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Chiles Center Expert Speaker's Bureau The Chiles Center can provide speakers to cover a wide variety of topics about our favorite subject -- keeping mothers and babies healthy and happy. Call us at (813) 974-8888 for more information. Awards, Recognitions and Special Events  The lecture was sponsored by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Mahan and Taylor Ikin, Watercolor Artist, Planned Parenthood, Global Partners and Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida
Elsimar Metzker Coutinho, MD Born and educated (pharmacy, biochemistry and medicine) in Brazil, Dr. Coutinho studied peptide hormones and hormone action under a fellowship at the Sorbonne in Paris and then a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology at the Rockefeller Institute in New York under Csapo and Corner. He became research director at the Maternity Hospital of the Federal University of Bahia where he discovered the long-acting contraceptive action of medroxy-progesterone acetate (Depo Provera). His work and interest in implant contraception has continued for many years with contributions to improvements in intrauterine devices and vaginal contraception as well as male contraceptives. He has done extensive research and publication on fallopian tube and uterine physiology which led to development of techniques to detect ovulation and record ovarian contractility. He founded the Center for Research and Assistance in Human Reproduction (CePARH), the first family planning institution supported by the community and which provides services, including infertility treatment, for the poor in Brazil. Currently he is Full professor and head of the Department of Maternal Health at the Federal University of Bahia. He is also Head of the Clinical Research Center of the World Health Organization in Salvador. A public figure in Brazil and Latin America, he has promoted family planning, reproductive health and sex education directly to the public over the last fifteen years through a weekly, one-hour television and radio program, as well as through talks to communities all over Brazil. Charles S. Mahan, M.D., has been named winner of APHA's 2004 Martha May Eliot Award winner, which honors exceptional achievements in the filed of maternal and child health.
A West Virginian, he received his MD degree from Northwestern and did his residency training at the University of Minnesota where he returned to join the faculty. He moved to Florida in 1974 to be Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Ambulatory Services for Women at the University of Florida and Director of the North Central Florida Maternal and Infant Care Program. He directed the State Health Department in Florida from 1988 to 1995 and was Dean of the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida from 1995 to 2002. He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni of West Virginia University and presented The Byford Outstanding Alumnus Award by Northwestern University Medical School. He is Past President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials and Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1997-2003. He is on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Childbearing Centers, the Frontier Nursing Service, the National Perinatal Information Center, the Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida, and also serves on the HHS Bright Futures for Women’s Health and Wellness Committee. ________________________________________________
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