GLOBAL SURGERY RESEARCH SEMINAR

The PGSSC Global Surgery Research Seminar is a public seminar series that aims to share methods and results across a broader surgery research community. Over the course of ten seminars, our goal is to strengthen general knowledge and specific skills by learning from the experience of our seminar speakers.

The Research Seminar will be held the second Tuesday of each month, from 9:00 a.m. EST to 10:00 a.m EST.

For each Research Seminar session, we identify a common theme and similar methods. Each speaker will present for 20-25 minutes, followed by a 30-minute open discussion on the topic. All are welcome; specific details and registration links for sessions are available for each individual session.

Videos of this year's past research seminar sessions and research seminar sessions from 2021-2022 are made available online if you are not able to join us live.

2022-2023 RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES

September 8: Multi-site randomized trials in global surgery, with Han-Kwang Yang and Adesoji Ademuyiwa
October: No research seminar
November 10: Access to blood for global surgery, with Marie Paul Nisingizwe and Meghan Delaney
December 8: Gender disparities in global surgery: disparities amongst students and providers, with Grace Kansayisa and Doris Sarmiento
January 12: Task sharing in global surgery, with Tigistu Ashengo and Jessica Passman
February 9: Cost-effectiveness in global surgery, with Sergio Torres-Rueda and Andy Healy
March 9: Global Surgery Systems Readiness, with Albino Kalolo and Katherine Iverson
May 11: Health equity through action on social determinants of health, with Michael Marmot and Michaela Hyrie
June 1: Digital Technology in Global Surgery with Stephen Knight and Theoneste Nkurunziza

JUNE 1, 2023

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN GLOBAL SURGERY

This seminar will focus on readiness assessments for global surgery. The featured speakers will dive into their experiences conducting research focused on the creation and implementation of readiness assessment tools across varied settings.

- Registration Required. Please click here to register.

If you cannot join us for this live session, we welcome you to watch a recording, which will be available here.

Stephen R Knight, BSc, MBChB, MRCS, PhD

Centre of Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh
Renal Transplant Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow

Stephen is a NIHR Clinical Research Fellow and surgical registrar in the West of Scotland. Interests include crowd-sourcing patient-level data, machine learning techniques, mobile data collection platforms and wearable technology to measure postoperative surgical outcomes.

During his PhD exploring global surgical outcomes, he helped lead GlobalSurg 3, a prospective international cohort study of early cancer outcomes of 15 000 patients across 82 countries. In addition, during the Covid-19 pandemic his work developing risk stratification scores to guide clinical management was published in the British Medical Journal and incorporated within UK national guidelines. The impact of his PhD research was recently acknowledged by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh through the award of the Syme Medal.

Theoneste Nkurunziza, PhD Candidate

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Mr Nkurunziza is a Global Health Professional and Researcher who is well published in high impact journals. He served as the Right to Healthcare Program Manager and Health Research Manager at Partners in Health-Rwanda before embarking on his doctoral studies at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His doctoral project explores the use of mHealth and Telemedicine to break barriers to post-discharge follow-up for women who have undergone cesarean section in resource-limited and rural settings. He utilises different research designs extending from cross-sectional to randomised control trials, mainly with quantitative analyses, to explore patterns and predictors of relevant health events in his research areas. His area of expertise includes global surgery, access to care, maternal and child health, and the use of mobile health (mHealth) in improving healthcare delivery. He won different awards from world-class scientific institutions such as the American Surgical Congress and Health Systems Global. Mr Nkurunziza is an editorial board member for BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth and reviews for renown journals including, but not limited to, BMC and BMJ journals.