Dear colleagues, friends and visitors!
It is my distinct pleasure and a great honor to welcome you to the Ohio Chapter of RAMA.
I would like to thank you for coming and most importantly for your current and future support of the Russian American Medical Association! It has been five years since the RAMA was established here in Ohio. The 5th National meeting of RAMA took place in Chicago in October of this year. The meeting, its scientific and social program confirmed that the idea of the Association is both viable and productive.
This Association was established as a group of Russian-speaking medical professionals living mostly in the United States. I think the time is coming when the name of Russian American Medical Association should mean something slightly different - a live, open and well functioning bridge connecting medical professionals in Russia and America. Creation of such a unified professional "virtual" space available for doctors, students, nurses, and allied medical professionals and, most importantly, for the patients is another contemporary goal of this Association.
RAMA-Ohio has taken a lead in 2007 among the local chapters in developing projects that will fundamentally change the status and prospective of the entire Association. "Faces of Hope" Project is one of them and certainly the most important one. The essence of the project is to raise funds to provide care for the patients with life-threatening diseases who cannot get appropriate treatment in their own countries - Russia and FSU. To promote the idea of the "Faces of Hope", we will hold a fund raising event in the Spring of 2008. I want to personally invite all of you to come to that function and to support the Project! I want to use this opportunity to ask for your ideas on how to ensure this project's success.
Later in 2008 we plan to open another project. International Children's Heart Foundation and RAMA establish a cooperative mission to the city of Kemerovo, Siberia. A group of physicians and nurses will travel to Kemerovo to perform open-heart surgery on children with congenital heart disease, and share the experience in this complicated specialty with the cardiologists and surgeons in Siberia.
These are only few of the RAMA-Ohio projects. We think we can do a lot more with the continuing support of our current and future members and with the help of our sponsors.
Thank you all for coming here this evening! Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
On behalf of the Ohio Chapter of the Russian American Medical Association
Yakov Elgudin, MD, PhD
President
It is my distinct pleasure and a great honor to welcome you to the Ohio Chapter of RAMA.
I would like to thank you for coming and most importantly for your current and future support of the Russian American Medical Association! It has been five years since the RAMA was established here in Ohio. The 5th National meeting of RAMA took place in Chicago in October of this year. The meeting, its scientific and social program confirmed that the idea of the Association is both viable and productive.
This Association was established as a group of Russian-speaking medical professionals living mostly in the United States. I think the time is coming when the name of Russian American Medical Association should mean something slightly different - a live, open and well functioning bridge connecting medical professionals in Russia and America. Creation of such a unified professional "virtual" space available for doctors, students, nurses, and allied medical professionals and, most importantly, for the patients is another contemporary goal of this Association.
RAMA-Ohio has taken a lead in 2007 among the local chapters in developing projects that will fundamentally change the status and prospective of the entire Association. "Faces of Hope" Project is one of them and certainly the most important one. The essence of the project is to raise funds to provide care for the patients with life-threatening diseases who cannot get appropriate treatment in their own countries - Russia and FSU. To promote the idea of the "Faces of Hope", we will hold a fund raising event in the Spring of 2008. I want to personally invite all of you to come to that function and to support the Project! I want to use this opportunity to ask for your ideas on how to ensure this project's success.
Later in 2008 we plan to open another project. International Children's Heart Foundation and RAMA establish a cooperative mission to the city of Kemerovo, Siberia. A group of physicians and nurses will travel to Kemerovo to perform open-heart surgery on children with congenital heart disease, and share the experience in this complicated specialty with the cardiologists and surgeons in Siberia.
These are only few of the RAMA-Ohio projects. We think we can do a lot more with the continuing support of our current and future members and with the help of our sponsors.
Thank you all for coming here this evening! Happy Hanukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
On behalf of the Ohio Chapter of the Russian American Medical Association
Yakov Elgudin, MD, PhD
President
This letter opened the 2007 Annual RAMA-Ohio Dinner Meeting and the New Years Ball. About 100 medical professionals, businessmen, lawyers, financiers and their guests gathered at the Russian Tea Room Restaurant in Cleveland on Saturday, December the 8th to talk, share ideas, listen to news and presentations, sample the delicacies of Russian cuisine, dance and to simply have fun.
Neurologist Gary Kutsikovich, MD and his wife - dental surgeon - Rita Shmerelzon, DDS.
Psychiatrists - Drs. Zinaida Lebedeva and Larissa Elgidin.
Yakov Elgudin, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Case Western Reserve University and the President of RAMA-Ohio is speaking about our current work and plans for the future.
The food in the Russian Tea Room - the oldest Russian restaurant in Cleveland is plentiful and delicious - as usual.
John Moore, MD, PhD - professor of neonatology at the Case Western Reserve University (Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital) is talking about his work with pediatricians in the city of Volgograd during the last 14 years. Dr. Moore organized 4 medical missions to Russia. He trained several Russian pediatricians in his fellowship in Cleveland.
Irina and Yakov Pashkovsky - she is an anesthesiologist and he is a pediatric cardiac ultrasonographer.
Milena Georgiadi, CPT and her husband Steve.
Svetlana Orlovsky and Diana Thernihovsky work for financial services group Har-El Financial, Inc. (a part of the AXA Network) in Chicago, IL and came to Cleveland specifically for this event.
Our Secretary - Marylin Lowe - an indispensable person.
Matthew Karam from the Sirak Financial Services is speaking about investment starategies and retirement planning. Very funny guy...
Demonstration of evening gowns by Patrice was performed by Catan Fashions models. Breathtaking...
Dr. Igor Goodyma with his business colleague from Ukraine.
Dr. Alisher Dadabayev with his friends - researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Dr. Boris Vinogradsky - Chairman of the Board of Directors of RAMA with Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Karam.
Dr. Alexander Beylinson - family physician from Cleveland and his wife Yana.
Certificates of Appreciation were awarded to Dr. George Muenster - surgeon and Past President of the RAMA-Ohio Chapter and Dr. Alisher Dadabayev.
The Most Valuable Person Award for the year of 2007 went to David Montgomery for his contributions to the success of the RAMA-Ohio. Being an American and not a physician David is working tirelessly on our most important projects.
The organization of this meeting was perfectly performed by RAMA-Ohio Executive Director - Marianna Kuperman.
The press coverage for the event was provided by the Prospect Russian newspaper - by Bakhtiar Bakhtiarov - our reliable friend, sponsor and press-attaché.
This evening was sponsored in part by grants from RAMA, Inc. Morgan Stanley, the 5/3rd Bank and Sirak Financial Services.
Please, donate to support the Ohio Chapter of RAMA.
To contact us, send an e-mail to ramadoctors@gmail.com
