Residents

Global Surgery Track Residents

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Members of the global surgery track.
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Alexandra

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Alexandra Buda, M.D.

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Medical School: University of Rochester

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:
GS-1: 2024-2025
GS-2: 2028-2029

Interests:

  • Geospatial mapping 
  • Understanding barriers to access surgical care
  • Surgical education and training
Lubna

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Lubna Khan, M.D.

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Medical School:  Oregon Health & Science University

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency: 

  • GS-1: 2023-2024
  • GS-2: 2027-2028

Interests:

  • Designing health care delivery systems for post-conflict war zones and post-disaster areas
  • Modeling existing trauma systems
  • Biomedical device innovation
Yao

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Yao Yang, M.D., M.P.H.

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Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:

  • GS-1: 2022-2023
  • GS-2: 2026-2027

Interests:

  • Building human infrastructure for surgical care
  • International collaboration in surgical education
  • Models of surgical care delivery in low-resource areas
David

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David Holmes, M.D.

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Medical School: University of Illinois School of Medicine

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:

  • GS-1: 2021 - 2022
  • GS-2: 2024 – 2025

Interests:

  • Pediatric Surgical Oncology
  • Global surgical financing
Sukriti

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Sukriti Bansal, M.D.

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Medical School: UT Southwestern

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:

  • GS-1: 2020 - 2021
  • GS-2: 2023 - 2024

Interests:

  • Adaptation of high-resource surgical care for mobile practice
  • Optimization of surgical education and development of collaborative academic partnerships
  • Economic, geographical, and social barriers to surgical access, with a focus on South Asia
Youmna

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Youmna A. Sherif, M.D.

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Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:

  • GS-1: 2019 - 2020
  • GS-2: 2023 - 2024

Interests:

  • Adoption of resource intensive surgeries in resource-limited environments
  • Hepatitis C endemic in Egypt
  • Health disparities, access to medical care, and structural violence
Megan

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Megan T. Vu, M.D.

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Medical School: University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:

  • GS-1: 2018 - 2019
  • GS-2: 2022 - 2023

Interests:

  • Military surgery and trauma in austere environments
  • Global pediatric surgery
  • Surgical education and training for global, rural, and military settings
Rachel

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Rachel W. Davis, M.D.

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Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine

Global Surgery Track General Surgery Residency:

  • GS-1: 2016 - 2017
  • GS-2: 2017 - 2018

Interests:

  • Global surgical education and curriculum development for high-resource training programs
  • National surgical infrastructure and policy design
  • Public/private collaborations
  • Low-cost surgical technology and innovation