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 Seven
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Dr. Zachary Enumah: Refugee Health Systems, Ethical Surgical Care, Innovation in Resource-Limited Settings
Dr. Myron Rolle: Positions of Power, Neurosurgery in the Caribbean, and Public Health Education Models
Dr. Metasebia Abebe: Complex Plastic and Reconstructive Care, Effects of Climate Change, and International Fellowships for LMIC Surgeons
Episode 52: Ethics of Storytelling, Valid Consent, and Power Dynamics between the Creator and Subject
Ms. Rowa Taha and Dr. Gladys Ngondo: Hand Trauma in Malawi, Building Collaborative Partnerships, and Empowering Local Trainees
Global Scalpels: Season Six
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Dr. Marci Bowers (and Guest Host, Ayla Gerk): Gender Affirming Surgeon, Advocate for Transgender Surgical Education, And Pioneer in Gender Reassignment Surgery
Joel Bervell: Using TikTok to Teach and Tackle, Racial Bias in Medicine, and Empowering Next Generations
Stephen Orr: Diversity & Inclusion, Implicit Bias in Surgery, and Care of LGBTQ+ Patients and Providers
Dr. Anita Makins: Cultural Sensitivity, Women’s Health Education, and Sustainable Project Planning
Thomas Monaghan: Deficit of Biomedical Engineers, Optimizing Machines, and Distribution of Supplies
Dr. Clifton Ewbank: Climate-Conscious Healthcare Practices and Reducing Medicine’s Environmental Impact
Dr. Shahrzad Joharifard: Surgery in Conflict Zones, Supply Chain Disruptions, and Anti-Racism in Healthcare
Dr. Kiran Agarwal-Harding: Research-Driven Innovation, GPS Transportation Barriers, and Cost-Effective Devices
Global Scalpels: Season Five
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Dr Jim Johnston (w/ Guest Host Daniel Lowe) – Coral Reef Networking, Facilitating regional LMIC collaboration, Perseverance. Cost-Effective Solutions
Alison Fussell and Drew Reynolds: “Social Work, Biospychosocial. Affortable Surgery, Anti-colonialism”
Dr. Paola Fata: “Resident Wellbeing, Education, and Surgical Workforce Planning”
Professor Kokila Lakhoo: Global Paediatric Surgery, Optimal Resources for Children’s Care, and Systems-Based Advocacy
Dr Bukola “Bukky” Oluyide & Charity Kamau: Noma, Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Social/Anthropological Causes of Disease
Dr. Fabio Botelho: “Virtual Reality, Children’s Trauma Care, & Cost-Effective Solutions”
Dr. George Dyer: “Donation Overload in Global Surgery, Surgical Care in an Earthquake, and Rejecting Global Surgical Trash”
Priyanka Naidu & Zachary Collier: Hackathons, Developing Apps for Surgical Education, and Global Reconstructive Surgery
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
Dr Lina Roa and Lotta Velin: A two-way relationship between surgery and climate change
Garreth Wood: CONTINUE PAEDIATRIC CARE BEYOND VACCINES. DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN SUSTAINABILITY AND DEPENDENCE.
CHIDIEBERE IBE: “#AMIDIVERSE ATTAINABILITY, PATIENT EDUCATION”
Dr Adriana Serna: General-Thoracic Surgeon, LifeBox’s Surgical Safety Checklist in Colombia
DR CHRISTINA DEJEAN SORAY “BRINGING LMIC SOLUTIONS TO HIC. CLINICALLY SOLVING PROBLEMS. GENDER AWARENESS. IMPORTANCE OF A STRONG TEAM”
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 completed his medical education at Yale School of Medicine in the United States followed by a business degree from The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He then went on to complete orthopaedic surgery resident at the Harvard Combined program with an emphasis on increasing access to orthopaedic care on a global scale. He is currently an Adult Reconstruction Fellow at Columbia University in New York City. He has ongoing work 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.