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2007 AAPI-MSRF Convention Schedule

THURSDAY
	6:30 am - 7:30 am	Yoga and meditation
	8:00 am - 9:00 am	Breakfast
	10:00 pm - 2:00 AM	AAPI Kickoff Social at XIX Lounge 200 S Broad St (Cross Street: Walnut Street) Philadelphia, PA 19102 An evening of drinks and entertainment with the best views of Philadelphia at the top of the Park Hyatt Hotel
FRIDAY
	6:30 am - 7:30 am	Yoga and meditation
	8:00 am - 9:00 am	Breakfast
	12:00 pm - 2:45 pm	25th Annual AAPI Convention Inaugural Lunch Featuring several Congressmen from Washington DC joining us to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of AAPI
	3:00 pm - 3:15 pm	MSRF Welcome Saketh R. Guntupalli, MD, President, AAPI- MSRF Abijit Koli, MD & Vijay Bapat, 2007 AAPI-MSRF Convention Chairs
	3:15 pm - 4:00 pm	The Politics of Healthcare: Becoming active in Legislative Medicine Speaker: Raj Goyle Member, Kansas State House of Representatives
	4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Residency/Fellowship Panel Confused about what you want to do with your medical career? Meet residents/fellows from different specialties who can help you decide
	4:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Legal Pitfalls common to medical students and residents
	5:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Women’s Health Seminar
	7:00 pm - 10:00 pm	AAPI-MSRF/YPS Dinner: “Silver” A Celebration of 25 years of AAPI and 8 years of MSRF/YPS. A casual evening of great Italian food and entertainment at the Philadelphia Convention Center. (Located adjacent to the Philadelphia Downtown Marriot) *Event sponsored by Compass Bank
	10:00 pm - 2:00 am	Official AAPI-MSRF/YPS After party Solo Bar and Lounge - 520 N. Columbus Blvd. (Corner of Spring Garden and Columbus)* *AAPI VIP entrance on Spring Garden $10 cover will be charged to raise funds for AAPI-MSRF community service initiatives. This year our focus on prevention of cancer in South Asian women and 2008 service project dedicated to awareness about bone marrow donation
SATURDAY
	6:30 am - 7:30 am	Yoga and Meditation
	8:00 am - 9:00 am	Breakfast
	8:00 am - 10:00 am	4th Annual AAPI-MSRF Research Competition The brightest minds in MSRF present their research on a variety of cutting edge topics in Medicine
	10:00 am - 10:45 am	Medicine on the Frontlines of Iraq Speaker: Sudip Bose, MD An Emergency Room physician from Chicago who spent nearly 2 years working in the ER’s of Baghdad. He will relate his experience working in such a difficult and dangerous environment.
	10:45 am - 11:30 pm	Money, Management and Medicine Speaker: Samant Sharma, Merrill Lynch Private Client Group Money management and how to invest wisely always seem difficult for even the smartest physicians to grasp. This seminar makes investing your future earnings simple and effective.
	11:30 am - 12:00 pm	U.S. Immigration - Visa Options for Foreign Medical Graduates Physicians Speakers: Avi Friedman and Naveen Rahman Bhora, Wolfsdorf Immigration Law Group
	12:00 pm - 1:45 pm	Awards Luncheon Honors the most successful and impressive physicians, residents and medical students of Indian origin at our Awards Lunch
	2:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Non-clinical Pearls: Diamonds for Dummies Speaker: Mr. Raj Mehta The Founder & CEO of Regal Jewels International, a leading manufacturer and wholesaler of engagement rings, fine jewelry and diamonds with 35 years of experience.
	2:30 pm - 3:15 pm	Final Exam: A Surgeons Reflections on Mortality Speaker: Pauline Chen, MD A New York Times bestselling author, and transplant surgeon reflects on her experiences on dealing with issues of mortality. Her journey is one any in medicine can relate to.
	3:15 pm - 4:30 pm	2006-2007 MSRF Annual Report and Elections Saketh R. Guntupalli, MD, President, AAPI-MSRF Snehal Desai, MD, President-Elect, AAPI-MSRF This event is mandatory for those seeking to run for office.
	7:00 pm - 1:00 am	Gala Banquet: “Jadoo ki Raat” (A Magical Night) A night of great Indian art, food and entertainment at the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art. (Complimentary Transportation Courtesy of AAPI-MSRF – Buses depart at 6:30pm from hotel lobby) *Event sponsored by Merrill Lynch
SUNDAY
	6:30 am - 7:30 am 9:00 am - 1:00 pm	Yoga and Meditation Brunch

2007 Speaker Profiles

Raj Goyle
A native Kansan, Raj Goyle has returned to his roots to seek a seat in the Kansas State Legislature that has long been held by Republicans. Currently a lecturer at Wichita State University, public interest attorney and an active member of his community, Raj brings a wealth of experience and energy to the campaign. Raj worked as a staff attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, where he focused on post-9/11 immigration issues. Prior to that, he worked on election reform on the national level and with community groups in Florida, and helped lead a project on juvenile justice reform in Mississippi. Raj has also worked for Public Citizen and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and served as a researcher for South Africa?s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, contributing to the Commission’s Final Report released in 1998. A former education reporter at the Wichita Eagle, Raj is a 2000 graduate of Harvard Law School and a 1997 graduate of Duke University. Raj is a former senior analyst at the Center for American Progress and has been published in the Sunday New York Times and the Yale Law and Policy Review, appeared on “The Radio Factor” with Bill O?Reilly, and is featured in April 2006 issue of American Prospect.

Sudip Bose, MD
Dr. Sudip Bose served as a physician on the front lines of combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His experiences ranged from treating Saddam Hussein, to caring for wounded soldiers and civilians while under attack, to earning the Bronze Star and being promoted to Major. As the sole doctor for a mobilized infantry unit, Dr. Bose provided emergency care in the streets of Baghdad, Najaf, and Fallujah and was responsible for 135,000 American soldiers and countless Iraqis. His 15-month tour marked one of the longest by a physician since World War II. Dr. Bose joined the Army in 1995 to do his small part to serve his country and its ideals, and to gain valuable skills and experiences. During his deployment, he frequently wrote personal letters to
family and friends to chronicle his journey. These letters were often his only way of communicating. Please visit www.sudipbose.com to view these letters and other information.
Dr. Bose currently works at Advocate Christ Medical Center, which is Chicago’s busiest trauma
center. He delivers an engaging lecture series around the country on how to apply lessons from Iraq to everyday life. He is also publishing a book titled “On Call in Iraq” on his experiences. Dr. Bose, who earned the highest score in the country on the emergency medicine board examinations, has started a business that offers recertification assistance for emergency
medicine physicians.

Pauline W. Chen, MD
Pauline W. Chen attended Harvard University and the Feinberg School of Medicine at
Northwestern University and completed her surgical training at Yale University, the National
Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health), and UCLA, where she was most recently a member of the faculty. In 1999, she was named the UCLA Outstanding Physician of the
Year. Dr. Chen’s first nationally published piece, “Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death,” appeared in the fall 2005 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review and was a finalist for a 2006 National Magazine Award. She lives near Boston with her husband and children. About the book
A brilliant young transplant surgeon brings moral intensity and narrative drama to the most powerful and vexing questions of medicine and the human condition. When Pauline Chen began medical school twenty years ago, she dreamed of saving lives. What she did not count on was how much death would be a part of her work. Almost immediately, Chen found herself wrestling with medicine’s most profound paradox, that a profession premised on caring for the ill also
systematically depersonalizes dying. Final Exam follows Chen over the course of her education, training, and practice as she grapples at strikingly close range with the problem of mortality, and struggles to reconcile the lessons of her training with her innate knowledge of shared humanity, and to separate her ideas about healing from her fierce desire to cure. From her first dissection of a cadaver in gross anatomy to the moment she first puts a scalpel to a living person; from the first time she witnesses someone flatlining in the emergency room to the first time she
pronounces a patient dead, Chen is struck by her own mortal fears: there was a dying friend she could not call; a young patient’s tortured death she could not forget; even the sense of shared kinship with a corpse she could not cast aside when asked to saw its pelvis in two. Gradually, as she confronts the ways in which her fears have incapacitated her, she begins to reject what she has been taught about suppressing her feelings for her patients, and she begins to carve out a new role for herself as a physician and as human being. Chen’s transfixing and beautiful rumination on how doctors negotiate the ineluctable fact of death becomes, in the
end, a brilliant questioning of how we should live.

Samant Sharma
Samant Sharma is an Assistant Vice President in the Clearwater Merrill Lynch office. As a
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Samant helps clients in achieving their financial goals using
a variety of investment platforms. He works with successful business owners, executives, physicians, and other professionals in managing their assets and liabilities, arranging assetbased
personal or business lines of credit, and protecting their wealth against unnecessary income taxes, capital gains, and estate taxes. Graduating with a B.A. in Spanish and a B.S. in
Biology from the University of Nebraska, he went on to complete his education for Financial Planners through Boston University. Samant has also earned an Executive Certificate in International Management from Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management. Samant enjoys being active in his community, currently serving as President of the IndoUS Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the United Nations Association - Tampa Bay, a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters, and is also active in the Chinmaya Mission. Samant has been in the financial services industry since 1999, building his practice with an emphasis on client service, trust, and integrity. Dorothy Ward, amant’s Client Associate, has been with Merrill
Lynch since 1998 and handles account administration and client relations. Please contact either Samant or Dorothy using the below information if you wish to schedule a review or have questions regarding opening an account with Merrill Lynch.

Raj Metha
Raj Mehta is the Founder & CEO of Regal Jewels International, a leading manufacturer and
wholesaler of engagement rings, fine jewelry and diamonds. Mr. Mehta is an MBA with more than 35 years of experience in the consumer products and retail sector. With prior entrepreneurial experiences under his belt, Mr. Mehta founded Regal Jewels International, Inc. 15 years ago to expand the 100 year old family jewelry business in the US. Mr. Mehta has a long association with AAPI members. His company sponsors most of the AAPI events and is in fact the longest continuously exhibiting jewelry company in the AAPI national convention. Mr. Mehta is reputed to provide diamonds and jewelry at unbeatable prices and follows highest level of quality standards, customer service, ethics & integrity. Recently, Mr. Mehta launched Sunsaara Diamond Company, which specializes in exquisite bridal and engagement suites along with couture and trend jewelry. Please visit www.sunsaara.com for more details and for online shopping.

 

AAPI 2007 National Convention will be held May 10th-13th, 2007 at the Philadelphia Marriot Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylavania 19107.