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2010 SEA-HVO Fellowships Announced |
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[Washington, DC - June 7, 2010] Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), in collaboration with the Society for Education in Anesthesia (SEA), is pleased to announce that nine anesthesia residents have been awarded the 2010 SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship.
They are: Manoj Kumar Dalmia, MD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard University), Litisha G. Deal, MD, MBA (University of Florida), Jennifer L. Hay, MD (University of Vermont - Fletcher Allen Health Care), Shaka James, MD (University of Maryland Medical Center), Samuel Timothy McIlrath, MD (University of Tennessee Medical Center), Sarah Pae, MD (University of Chicago Medical Center), Swetha R. Pakala, MD (University of California, San Francisco), Tor Sandven, MD (Oregon Health and Sciences University), and Olof Viktorsdottir, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University). Each Fellow will serve a one month assignment at an HVO anesthesia training site in Ethiopia, Peru, or South Africa.
The SEA-HVO Fellowship allows senior anesthesia residents the opportunity to improve
anesthesia care in developing countries by teaching and mentoring their counterparts. The SEA-HVO Fellows will be challenged to learn about diseases which are rare in the United States but becoming less so with globalization. They will learn important lessons on delivering health care in a resource-scarce environment and working with health care providers in a different cultural environment. Most important, they will contribute to the future safety of patients receiving anesthesia in developing nations.
The SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship would not be possible without the generous support and donations from Dr. Jo Davies, Dr. Chris and Rebecca Dobson, Dr. Lena E. Dohlman, the Feintech family, Dr. Ronald L. Katz, Dr. Gary E. Loyd, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, and SEA members.
"I am very pleased with the talented and dedicated group of senior residents this year. I am certain that this experience of working in a developing nation will be a rewarding one for them, and for the sites as they provide significant educational contributions toward safer anesthesia," states Lena Dohlman, MD, MPH, chair of the SEA-HVO selection committee. "I am very grateful to the many generous donors who provided the scholarships that make the SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship possible. These scholarships truly make a difference in allowing the residents to share their knowledge and to learn about the needs and opportunities available in the developing world."
The Society for Education in Anesthesia is a non-profit educational organization for
anesthesiology educators who desire to improve their skills in anesthesia education. For more information on the various activities of SEA, visit their web site.
A private, non-profit organization, HVO was founded in 1986 to improve global health through education. HVO designs and implements clinical and didactic education programs in child health, primary care, trauma and rehabilitation, essential surgical care, oral health, blood disorders and cancer, infectious disease, nursing education, and wound management. In more than 25 resource-poor countries, HVO volunteers train, mentor, and provide critical professional support to health care providers who care for the neediest populations in the most difficult of circumstances. For more information about volunteering, visit the HVO web site.
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