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We encourage and welcome current and future alumni to stay in touch and get involved in the Branch. Our alumni include residents, surgeons and health professionals that are passionate about improving surgical care in low income settings. Who are our alumni? Here are a few profiles of our alumni and their international endeavours.Over 80 students from around the world have either now completed or are enrolled in our courses.
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Brian Cameron, MD, FRCSC
A surgery alumnus of UBC, Dr Cameron is a Pediatric Surgeon at McMaster Children’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
His current international work is in Guyana. See the CAGS - Guyana Project http://www.cags-accg.ca/cagsaccg.php?page=120. He Chairs CAGS International Surgery and is also an active participant in the annual Bethune Roundtable. |
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Warren Terry, MD, FRCSC
Currently working with disabled children at the Cure Children's Hospital in Honduras as well as Kenya. His focus is capacity building to treat disabled children in low resource areas. He is keen to pursue a Masters in International Surgery when it becomes available. Read more: http://www.helpcurenow.org/atf/cf/%7BB2D46E45-F4A9-4FA7-A241-DBFC8297818A%7D/hondarus%20release.pdf |
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Bryan Wells, MD
A third year General Surgery Resident at the University of Toronto and also completing an M.Sc. in International Technology Assessment. He intends to go overseas following his residency. He is very much interested in learning about the actual delivery of surgical care in poorer regions of the world. |
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Brett Mador
I'm Brett Mador, a first year general surgery resident here at UBC. My experience in international health includes 4 weeks in Ghana for a medical school elective as well as work with an international health outreach group in undergrad. I am taking this course in hopes of delineating my future plans regarding international surgery. It has always been an interest of mine, though the exact capacity in which I want to integrate it into my future remains unclear. |
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Nathan O'Hara
I am a program coordinator at the Office for Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation (OPSEI) at BC Children's Hospital and with the Dept. of Orthopaedics at UBC. For the past couple years, I have been coordinating two surgical training programs, both based out of Uganda. As well, I have been involved in the creation of a community program in Rusinga Island, Kenya that focuses on food security and female education that is now into its fourth year. I'm looking forward to increasing my knowledge of the various approaches to international surgery and excited about the opportunity to apply what I learn in this class to the programs that I am working on now. |
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Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH
An Anesthesiologist, based in Arizona, Kelly coordinates the Global Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group. She is a Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a long time humanitarian worker. Her interest in international surgery originates in the real surgical and anesthesia crisis that exists in low and middle income countries. |
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Dr. Jola Omole, PGY4 (Gen Surg)
From: McMaster University’s International Surgery Desk-Newsletter, October 2010 Jola took SURG 510 in January 2010.
Access to basic health care interventions has increasingly been the focus of global health, but essential surgical services have not. However, in recent years surgery has been recognized as an indispensable part of global health. This is mainly due to the inclusion of Surgeons, Anesthesiologists and other global health advocates in the prioritization of basic health care needs to address the global burden of surgical disease.
Indispensable to the shift in paradigm is educating future leaders in surgical care. SURG 510 offered by UBC Branch for International Surgery is an entirely online graduate level course that is a unique in Canada. It establishes an essential foundation to the emerging discipline of international surgery to future leaders in the field of international surgical care.
The 12-week curriculum was implemented using nine modules with three assignments for submission and review, as well as readings and exercises and online discussion. The online discussion was pivotal in the course as it broadened our understanding of the concepts in the course material and it provided a forum in which to share experiences and generate new ideas that can be implemented in future endeavors.
In completion of the course I expanded my understanding of the global status of unmet surgical need and developed new perspectives on the continuum of involvement in international surgical care and the ethical issues that are inseparable from global surgical care. Finally, it became evident that a commitment to delivery of basic health care that embraces surgical care in low and middle socio-economic countries is not philanthropic idealism or an ethical rhetoric, but a legitimate international obligation and should be tenet in any international health policy. |
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Danielle MacNeil (OTL)
Dr. MacNeil
has now started her Head & Neck Fellowship at University of Alberta, Edmonton and has been awarded the Lavell H. Leeson Award. This award is awarded each year at graduation for the UBC OTL resident achieving the highest academic standing throughout the year. Congrats to Danielle!
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Trevor Hartl (PGY3 Otolaryngology)
Dr. Hartl has been awarded The Glen P. Kong Award, presented each year at graduation to a resident for the best research project presented both at the P.J. Doyle Research evening and also at the annual Canadian Society of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery meeting. |
If you would like to stay in touch with an alumni member please send us an email to surgery.international@ubc.ca. |
