Stanford Global Health Neurosurgery

I worked at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Kathmandu, Nepal. This hospital provides care to the neediest and serves as the main educational center in Nepal for medical students and residents. Also, I completed a fundraising trek to Everest Base Camp with the Nepal Spine Foundation. During that trek I ended up providing primary care along the way to Nepali children and trekkers/climbers, many suffering from altitude sickness.

For international work, I have been to the following:

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Summer of 2023

Together with members of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) Spine Committee, we organized and taught the first spine course with didactics and hands-on lab for the entire country. This was a unique opportunity to mentor and teach the 20 neurosurgeons that serve >100 million people in the DRC, as well as residents and attending neurosurgeons from nearly every other country in Africa, who traveled to Kinshasa to participate in this inaugural educational course. My work on the WFNS Spine and Educational Committees is an important way for me to connect with neurosurgeons from around the world. In addition to in-person courses like the one in Congo, we organize virtual webinars for neurosurgeons across the globe and collaborate on spine surgery consensus statements to guide neurosurgeons practicing in both the developed and developing world.

Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, April 2024

I participated in the 10^th Annual Global Neurosurgery Course at the Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute (MOI) led by Dr. Roger Hartl from Weill Cornell Medicine. This was an exciting opportunity to learn from Cornell colleagues who have established a decades-long collaboration with local neurosurgeons. I gave didactic lectures on spine trauma and advanced spine technologies and then taught/performed multiple navigation-guided spinal fusions with the local residents and attending neurosurgeons.