Throughout the World, 5 Billion People Lack Access to Safe And Affordable Surgical Care…
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, lack of access to adequate healthcare has put millions of lives at risk. Learn about the global surgery crisis and the inspirational women and men who are making strides toward creating a world where EVERYONE has access to the surgical care they need
Join Us As We Highlight These Heroes Tackling the Field of Global Surgery.
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Global Scalpels: Season Four
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Dr Katayoun Madani and Dr Joffre Guzman: “UTILISING STRENGTHS WITHIN A TEAM, INEQUITY HAS MANY FORMS, LANGUAGE BARRIERS IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION”
Prof Salome Maswime (w/ Guest Host Daniel Lowe): “HEALTH SYSTEMS ARE SICK, DIVERSITY IN GLOBAL SURGERY, SOUTH-SOUTH EXCHANGES”
Cecilia Chitayi: NURSE ANAESTHETIST, MIDWIFE, IMPACT AFRICA SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT, ADVOCATE FOR MENTORSHIP AND IMPROVING ANAESTHESIA SUPPLY CHAINS
Global Scalpels: Season Three
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Dr Godfrey Sama: Public Health, Advisory vs Advocacy Work, and Interpersonal Communication
Marc DuBois: Political neutrality and the challenges humanitarian action, Power Dynamics, Legal Ethics, and Accountability
Dr Pierre Marie Woolley: Translating lessons learned in the 2010 Haitian Earthquake disaster to the COVID-19 pandemic, aid communication and surgical education
Dr Kee Park: North Korean Surgical Insights, Geopolitical Healthcare Diplomacy, and Guardians of the Global Peace
Professor Papaarangi Reid: Māori Healthcare, Racial-ethnic concordance, Opportunity Distribution, and Keeping Government Accountable
Dr Edward Fitzgerald: Lean Methodology, Reducing Waste, Equitable Research Partnerships, and Golden Thread of Change
Professor Mamta Swaroop: RIPPLE EFFECT, GLOBAL SURGERY IS ANYWHERE THERE IS HEALTH INEQUITY, STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT
Dr Andres Rubiano: “INTERNATIONAL VS LOCAL SUPPORT, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA, INTERSECTION BETWEEN POLITICS AND HEALTH, EDUCATION TRAINING”
Global Scalpels: Season Two
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Dr Jean Christophe: Family Planning, Public Health, Road Traffic Safety, and Being Part of the Solution
Andrew Bonneau: Frugal Innovation, Environmentally Friendly Invention, and Technology Designed for the Low-resource Setting
Dr. David Chong: Global Healthcare Delivery, Mercy Ships, and Universal Citizenship
Dr Dominique Vervoort and Dr Nabeel Ashraf: Health Systems, NSOAPS, and Social Media
Jim Ansara (with Guest Host Dr Rolvix Patterson): Infrastructure, Design/Construction/Maintenance of Hospitals, Sustainability
Dr Nadine Hachach-Haram: Augmented Reality, “Fail fast, learn early”, and Interdisciplinary teams
Dr William Bolton and Dr Noel Aruparayil: Gasless lift laparoscopy, Jugaad Innovation, and Research
Dr Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo: COVID-19 in Madagascar, Physicians in Government, Public and Rural Health
Global Scalpels: Season One
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Dr Rishi Rattan: Disaster Relief Training, The White House, and Kurdish Controlled Iraq
Gerald Mwapasa: Utilizing WhatsApp to Create Real-Time Surgical Networks with SURG-Africa
Dr Mahmoud Hariri: Global Surgery in the Midst of the Syrian War
Dr Zineb Bentounsi & Dr Parisa Fallah: The Role of Students/Trainees in Global Surgery
Dr Nobhojit Roy and Dr Monali Mohan: Understanding Surgical Systems in Rural Bihar: A Story of the 110 Million
Dr Jacquelyn Corely: Gender Equity in Global Surgery and Forbes.com
Anant Jani: Value Based Healthcare and Social Determinants of Health: Efforts of a Non-Clinican
Walter Ulrich: Global Supply Chain of Medical Devices and Surgical Equipment
Riana Patel
Riana is a core surgical trainee working in England. She graduated from Barts and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry in 2017, and subsequently worked as an Academic Foundation Doctor in the Oxford Global Surgery Group from 2017-2019. She has also done extensive volunteer work particularly in a paediatric surgery partnership with a Tanzanian hospital.
Taylor Ottesen
Taylor is a 4th-year medical student at Yale School of Medicine in the United States and currently finishing an MBA at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He currently works with several organizations to expand healthcare access and understanding including the World Health Organization, National Health Service (UK), Ukrainian Institute on Public Health and Policy, Doctors Without Borders, and Siemens Healthineers.