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Residents

Global Surgery Track Residents

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Center for Global Surgery team members
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Current Residents

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Dinushi Kulasekere, M.D., MBA

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Medical School: Northwestern University the Feinberg School of Medicine

Interests

  • Understanding the economic implications of global surgery interventions 
  • Socioeconomic barriers to surgical access in a global setting 
  • Designing and improving acute surgical care delivery in low-resource settings with a focus on South Asia
Henry

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Henry Olano Soler, M.D., MPH

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

Interests:  

  • AI applications that can bring equity to global health 
  • Tropical diseases requiring cardiothoracic surgery 
  • Congenital diseases requiring surgery 
  • Global surgery policy  
Alexandra

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Alexandra Buda, M.D.

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Medical School: University of Rochester

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

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., MPH

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

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

Interests:

  • Pediatric Surgical Oncology
  • Global surgical financing
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Past Residents

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Sukriti

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Sukriti Bansal, M.D.

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Medical School: The University of Texas Southwestern

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
Megan

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Megan T. Vu, M.D.

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Medical School: University of Central Florida College of Medicine

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

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
Youmna

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Youmna A. Sherif, M.D.

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Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University

Interests:

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