Building Sustainable Global Surgical Programs Through Education

Building Sustainable Global Surgical Programs Through Education is the latest addition to the Trainees Making a Global Impact Webinar Series. Mark your calendars for August 25 at 8:00 am CT for this exciting webinar opportunity. Registration will open soon. 

Healthcare inequities exist and impact the care that surgical patients receive, highlighting the human and economic consequences of untreated surgical conditions.

Dr. Andrea Parker is a general surgeon and surgeon educator who lives and works in rural Kenya. She serves as the assistant program director for the general surgical residency program at Tenwek Hospital, where she has worked since 2015. Since 2017, as part of the Education Committee, she has overseen the development of a large-scale, standardized surgical curriculum of surgical trainees of the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa (COSECSA). She serves on the International Task Force of the Association of Surgical Education, the Education Committee of the Association of Academic Global Surgery, and she is an Associate Member of the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.

Dr. Rami Kantar, a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at The Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery/New York University, and recipient of the ACS 2021 Resident Volunteer Award, will cover global disparities in surgical care and access to cleft care. He will also discuss simulation-based cleft care education for low-to-middle income countries as a sustainable capacity-building initiative.

Nader Hanna, MD, FACS, Chair of the ACS International Relations Committee, will moderate the webinar.