|
About AU School of International Affairs & Diplomacy (AUSIAD)
The Aristotle University School of International Affairs & Diplomacy (AUSIAD) was formed to create the opportunity for others to become educated global citizens ultimately resulting in the promotion of peace, understanding, friendship, and the strengthening of international cooperation and diplomacy. Our dedicated Mission and Purpose are elucidated below.
The world, as it exists today, poses numerous and often times enormous tensions to its global citizens. They include war, revolution, poverty, genocide, assaults on human rights, economic globalization, and public health hazards, just to mention a few. Indeed, for the promotion of international understanding, peace and cooperation, global citizens need a core body of substantive knowledge from which they may draw to help them understand and potentially solve the inherently dynamic and increasingly complex interdisciplinary issues which they face. AUSIAD has created educational programs which delivers such knowledge through a distance education learning management system which can be utilized from any part of the world.
AUSIAD Mission
The mission of the AUSIAD is to provide quality education, academic scholarship, research, service, and leadership to advance and promote Aristotle University’s expressed and dedicated commitment for academic excellence, promotion of understanding, pursuit of truth, and the strengthening of the respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms, peace, the sense of dignity, and the promotion of understanding, tolerance and friendship.
Our mission is to create and disseminate knowledge and share wisdom so that global citizens can be inspired to promote human dignity and international cooperation.
AUSIAD Purpose
The purpose of the AUSIAD is to promote education, international collaboration and good will, and to grant those individuals who dream of furthering their education on opportunity to do so. We especially reach out to those individuals throughout the world who desire to learn through distance learning and realize that education and international collaboration are intimately bound by good will and the promotion of sustainable societies and nations.
Strategic Affiliations & Milestones
The AUSIAD, through its parent, Aristotle University, has already established notable educational affiliations and collaborations with key strategic universities and organizations throughout the world, and has accomplished several milestones. We believe such affiliations and cooperative agreements will further enhance our ability to provide meaningful working relationships across international borders and enhance our ability to contribute to the public good and improve the human condition worldwide.
For instance, Aristotle University currently has established working relationships with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health; the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO); and the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology.
Additionally, Aristotle University has developed and currently offers the only Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program in the State of California (and it is only one of five such programs in the United States). Aristotle University offers the PA Residency Program in cooperation with Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital, Norwalk, California. The Aristotle University PA Residency Program is the only PA Residency Program in the United States which requires the completion of the Masters of Public Health (MPH) concomitantly with the PA Residency. Aristotle University offers the MPH to the PA Residents and Podiatric Surgery Residents at Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital as well.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
 Aristotle University has attained a collaborative educational agreement with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Asia-Pacific School of Ethics, wherein Aristotle University established and hosts the UNESCO International Bioethics Journal Club (UNESCO IBJC) (www.AristotleLaw.com)
The UNESCO Asia-Pacific region is the largest of the UNESCO regions; in fact, it includes over 50 Member States of the United Nations and represents over three-quarters of the world’s land mass and nearly half its population. Dr. Gionis has lectured extensively worldwide in the field of bioethics for UNESCO for several years; he also serves as a Member of the UNESCO Working Committee for Ethics in Energy.
Aristotle University's hosting of the UNESCO International Bioethics Journal Club gives Aristotle University direct access to major universities and governmental agencies in approximately 50 Member States of the United Nations. This provides a plethora of opportunity for collaborative education programs and meaningful cultural exchanges.
Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology
Aristotle University has acquired the Joint Study Committee on Clinical Research Ethics (JSCCRE). (www.clinicalresearchethics.com).
The JSCCRE was established in 2006 as a joint collaborative effort between the Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology (FAST) and the American Board of Healthcare Law and Medicine (ABHLM). The JSCCRE was formed with the goal of expanding society’s understanding of the ethical debate concerning international protections for human subjects of clinical research and experimentation throughout the world. The topic of international legal protections for human subjects of clinical research is particularly important and germane to researchers who engage in research and experimentation in the United States as well as internationally.
The Fulbright Academy of Science & Technology is an international network of individuals and institutions established by alumni of the prestigious Fulbright Exchange Program. As an organization established by alumni of that exchange program, the Academy supports the advancement of knowledge and international understanding by linking the current generation of leaders in science and technology from around the world. The American Board of Healthcare Law and Medicine is a private, research, educational organization which conducts its activities on various aspects of healthcare law, public policy, international business and international law. Because its focus has been primarily on establishing educational programs in health law, its operations have been subsumed within the AU LLM Program in Bioethics and Public Health Law and the LLM Program in International Human Rights Law.
This work in collaboration with the Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology has resulted in the creation of a database of all human rights violations against human research and experimentation subjects in the United States.
Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant Residency Program
 Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital Emergency Department The AUSPH offers the only Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program in the State of California – it does so in cooperation with the Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital Emergency Department (CPDH). This program serves not only as the only current emergency medicine physician assistant residency program in the State of California, but also as the only physician assistant residency program in the United States which will grant a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree upon completion of the twelve (12) month training program.
Currently, there are a total of forty post-graduate physician assistant residency and fellowship programs offered in the United States which are listed as accredited and are members of the Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs. The nearest approved physician assistant emergency medicine residency program is located at the University of Texas (San Antonio). The other PA emergency medicine residency programs are located at Johns Hopkins, Medical College of Georgia, and are offered by the United States Army (Texas) and the Air Force (Ohio). After one (1) year of operation, AU intends to seek accreditation of its Emergency Medicine PA Residency Program by the Association of Postgraduate Physician Assistant Programs.
|
