Greetings all!

The IHMEC conference is fast approaching!  Don't forget to sign up for the
conference and register via:  www.unmc.edu/Community/IHMEC

The special conference hotel rate is due up to Feb. 15th.  Please call
1-800-663-1144 and ask for the IHMEC conference

We have had an unfortunate cancellation by Dr. Richard Feachem, former head
of Population, Health and Nutrition.  He has been replaced by Dr. Ilona
Kickbusch, former head of the World Health Organization Health Promotion
Division, and current director of Yale's Centre for International Health.

We've had the exciting addition of Jan Pryor, head of Fiji's School of
Medicine research coordinator to the Thursday opening program.

A correction needs to be made with Prof. Chitr Sitthi-Amorn, who is Dean of
the College of Public Health at Chulalongkorn in Thailand.

Information on travel to Vancouver:

For those of you flying into Seattle:

The Amtrak ride from Seattle to Vancouver

www.wsdot.wa.gov/pubtran/cascades/amtrakcascades/stations/vancouver_bc.htm

Departs at:  7:45 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 1:15 pm, 5:30 pm, 9:00 p.m.

For more information on Vancouver sites and sounds:

Check out www.tourism-vancouver.org

At the Vancouver Art Gallery, in downtown Vancouver -- Emily Carr and
Contemporaries will be showing.  Emily is one of the great Native BC artists.

For those of you into sports, March 24th -- Vancouver Canucks vs. ANaheim
Mighty Ducks ... http://www.orcabay.com/canucks

March 25th -- Vancouver Grizzlies vs. Utah Jazz --
http://www.orcabay.com/grizzlies

Or the Mass in B minor -- J.S.Bach -- Chan Centre for the Performing Arts --
http://www.cantata.org

Warmest regards,

Kevin