Gallery of Photos at Havana
There are some photos taken during the talks and after them, by the PtP ambassadors, and in other moments with PtP friends or relatives that visited us. We hope you enjoy them as we do.
A photo of a couple Of our first PtP Group of November 6, 2000, Drs. Verle and Vivian Headings, who invited me to visit the health care and scientific facilities of the Howard University at Washington, D.C., if I visited New York Montefiori Hospital and Albert Einstein School of Medicine in November 2001.
Another photo of a couple of that first group of Nov. 2000, in the terrace of our apartment sharing our good American friends pf PtP from Minneapolis, Minnesota in Feb 2002, Drs. Robert Kriel and Linda Krach, with Lolita and I. Bob invited me to visit the Minnesota University, Minneapolis health care facilities, if I visited the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in June 2001. (Photo taken by Jim van Eyck, M.D.)
Drs. Bob Milligan and John Vener of my second PtP delegation of family physicians on November 2000, during a martini's meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bob and John were both my godfathers supporting my admission as first international Cuban member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. John invited me to visit the Mayo Clinic of Rochester.
During a welcome talk to my third Medical Delegation in a Havana Melia Hotel room in December 2000. Ms. Linda Jameson, RN, took me this close up. I was still with a little pain a week after a sugery by inguinal hernia.
Of the same third group, some photos taken by our friend Dr. Jim van Eyck from Swolle, Holland, after his visit for scientific exchange & diving in May, 2001, Lolita and I, after our dinner with him, and in Santa Maria del Mar Beach 1 and SMMB 2. (Photos taken by Jim) Another one in the Tropicana Cabaret sharing with Jim, in his visit in Feb 2002, Jim, Lolita and I beside the show. (Photo taken by a photographer)
With my wife Lolita and American nurses friends in a dinner in the Havana Melia Hotel buffet in January 2001. In a first plane at right is our good friend Ms. Cindy Tryniszewski, RN, MSN. Another one, with our friend Ms. Maria Smith, DSN, RN, CCRN, leader of that Critical Care Initiative, ending the same dinner.
Our friends Cindy Tryniszewski, Maria Smith, and other nurses friends of the Critical care Initiative in a lunch in the Orthopedic Hospital Frank Pais, during the same visit to Cuba in January 2001.
During a presentation to a Delegation of Pathologists, Cytologists and Cytotechnologists in another Havana Melia Hotel room in February 2001 (t1), and ending the same lecture February 2001 (t2)
With our friends Ms. Renae Price and Dr. Ron Bardawil in a dinner in a home restaurant (paladar) in February 2001 . Another one with most of that Pathology Delegation at the end of the same dinner February 2001. Another one, with the sublider Isaiah Hyman of that delegation, because Alexander Meisels had to return.
With my wife Lolita after a talk in the Havana Melia Hotel lobby in February 2001. There were in front of us the pathologists Dr. Luis A. Diaz-Rosario and Mr. Hector R. Garcia --both born in Puerto Rico. Another photo of Ron, Hector and Luis, in the Jose Marti Square during their visit.
Beginning a conference at the Havana Melia Hotel in May 2001 to two Delegations: Women for Science & Cardiologists delegations. With my wife Lolita at the Havana Club's farewell dinner of the Cardiologists' initiative in May 2001 Rob, Lolita & I, and Radek (1st row, 2nd column), and Radek, Rob, and Lolita (3rd row, 3rd column), and a gorgeous sunset (4th row, 2nd column) at the Havana Club beach. {Now, it is not well known by the young Cuban people that the Havana Club, was before the very exclusive Havana Biltmore Yacht Club and Country Club}
This photo was taken by a lady returning on a cruise on July 28, 2001. It is a sunrise over lower Manhattan before September 11. Afterwards, we sent it to all our PtP friends with the hope that the US people will build a new landscape thousands of times more beautiful soon.
With Prof. Haile Debas, his wife Mrs. Ignacia Debas, and our Ms. Christine Jayne in the oldest and most famous University Hospital Gral. Calixto Garcia in November 2001, after a significant Gastroenterology Surgeons & Clinicians Meeting at the Havana Melia Hotel in US PtPAP framework. He invited me twice to exchange in the San Francisco medical School were he was Dean.
Cindy Jones and Colleen Corish, from the Paula Rieger's Delegation of oncological nurses in November 2001. Paula is at the right at the shadow.
With my wife Lolita ending two farewell dinners to the Ambassadors in the Havana Club in April 2001, December 2001 (It is paradoxical! With the months we became younger..!). In April with Ms. Karen Dunn-Maxim´s Mental Health Initiative, and in December with Prof. Richard Dickey´s Clinical Endocrinologists delegation. Mrs. Margie Dickey took the close up with a Polaroid camera.
With my wife Lolita, Richard and Margie Dickey, at the back center, and other friends, in the farewell dinner to the Endocrinologist delegation in the Havana Club in December 2001. A close up of us. That night were also the farewell dinners there to the Abraham Rudolph's delegation of pediatric cardiologists, P. Kahler Hench's delegation of reumathologists, and Charles Price's delegation of psychiatrists, but I haven't been able to have the photos with them.
The Professor Abraham Rudolph's Delegation of pediatric cardiologists, also in December 2001.
Some photos in the terrace of our apartment sharing our Irish friends (through Barry McGale of PtP) with us in Jan 2002, Cormak Burke, Lolita and I, and Cormak, Aoife (nurse) and I. (Photo taken by a Lolita and Aoife)
With Prof. Dennis Patton, former PtPAP leader of a Nuclear Medicine Delegation to China, and Cuban American Prof. Ernst Garcia from the Atlanta PET Center, Dr. Juan F. Batista my former Director, and I, on April 2002, after a lunch in an Old Havana Restaurant, during a Nuclear Medicine Seminar, out of PtP framework.
The third & fouth slides of the ppt presentation have two photos taken in May 17, 2002 after the three talks that Lolita, my brother Ricardo and I gave to the political science students of Professor Kirk Bowman's Georgia Tech Cuban Program, in the upper terrace of the Plaza Hotel at Old Havana. Afterwards, the students gave us medical supplies & medicines for our health care system. (Photo taken by Prof. Bowman)
One photo taken in June 2002, after a talk to a Contracosta Community College group of the Global Educational Facilitation, having lunch in the Inglaterra Hotel at Old Havana with Dr. Anjali Morris, two Barbaras' McClain--left & Ross --center, Lolita and I. (Photo taken by a kind waitress)
With my wife Lolita giving a talk in June 2002, to a delegation of the Global Educational Facilitation, with Prof. Jorge Santana of the University of Sacramento, Peggie, Kay and other friends. Another ones after the same photo 1 and photo 2, at the Ambos Mundos Hotel, where Ernest Hemingway used to live for times. (Photo taken by the video man Jeff Duerr)
With my wife Lolita (in her birthday) after the talk in June 21, 2002, having lunch with Peggy and Kay Thompsom (from L.V., Nevada), who visited China by PtPAP with her husband, in a Italian restaurant near the Ambos Mundos Hotel, and other one begining to dance with the orchestra. This was the last US group we gave a talk before I was expulsed from the party and Havanatur, for telling the truth.
A photo taken of our PtP friend Miguel Arce, M.D. with us, in Santa Maria del Mar Beach in September 2003, and other with our friend Maura deLisser, CSW with us, in Santa Maria del Mar Beach, both from New York.
Lolita and I with Christine Holt family physician from the Boston Medical Center and Becky Holt teacher from a Primary School & freelancer at New York, when they visited us during a MINSAP International Workshop on Primary Care in October 2003, in the Fresa & Chocolate Paladar.
Photo having dinner with us at our home Chuck Richardson & Leslie Cooper of the Mayo Clinics, who came to exchange in cardiology at Havana, sent to us by our friend Robert Mcbane, and other taken in the Los Jazmines Hotel also with Susan, Chuck's wife in an unforgettable trip to the Viñales Valley on February 2006.
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