Global Health and Emergency Medical Care: A View From Around the World

Tuesdays, February 11 - March 17, 2019
7:00 to 8:30 p.m
UCSF’s Parnassus Campus
School of Nursing Building
513 Parnassus Avenue, Room N-225
Course# MLL20011

Course Chairs

Kayla Enriquez, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Global Health Sciences Affiliate Faculty

Course Description

All around the world, children and adults face illnesses and injuries including trauma, infections, disasters and epidemics, medical emergencies and acute complications of pregnancy. Learn about injury and illness patterns in other parts of the world and how the Global Health faculty of the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine provide humanitarian relief, develop and implement emergency educational programs in low and middle income countries, and develop policy to improve systems of care through collaboration with the World Health Organization.

Lecture Schedule

PLEASE NOTE: Schedule or speakers may change on short notice

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2/11/2020
Title: Medical Education for Low-Resource Settings: A Case of Curriculum Development to Improve Pediatric Emergency Care
Carol Chen, MD, MPH Download Slides Download Checklist

2/18/2020
Title: Point of Care Ultrasound in Low-resource Settings Download Slides
Sally Graglia, MD, MPH

2/25/2020
Title: The Humanitarian Community: Past, Present and Future Download Slides
Kayla Enriquez, MD, MPH

3/3/2020
Title: The Global View: World Health Organization and Emergency Care Systems Download Slides
Andrea Tenner, MD, MPH, FACEP

3/10/2020
Title: Under-5 Mortality: Keeping Kids Alive Download Slides
Rajesh Daftary, MD

3/17/2020 - ** Postponed **
Title: Development and Evaluation of Simulation Based Training for Prehospital Providers in Botswana
Nicolaus Glomb, MD, MPH