Written by INDUS MED NEWS 20 January, 2016 10:28 am .
Dr. Swaroopwith Global Surgeons at the Academic Surgical Congress , USA
INDUSEM Leader Dr. MamtaSwaroop, who heads the INDUSEM Emergency Traumatology, Critical Illness and Injury Sciences Initiative recently published a detailed textbook on Academic Global Surgery. This book was published by Springer.
This seventh book in the series of Success in Academic Surgery look to sustain the field and facilitate the next generation of leaders in Academic Global Surgery. It brings together a catalogue of current knowledge, needs, and pathways to a career in the field.
Academic Global Surgery involves educational, research and clinical collaborations between academic humanitarian surgeons in high-income countries (HIC), their low and middle-income country (LMIC) partners and their respective academic institutions. The goal of these collaborations is improving understanding of surgical disease, and increasing access to and capacity for surgical care in resource-poor regions.
In the last few years, the rapid exchange of ideas through social media and other technologies has combined with an increasing appreciation of worldwide health disparities to put the issue of global health at the forefront of our consciousness. Although traditionally neglected within public health initiatives, surgical disease is now recognized as a major contributor to death and disability worldwide, while surgical therapy in resource-poor areas is increasingly being shown to be cost-effective. In response to this growing recognition, what began as mission trips and short-term clinical volunteerism in the developing world has evolved into a burgeoning new field with a broader scope.
While the tremendous recent interest from medical students and residents in Global Surgery has stimulated an exponential growth of interest in this field, current surgical literature has highlighted the need for further development and delineation of this new discipline within academic surgery. (Source: Springer)
MamtaSwaroop, MD, FACS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Critical Care Surgery and is Faculty for the Center for Global Health in the Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She leads the INDUSEM Emergency Traumatology, Critical Illness & Injury Initiative. She completed her General Surgery residency at University of South Florida in 2009 and her Surgical Critical Care Fellowship from Northwestern in 2010. Dr. Swaroop’s research focus is Academic Global Surgery including trauma education and prevention. She serves on multiple national and international leadership boards including the Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) the INDUSEM Academic Council for Emergency Traumatology (ACET), The Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetric, Trauma and Anesthesia Care (G4 Alliance), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and the WHO Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgery (GIEESC).
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