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.
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Past Rounds
| Year | Series | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 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 |
| 2022 | 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 |