Livia Bellina's blog

January 16 2013

MobileDiagnosis in Tshimbulu : contextualize and focus our work on local exigences and wellness

http://www.slideshare.net/livia_bellina/mobile-diagnosis-in-tshimbulu-rdc-2012

From my country, from my island,(Sicily-developing country-I hope ) I am seeing the world as behind a glass

A world divided into two parts

In one part we can see all technologies, all tools and facilities , also telemedicine.
as a rich banquet , forbidden for the moltitude of people who needs, who are suffering

If we thinks to the world as a global family , you understand that the solution is easy, near, handy .

You have to use your brain, and teach to all “students” as use the brain , and as search the easiest solutions for resolve local concerns ….just as a family

If you, in addition, teach as expand the use of easy tools for resolve
more and more local problems , you done a biggest gift

Without conditions or expectations linked to our satisfation or enrichment,
but who are linked only to local improvement or local wellness
Just as a family

Our goal have to be a global school -. a global family

My goal, and MobileDiagnosis goal is to share with all interested the tool and method easiest , and after the rural communities of Uganda, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Madagascar, and Republic Democratic of Congo, expand the project and share with all who need.

It is easy ! If you like to learn more feel free to contact me.

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December 23 2012

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Dear Friends,

special people who I had the luck to meet in my new life, in the last four years of my life..

Thanks for your estimation and availability

I tryed to build, with little steps and a lot of friends a great network of friendship , for donate a little of our lifes and of our competences to persons which have nothing .

Alone I never could

You gave to me the possibility to do much

You all are my force

In a world where the solidarity is a precious gift ,together ,we are giving a message

Is not needs much money or tools, for sharing our possibilities ,

it is needs only our commitment

It is possibility change the realty of last peoples

The global health seen as a gift , and you, we are rich of love

Thanks , my friends ,

I am sure that together we will change the world (or at least the way of thinking…)

Season’s Greetings and a happy new year!

Joyeuses fêtes et bonne nouvelle année!

¡Felices fiestas y prospero año nuevo!

Feliz Natal e próspero Ano Novo 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!

livia

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December 10 2012

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July 01 2012

MDCreative Team

The Mobile Diagnosis association is composed of a creative team of young professionals in web design, engineers, project specialists and other professionals. The team works to increase the visibility of Mobile Diagnosis, and to create opportunities for the development of new educational methods such as long distance training, learning, and to keep users up-to-date on diagnosis issues.

MDCT supported MobileDiagnosis® since its foundation by taking care of the communication and promotion of its activities.
The team has a flexible structure that allows to bring in more people if needed; the current members are:

Chiara Consiglio, designer of the first version of MobileDiagnosis website.
Nadia La Chiusa, a very talented girl that created the first movie on MobileDiagnosis “The Method”
Giovanni Azzolina, graphic and web designer.
Francesco Consiglio, web master.
Roberto Ingrassia, graphic designer.
Domenico Scarpinato, director of MD videos.
Fabrizio Vitrano, web designer.
Annalisa Maggio, project writer.
mdcreativeteam@gmail.com

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MobileDiagnosis® Global Education Project 2012

MobileDiagnosis® Global Education Project

The Project, the Idea, Aim: Creation of a knowledge-centers network based on locally available and

affordable resources and poor technology and the improving of local work forces that, thanks to a domino

effect will improve new work forces. More and more: training of future trainers with local resources, linked

with a MobileDiagnosis® network, for cross the “bridge “.

The System and the Picture Sharing: MobileDiagnosis® is a system of picture sharing, based on m-phone

use, created for medical images transmission. It is operating on three levels: 1) local level, using the mobile

as didactic tool, to educate by showing and comparing the images 2) national level, thanks to a “mobile to

mobile” network 3) global level by a network linked to a web technology platform. This system operating

locally-globally, contributes to accelerate the Global Health care provision, distance consulting and

education, by connecting the “fragile” subjects, especially in the hard contexts (war, migrations, sex

discrimination, cast, clan, family) to a solidarity network of highly skilled specialists and to knowledge

centers.

Our goal is to create, by mobile sending images, a network for the Health Education, open to all health

workers but also to common people of the rural communities: this system, born to connect the peripheral

health centers to reference centers, is based on sharing of data and images for diagnostic consulence, as for

distance education. The system is accessible to all, it is low costs, appropriate, sustainable and in according

to local markets. In rural and isolated communities it can represent a tool for bringing the “independence”

from the need of the “doctor”: pregnant women can consults the distant doctor and/or the midwife; in the

rural underserved communities, health care is provided often by a local microscopist: with this distance-

consulence, or after a short training with the new method based on use of mobile-phone, he immediately can

understand if people have malaria or not, and provide an tempestive therapy. We understand the main

relevance of the prevention in the communities care. Some people more educated in rural communities can

be a “health care referent “by connecting the community to distant health center-doctors. A open access,

creative system, will generate creative people that will find the solutions for the basic concerns of health care

in a local, appropriate sustainable way. This is the Goal of third Millennium: Freedom From Want by

Education. (ref.7).

The Partnership Scenario: Global-Local Partnership and Sustainability of Project:

MobileDagnosis® works in partnership with local NGOs, by creating a network of local rural health

posts, linked together and connected to the web platform of MobileDiagnosis® Network .

The web platform will store the images for creating of a central database for educational and distance-

schooling. In the rural local educational –health centres, students from friend’s network could apply to

internships and stages on the field, bringing economic resources (housing, food, local trips, education) that

will bring benefits to the local income. These economic resources will permit the future management of

projects a local level.

Philanthropy aim: the solidarity global network, on which is based our system, could represent a new

concept based on Philanthropy to include in the Global Health and Educational Network the neglected

and poorest communities.

Scientific basis: from tele-transmission of images to a new educational system: As described in our

[1][2][3][4][5][6]

previous studies

and on the basis of “on field” applications, we started from a system of

transmission for diagnostic images, for universal health coverage, and built a global system for universal

access to care and to education.

A New Educative Method based on Mobile: the innovative, unconventional method, casually born thanks

to personal activity “on the field”, during my experiences as volunteer in six of poorest villages amongst the

global rural communities is based on three elements plus one. :

1) Interactive-creative approach to the students.

2) Interactive-creative spoken lessons, based on logic and algorithms and use of mobile.

3) “On the job” lessons and use of mobile as didactic tool for practical learning.

In a successive phase on a fourth element.

4)Distance - follow up and educational updates.

The Lessons start from a personal survey submitted to the students; the evaluation of the students as

people and of the local scenario: focusing the survey and discussion on local problems, concerns, difficulties

and fears related to context. It is request that the students respond to questions based on their personal goals,

dreams, and their personality. In this earlier first phase the survey is still out from any context: the personal

student’s experiences could be the same everywhere in the world.

Contextualization: the survey submitted to the students in this second phase is looking for problems,

concerns, student’s fears, linked to the local context: They have to answer to several questions, focusing their

answers on their concerns, fears, relationship with health, with disease in their communities, their history as

healthy or sick persons, their positive or negative experiences. In this phase the students, from a global

context enters a local scenario. I put the students to the core of their world, teaching to use the logic to

solve their problems with local possible solutions. All surveys, discussion, meeting, conferences, practical

and spoken lessons, are focused on local specific concerns and all possible solutions. The arguments of the

syllabus and the lesson schedules, as also the argument’s relevance differs from locality to locality, each

course is different from the others, because the scenario differs. This “local contextualized approach” creates

a personalization of learning and teaching and produces a better “resonance” between trainers and trained,

with a state of complete mutual trust. ”

Use of Mobile as Educational –Interactive Tool-A New Method :In the conventional education the student

is conducted to the solution of the problems thanks to a route taken step by step in which the competence is

increasing in a progressive way. In my lessons on the field I showed to the students that it is possible to take

and use an image of the lesson argument objects (parasites, cells, others, both from microscope or several

diagnostic fields) and how to do it. I invite the students to make the same, and immediately students can see,

capture and compare with their peers or with comparative tables (WHO) and with a far teacher their

“objects”. In the following lessons I show immediately a lot of images of daily’s specific lesson argument

objects (100-200 and more, from personal data-base) and just after this “vision”, without spoken lesson, I

invite the students to recognize the object of the lesson in the real microscope fields. They all immediately

are capable to recognize the “object” in the microscope field. I experimented this method in all my missions,

and all students learned immediately and easily. I have done more: I used this method also with illiterates

and all of them learned immediately and easily. It is possible to hypotize that this method could be an useful

tool in all the situations where the students are fragile subjects and/or with learning problems or

communication difficulties. The psychological basis of these surprising results are the subject of a scientific

The future development of project provides a network of education centres linked together and connected

to the web platform of MobileDiagnosis® Network for sharing of data, images and texts for education, and

an open-source training centre, with an images library and an interactive school, to which will be possible to

access from the educational page of MobileDiagnosis® site.

article (on course of application for publishing).

Livia Bellina

Acknowledgements We wish to thank all the students, the health workers, the patients and the other people who made this study possible, including supporting our field work in Uganda, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. In particular, in Bangladesh professor Muhammad Yunus, for his invitation to collaborate, great availability, courtesy and personal support; the management and staff of Grameen Kalyan, the St.Vincent hospital and the Italian NGO Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere (PIME). For the work in Uganda the Corti Foundation and the management and staff of the St.Mary Lacor Hospital in Gulu. Finally, in Afghanistan staff and management of both the General and the Pediatric Hospital in Herat, as well as the Italian NGO Associazione Italiana per la Solidarietà tra i Popoli (AISPO). For Madagascar the Salesians Mission and Bishop Saro Vella, and all Missionaries in Tulear.

References:

1)Bellina, L,.Missoni, E. Mobile Diagnosis: Bridging Sociocultural Gaps and Empowering Women Telemedicine and e-Health November 2011, 17(9): 750-750. doi:10.1089/tmj.2011.9976. http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2011.9976

2)Bellina, L., Missoni, E. Mobilephone image transmission for diagnosis. In: World Health Orgaization, Compendium of new and emerging healthmtechnologies, WHO/HSS/EHT/DIM/11.02, Geneva, 2011

3)Bellina,L:Missoni,E:MobileDiagnosis:an appropriate technology for tele-microscopy,an effective tool for training European Journal TM & IH vol 16,Supplement 1,October 2011,pag 88 www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi

4)Bellina,LMissoni,E:M-learning: mobile phones’ appropriateness and potential for the training of laboratory technicians in limited-resource settings- Health and Technology 2011 October , DOI: 10.1007/s12553-011-0008 http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/

5)Bellina L., Missoni E., Increasing connectivity of isolated health workers in poor countries using locally available technology. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2010, 14, 11 suppl.2, pp. S46-S47

6)Bellina, L., Missoni, E., Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in telemicroscopy: increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories, Diagnostic Pathology, 2009, 4: 19 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706795/

7)Bellina,L:MobileDiagnosis, in Good Pratice-2011,July Freedom From Want(MDGC-AIT) http://issuu.com/arcmdg/docs/aw_ffw2_final

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CV Livia Bellina 2012 June

Curriculum Vitae - Livia Bellina

General informations Place and date of birth:

Palermo, 25.8.1954

Nationality: Italian Mobile phone:

Language

Mother tongue Italian

English speack read and write

French speack read and write

Education and Training

After completing Classical Studies in Palermo, Educandato Maria Adelaide

1979 – Degree in Medicine at Medical Faculty , Palermo University

1983 – Post Graduate Specialization in General Pathology) Medical Faculty of Palermo University

1983 – PhD -Dottorato in Immunofarmacologia (Post Graduate Training in Immunopharmacology)only one year with admission at second year

2010-2012 .Master in Medicine of Migration . Marginalization and Poverty –Idente Foundation-Caritas –Rome

Short Training Courses

2008 – October, 12-25 Basic Laboratory for Tropical Disease -Don Calabria Hospital Negrar, Verona

2009 -March-June-Advanced Post Graduate Course of Tropical Medicine and International Health Cooperation-Careggi Hospital - University of Florence

2010 -July 26-August 6 Management of Programmes for Communicable Diseases Control in Sub-Saharianan Africa Foundation

MPCDC 2010-Public Health Laboratory Ivo De Carneri ,Pemba Zanzibar

Medical Association-Professional and Scientific Affiliations

Member of the Medical Association, since 1980

Member of Italian Pathologist Association, since 1991

Member of Italian Society of Migration Medicine (SIMM), since 2009

Member of Italian Society of Tropical Medicine (SIMET), since 2009

Member of National Focal Point Work Group “ European AIDS & Mobility Project Member of COST Action(European Cooperation In Science and Technology ) since 25-06-2010

Member of Euripa group until 17-12 2008

Member of Anspi until October 2008

Member of Pathologist OverBorder 2010

Member of Union from September 2010

Member of Global Health Workforce Alliance 2011‏

Member of Ashoka Changemakers -Health Innovation Group 2012

Work Experience

1974 -1985-Graduate as internal student - and post graduate training in the Institute of General Pathology- Medical Faculty Palermo University

1980 - Fellowship Research granted by CONI for research about Immunological depression in athletes

1981 - Fellowship Research granted by CONI (the same subject, renewed for an additional year) De Carneri

1981-Full time Instructor in Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina (USA) March- June

1981“Cultore della Materia”(Adjunct Professor) of General Immunology Medical Faculty Palermo University

1982 -Docente (Adjunct Professor) of General Immunology at the Microbiology post graduate Training - Medical Faculty Palermo University

1983-Reseach Doctorate in Immunopharmacology -Medical Faculty Palermo University -attended one year only

1983 -Medical Expert at the Dept. of Tissue Immunology – Medical Faculty Palermo University,

1983 October,1st -December 31st

1985-Pathologist, medical laboratory, National Health Service, ASL 6, Civic Hospital Partinico, Palermo January 1st June 30

Since 1987 untill now medical doctor , specialist (general pathology) on the Territorial District of National Health System

National Health Service, ASp 6, ( in the course of the years :Lampedusa Island; Petralia district and Bagheria and,

from 2010 until now Lercara district )

From 1991 until 15 April 2010 MD pathologist , National Health Service , Lampedusa Island

-2009 (October-November) Medical Volunteer, Supervisor of Main Lab and Teacher for Laboratory Technicians School – Saint Mary Hospital – Lacor-Gulu,Uganda. (Corti Foundation International Cooperation project). I made the first school with my method

-2010 ( April 20 to July , 20)Medical Volunteer and Teacher-Consultant for the Grameen Kalyan , Mohammad Yunus Foundation , in Dhaka, Bangladesh by invitation letter of Yunus Center (Professor M.Yunus) to improve the healthworkers and diagnostic system of rural health center of Bangladesh rural countries In this period in Bangladesh I enriched the Rural Health Center of Grameen , launching the system “Mobilediagnosis” (Bellina and Missoni, 2009) and I helped healthworkers to learn and adopt this technology I also made two Diagnostic Course and Mobilediagnosys System, the first Course in Bhuapur and the Second in Comilla Health Center and I wrote two Reports and a Tutorial Book (Diagnostic Pathology) to help the healthworkers to continue and develop and improve their existing diagnosys system at rural and center level In the last time of my permanence in Bangladesh as Pathologist Consultant I made diagnosys in Grameen Kalyan Central Office in Dhaka

on microscope images sent from rural health center.

- 2011-(February 24 to May 6 ) Medical Volunteer and Teacher to improve healthworkers about Diagnostic Pathology and mobilediagnosis at St.Vincent Hospital Dinajpur-Bangladesh. In this experience I made the fourt mobilediagnosis school In Dinajpur , I started with an experimental school: I taughth a student’ group of Local Rural Community , self named “aborigenal” I taught to non-healthworkers- 17-25 years old student five-person group . This experimental experience, has been excellent, and I ‘m planning to repeat in a next time and in a next future, for teach to non- healthworkers , to members of rural communities I’m writing, also a paper on the potential of m- education with my method in developing countries

-2011 July, -September , I went to Afganistan , with AISPO, with a Italian Cooperation Development Project as supervisor ofMedical Laboratory of Childrness –Governative Hospital of Herat, and as educator, for make training to local healthworkers

Conferences,seminars,workshops,and other scientific events of the last three years

2008 October 3-5 Congress of ANSPI Carloforte Sardinia Italy

2009 - February, 5- 7: VII Congress of Migration Medicine (SIMM) Trapani

2009 -April, 3-4: Equal Opportunities of Healt:Action to Development a Plan for Action to Teach and Advocate Global Health –

International Conference On Global Health -Padova

2009 - June,4: Meeting of National Focal Point :Salute e Transculturalità :L’impegno scientifico ed il contributo operativo del National Focal Point Italiano-Dipartimento malattie infettive, parassitarie ed immunomediate – ISS

2009 -September 6-10 6th European Congress of Tropical Medicine and International Health and 1th Mediterranean Conference on Migration and Travel Health -Verona Italy with a presentation (Hetical and public health concerns based on retrospective analysis of referrals for diagnostic parasitology of immigrants and autochthonous population in Lampedusa island (Italy)- Bellina,l:Maugeri,M:Missoni,E:

2009 -October 1 st November 28 -Visiting Consultant Laboratory Doctor in Saint Mary Hospital,Lacor,..Gulu Uganda -for Supervision and Training of Laboratory Technologist,Technicians and Assistent and Teachin to Laboratory Assistent Training Scool

2010 -April 20 -July 20 MD, teacher and Consultant in Bangladesh, Grameen Kalyan central office -Dhaka and rural health center Comilla and Tangail-Bhuapur

2011-February-May Teacher and Consultant in Bangladesh-Dinajpur St.Vincent Missionary Hospital(PIME Organization)

2011-July to September Afganistan-Herat as Teacher and consultant for laboratory of Pediatric Hospital of Herat -Afgani Government with AISPO

2010- 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health which was held on 11-15 November 2010 in Berlin, Germany.

(Bellina L., Missoni E., Increasing connectivity of isolated health workers in poor countries using locally available technology. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2010, 14, 11 suppl.2, pp. S46-S47)

2011 - 7th European Congress on Tropical Medicine & International Health 3-6 October, 2011. Barcelona - Spain (Bellina,L:Missoni,E:MobileDiagnosis:an appropriate technology for tele-microscopy,an effective tool for training European Journal TM & IH vol 16,Supplement 1,October 2011,pag 88 www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi)

Publications

Bellina, L,.Missoni, E. Mobile Diagnosis: Bridging Sociocultural Gaps and Empowering Women Telemedicine and e-Health November 2011, 17(9): 750-750. doi:10.1089/tmj.2011.9976. http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2011.9976

Bellina, L., Missoni, E. Mobilephone image transmission for diagnosis. In: World Health Orgaization, Compendium of new and emerging health technologies, WHO/HSS/EHT/DIM/11.02, Geneva, 2011

Bellina,L:Missoni,E:MobileDiagnosis:an appropriate technology for tele-microscopy,an effective tool for training European Journal TM & IH vol 16,Supplement 1,October 2011,pag 88 www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi

Bellina,LMissoni,E:M-learning: mobile phones’ appropriateness and potential for the training of laboratory technicians in limited-resource settings- Health and Technology 2011 October , DOI: 10.1007/s12553-011-0008 http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/

Bellina,L In Good Practice-Mobile Diagnosis : The Grapevine -Summer Euripa Magazine

[PDF] The Grapevine

www.euripa.org/…/GrapevineSummer11.pdf

Bellina,L:MobileDiagnosis, in Good Pratice-2011,July Freedom From Want(MDGC-AIT)

http://issuu.com/arcmdg/docs/aw_ffw2_final

Bellina L., Missoni E., Increasing connectivity of isolated health workers in poor countries using locally available technology. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2010, 14, 11 suppl.2, pp. S46-S47

Bellina.L:Maugeri,M:Missoni,E:Hetical and public health concerns based on retrospective analysis of referrals for diagnostic parasitology of immigrants and autochthonous population in Lampedusa island (Italy)- European Journal TM & IH vol 14,Supplement 2,Sepotember 2009,pag 66 www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi

Bellina, L., Missoni, E., Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in telemicroscopy: increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories, Diagnostic Pathology, 2009, 4: 19 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706795/

Grameen Kalyan :Training on Diagnostic Pathology 07-10 june 2010 Tutorial Book of Course for Healthworkers trained by Dr Livia Bellina ,assisted by Dr Baqui Supported by Regional Office Comilla Venue:Rajapur Health Center ,Comilla Unpublished

Previous Publications

Caruso, A., Bellina, L., B8, DR3 antigens and production of human leucocyte migration inhibitory factor (LIF) by mononuclear cells stimulated with concanaval A Tissue Antigens. 1983, Aug; 22(2):167-9. B8, DR3 antigens and production of human leucocyte migration inhibitory factor (LIF) by mononuclear cells stimulated with concanaval

Cillari E, Lio D, Bellina L, Caruso C, Brai M, Natoli D., Lymphocyte subsets in hereditary angioedema, Ann Sclavo. 1982 Nov-Dec;24(6):666-75.  Lymphocyte subsets in hereditary angioedema.

Bellina L, Salerno A., Chicken buffy coat leucocytes (BCL) as indicator cells for human leucocytes migration inhibitory factor (LIF), J Immunol Methods. 1981;43(3):277-81.  Chicken buffy coat leucocytes (BCL) as indicator cells for human leucocytes migration inhibitory factor (LIF).

Caruso C, Palmeri P, Dieli F, Bellina L, Benvegna S, Cillari E, Salerno A., Depression of contact sensitivity to oxazolone by the paramyxovirus of Newcastle disease. Impairment by infectious virus of effector T cells which mediate the response to contactant, Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol. 1981;66(1):91-9. Depression of contact sensitivity to oxazolone by the paramyxovirus of Newcastle disease. Impairment by infectious virus of effector T cells which mediate the response to contactant.

Caruso C, Bellavia A, Bellina L, Salerno A., Delayed-type skin reactions in bursectomized or thymectomized chickens, Experientia. 1977 Aug 15;33(8):1105-6.  Delayed-type skin reactions in bursectomized or thymectomized chickens.

Other Activities

-InApril,2008 I filed for patent to Italian and European Patent Office a system for take and use, share a send images from

microscopical field without any device (MobileDiagnosis )

The described method has been filed for patent in April 2008, with the sole purpose to protect the idea from commercialization

and consent its free use and dissemination. ( EPO application number 09005054.3 2002 - 2008 April )

http://www.patsnap.com/patents/view/EP2116884A1.html

-In 2009, September whit Eduardo Missoni I developed a website to help those who need diagnostic confirmation:

http://www.mobilediagnosis.net

-in 2010, January, I founded the “MobileDiagnosis”association with Eduardo Missoni cofounder and in

-2010, December I started to collaborate with Medting, a web platform, thanks to the availability of the President of Medting :Miguel Cabrer .

http://medting.com/group/mobile-diagnosis/ that permitted us the free access to the platform

-In the 2011, June, WHO published Mobile diagnosis on

WHO Compendium of Innovative Technologies Address to Global Health Concerns WHO_HSS_EHT_DIM_11.02_eng .pdf pag 17

http://www.who.int/medical_devices/innovation/new_emerging_tech_10final.pdf

-2011, July, Freedom From Want (MDGC if AIT) Pubblished my article on section “Good Pratice” pag 16-17 http://issuu.com/arcmdg/docs/aw_ffw2_finalFreedom From Want (MDGC if AIT)

-2011:  I has been accepted as member of   Global Health WorkForce Alliance

http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/members_partners/member_list/mobilediagnosis/en/index.html

- 2012- The Bellagio Initiative, of Rockefeller Foundation, published an article about my work

“Mobile Diagnosis Mobile Project” on The Bellagio Initiative

”The Future of Philantropy and Development in the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing”

as Innovation, Health,Technology and Education

http://www.bellagioinitiative.org/resource-section/your-ideas/innovations/innovations-bank/

2011- Thanks to the work on the field is borne a an innovative method for teaching,   published on  

http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/ .

2011-This method has been employed  for bridging in Afghanistan Socio Cultural Gap and permit the access to Care and education   to  rural woman http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2011.9976

2012- I am currently working on the psychological basis of the learning mechanism:

I experimented this method in all my missions, and all students learned immediately and easily. I have done more: I used this method also with illiterates and all of them learned immediately and easily. It is possible to hypotize that this method could be an useful tool in all the situations where the students are fragile subjects and/or with learning problems or communication difficulties.

The psychological basis of these surprising results are the subject of a scientific article (on course of application for publishing).

The Association -MobileDiagnosis ,founded with Eduardo Missoni and my sons in 2010 ,has been recognized by the Government

in November 2011, 28 as a No Profit -Association (Government number 97261360826 ) become MobileDiagnosis Onlus

MobileDiagnosis Onlus , to which I am co- founder and president, working for the Global Access to Care, Second opinion and Education

with partners of excellence:

-Bocconi Cergas , Eduardo Missoni, my coauthor and co founder of mobilediagnosis with my sons Vincenzo and Giorgio Prestigiacomo  

-AIT Extension-ARCMDG-AIT   Director  Sandro Calvani , 

2011- Dr Sandro Calvani invited me to submit my work for  publication  in the “ Freedom From Want”, a magazine of 

Center of excellence for Millennium   Development Goals of A I T http://issuu.com/arcmdg/docs/aw_ffw2_final (pag 16-17)

2011-I have been selected as one of the top 30 finalists of the Challenge “Top 11 in 2011 Innovators”

2012-The Rotary Inner Wheel, Palermo Centro, jointed with University Academic Board Conferred to me the Award

“Premio Rosario La Duca, a life for Palermo”, for my commitment and my work made on the fields in Developing Countries

2012- Ashoka Changemaker admitted me in Health Innovator Group a network of global innovator

2012-06-26

Livia Bellina

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Livia Bellina Publications -MobileDiagnosis References 2009-2011

Bellina, L,.Missoni, E. Mobile Diagnosis: Bridging Sociocultural Gaps and Empowering Women Telemedicine and e-Health November 2011, 17(9): 750-750. doi:10.1089/tmj.2011.9976.
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2011.9976
Bellina,L:Missoni,E:MobileDiagnosis:an appropriate technology for tele-microscopy,an effective tool for training European Journal TM & IH vol 16,Supplement 1,October 2011,pag 88
www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi
Bellina,LMissoni,E:M-learning: mobile phones’ appropriateness and potential for the training of laboratory technicians in limited-resource settings- Health and Technology 2011 October , DOI: 10.1007/s12553-011-0008
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/
Bellina, L., Missoni, E. Mobilephone image transmission for diagnosis. In: World Health Orgaization, Compendium of new and emerging health technologies, WHO/HSS/EHT/DIM/11.02, Geneva, 2011
Bellina,L In Good Practice-Mobile Diagnosis : The Grapevine -Summer Euripa Magazine [PDF] The Grapevine
www.euripa.org/…/GrapevineSummer11.pdf
Bellina,L:MobileDiagnosis, in Good Pratice-2011,July Freedom From Want(MDGC-AIT)
http://issuu.com/arcmdg/docs/aw_ffw2_final
Bellina L., Missoni E., Increasing connectivity of isolated health workers in poor countries using locally available technology. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2010, 14, 11 suppl.2, pp. S46-S47
Grameen Kalyan :Training on Diagnostic Pathology 07-10 june 2010 Tutorial Book of Course for Healthworkers trained by Dr Livia Bellina ,assisted by Dr Baqui Supported by Regional Office Comilla Venue:Rajapur Health Center ,Comilla Unpublished
Bellina.L:Maugeri,M:Missoni,E:Hetical and public health concerns based on retrospective analysis of referrals for diagnostic parasitology of immigrants and autochthonous population in Lampedusa island (Italy)- European Journal TM & IH vol 14,Supplement 2,September 2009,pag 66
www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi
Bellina, L., Missoni, E., Mobile cell-phones (M-phones) in telemicroscopy: increasing connectivity of isolated laboratories, Diagnostic Pathology, 2009, 4: 19
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706795/

Useful Links

1pm

May 12 2012

About Livia

is a medical doctor, Pathologist Medical for National Health System since 1987   In 2008, when a migrant with malaria come to her in Lampedusa, where she was doctor

She sent the first image taken by mobile by MMS.

After this experience, she started to study tropical (poorly) medicine, laboratory and logic  clinic in  -Verona Negrar, ( course for tropical labs)  -Florence Careggi -(course of cooperation and tropic diseases)  -ISS f(or learn more of leishmoanian ane trip diseases)  -Now she is completing a Master on Medicine of migration emargination and  poverty in Roma, Caritas- Idente Institute

Just after Verona Course,(october 2008) livia realized that her mission was helping by teaching the rural low resource people in the most poorest and  rural isolated community  so, after she gave her availability to educate on the job the health workers  and people of rural communities she went to some from the most rural and poorest areas of the world

2009 -she went to Uganda -Lacor, Gulu, in St Mary Hospital, where trained the student of lab technicians course and where I has been  supervisor of Main lab  2010- she gave her availability to professor Muhammad Yunus(Nobel Price  for Peace) and after invitation he went Bangladesh where improved the health workers  of Grameen Foundation (Kalyan) and connected the rural health centers  to central office with this “telemedicine of the poors…)  2011- she returned in Bangladesh with PIME (Pope Missionary) In  North,Dinajpur and made training to nurse(student!) sisters and  illiterate people…..  They learned with this new method immediately!  2011- , with a MAE Project, she twent to Afghhanistan, Herat as  consultant and teacher…also here people learned easily and quickly

2012- Livia done a explorative mission to Madagascar (Andavadoaka and ) for individuate the best area for future projects

In this years she founded MobileDiagnosis®Onlus recognized by Government as Non Profit

All for solidariety

The next goal is the expansion a global level of MobileDiagnosis® Project

(Source: mobilediagnosis.net)

12pm

April 29 2012

MobileDiagnosis® useful and reference links 2008-2012

Useful Links MobileDiagnosis®2008-2012

http://www.patsnap.com/patents/view/EP2116884A1.html

https://data.epo.org/publication-server/getpdf.jsp?pn=2116884&ki=A1&cc=EP

http://www.who.int/medical_devices/innovation/new_emerging_tech_10final.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2706795/

http://issuu.com/arcmdg/docs/aw_ffw2_final

www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi

www.euripa.org/…/GrapevineSummer11.pdf

http://www.springerlink.com/content/a328n117r7775322/

www.blackwellpublishing.com/tmi

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/tmj.2011.9976

http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/members_partners/member_list/mobilediagnosis/en/index.html

http://www.bellagioinitiative.org/innovations/mobile-diagnosis-mobile-project/

http://www.healthunbound.org/content/mobilediagnosis-global-project-based-most-relevant- technology-brain

http://archivio.siciliainformazioni.com/spettacoli/una-vita-per-palermo-a-villa-malfitano-il-premio-rosario-la-duca/

12pm

April 22 2012

MobileDiagnosis® Training Course References and useful Books

1.Manual of Basic Techniques for a health Laboratory 2nd edition WHO Geneva

2.Diagnostic Pathology- From laboratory Results to the Diagnosis- Personal Lessons -Unpublished

3.Manson’s Tropical Diseases –Edited by Gordon C.&Alimuddin I.Zumila Twenti-Second Edition –Saunders Elsiever

4.Training Manual on Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites –based on the WHO

Bench Aids for the Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasites

-Schistosomiasis and Intestinal Parasite Unit-Division of Control of Tropical Diseases

Whorld Realtà Organization-Geneva

5.Bench Aids for the Diagnosis of Intestinal Parasyte World Realtà Organization-Geneva

6.Atlas of Medical Helmintology and Protozoology-World Health Organization-Geneva

7.Bench Aid for the Diagnosis of Filarial Infections –WHO_Geneva

8.Basic Malaria Microscopy World Health Organization-Geneva

9.Atlas of Human Malaria-G:Swirnczzynski-M.Gobbo- Ed.AZ Color

10.Sangue Sicuro in Africa Subsahariana-Manuale per gli Operatori

–Negrar – Materiale didattico del Corso di Laboratorio di base per i Paesi Tropicali

11.Safe Blood and Blood Products-Distance Learning Materials-WHO Geneva

12.Blood Transfusion in Remote Areas.MSF-Paris 1999

13.The Clinical Use of blood-handbook-WHO Geneva 2002

14.Tropical Medicine-Oxford Handbook -Third Edition-

M.Eddleston-R.Davidson-A:Brent-R:Wilkinson

15. Hospital Care for Children- Poket Book of :Guidelines for the management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources-WHO Geneva http://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/documents/9241546700/en/index.html

16.Disease of Children in the Subtropics and Tropics-P.Stanfield,M.Brueton,M.Chan,M.Parkin,T.Waterston

Paget Stanfield -2008 -Jacobs Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland

17: Diarrhoeal Diseases Pdf. Rehydratation Project

http://rehydrate.org/

Teaching Medical Students about Diarrhoeal Diseases -Rei

Unit 1 - The Epidemiology and Etiology of Diarrhoea

Unit 2 - Pathopysiology of Watery Diarrhoea: Dehydra tion and Rehydration

Unit 3 - Assessing the Diarrhoea Patient

Unit 4 - Treatment of Diarrhoea at Home

Unit 5 - Treatment of Dehydrated Patients

Unit 6 - Dysente ry, Persistent Diarrhoea, and Diarrhoea Associated wit h Other Illnesses

Unit 7 - Diarrhoea and Nutrition

Unit 8 - Prevention of Diarrhoea

18.Diarrhoea:Why children are still dying and what can be done-UNICEF/WHO Report

http://7pointplan.org/

19.Helping Health Workers Learn –D.Werner ans B.Bower-The Hesperian Foundation

20.Where there is not Doctor-D.Werner ,C.Thumaan,J.Maxwel-Hesperian Foundation

21 .The Seven Most Common NTDs http://www.globalnetwork.org/neglected-tropical-diseases/fact-sheets1.

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April 21 2012

MobileDiagnosis® Project

7pm

April 19 2012

MobileDiagnosis® Project

6pm

April 07 2012

Good Easter 2012 to all my Friends ! and MobileDiagnosis®

Dear Friends

MobileDiagnosis Onlus…….

has been arrived to the third year of work on the field

Starting in 2008, when a migrant with malaria came to me in Lampedusa.

MobileDiagnosis has been created , recognized from Government as Onlus-

Non Profit

MobileDiagnosis now obtained the fiscal benefits and will be able receive funds from donors, sponsors and also

5 x 1000 from statement tax.

The 5x1000 is a percentage of taxes that you can donate, charges free, to charities in Italy. It’s just another way to help MobileDiagnosis Onlus.

Every year, with tax statement (CUD additional form, 730/1 bis form or Single Personal Income Form), you can donate your “5 x 1000” to MobileDiagnosis checking the specific box “Sostegno delle organizzazioni non lucrative” (Charity support) in your tax statement form, and copy our beneficiary’s code in the provided space: 97261360826

The Name, logo, all matter in addition are protect by Copirigth

MobileDiagnosis®

Thank to you all, for your friendship and estimation

I received your letters from Nepal, Uganda, Bangladesh, US,etc.

Your moral support permitted to me of go on untill now , also when I was discouraged and without funds (often)

Thanks to my Family that always supported me and … and funded my work

and my “missions” to Bangladesh, Uganda, Madagascar !

Thanks to MobileDiagnosis Creative Team , a team of brilliant youth that supported me starting from the birth of my work

Chiara Consiglio that ideated the first version of MobileDiagnosis site

Nadia La Chiusa, a very creative girl that created the first Movie on MobileDiagnosis “the method”

Giovanni Azzolina that starting since 2009 helped me and

designed a map of african regions for a study on mobile diffusion

Francesco Consiglio -great site design

Domenico Scarpinato - movie director

Roberto Ingrassia -web design

Fabrizio Vitrano - informatics

that gave visibility to Md with excellent site, videos and movies,brochures,

presentations, and much more

Annalisa Maggio with her kind competence and experience as project writer

My son Giorgio Prestigiacomo that designed the logo of MD

My son Vincenzo Prestigiacomo that helped me with her critic analysis and logic revision of my work and my english….

Thank to Dr Mario Cricchio, that in 2008 supported me and helped me to submit my work and idea for patent

Thanks to Professor Missoni , since 2009 he helped me often suggested me as go on and helped me to write several scientific papers based on my work on the field

We together built MobileDiagnosis Association, the idea, aim mission

Thanks to Professor Muhammad Yunus, great man that inspirated the origins of my work and inviting me permitted to demonstrate the validity of my work on the field

Thank to Renato Corrado that believed to me and helped to me , permitting to me of go to Afghanistan with a official project of AISPO

Thanks to all AISPO Team, and particularly to Elena Balducci, for her love and kindness….and for her hard work

Laura Fibbi

Giacomo dell’Antonio

dearest friends and supporter of my work

Thanks to Luca Bellina, that joined with us with competence and good ideas

Thanks to all Missionaries of PIME that hosted me in Bangladesh

Dinajpur and to all students, sisters, cleaners and people of St Vincent Hospital

and Thank to

Salesian Missionaries that gave me a house in Madagascar, in Tulear,

in a peace and serenity place

Thank to Bishop, Saro Vella

and Mission Director, Bartolo Salvo

Monfrere Maurizio Rossi, a brother

Nirina, Swan

Thank to Regis, Odette, Sister Agnes

and all youth seminarists

Thank to WHO, that published MD on Compendium of Innovative Technologies,

Thank to Sandro Calvani, Director of ARCMDg –AIT that gave me more occasions and suggestions and published MD on Magazine of ARCMDGs ” Freedom from Want”

Thanks to Global health WorkForce Alliance and m-Health Aliance that accepted me as partner and to Rockefeller Bellagio, that gave me visibility on Bellagio Innovation Bank-site in

” The Future of Philanthropy and Development in the Pursuit of Human Wellbeing”

Thanks to Rotary Inner Wheel Palermo Centro…..that conferred to me the Award

“Rosario La Duca” , a prestigious award for the commitment and humanitarian work

made on the field

Thanks to you all that gave me frienship and courage….

and much more….and excuse me if I forgot some one

I hope to work together with the common commitment for the development of rural and poorest communities in the neglette parts of the world

A Good Easter to you all

livia

8pm

March 25 2012

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