Alumni

Graduate Feature: Roy Hilzenrat

Roy Hilzenrat began his medical career at 17 years old as a first aid responder on Magen David Adom ambulances in downtown Haifa, Israel, and surrounding villages. During medical school, he participated in Medical Students for Haiti (MS4H) in which he coordinated an anatomy course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti at the time of the 2018 social […]

Graduate Feature: Kristen Stevens

      Kristen Stevens currently works in orthopaedic surgery as a Physician Assistant in Ottawa. She previously worked in Winnipeg in orthopaedics as well, and is interested in expanding her scope of practice to include global surgery and how Physician Assistants in Canada can become a part of the global surgical care community.       

Graduate Feature: Andrew Lawe

Graduate Feature: Andrew Lawe

   Andrew Lawe is a general surgeon at a regional centre in the West Kootenay Region of the British Columbia interior. He learned a great deal during the GCGSC courses and hope to use what he has learned soon in low-resource settings. He has also found that the modules have expanded his knowledge of where public […]

Graduate Feature: Suzanne Roberge

          Dr. Suzanne Roberge is an Obstetrician Gynecologist at CISSS Côte Nord Manicouagan in Baie-Comeau Québec. She is involved in global health programs with the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists  of Canada (SOGC) and the Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS). Suzanne has an interest in educational projects aimed at increasing surgical capacity […]

Graduate Feature: Jugraj Singh Chhatwal

Dr. Singh Chhatwal is originally from India where he worked as a General Surgeon both in public as well as private set ups. Thereafter he managed a Senior Secondary School (up to Grade 12). The GCGSC allowed Jugraj to reconnect with the field of surgery and has given him an insight into an absolutely different aspect […]