Work is fun!

So just in case anyone thinks it is all fun, or that I am just have lazy dog day afternoons, I thought I would share with you some of the activities of the past week:

--Met with DUR workshop faculty planning group to plan (Yupadee, Yupapan, Aurawan, Niyada, some students) --Worked on workshop handouts and articles --Attended Chula Social Research graduate program student seminar, collected co-trimoxazole samples for Dr. Sheth's project (graduate students volunteered to shop pharmacies). --Attended viewing of “Children of the Dark” film at Foreign Correspondents Club. This film was produced in Japan and is a docudrama about child exploitation in Thailand - due to the sensitive content the film was banned from the Bangkok International Film Festival this year. See http://facthai.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/children-of-the-dark-ban-at-bkkiff-thai-film-journal/ for more information. --Met with Tim from Kenya – he is neighbor at my apartment building Vidhayanives and wants to study peace and conflict resolution in the US --Met with Prof. Niyada and Bruce Ravesloot from Raks Thai (Care Thailand) to discuss antibiotic resistance --Assembled outline of potential collaborative research topics and set up meeting to discuss with Drs. Niyada, Vithaya and Yupadee but meeting got cancelled. Prof. Niyada and I decided to pursue HIV/AIDS in the elderly, a growing concern. --Spent Friday at Thammasat University lecturing medical students (3 hours) on pharmacoepidemiology (thank you, Dr. Weiss!!); also observed a class that used clinical case format --Was asked to prepare and deliver talk on P3 program to the Thai Pharmacy Council on Sunday – this talk was very well received and was part of their report and recommendations. Dr. Rodriguez de Bittner and Dr. Lee - thank you for sharing the slides - the group leader was enamored with the program and has already created a 'Thai version' of P3 - but they want to call it P4 - the 4th 'P' is for 'Poor.'!! They may contact you. BUT...most all of these meetings/events are accompanied by Thai food!