Lunch Session Speakers
Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH, is a family practice physician who has been a University of Washington faculty member since 1986. He has worked for over 30 years in Africa, Latin America, and Asia as a clinician, manager, researcher, teacher, and policy advocate. His work has focused on improving primary health care, including maternal-child health services, tuberculosis control, and STD/AIDS. He has written and spoken extensively on the political economy of global health care and the connection between neoliberalism and health.
Professor Gloyd is Associate Chair for Education and Curriculum in the UW’s Department of Global Health where he directs efforts to expand curricular options to address global workforce needs. His work with Health Alliance International is designed improve approaches to global health assistance and to strengthen primary health care with the Ministries of Health of Mozambique, Cote d’Ivoire, Sudan, and Timor-Leste. Dr. Gloyd received his BA and MPH from Harvard, his MD from the University of Chicago, and his family medicine residency at the University of Washington.
Robert M. Gould, MD is associate pathologist at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Jose, California. He is President of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. He chairs the Peace Caucus of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and is an active member of the Environmental Committee of the Santa Clara County chapter of the California Medical Association.
Among his peace efforts, Gould has authored or co-authored numerous resolutions passed by the APHA Governing Council against nuclear testing, an excessive military budget, the Strategic Defense Initiative, landmines, chemical weapons and other issues. He also has submitted many resolutions adopted by the California Medical Association including those calling for preventing dioxin waste from medical facilities, preventing human exposure to mercury, reducing the use of pesticides, replacing medical devices containing phthalates from neonatal intensive care units, reducing air pollution, abolishing weapons of mass destruction and avoiding accidental nuclear war.
In 2000 Gould served as a member of the scientific panel providing advice to the Advisory Group on Low Level Radioactive Waste Management. He was part of a special delegation during the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War World Congress in New Delhi and met with the president and prime minister of India to advocate for Indian leadership in the global movement to abolish nuclear weapons.
Evan Kanter, MD, PhD is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist specializing in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. As Staff Psychiatrist in the PTSD Outpatient Clinic at the Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center he treats psychiatric casualties of war from World War II to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He introduced a new course at the University of Washington, War and Mental Health, and is developing additional curriculum on the health consequences of war for the Department of Global Health. Dr. Kanter is Immediate Past President of Physicians for Social Responsibility.