Congressional Staffer Jesse P Kerns - Privately Financed Travel

Jesse P Kerns, Congressional Staffer - Privately Financed Travel

	No.	Cost
Trips Taken	15	$30,208
Top Approver	15	$30,208	- Rep. Jim McDermott (-WA)
Top Sponsor	1	$5,783	- Global Health Council

View Details / PDF	Dates	Sponsor	Approver	Destination/ Purpose	Cost
	01/03/06-01/10/06	RESULTS Educational Fund	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Nairobi, Kenya To experience first-hand the progress and challenges to tuberculosis and TB and HIV control in Kenya... more	$3,041.70
	12/04/05-12/06/05	National Health Policy Forum	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Boston, MA Learn about information technology in delivering health care. Visits to a hospital and community cli... more	$1,555.00
	05/18/05-05/20/05	Council on Health Care Economics and Policy	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Princeton, NJ Attend XII Princeton Conference on National Health Care Policy titled How Will States Pay for Care?	$708.16
	05/05/05-05/08/05	Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	San Francisco, CA To learn about ASA, meet with senior staff, briefings on payment policy and outpatient surgery	$1,784.07
	04/29/05-05/01/05	Davita Inc.	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Miami, FL To learn about kidney dialysis, meet experts in the field and visit dialysis facilities	$1,638.00
	02/24/05-02/27/05	Boston Scientific Corp.	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Miami, FL To study less-invasive medicine and advances in endosurgical and cardiovascular interventions	$1,900.00
	01/07/05-01/11/05	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Los Angeles, CA Project Medical Education - a mini-medical school	$1,064.30
	08/18/04-08/25/04	Chinese International Economic Cooperative Association	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Taipei, Taiwan Fact-finding and educational visit	$4,330.00
	08/11/04-08/15/04	Gilead Sciences	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	San Francisco, CA Learn about HIV and Hepatitis B disease and treatment	$1,321.05
	06/25/04-07/01/04	Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Seattle, WA Learn about biotechnology	$1,663.19
	05/21/04-05/31/04	University of Washington	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Seattle, WA Presentation on federal health reform to Government Relations Advisory Committee; briefings with Uni... more	$538.20
	04/16/04-04/17/04	Long Term Care Pharmacy Alliance	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Tampa, FL Learn about long-term care pharmacy issues	$740.50
	02/17/04-02/20/04	Healthcare Leadership Council	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Phoenix, AZ Review health programs	$1,891.59
	01/04/04-01/13/04	Global Health Council	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	New Delhi, India - Chennai, India - ... more Review child and maternal health programs; learn about USAID funded health projects	$5,783.00
	02/19/03-02/23/03	Advanced Medical Technology Association	McDermott, Rep. Jim (-WA)	Park City, UT Seminar on medical devices	$2,249.99
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