We are a diverse and engaged community, hosting monthly meetings that bring together members to share updates, ideas, and opportunities. Explore our upcoming and past events to see what’s happening at the Global Surgery Lab.
Mark your calendar for our Global Surgery Lab Monthly Meeting on the first Tuesday of each month! Connect with the community to hear the latest from the Global Surgery Lab, explore project updates, learn about current research highlights, and engage with fellow members. Contact us to be added to our members list, where we’ll share the online invite link.
Location: Online
Date & Time: First Tuesday of each month (unless otherwise stated) — 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM PST
Past Events
Global Surgery Lab is excited to welcome five Guyanese surgical trainees visiting Vancouver as part of our partnership with Georgetown Medical School! Join us for a lunch with the visiting residents and Global Surgery Lab members to connect, share stories, and discuss innovative ways to deliver specialist surgical care in rural and remote settings.
Location: Room DHCC 10207 at Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Center (2775 Laurel St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9)
Date & Time: Monday, November 24, 2025 — 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM PST
We are honored to welcome Dr. Malick Diallo, who will be visiting us this month! Dr. Diallo is an orthopedic surgeon based in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. Join us as he shares his experiences and presents his important work in orthopedic surgery, offering valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities in global surgical care.
Location: Room DHCC 11268 at Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Center (2775 Laurel St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9)
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2025 — 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM PDT
Join us for an inspiring evening with Dr. Emilie Joos, Canadian trauma surgeon, surgical educator, and co-director of the Global Surgery Lab at UBC. Dr. Joos will share her experiences working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as an acute care surgeon in resource-limited settings.
This event, hosted by Friends of MSF UBC, is a unique opportunity to learn firsthand about the challenges and rewards of delivering surgical care on the front lines of humanitarian work.
Location: UBC Vancouver Campus, Henry Angus Building (ANGU), Room 350
Date & Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2025 — 6:00 PM PDT
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 scale.
MAIN TOPICS
- Global Surgery Training at Baylor University: An Innovative Approach
- The Global Surgery Foundation: SurgHUB
- Training General Surgeons in Africa: Views from Two Generations of Program Directors
- The International Surgical Training Program: Upskilling surgeons to work in MSF Contexts
- Rapid Fire Poster Presentations
- Surgical Simulation Models for Low-Resource Settings
- Opportunities for Training in Different Contexts
- Perspectives on Training Surgeons, Nurses, and Midwives in High Income and Low-Income Environments
One attendee provided the following feedback in a survey sent out after the event:
The diversity of perspectives provided a much more in-depth understanding of the complex issue and various approaches to address this. Additionally, the opportunity to connect with like-minded folks was incredibly appreciated.
Stay tuned for upcoming events where we continue to explore improving surgical education worldwide! Find the full report of the event here.
From left to right: Dr. Jim Brown, Dr. Rachel Davis, Dr. Moses Kasumba, Dr, Inga Osmers
Global Surgery Symposium 2023: Improving Access to Surgical Services in BC
The first annual Global Surgery Symposium took place on Friday, April 28th 2023 in a hybrid format. The theme of the event was Improving Access to Surgical Services in BC, highlighting the interprofessional experiences of ESS and OSS certified physicians. The symposium featured presentations about rural surgery from experts and learners alike. Our goal was to bring individuals passionate about equitable surgical care together, to discuss the current state of rural surgical care in BC, and to form relationships across disciplines and geographic regions. Rather than agenda-driven, this meeting aimed to be an agenda-generating one.
