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Dr. Chris Stewart is the Director of Inpatient Pediatrics at San Francisco General Hospital. He has been involved in a number of international volunteer efforts, including work in Vietnam for which he was awarded the Chancellors Award for public service in 2004. He has given numerous lectures and has administered training programs in international settings, including Asia and Central America. As a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, he is Chairperson of the Selection Committee for the Section on International Child Healths Executive Committee. He is a faculty leader for the Pediatric Leadership for Underserved (PLUS) program. He has developed UCSF training curriculum in child abuse for both residents and medical students. Dr. Stewart received his MD degree from Harvard University and completed his residency training in pediatrics at UCSF.
Joy became interested in medicine and global health while volunteering at a rural hospital in Zimbabwe as part of a study abroad program in college. She then took a year off and volunteered on Mercy Ships in Sierra Leone and The Gambia, officially working in the ship's galley while spending her free time with the medical outreach teams to the local villages. After her first year of medical school, she returned to Zimbabwe and participated in a research project involving an innovative adolescent reproductive health intervention aimed at reducing the rates of teenage pregnancy, STI's and HIV/AIDS. Also during medical school, she traveled to Rwanda and worked in the pediatric, obstetric, and surgical departments of a rural hospital, learning good quality medicine in a low-income setting from the local Congolese and Rwandan doctors. She hopes to return to Africa in the future for a career involving clinical medicine, public health and local education.
Alex spent three months during medical school working on the general surgery service in St. Petersburg, Russia, in a setting of nationalized healthcare system, where access to any technological advancement is limited by each patient's ability to "pay extra". As part of his career as an academic surgeon, he is planning to spend a portion of his time on achieving self-sustainable primary surgical care in parts of the 3rd-world by training local healthcare workers and civilians in the level-appropriate techniques and procedures. In 2007-2008, he will travel to Uganda to work on a research collaboration with the Makerere University, to study pre-hospital trauma care of injured patients.
Nerys Benfield is a global lady and, as an ob/gyn third year resident, has a strong interest in global health. She holds a degree in social theory from Harvard University and has worked internationally researching maternal to child transmission of HIV in Guatemala. Nerys is excited to put her plans to the test and engage in solid international health discourse. She is most interested in obstetric fistulas, both their repair and prevention, as well as the crucial importance of affordable and accessible contraception as a human health and rights issue.
Cyndi's interest in international health began during a year-long study abroad experience in Quito, Ecuador during her undergraduate nursing studies. She subsequently conducted ethnographic research in rural Zambia, then went on to gain clinical nursing experience in several large Emergency Departments in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She has since volunteered at church-affiliated mobile clinics in Mexico and downtown Los Angeles, and written grants and nursing protocols for several public health organizations in India. After graduate school, Cyndi hopes to work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist with Mexican immigrants and migrant workers in California, on issues surrounding HIV/AIDS and female empowerment.
Kohar first became interested in global health during her first year in college, in which she spent 3 months in Armenia working at a Pediatric Burn Center. After graduating, she returned to Armenia as a member of the Armenian Volunteer Corps. Kohar became intricately involved in developing training and education modules in the areas of Maternal and Infant Health for rural villages in Armenia and the war torn enclave of Nagorno Karabagh. She also collaborated with several NGOs to research health disparities and to strategize about implementing public health campaigns in a country where none existed. During medical school, she also spent time in Swaziland, working in an HIV/AIDS hospital in Steki.
Kainne was raised in Nigeria and experienced firsthand the devastating effects of poor health. Determined to make a difference, she decided on a career in medicine and public health, hoping to reduce the high rates of morbidity and mortality of preventable diseases in endemic areas. During medical school, she spent time doing clinical electives in Lagos, Nigeria, which exposed her to the local healthcare system and the need for well trained physicians in developing countries. Her research interests include increasing access and ensuring adherence to antiretroviral regimens among HIV infected individuals in resource-limited settings. She is currently doing a residency in internal medicine, after which she hopes to partake in the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service program and also undergo fellowship training in infectious diseases. Her goals are to combine clinical care, research and coordinate public health efforts focused on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sean became interested in global health in high school when he volunteered in Michoacan, Mexico with the nonprofit organization Amigos de las Americas to promote health awareness and community sanitation in rural Mexico. He has continued to work with Spanish-speaking families through various organizations during college, medical school, and residency. He is interested in researching urologic needs in underserved areas and promoting the reduction of morbidity and mortality from both benign and malignant urologic conditions in these areas.
Samantha first became interested in international health during college when she spent a summer in Chiapas, Mexico doing fieldwork for her social anthropology thesis. Later on, in medical school, she spent two winters abroad doing clinical work, first in Guatemala and the following year, in Colombia. In Guatemala, she worked in rural health clinics, caring for women and children. In Colombia, she worked in a pediatric emergency room in one of Medellín's public hospital and then with a foundation caring for children with HIV/AIDS in Cali. She's considering pursuing a pediatric emergency room fellowship and plans on continuing to be involved in Latin America over the course of her career.
During medical school, Reena investigated generic antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatment outcomes in Uganda and worked to expand the Family Treatment Fund which provides free antiretroviral therapy to HIV-positive individuals in Mbarara, Uganda. She also worked with the Centers for Disease Control in Guatemala and designed a study evaluating the impact of a government health education program on HIV/AIDS knowledge and health behaviors among commercial sex workers. While in Boston, she worked with the Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) Project, a Partners in Health organization, to help develop a directly observed ART program for HIV-positive patients. During college, Reena received a Bates fellowship to study the impact of various policies of the Family Planning Association of India on reproductive rights among women in rural Gujurat, India. Reena is interested in HIV primary care and the opportunities that scale-up of antiretroviral therapy has created for developing models and systems of care to expand primary care infrastructure. She would like to pursue a career in program development for the delivery of high quality primary care in developing countries and be involved in clinical research to evaluate the efficacy of these programs.
Kevin's interests in global health began while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in a rural town in Cameroon, Central Africa. Working in a local hospital he began to understand firsthand the burden people living in rural areas face with infectious disease, lack of sanitation and access to healthcare. He also taught HIV-AIDs education during his assignment as a high school science teacher. Kevin is looking forward to exploring many aspects of global health and is interested in access to healthcare in rural areas, providing sustainable healthcare through provider education and also working with refugee populations.
Felicia's interest in international health started when she studied abroad during high school. Her interest continued through college where she developed a major in International Health. During that time, she researched health development projects in Mexico, child nutrition projects in Guatemala, and Adolescent reproductive health and sex work in Cuba. During medical school, Felicia received a grant from the Center for Human Rights and the University of Michigan Population Fellows Program to conduct reproductive health research in Cambodia. This research was used as the basis of her MPH thesis. She returned to Cambodia in May of 2005 to conduct further research in this area. During her third year of medical school, she took research time to co-author a paper on pregnancy among young, married adolescents for a WHO/Population Council meeting and publication. She has co-authored two other publications with her mentor, Suellen Miller. One on fistula in developing countries, and the other on new technologies for controlling post-partum hemorrhage in low-resource settings. During her final year in medical school, she went to Egypt to work on a study of the Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG), a devise used to control post-partum hemorrhage. Her interest now continues in maternal and child health, with a focus on maternal mortality, emergency obstetrical care and reproductive healthcare in low-resource settings.
Hema's interest in global health stemmed from her many experiences in children's health and welfare in the United States. While studying political science and health disparities of local immigrant populations during college, she developed her interest in a rights-based approach to health care. She then spent a year working in South Africa for a local children's health and human rights organization focused on violence and injury prevention. During medical school, she founded the University of Pennsylvania's first student-run global health program through a community partnership with a local HIV/AIDS hospice in Gaborone, Botswana. She also conducted research examining the health-seeking behavior of adolescents in Gaborone for STD symptoms, in relation to their level of HIV knowledge and rate of HIV testing. Now doing her pediatric residency at UCSF, Hema hopes to address the needs of marginalized populations through a career in health and human rights based on patient care, community-based research, and activism.
Ayonija's interest in health in low income countries began early when as a refugee of the Gulf war in Kuwait, she was exposed to deep gender-based inequities in healthcare in India, her country of origin. Moved by those experiences, she began shadowing health care providers catering to women's health in rural India as a teenager, and later incollege in the United States, worked directly with survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Her interest in gender based violence peaked when she had the opportunity to research the healthcare and health needs of women and girls trafficked for sexual servitude in India. The unique role of gender in determining the health needs of women and its impact on healthcare delivery became the focus of her studies in public health school. As a global health scholar during residency, she hopes to continue to work in the field of gender based violence through continued research, program development, and advocacy efforts in sex trafficking.
Ana Miranda Maldonado was born in San Salvador, El Salvador and immigrated to the U.S. with her family at the age of four. She grew up mostly in the Los Angeles area, and attended college at USC. While in college she participated in two public health research projects, one examining the effects of allergens on the respiratory health of Latino children and another project examining maternal health in the small village of Tocachi outside of Quito, Ecuador. While in medical school, she participated in a month long clinical Infectious Diseases rotation in Mumbia,, India. She is currently a resident in the Primary Care Internal Medicine at SFGH and has an interest in working with immigrant, primarily Spanish speaking patient populations. She plans on ultimately working in a community clinic setting in Los Angeles in the areas of advocacy and program development on behalf of Central Americans in the U.S. as well as in her native El Salvador.
Gabriela was born in Honduras and was raised all over Central America and the Caribbean. She then came to the USA to continue her education but kept up her interest Latin American health issues. During college, she traveled back to Honduras and worked with local doctors who collaborated with medical mission teams from all over the United States and Europe. She also interned at WHO headquarters in Geneva. While in medical school, she traveled with a medical team from Virginia to rural Honduras. She is now working on establishing an educational relationship between UCSF and the national medical school of Honduras.
Meg's nascent interest in global health and health equity issues was strengthened during medical school through involvement in the Yale Health and Human Rights Committee, a student group affiliated with the national group Physicians for Human Rights that believes that human rights are essential preconditions for the health and well-being of all people and that health professionals are uniquely qualified to promote health by protecting human rights. She led HHRC as a second-year student, collaborating with other concerned students and physician activists on issues such as landmines and the global HIV pandemic. Wanting to seek out more hands-on experiences in global health, she spent a "5th year" of medical school traveling in the developing world, which included medical work in the Indian Himalayas, Eritrea and Honduras.
Tammy's global health interest began during her junior year of her undergraduate degree when she spent a summer in Thailand studying community health and HIV/AIDS. After college, Tammy joined the Peace Corps and served in Madagascar and South Africa. While in Southern Africa, she focused on community and home health. Currently, she is a second year student at UCSF in the Advanced Community Health and International Nursing program with a focus in HIV/AIDS. Tammy plans to serve underserved populations both domestically and internationally in primary care and program development.
Ginelle's global health interests began while serving as a translator with a medical team at La Buena Fe, a community clinic outside of San Pedro Sula, Honduras. She revisited the area, as a dentist and served at El Refugio, a Honduran orphanage, where she focused on dental care and education. This second trip inspired Ginelle to organize a benefit concert, whose proceeds support the health care needs of El Refugio children. As a pediatric dentistry resident, Ginelle is interested in raising awareness to children's oral health needs and related quality of life issues while providing education and service on local and international levels.
Nora is a second year masters student in the school of nursing pursuing the Advanced Community Health and International Nursing Clinical Nurse Specialist track. She has been a nurse for 6 years and received her bachelor of science of nursing from USF in 2001. After completing 2.5 years in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic she was sure she wanted to dedicate her career to global and public health. In the Peace Corps her projects included an HIV/AIDS peer education youth group, establishment of a clinic/community center in her community and multiplication of health education with health promoters in the region. She is dedicated to working with the underserved, and has a passion for Latin American culture. She would like to develop education programs in sexual and reproductive health for adolescents as well as pregnancy and prenatal education for this group. She believes that prevention and education is the key to healthy life and enjoys the challenge of promoting this in resource poor areas.
Lauren's entrée in global heath work was in rural Honduras, where she was first exposed to the reality of preventable maternal mortality. After college, she conducted research on women's mental health in neighboring Guatemala. In Africa, Lauren assisted a Ghanaian midwife in expanding her novel prenatal care model. Most recently, she worked in Moçambique, on a cervical cancer screening proposal and with nurses and midwives in infection prevention and control. Lauren is interested in the reduction of maternal morbidity and mortality and in the training of nurses and midwives in low-resources settings.
Adam is the founder of OrthoJamaica, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving care of injured people in Jamaica, West Indies through donated orthopaedic education and hardware. While pursuing a master's degree in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, Adam focused on violence and injury prevention and designed a trauma research center for Jamaica. While studying as an undergraduate, Adam worked in viral vaccines at Chiron Corporation, discoverer of the hepatitis B vaccine. Throughout his academic training, Adam has been committed to improving access to health and education in underserved communities. At Stanford University School of Medicine, Adam was selected as a Traveling Scholar and worked with researchers at the University of the West Indies to improve health outcomes for low birth weight babies in Kingston, Jamaica. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Mural, Music, and Arts Project, an arts-based education project that employs at-risk youth in East Palo Alto, California.
Emily's global health experience includes research on adherence to HIV and TB medications in Durban, South Africa and research on the diagnosis of chronic meningitis in a population with high rates of HIV. Recently she spent clinical and research time at the Johannesburg General Hospital. She continues to collaborate with researchers at University of Witwatersrand and is currently working on a project about antiretroviral toxicities and their effect on the durability of first-line regimens in the South African national antiretroviral program. She plans to specialize in Infectious Disease and to pursue a clinical research career with a focus on the co-epidemics of TB and HIV.
Rosie grew up outside of Portland, OR. She went to Yale University where she played volleyball. While there she was involved with Habitat for Humanity. After college she joined the Peace Corps where she served in Tanzania teaching biology and chemistry, working on HIV education and girls' empowerment.
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