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Welcome New BGSC Faculty Members 2024/25!
BGSC is excited to welcome two new Faculty members who will be co-instructing our courses beginning in 2024/25! Dr. Jason McVicar will be joining SURG 518 – Surgical Care in Canada’s Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities with Global Comparisons and Dr. Ruth Vilayil will join SURG 560 – Global Surgical Care Field Practicum. Dr. McVicar […]
Global Surgery Symposium 2024: Teaching Surgical Skills for Medical Deserts
The Global Surgery Lab’s recent symposium provided an excellent platform for discussing the challenges and opportunities in surgical training for multidisciplinary healthcare providers in low-resource settings. With over 120 participants from around the world, both in-person and virtually, the event explored and compared the delivery of surgical care programs for medical deserts on a global […]
Publication Feature: Chronic schistosomiasis infection and obstetric fistula repair outcomes in Lubango, Angola: A retrospective chart review
Dr. Esther Chin (our MGSC alumni), along with Annelise Olson, Stephen Foster, Steven Arrowsmith, and Andrew Browning, have recently published the results of a study to develop contextually-appropriate enhanced recovery after surgery recommendations for children undergoing resection for Wilms tumours in a low-resource setting. This study was based on Dr. Chin’s final MGSC project as part of SURG […]
Faculty Spotlight: Emily Schaeffer
Dr. Emily Schaeffer is instructor of SURG 517: Clinical Research Methods for Surgical Procedures with Global Surgical Comparisons. Dr. Emily Schaeffer is a Research Associate with the UBC Department of Orthopaedics and Research Director for Pediatric Orthopaedics at BC Children’s Hospital. After seeing her grandfather struggle with Parkinson’s disease, she decided in high school to […]
Thank you Dr. Peter O’Brien and Dr. Dan Poenaru
Please join us in extending sincere thanks and gratitude for Dr. Peter O’Brien’s and Dr. Dan Poenaru’s contributions to the Branch for Global Surgical Care over the years. They have been instrumental in helping guide our learners on their understanding of designing and implementing a global surgical care research project and alleviating the global burden […]