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Dr. Chris Stewart is the Director of Inpatient Pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital. He has been involved in a number of international volunteer efforts, including work in Vietnam for which he was awarded the Chancellors Award for public service in 2004. He has given numerous lectures and has administered training programs in international settings, including Asia and Central America. As a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, he is Chairperson of the Selection Committee for the Section on International Child Healths Executive Committee. He is a faculty leader for the Pediatric Leadership for Underserved (PLUS) program. He has developed UCSF training curriculum in child abuse for both residents and medical students. Dr. Stewart received his MD degree from Harvard University and completed his residency training in pediatrics at UCSF.
Between his 3rd and 4th years of medical school, Richard lived and worked in Bangkok, Thailand as a Henry Luce Scholar. He helped lead workshops in work site safety for agricultural and small enterprise workers in rural areas with the goal of helping them to make their worksites safer. Richard hopes to do program development, policy work, education, or clinical research abroad and would love to end up in Asia again one day. For his residency project, he is working with Royce Lin at SFGH on developing an HIV educational model.
The summer after his first year in medical school, Mark spent six weeks volunteering in a pediatric hospital in Dakar, Senegal. The following summer he spent six weeks in Mexico, in part rotating through a pediatrics ward and emergency room in Puebla. During his third year he completed a family medicine rotation in an Inuit town in northern Quebec, on the coast of the Hudson Bay. Finally, Mark spent a year in Ecuador conducting clinical research in tuberculosis prior to starting residency. Currently, Mark is focusing on a project to develop and implement a pediatric emergency medicine curriculum in Oaxaca. He hopes to continue to pursue medical education in developing countries as well as to serve in more acute medical settings, such as refugee camps.
Lisas global health experience includes studying barriers to care in Ecuador, working with community health workers in Guatemala, and implementing home-based rapid HIV testing for orphans in Botswana. She has also volunteered and studied in Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba, Mozambique and Uganda. In the future, Lisa hopes to work in Africa addressing child health and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She feels lucky to be beginning her career at a time with such renewed energy and passion regarding global health.
Charles has been interested in global health since college, when a post-apartheid trip to South Africa introduced him to the overwhelming health needs of that country's black majority. Before medical school, he worked in Honduras on a community health project, and in northern Mexico on a multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) control program among the indigenous Tarahumara. During medical school, he worked with Partners in Health (PIH) in Lima, Peru, on community-based programs to treat MDR-TB. He has, in addition, worked with other students, faculty, and administrators to create Columbia's first student program for Global Health Training and Education. Since beginning residency, he again worked with PIH to deliver community based care, this time in rural Haiti, and plans to return there in the coming years. His research interests include the impact of socioeconomic factors on adherence to ART and the development of viral resistance, and the effect of community health workers on adherence to therapy and outcomes among people with HIV disease.
Jessicas interests in global health include workforce development and medical education global health curriculum development. Jessica has completed ethnographic research about harm reduction care delivery amongst Australias IV drug users and sex workers and spent time in rural Kenya. She serves on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations United States of America (IFMSA-USA,) a non-profit organization that aims to expose US medical students to global health issues and facilitate collaborations with their counterparts abroad. As a resident at San Francisco General Hospital, Jessica delivers primary care to refugee and low income patients. Domestically, she also studies racial disparities in health care among diabetic adults. Through the Global Health Clinical Scholars Program, Jessica will complete a study using qualitative and quantitative measures to gauge job satisfaction among a cohort of Tanzanian resident physicians with the aim of identifying factors which propel physicians to leave their countries in search of professional development.
Tenner spent six months during medical school working in a primary care clinic administering care to underserved, impoverished residents of the pueblos surrounding Antigua, Guatemala. This experience illustrated the need for a global health perspective in the administration of health care and also inspired him to make global health a centerpiece of a career as an orthopaedic surgeon. The role of orthopaedic surgery in the global health sphere is not yet fully defined, and the relative dearth of needs-based assessments as well as preventative measures in orthopaedic trauma on a global scale certainly leaves the door open for much research. Tenner looks forward to the exciting and enriching challenge of molding a career in global orthopaedics, and he is thankful to be a part of a department that has made global health a priority among its faculty and residents.
Michelle became interested in global health during medical school, when she was able to work on malnutrition intervention projects in rural Honduras through the Shoulder to Shoulder Foundation and the Children's Nutrition Research Center. She also undertook a pediatrics HIV/AIDS clinical elective in Gaborone, Botswana. Michelle hopes to do work that will bring together her interests in pediatrics, infectious diseases, public health and epidemiology. She would like to work in China.
Prior to medical school, Prasanna spent a year abroad in Delhi, India, performing an ethnographic study at Mother Teresas Home for the Dying and Destitute that analyzed the etiology and implications of health care provision for marginalized communities by religious institutions. In medical school, he became interested in the care of HIV-infected persons, and worked with Partners in Health and the Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment Project to help develop a directly observed therapy-HAART program for patients in Boston. As a fourth year student, he spent two months at McCord Hospital in Durban, South Africa doing a medical rotation in internal medicine. Prasanna is particularly interested in HIV and infectious disease and after completing his residency, plans to pursue an infectious disease fellowship focusing on HIV and TB. His ultimate career goal is to combine clinical work and research, focusing on research that assists in the effective and timely roll out of therapeutic and preventative interventions and infrastructure development.
Ramin comes to the Clinical Scholars program with no prior international health experience, but a great desire to learn about the general options for involvement and the relevant political, financial, scientific and ethical underpinnings. In 2007 he will travel to Makerere University in Uganda to participate in a program aimed at reducing the incidence of and extent of injury from pediatric burn injuries.
Susans work in global health began prior to medical school, when she volunteered with a humanitarian aid organization in South Sudan. She continued this interest throughout medical school, earning an MPH in international health, and doing primary care work in India and Haiti. In psychiatry residency at UCSF, she started the Bay Area International Mental Health Interest Group (~300 members) and returned to Africa to work with refugees through the UCSF psychiatry research program. She is currently working with Barbara Harrell-Bond on a controlled trial of psychological trauma therapy for Darfuri refugees in Cairo with measures assessing interpersonal violence and community solidarity. Susans goal is to work full time in academic research. Her primary interest is in how psychological trauma increases the tendency toward interpersonal violence, particularly domestic violence, and how this phenomenon might destabilize communities that are attempting to recover from ethnic conflict and fuel ongoing violence.
Krista began to formulate her interest in global health during MPH coursework between the third and fourth years of medical school. In addition to non-academic international travel during that year, she completed one month in Costa Rica in an immersion Spanish program and spent time in a women's clinic in San Jose. During her fourth year of medical school, Krista participated in a tropical diseases course in Lima and Iquitos (Amazon region), Peru and also participated in an elective for MD/MPH students in CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). Following completion of residency, she hopes to participate in CDC's two-year EIS program. Eventually, Krista would like to complete a pulmonary/critical care diseases fellowship and become more involved in HIV-related pulmonary disease research and tuberculosis control and eradication, focusing her efforts toward resource-poor settings.
Nick has taken courses in global health and holds a master's in cultural anthropology from Stanford. In the Global Health Clinical Scholars Program he will participate in his first research project abroad. The "Modelos" project will evaluate three groups of practitioners and their impact on maternal mortality in Mexico. He plans to complete a fellowship in family planning, and is interested in the need for contraception in the developing world, unsafe abortion, and maternal mortality. In the future, he envisions being involved in providing direct services and capacity building in developing countries.
Jennifer has managed patients at community hospitals and HIV clinics serving townships in Cape Town, South Africa. She also developed a health education project and provided medical services to rural villages outside Quito, Ecuador and worked in the city hospital and community clinics in Sucre, Bolivia. She plans to work as a clinician in academic family medicine while incorporating her training in public health into clinical research, community program planning, and global medicine. Jennifers vision is to dedicate part of her career to clinical research to study the barriers that prevent the socially marginalized and underserved from receiving proper healthcare. As an application of this, she plans to develop effective and sustainable programs for underserved communities both locally and abroad.
Daniels interest in global health began while serving as a science teacher with the US Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean. He provided technical assistance and data analysis for evaluation of international health projects funded by USAID before attending medical school. As a Global Health Scholar at UCSF he plans to conduct research on health care delivery for children with HIV/AIDS.
Over the past year, Jennifer has worked to expand the UCSF Surgery Department's collaboration with Makerere University, Uganda, which involves both research and educational exchange of faculty and trainees. She also developed a project to implement ultrasound for the evaluation of trauma patients at Mulago Hospital She spent last July in Kampala doing a surgery rotation at Mulago Hospital and getting the research project underway. Jennifer plans to complete a fellowship in colorectal surgery, and following that pursue an academic career. She hopes to develop similar collaborations with teaching institutions in developing countries, with a focus on helping improve awareness and care for colorectal diseases.
As a medical student, Jessica led the Yale Project for Health Action, a group begun by Yale medical students to develop global health initiatives. Throughout the academic year, a core group of medical students met weekly to educate themselves about the many challenges of AIDS in South Africa, and to design a sustainable project. These efforts culminated in an HIV/AIDS education program which Jessica and two classmates taught to teenagers in rural South Africa; these students, in turn, went on to be peer educators in other local high schools. Outside of classroom efforts, the medical students worked with doctors in the local hospital, shadowing them on the wards and helping prepare the hospital to offer the first publicly available anti-retroviral therapy. Jessica also spent a month delivering primary health care in Eritrea. She would like to develop a career in global health that integrates peoples needs not merely for clinics and medicines, but for adequate supplies of water, food, and financial resources. Jessica plans to pursue a fellowship in infectious disease after residency and subsequently work within the framework of an NGO to develop and implement projects that situate the provision of health care within the context and realities of peoples lives. These projects will be clinically based, but will work with people trained in different disciplines to unify the delivery of healthcare with the delivery of other basic resources.
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