[Washington, DC - June 1, 2012] 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 2012 SEA-HVO Traveling Fellowship.

They are: Titilopemi Aina, MD, MPH(University of Florida), Ben Brooksby, MD, PhD (Oregon Health and Sciences University), Ersne Eromo, MD, MBA (Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard University), Christina Hayhurst, MD (University of Virginia), Pamela Hockert, MD (University of Texas Southwestern), Grace Hsu, MD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School), Kavish Kapoor, MD (Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center), Frank Lee, MD (Johns Hopkins Medical Institute), and Jamey Snell, MD (New York University Medical Center). Each Fellow will serve a one month assignment at an HVO anesthesia training site in Ethiopia, Peru, South Africa, or Vietnam.

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 that 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 importantly, 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.

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 website.

Health Volunteers Overseas is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to improve global health through the education of local health care providers. In 25 years of service, HVO's training has transformed lives through the design and implementation of 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, visit the HVO website.

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