News & Events: Community-Based Survey On Injury In Cameroon

S. Ariane Christie, M.D., Resident Research Fellow in General Surgery, recently authored a post, Global Injury Research Impementation: Reframing Obstacles as opportunities", on the Association for Academic Surgery blog. In the post, Dr. Christie describes the many challenges she and her team had to face as she set out to do her community-based survey on injury in Southwest Cameroon, ranging from acclimating to the geographical barriers to data collection to learning about cultural differences on the ground. Of particular note were the culture-specific challenges that were recalcitrant to [...]

The Center for Global Surgical Studies congratulates nine of its trainees on their recent graduation from medical school. Seven of the nine most recent doctors on our strong team graduated from the University of Buea in Cameroon after successfully defending their theses last week. Two of the nine trainees graduated from the University of Iowa and the University of California, San Francisco. The seven Cameroonian graduates were instrumental to S. Ariane Christie, MD in her community-based survey on injury in southwestern Cameroon. A few of them are also assisting with the Center's existing [...]

The Center for Global Surgical Studies is very proud to announce that one of our trainees, S. Ariane Christie, MD, received the award "Outstanding Abstract Presentation" at the 30th Annual J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium. Dr. Christie received this award for her research project titled "Injury and Care-Seeking in Southwest Cameroon: A Community-Based Survey". Catherine Juillard, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Surgery and co-Director of the Center for Global Surgical Studies accepted the award on behalf of Dr. Christie. The J. Engelbert Dunphy Resident Research Symposium [...]

On Friday, March 3rd, 2017, Center for Global Surgical Studies' (CGSS) trainees Sabrinah Ariane Christie, MD, Drusia Dickson, and the Community Based Survey on Injury team completed their data collection efforts in Southwest Cameroon. The data collection efforts--which spanned a period of eight weeks--yielded data on over 8,000 people living in the region. One of the aims of this CGSS study is to estimate the yearly incidence of injury in the Southwest region of Cameroon with an emphasis on understanding patterns of injury and care-seeking behavior among households with injured persons who [...]

The Association for Academic Surgery (AAS) and Association for Academic Surgery Foundation (AASF) presented S. Ariane Christie, MD, a General Surgery Resident at UCSF, with the 2016 AAS/AASF Global Surgery Research Fellowship Award for her research proposal titled "Long Term Outcomes Following Traumatic Injury in a Regional Trauma Center in Limbe, Cameroon" at the 11th Annual Academic Surgical Congress. The award is designed for individuals who are interested in advancing the field of Global Surgery through research aimed at advancing understanding or improvements of surgical care in [...]