Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:


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Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, China
Associate chief physician, Master’s supervisor
Focus on Chest imaging, especially lung cancer screening and COPD
Academic position:
Secretary, ASTR
Vice president, Youth Committee of Chinese Society of Radiology
Vice president, Youth Committee of Shanghai Society of Radiology
Committee member, Respiratory Committee of Chinese Association of Radiologists
Since 2010 Dr. Sales dos Santos has worked as a thoracic surgeon at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. Among his attributions he collaborated with the development of the Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Program, EBUS and the Lung Cancer Screening Study (BRELT1-Propulmão). Currently, He is also a board member of the “ProAr Foundation”, of the IASLC's Early Detection Committee and a Visiting Professor at SENAI Cimatec University Center in Bahia, Brazil, where he is developing the next phase of “Propulmão”: a pioneer initiative on Lung Cancer Screening and treatment in Brazil.