarmi@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Director, M.D. Program in International Health and Medicine
Telephone: work: 972 8 6477415
Fax: 972 8 6477633
Telephone: home: 972 8 6234377
Please contact Dr. Margolis for further information.Steven G. McCloy, M.D.
Phone:( 401) 722-8880
Email: Steven_McCloy@brown.edu
Brown website: Steven G. McCloy
Program website: http://www.slhp.org/
Specialty: Occupational Medicine
Foreign Institution and Country:
San Lucas Health Project,
San Lucas Tolimán, Solola, Guatemala
Contact Name: Dr. Enrique Jacinto
Address: Centro de Salud, San Lucas Tolimán,
Sololá, Guatemala, C.A.
Note: surface mail is very unreliable
Please contact Dr. McCloy or Dr. Elaine Bearer for further information.
Alain Montegut, M.D.
Phone:(207) 662-2875
Email: owensc@mmc.org
Brown website: Alain Montegut
Specialty: Family Medicine
Maine Medical Center, International Programs
272 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101
Foreign Institution and Country
Ho Chi Minh City UIniversity Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacology
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Please contact Claire Owens at above email adddress for information.
James R Myers, M.D.
Phone:(401) 435-5522
Email: James_Myers@postoffice.brown.edu
Foreign Institution and Country
Have been a regular faculty in Kenya and we welcome medical students. Students should contact Jane Carter, M.D., but may also contact me. We are based at Miriam Hospital.
Email: E_Jane_Carter@Brown.edu
Please contact Dr. Myers for further information.Robert Partridge, M.D., MPH
Phone: (401) 444-6653 or (401) 639-3624
Email: RPartridge@lifespan.org
Brown website: Robert Partridge
Foreign Opportunities:
International electives in Central America and Asia for residents and students.
Please contact Dr. Partridge for further information.Josiah D. Rich, M.D., MPH
Phone: (401) 793-4770
Email: jrich@lifespan.org
Brown website: Josiah Rich
Foreign Institution and Country:
Chittagong, Bangladesh, various individuals
164 Summit Avenue, Providence, RI 02906
Fax: (401) 793-4779
Please contact Dr. Rich for more further information.
Siegfried M. Pueschel, M.D.
Phone: (401)444-8477 or (401) 885-2771
Email: SigPueschel@aol.com
Specialty: Pediatrics and Genetics
Foreign Institution or Country:
Honduras
Please contact Dr. Pueschel for more further information.
Peter Simon, M.D. and Toby Simon
Phone: (401) 222-5928
Email: Peter_Simon@Brown.edu
Specialty: Community health /health education and child health
21 Moses Brown Street, Providence, RI 02906
Foreign Institution and Country:
Hospital Albert Schweitzer,
Deschappelle, Haiti
Please contact Dr. Simon for more further information.Luisa Skoble, M.D.
Phone: (401) 455-6507
Email: Luisa_Skoble@brown.edu
Foreign Institution and Country:
1. India (via a medical mission team from a church in Georgia that work out of a hospital in Southern India);
2. France - University of Bordeaux: I have the name of a contact that I had worked with as a resident who does substance abuse research.
Please contact Dr. Skoble for further information.
Stephen R. Smith, M.D., M.P.H
Phone: (401) 863-1618
Email: Stephen_R_Smith@Brown.edu
Brown website: Stephen Smith
Foreign Institution and Country:
Ben Gurion Univ. Faculty of Medicine, Israel
Please contact Dr. Smith for further information.
David Robbins Tien, M.D.
Phone: (401) 444-7008
Email: rtien@lifespan.org
Specialty: Pediatric Opthamology and Strabismus
2 Dudley St. Suite 505, Providence, RI 02905
Foreign Institution and Country:
Peking University Eye Center
Tianjin Eye Hospital
Please contact Dr. Tien for further information.
Edward J. Wing, M.D.
Phone:( 401) 444-5677
Email: EWing@lifespan.org.
Brown website: Edward Wing
Foreign Institution and Country:
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya Africa
Contact Name: E. Jane Carter, M.D.
Address: The Miriam Hospital, 164 Summitt Avenue,
Providence, RI 02906
Email: E_Jane_Carter@Brown.edu
Please contact Dr. Wing for further information.
