SEMINAR PROGRAM
2nd International Maritime Health Seminar
MLC 2006 Implementation Progress: Its Impact in Health and Security at Sea
Panama, September 15 - 16, 2016 – Simultaneous Translation Spanish-English-Spanish
General Objective:
Evaluate the MLC 2006 and its modifications progress since its implementation, to identify probable gaps to be taken
care of.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
8:00 - 8:30
REGISTRATION
Words of Welcome
Jorge Barakat
Administrator
Panama Maritime Authority
PANAMA
Words of Remarks
Ilona Denisenko, MD
President
International Maritime Health
Association (IMHA)
RUSSIA
9:00 - 9:30
Commonalities Between MLC and STCW: How They
Promote Seafarers´ Health and Well-being.
Milhar Fuazudeen
Head, Maritime Training and Human
Element Maritime Safety Division
International Maritime Organization
Representative
UNITED KINGDOM
9:30 – 10:00
Panama Lacustrine and Interoceanic Channel
Navigation, Medical Standards and Rules
James Denham, MD Occupational
Health Department
Panama Canal Authority
PANAMA
8:30 - 8:45
8:45 – 9:00
10:00 – 10:15
COFFEE BREAK
The ITF Seafarer’s Trust: Holistic Wellbeing at Sea
10:15 – 10:45
Lucy Cooper
Program Development Manager
International Transport Workers'
Federation Seafarer’s Trust
(ITF Trust)
UNITED KINGDOM
Flag Inspections and Port State Control in
Compliance with SOLAS, MARPOL and the MLC,
2006 Conventions
Victor Lau
Chief Deputy for State Control on
Maritime Navigation and Security
Panama Maritime Authority
PANAMA
Impact in the Panamanian Registry of Safety and
Health on Board, Based on the MLC 2006.
Giovanna Villamonte S.
Chief of MLC Section - SEGUMAR
Office
Panama Maritime Authority
PANAMA
11:45 -12:15
The Spanish Maritime Health System and MLC 2006.
M. Luisa Canals, MD
Chair, Research Group
International Maritime Health
Association (IMHA)
SPAIN
12:15- 12:30
Questions & Answers
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 – 11:45
12:30 -14:00
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 15:00
15:00 - 15:15
LUNCH AT RESTAURANT BAZAAR
Scientific Studies as an Important Task for
International Objectives (Legal Obligations) and the
Maritime Conventions (MLC).
Seafarer Resilience: Initial Research Insights by Yale
University School of Medicine in Collaboration with
the Seamen´s Church Institute.
Douglas Stevenson
Director
Center for Seafarers´ Rights
The Seamen’s Church Institute of
New York and New Jersey
U.S.A.
The Rev. David Rider
President and Executive Director
The Seamen’s Church Institute of
New York and New Jersey, U.S.A.
COFFEE BREAK
15:15 – 15:45
Maritime Labour inspections in compliance with the
2006 Maritime Labour Convention
Doris Guerra de Poidven
Head of Certification Department
General Directorate of Seafarers
Panama Maritime Authority
PANAMA
15:45 – 16:15
MLC 2006´s Spirit Influence on Patients´ Prognosis:
Obesity Case
Thania Aguilar, MD
Clinica Einstein, SC
PANAMA
16:15 – 16:45
Questions & Answers
Friday, September 16, 2016
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 -9:30
9:30 – 9:45
9:45 – 10:00
10:00 -10:30
The Fishing Industry Occupational Risks.
Oliver Campbell, MD
Medical Director and Coordinator
Local Unit of Occupational Health at
ULAPS in Vacamonte Port, Panama
Social Security Entity (CSS)
PANAMA
Gap of Maritime Health Research in Latin America
and the Caribbean
Olaf Jensen, MD
CMSS-SDU Denmark.
Research Group, International
Maritime Health Association (IMHA)
Clinica Einstein´s Maritime
Colloquium Program Coordinator
DENMARK
Prevalence and Associated Factors of CardioMetabolic Risk Factors in Iranian Seafarers.
Fereshteh Baygi, PhD Student
Occupation Health Research Center
Tehran University
IRAN
Presenter: Olaf Jensen, MD
COFFEE BREAK
Maritime Medical Research in the Philippines:
Research with Big Data.
Antonio Roberto Abaya, MD
President and Medical Director
Health Metrics, Inc.
IMHA Research Group
PHILIPPINES
10:30 -11:00
11:00 - 11:30
MLC 2006 and Global Social Security, a Pending
Challenge.
ITF´s Efforts to Keep Seafarers Healthy On Board
Ship and Ashore
11:30 – 12:00
Amendments to the MLC 2006: A Challenge for the
International Community at the Abandonment of
Seafarers
12:00 – 12:30
Questions & Answers
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 -14:30
14:30 -15:00
15:00 – 15:15
Rimsky Sucre B., MD
Medical Director
Clinica Einstein
IMHA ´s Country Level Ambassador
PANAMA
Syed Asif Altaf, MD
Global HIV and Well-being Program
Coordinator for the International
Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)
UNITED KINGDOM
Francisca Bernal Santamaría
Labour and Social Security Sciences
Universidad de Cádiz
SPAIN
LUNCH AT RESTAURANT BAZAAR
Importance of Assessments Before Boarding a
Vessel and our Experience as Maritime University.
Indira Santos, MD
Occupational Health Specialist
Integral Care Clinic
Panama International Maritime
University (UMIP)
PANAMA
New Regulations on Issuance of Health Certificate
Mayte Burgos
Chief,
Maritime Labour Affairs Department
General Directorate of Seafarers
Panama Maritime Authority
PANAMA
COFFEE BREAK
M. Luisa Canals, MD
Chair, Research Group
International Maritime Health
Association (IMHA)
SPAIN
15:15 – 15:45
15:45 – 16:15
IMHA Research News; International Hispano
Francophone Congress on Maritime Medicine
Announcement; An Invitation to Establish a Regional Maria Rodriguez, MD
Alliance on Maritime Health
President
Society of Maritime and Port
Medicine
VENEZUELA
Questions & Answers
Scientific Committee:
Dr. Olaf Jensen (Denmark)
Dra. Ilona Denisenko (Russia)
Dr. Enrique Mendoza Posada (Panamá)
Dra. María Luisa Canals (Spain)
Dr. James Denham (Panamá)
Dra. María Rodríguez (Venezuela)
Dr. Oliver Campbell (Panamá)
Dr. Rimsky Sucre B. (Panamá)