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Surgical Suites Grand Rounds at BC Children’s Hospital and 1st Annual Fraser Lectureship Surgical Rounds at VGH, July 22 & 23

You are invited to Surgical Suites Grand Rounds on Tuesday, July 22nd, from 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM, at the Chan Centre for Family Health Education, located at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute. This Grand Rounds session will be held in person only, with the goal of fostering greater engagement and encouraging in-person attendance, but a recording of the rounds will be available after the rounds. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided after the rounds, so please join us! Presentation details are below:

 

Past Rounds

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 07:00 AM to 08:00 AM

Topic: Pediatric Surgery in Uganda

Presenters:

• Dr. Sister Mary Margaret Ajiko, General Surgeon, Soroti Regional Hospital, Uganda & Adjunct Professor, UBC

Bio:

Dr. Sister Mary Margaret Ajiko joined Makerere University as a government-sponsored student and received her first degree in October 2000, where Sister Margaret went on to do medical training, with an internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital Nsambia-Kampala.  She then worked as Medical Superintendent at Kitovu Hospital in Masaka, and then completed her MSc in Surgery at Makerere University. Dr. Sister Margaret Ajiko was posted again at Kitovu Hospital in Masaka.  She was actively involved in teaching medical students, became an Executive member of the Association of Surgeons of Uganda, and served as Assistant Editor. Today, Dr. Ajiko serves in a rural setting as a Consultant Surgeon at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital as a general surgeon often caring for patients presenting with a breadth of surgical conditions across orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, paediatric surgery, urology, and ENT. Sister Margaret performs her medical/surgical duties with joy, while advancing academics with medical students, interns and registrars.  Dr. Ajiko has proudly supervised more than 25 summer students from UBC as part of the Soroti Children’s Project.

View Recording: 

(Please note due to technical issues there is no audio until the 10:15 mark)

 

Past Rounds

Year	Series	Topic	Speaker
2023	OPSEI Rounds	Pediatric Surgery in Uganda	Dr. Sister Mary Margaret Ajiko
	Department of Surgery Grand Rounds	A Pediatric Surgeon’s Perspective on Providing Surgical Care During War	Dr. Shahrzad Joharifard
2022	Department of Surgery Grand Rounds	Skirmish to Scars – The History of Surgery in Warfare	Dr. Matthew Boroditsky
	Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds	Implementing a CBME Essential Surgical Skills Curriculum in South Sudan: A UBC – MSF Partnership	Dr. Shahrzad Joharifard
2021	OPSEI Academic Rounds	Master of Global Surgical Care Alumni Presentations	Dr. Anise Barton, Dr. Ryan Falk, Dr. Godfrey Sama Philipo
	Department of Surgery Rounds	The Global Surgery Lab – leveraging the passion of a multidisciplinary, diverse and inclusive group to improve knowledge and access to surgical care	Dr. Emilie Joos and Students from the Global Surgery Lab
2020	Chung Lectureship	Something to Imagine: Equity in Pediatric Surgery	Dr. Melanie Morris
2018	BISC Mexico Global Surgery Rounds	Trauma and Global Surgical Care	Martha Talbot, Dr. DeMian Trueba, Dr. Lu Yin, Dr. Caroline Huyhn
	BISC Rounds	The Role of Research in Low-Resource Surgical Care Program Globally	Dr. Peter O’Brien, Dr. David Stockton, Micael Cancilla, Trina Stephens, Dr. Geoff Blair, Arlene Muzira, Emily Kakanda
2017	BISC Rounds	Global Surgical Care Rounds Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be	Dr. Mark Hill
	Department of Radiology Grand Rounds	Global Surgical Care: Partnerships between Surgery and Radiology in Low-Resource Settings	Dr. Brian Westerberg and Dr. Pete Tonseth
2016	Department of Surgery Grand Rounds	Models of Sustainability: Surgical Care in Low Resource Settings	Dr. Eleanor Reimer, Dr. Jana MacLeod, Dr. Sheona Mitchell-Foster, and Dr. Mark Hill
	Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery Academic Presentation	Global Health Surgery	Dr. Robert Taylor
	Department of Surgery	General Surgery Residence Research Symposium Presentation on International Opportunities (Dec)	Dr. Robert Taylor
	Department of Surgery	General Surgery Residence Research Symposium Presentation on International Opportunities (Apr)	Dr. Robert Taylor
2015	BISC Rounds	Surgical Care Training: Challenges in Low-Resource Settings	Dr. Brian Westerberg, Dr. David Fairholm, Dr. Geoff Blair, and Dr. Paul Dubord
2014	BISC Rounds	Accessing High-Resource Technology in a Low-Resource Setting: A Round Table Discussion	Dr. Brian Westerberg and Dr. Phyllis Kisa
2012	BISC Rounds	The Toll of Cervical Cancer in the Developing World	Dr. Dianne Miller and Dr. Flora Teng
	BISC Rounds	Emergency Response in Humanitarian Disasters Globally: Coordination not Chaos	Dr. Hossam Elsharkawi and Dr. Ross Brown
2011	BISC Rounds	Teaching Surgery in Kabul, Afghanistan Today’s Challenge and Wider Implications	Dr. Ken Foster and Dr. Karim Qayumi
	BISC Rounds	Global Disability in Surgical Care: Exploring the issues and challenges	Dr. Nancy Van Laeken and Dr. Norgrove Penny
	International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery	Women for Women Program	Dr. Nancy Van Laeken
	OPSEI Annual Lectureship	What a Difference a Decade Made: International Surgery’s Evolving Mandate	Dr. Robert Taylor
2010	BISC Rounds	Zambia: A Collaborative Approach to Surgical Education	Dr. Gary O’Connor
	BISC Rounds	The Next Waves of International Health Initiatives: Our Residents share their Recent Global Work International Surgery	Dr. Sonia Yeung and Dr. Michael Goodwin
	BISC Rounds	International Surgery – Anesthesia	Dr. Brian Warriner
	BISC Rounds	Global Health Scholars	Dr. Siu-Kae Yeong and Dr. Flora TeDr. Kevin Bushng
	BISC Rounds	Plastic Surgery – Uganda