Dear IAAP Member,
You are invited to the 18th Annual IAAP Scholarship Award Ceremony.

When: Saturday, March 26, 2022, 6:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Location: Virtual Via Zoom

https://howard.zoom.us/j/81153312121?pwd=cGVSb3BGRnFmN0tCQ2x2SDFzK3NPZz09
Meeting ID: 811 5331 2121
Passcode: IAAP2022

 

Agenda:

• 6:00 Launch Zoom
• 6:10 Opening remarks, Aram Hessami, Vice President for Planning
• 6:25 Intro to IAAP, Aram Hessami and Manouchehr Farkhondeh
• 6:40 The Dr. Toorany Memorial Scholarship, M. Farkhondeh
• 6:45 The 2021 scholarship report, Hessam Yazdani, Chair of the IAAP Scholarship Committee
• 7:00 Awards ceremony and presentations, 2021 awardees and major donors
• 8:15 Adjourn

The IAAP Scholarship webpage https://iaapdc.org/the-2021-scholarship-cycle/

When:  December 17, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time

Where:

Link:  https://howard.zoom.us/j/81345755351?pwd=UjBqYUNFT1RoaGJlK3ZGOHpkOXhOQT09
Meeting ID: 813 4575 5351
Passcode: 24682468

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Speaker:  Mehrdad Michael Massumi, MD
                 Massumi Associates
                 www.Massumi.com
                 info@massumi.com

Language: Parsi/English

Synopsis:

Chronic pain affects one out of five Americans. It ranks as the most expensive malady in healthcare economic analyses. It leads to significant disability and co-morbidities such as depression and other diseases.

Treatment of chronic pain has been historically intertwined with the use of opioids. Hence the current troubles in our country with opioids in the management of chronic pain syndromes.

The talk will provide a quick historical backdrop of the development of Pain Management as a specialty field in medicine, the pharmacologic and interventional methods of treatment, and the directions in which future care of the chronic pain patient will be advancing. Alternatives to opioids are increasing – both in terms of medications and interventional techniques – and these will be reviewed.

Both the lay and professional medical audience should find the subject matter and contents of use as we all need to promote best practices in the management of patients suffering such long-term maladies.

 

About the Speaker: 

Mehrdad Michael Massumi, MD is a board-certified specialist in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Integrative Pain Management.

After graduation with honors from the University of Birmingham Medical School, the United Kingdom in 1982 and two years of surgical residency training at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. he undertook and successfully concluded his residency in Rehabilitation Medicine in Seattle, WA in 1988. He remains active at the Harvard Postgraduate Medical Association since 2006.

Dr. Massumi has been in practice for thirty-three years in Maryland. He was the founder or director of many Rehabilitation, Spine and Pain clinics at a number of Baltimore Metropolitan hospitals. He is a former clinical faculty of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Currently, he is in private practice in Towson, MD and more recently also in Rockville, MD. He is active at the Maryland State Medical Society, Montgomery County Medical Society, and the International Association for Regenerative Therapy.

In his thirty-three years of practice of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Management in Maryland, Dr. Massumi has treated over 14,000 patients. Patients are from Maryland and other States and countries.

When:  September 10, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time

Where:

Link:  Zoom Link Removed
Meeting ID: 813 4575 5351
Passcode: 24682468

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Speaker:  Professor Aliakbar Jalali

Language: Parsi

Synopsis:

The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. There will be 35.82 billion IoT devices installed worldwide by 2021 and 75.44 billion by 2025! The Internet of Things has the potential to transform our society, economy, and how we live our lives. IoT helps us work smarter, live smarter, and gain complete control over our lives, but it’s also supporting our wellbeing behind the scenes.

In this presentation, Professor Jalali will describe briefly what IoT is and how it works today. He will discuss the benefits of IoT, some applications of IoT, IoT challenges, and top IoT technologies and trends. He also will give you his personal ideas about the future of IoT, based on his theory “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”.

 

About the Speaker: 

Professor Aliakbar Jalali is an adjunct professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has been teaching Internet of Things (IoT) and Practical Data Networking at UMBC since 2017. He also was teaching and doing research in the school of Electrical Engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) for 30 years. Throughout his work with IUST he has defined, led, and managed research and development teams in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT), 3D Printers and Control Systems Design and their Applications.

Jalali is well-known for his activities towards the development of ICT and its applications on a national level and as a UNESCO chair in e-learning at the international level. Since 1994, he has had hundreds of speeches, workshops, seminars, lectures, and programs on national radio and television for establishing the benefits of ICT applications in Iran.

Jalali has written and translated 50 books or chapters in addition to more than one hundred journal and conference papers. He is the author of reference books in advanced control systems theory, titled “Reduced Order Systems”, Springer, 2006. Jalali has given a theory known as “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”, about 20 years back which the world is recognizing it today!

Professor Jalali is the winner of the best creativity and innovation of the 2007 eASIA Award, Bridging Digital Divide, for his project “The First Rural ICT Center and the first Internet village in Iran”, from UNESCO and UN. He received the President’s award, known as “distinguished engineer of IoT in Iran for the year 2015”. He also received the biggest prize of “International Public Relation”, for the year 2009, which alongside this prize, he honors to receive the title of “Father of Information and Communication Technology in Iran”.
More information about professor Jalali, in Farsi, is available on his web pages at www.drjalali.ir.

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