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Brief Bios of the speakers

Evan Lyon, MD focuses on community-based approaches to HIV and TB treatment, providing primary care in resource-poor settings, and management of chronic disease using community health workers. He has worked in Haiti since 1996.
Dr. Lyon received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 2003 and completed residency training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in 2007. He is currently a hospitalist on the faculty of Brigham and Women's Hospital, an Associate Physician at the Division of Global Health Equity and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Lyon is also an editor of the journal of Health and Human Rights (www.hhrjournal.org). Beyond working to provide care in poor communities, Dr. Lyon's research and advocacy work has focused on economic, social and political inequality, the health consequences of war and political violence - with particular emphasis on the Iraq war, the right to health, and popular, community-based responses to global health problems.

Dr. David Walmer, MD, Ph.D., is the Chief of Reproductive Endocrinology at Duke University Medical Center and the Founder and Chairman of Family Health Ministries, Inc. (FHM). FHM is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring resources into underserved communities by developing meaningful long-term relationships between impoverished communities, individuals and organizations. Dr. Walmer received his MD and Ph.D degrees from UNC in 1983. His plan in life was to be an academic physician / scientist at Duke specializing in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and in the early years of his career he was well on his way to achieving these goals. However, as the result of a series of unlikely life-changing events, he gradually found himself dividing his time between the richest and poorest people in the Western Hemisphere on a regular basis. Family Health Ministries was born out of his efforts to make sense out of these seemingly disparate relationships.