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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Meet our guests
Gerald Mwapasa: Utilizing WhatsApp to Create Real-Time Surgical Networks with SURG-Africa
Mahmoud Hariri: Global Surgery in the Midst of the Syrian War
Zineb Bentounsi & Parisa Fallah: The Role of Students/Trainees in Global Surgery
Nobhojit Roy and Monali Mohan: Understanding Surgical Systems in Rural Bihar: A Story of the 110 Million
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
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
David Chong: Global Healthcare Delivery, Mercy Ships, and Universal Citizenship
Dominique Vervoort and Nabeel Ashraf: Health Systems, NSOAPS, and Social Media
Jim Ansara (with Guest Host Rolvix Patterson): Infrastructure, Design/Construction/Maintenance of Hospitals, Sustainability
Nadine Hachach-Haram: Augmented Reality, “Fail fast, learn early”, and Interdisciplinary teams
William Bolton and Noel Aruparayil: Gasless lift laparoscopy, Jugaad Innovation, and Research
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.