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GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM 2018 FOR THE YEAR ANNUAL REPORT 2018 THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND THE WESTERN CONNECTICUT HEALTH NETWORK GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM table of contents Welcome . 2 Global Health Leadership . 3 Our People, Our Mission . 4 Building Leaders in Global Health . 6 Educating Physicians Around the World . 8 Mentoring the Next Generation . 10 Uganda . 12 Russia . 16 Dominican Republic . 18 Vietnam . 19 Thailand . 20 Zimbabwe . 21 Awards and Recognition . 22 Publications and Presentations . 26 More pleasant than the sound of love’s Directory . 28 speech, naught I heard: A great token, that, in this revolving dome remained.” – HAFIZ Cover photo: Majid Sadigh, M.D., with Emergency Medicine residents at Makerere University College of Health Sciences. (Left to right): Dr. Darlington Muhwezi, Dr. Umarashid Gulooba, Dr. Stella Magara Namirembe, Dr. Rose Nampeera, Dr. Peter Kavuma, Dr. Majid Sadigh, Dr. Jane Francesca Namugerwa, Dr. Doreen Okong, and Dr. Joseph Kalanzi GLOBAL HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2018 1 GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM GLOBAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP Now celebrating its seventh year, our Global global health scholars each year in a bidirec- Health Program at WCHN continues to exceed tional exchange offering a remarkable opportu- expectations as we expand our global footprint nity to physicians around the world who wish and secure a reputation as one of the nation’s to learn—and to educate—here in the United most respected global training initiatives. States. By sharing deep cultural knowledge and Under the extraordinary leadership of Dr. insights into diseases and conditions not often Majid Sadigh, the Christian J. Trefz Family encountered in the United States, these visiting welcome Endowed Chair in Global Health at WCHN, the global health scholars help our faculty, staff, program is making impressive strides in caring and students see patient care and professional for the world’s underserved populations while responsibility through a different lens. We are moved by the richness of our community, as well as by as the support—fiscal, offering clinical training experiences that are The Global Health Program continues to physical, and philosophical—that we receive each day from our members around the both profound and life-changing. expand through new clinical partnerships world. Each one of you helps us grow in scale, membership, outreach and aspiration. There is no better way to gain understanding with Walailak University School of Medicine in Together, we have built this program with a deep commitment to mutuality whereby of global issues involving healthcare delivery Thailand, Dalian Municipal Central Hospital in John Murphy, M.D. and access than by experiencing them first- the People’s Republic of China, and Datta Meghe we give our esteemed partners the respect and resources that they graciously give us. President and CEO, hand. The Global Health Program works collab- Institute of Medical Sciences in India. We are Though this mission will continue to evolve alongside us, we are humbled to have Western Connecticut come as far as we have, and we are optimistic about the distances yet to be traversed. Health Network oratively with our academic partners to offer also working to launch Global Health at Home, a We are proud to have over 110 medical students, residents, and faculty participate medical students, residents, nurses, and other new initiative aimed at serving underprivileged faculty members a range of experiences in other populations in the United States including each year, made possible with support from a diverse panoply of members, from healthcare systems to better understand public Native Americans, immigrants, and refugees, students to leadership, nurses to physician assistants, administrators to public health issues, cost-constrained care, and the im- through a potential partnership with Chiricahua relations personnel. pact of globalization on vulnerable populations. Community Health Centers (CCHCI) which The tremendous momentum we have amassed in fundraising and fiscal support Through robust capacity building, the serve under-resourced communities along the reinforces our commitments and propels us toward our ambitions. We have had the Global Health Program now hosts over 110 Mexican border in southern Arizona. privilege of contributing more meaningfully to partner-site development through medical students, residents and faculty each As we move forward into a new era of global donating computers and diagnostic machines to our collaborating institutions, year at international partner sites in the health, we are both justifiably proud of our supporting preschool education of ACCESS children via Grace’s Promise, providing Dominican Republic, Russia, Uganda, Vietnam accomplishments and deeply grateful for our communities with solar lights, and funding the education of women in pursuit of and Zimbabwe. Program participants learn national and international partners as well as higher education. We have raised over $22,000 to establish a microbiology lab in how to compassionately provide quality care our loyal donor community, whose commitment Naggalama through Climb for a Cause; $32,000 to upscale an outpatient clinic for without access to the medications, supplies, or and generosity have brought our dreams to life cancer patients in Harare; $27,000 to construct living quarters for participants in diagnostic equipment we often take for granted. as we advance medical education across borders Nakaseke; $7,200 to the Global Women’s Health collaboration with Nakaseke and True to its unique mission, the Global Health through meaningful opportunities to serve close to $6,000 dollars toward supporting education of the female orphan college Program also trains over twenty international humanity and learn from one another. students in Uganda. Let us celebrate the momentum garnered in our many reaches—from site development to new partnerships, resource centers to online platforms, community outreach to multi-partisan engagement—all of which allow us to nurture meaningful relationships with communities and our communities with one another. Ultimately The Larner College of Medicine global health exist beyond our borders. One of the key values partnership with the Western Connecticut of our Global Health Program is to weave founded in individual trust and connection, the emergent structure holds us up as we Health Network (WCHN) has been, for seven this knowledge into the education of future reach out, hand-in-hand, to the world around. Each of you strengthens the collective years, a collaboration based on our shared physicians through their experiences serving in breath. Thank you for standing with us, and letting us stand with you. missions of medical education, research, other countries. and the improvement of clinical care. Those Our students understand this connection. Sincerely, missions are inextricably linked in the work As Katherine Callahan from our Class of 2021 of our Global Health Program, just as they put it when describing her experience in are through the interaction of clinicians and Uganda last summer, “In these six weeks I have students at our branch campus at Danbury and begun my career as a physician and member of Norwalk Hospitals. the global community. My impact will not come Majid Sadigh, M.D. Our institutions exist first and foremost to in the next three weeks, or even next years, but Christian J. Trefz Family Endowed Chair in Global Health at Western Connecticut serve the patient, wherever that patient may be, eventually I hope to be a driver of change on the Health Network and Director of Global Health at the University of Vermont Larner and we guarantee the continuance of that work global level.” College of Medicine Richard L. Page, M.D. as we educate and train the next generation of I am delighted to express my appreciation to Dean, The Larner College of physicians. While there may be few boundaries Dr. Majid Sadigh, Dr. John Murphy, and all our Medicine at The University of Vermont when it comes to a physician’s commitment to collaborators who have made this program such serve their patients, we recognize the unique a success. We are honored to be a partner in this needs and limited access to resources that important work. 2 THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND THE WESTERN CONNECTICUT HEALTH NETWORK GLOBAL HEALTH ANNUAL REPORT 2018 3 GLOBAL HEALTH PROGRAM New Partner: Datta Meghe Institute of under the auspices of DMIMS. WCHN will support DMIMS in build- Medical Sciences (DMIMS), India ing local capacity through introducing various certificate courses and fellowships as well as exploring new areas for research. SWAPNIL PARVE, M.D., SITE DIRECTOR, Monitored by Dean of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Dr. DATTA MEGHE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL Lalitbhushan Waghmare, with mainstream and allied health courses SCIENCES (DMIMS), INDIA coordinated by Dr. Tripti Srivastava and Dr. Shweta Parwe, and a our people- We welcome our newest partner: Dat- director who will be announced soon, this program promises to ta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences be a unique opportunity for cultural and clinical enrichment. An (DMIMS), a prestigious private university institutional member of the Consortium of Universities for Global in Sawangi (Meghe), a small town approx- Health (CUGH), DMIMS has worked with the National Institute of imately seventy kilometers from Nagpur. Health and other eminent global health institutions. The institution our mission Through this first-of-its-kind tripartite boasts faculty in a range of fields