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Service______________________________________________________________ServiceInternational LeadershipRichard Kelley MD, Otolaryngology and Kara Kort, MD, Surgery, traveled as partof Wide Horizons For Children Medical Mission trips to Ethiopia in the fall of 2009and spring 2010 to perform surgeries, provide medical care, and train health careproviders in the Yirg Alem Hospital in southern Ethiopia. Dr Kelley was the firstENT doctor to visit southern Ethiopia and evaluated and treated over 150 patients,including ear surgery. Dr. Kort, an expert endocrine surgeon, operated on numerouspatients with massive goiters in a nation where thyroid disease is commonplace due toiodine deficiency. Ethiopia faces a staggering shortage of hospitals and healthcareprofessionals. These medical missions provide individuals, who have been waiting forsurgery in many cases for years, the opportunity to receive free medical care.Additionally, the training and equipment the Medical Mission Teams provide greatlyimprove the quality of care available to the community even after the mission iscompleted.Andras Perl, MD, PhD, Medicine, was appointed as a member of the Federation ofInternational Societies of Clinical Immunology Center of Excellence Designation.Steven J. Scheinman, MD, Senior Vice President and Dean of the College ofMedicine, was appointed co-chair of the organizing committee of a new InternationalConference on Early Disease Detection and Prevention, which was held in Munich,Germany, February 25-28, 2010. This was a new concept for such a meeting, notlimited to any one medical specialty but focusing rather on approaches to earlydetection and prevention of disease in a range of specialties. Dr. Scheinman shared hisco-chair role with Dr. Reinhold Kreutz, Professor of Medicine at the Charite'-Universitatsmedizin Berlin.The web link for the meeting is:http://www.paragon-conventions.net/eddp2010/- 7 -