BGSC NEWSLETTER | WINTER 2025 EDITION | Welcome to the Winter 2025 Newsletter! Happy New Year! To our returning students, faculty, alumni and community, welcome to a new academic term and a new year. We hope you had a wonderful break over the holidays. Read on for the latest news and announcements, faculty and student spotlights, and updates on our strategic priorities and upcoming events. If you wish to be featured in our following newsletter or have any questions, please reach out to global.surgery@ubc.ca. | Applications Now Open! Are you passionate about global surgery? Join the next cohort of our Graduate Certificate in Global Surgical Care (GCGSC) and Master of Global Surgical Care (MGSC). Our online programs are for interdisciplinary surgical care professionals focused on addressing challenges and contributing to solutions in low-resource settings. We welcome surgical care clinicians, trainees in surgical care, and allied health professionals of all disciplines. Applications are now open! Deadline is April 1st, 2025 for international and domestic. Note that there will be only one intake for 2024/25 academic year in September 2025. Learn more about our Graduate Certificate in Global Surgical Care (GCGSC) and Master in Global Surgical Care (MGSC) programs. | Our BGSC Student Spotlight Series is Back! We are very excited to continue our Student Spotlight Series featuring our newest Master and Graduate Certificate in Global Surgical Care students! This series will showcase our diverse and new student body. Alumni, current and prospective students can learn more about our community, the different experiences our students have and their various paths toward their goals. Over the past few months, we have featured several new MGSC and GCGSC students and their experiences including new students Carlyn Barclay, Aubrie Graham-Mendoza, Michael Kryshtalskyji and Julie Wynne, who share their passion and experiences in global surgery and as new students in the program. Read more by clicking below! VIEW SPOTLIGHTS | | 🎉 Kudos and Congratulations! 🎉 Graduates We would like to extend warm congratulations to the following GCGSC student who completed their program requirements in December 2024 and will graduate in May 2025: Charlotte Allen Congratulations to the following students on completing your course requirements and graduating in November 2024 with the Master of Global Surgical Care! Roy Hilzenrat Serena Kassam We welcome you to our alumni and look forward to hearing about your future global surgical care endeavours! View our GCGSC alumni profiles here and our MGSC alumni profiles here! | Grant and Award Recipients Congratulations Dr. Emilie Joos on receiving a Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Canadian Aid and Action Fund (CAAF) grant to su pport her team's project to develop, deliver and evaluate the impact of an Enhanced Surgical Skills (ESS) Virtual Education Platform for rural surgical providers across Canada ( Read More) Congratulations to Drs. Shahrzad Joharifard, Emilie Joos and all the recipients of the 30th UBC Chung Research Day annual research awards! (Read More) Congratulations to the recipients of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada International Development, Aid and Collaboration (IDAC) grant recipients including our BGSC faculty and students Drs. Esther Chin, Sulaiman Nanji & Shahrzad Joharifard! ( Read More) | Vital Surgery Training Program Videos The VitalSurg online course is geared towards non-surgeon physicians to give them the basic knowledge and skills in the management of urgent and life-threatening surgical conditions. Created in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières, this curriculum contains modules that include didactic material and instructional videos, and are paired with specific technical and clinical skills, evaluated separately using Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in the field. Please see the updated YouTube page with professionally edited videos about VitalSurg produced by the Global Surgery Lab! Click below below to see the video overview of the VitalSurg Training Program! View the Global Surgery Lab YouTube page with more videos in English and in French! https://www.youtube.com/@GlobalSurgeryLab | Bethune Roundtable 2025 - Save the Date The Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS), in association with the Centre for Global Surgery at the University of Calgary is very proud to announce the Bethune Round Table 2025! The Bethune Round Table (BRT) is an annual interdisciplinary meeting aimed at addressing the challenges of providing accessible, high-quality surgical care to marginalized patients in low-resource settings. The 25th Bethune Roundtable will be held in person and virtually in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 23-24, 2025 with the theme Pursuing Equity in Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthesia (SOTA) Care: Bridging the Gap. Abstracts proposal submissions and registration are now open! | PUBLICATIONS - Philipo, G.S., Bokhary, Z.M., Kapapa, M. et al. Improving care and survival of newborns with surgical conditions in Tanzania (TINY Tanzania): a focus on gastroschisis. Pediatr Surg Int 40, 250 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-024-05828-4 (LINK)
- Ng DL, Vuhahula E, Kimambo AH, Ndayisaba MC, Philipo GS, Mushi BP, Ho KE, Paciorek A, Illonga Z, Zhang L, Vohra P, Weidler J, Bates M, Mmbaga EJ, Van Loon K. Xpert Breast Cancer STRAT4 Assay using fine-needle aspiration biopsy samples in a resource-constrained setting: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study. Lancet Oncol. 2024 Nov;25(11):1440-1452. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(24)00456-X. Epub 2024 Oct 3. PMID: 39369731.(LINK)
| UPCOMING EVENTS -
CUGH 16th Annual Global Conference (LINK) - Atlanta, GA and Virtual. February 20 – 23, 2025. Theme: : Innovating and Implementing in Global Health for a Sustainable Future -
Global Health Access & Equity Workshop (LINK) - UBC, Vancouver - March 21, 2025 -
UBC Global Health Conference 2025 - Vancouver, BC and Viritual. April 11, 2024. Theme: Creativity Through Crisis: Lessons from Global Mental Health More info at @BCCWH_global and (LINK) -
Bethune Roundtable 2025 - Calgary, AB and Virtiual (LINK) - May 24 - 25, 2025. Theme: Pursuing Equity in Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anaesthesia (SOTA) Care: Bridging the Gap. | | | | | |
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