Thomas Weiser MD MPH
Tom is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery. He is a general and trauma surgeon in the section of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. He completed his general surgical training at University of California Davis and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, his trauma critical care fellowship at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, and his Masters in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He has been involved in surgical program assessment projects in Cambodia, India, the UK, and the United States. From 2006-2009 he was part of the World Health Organization’s Safe Surgery Saves Lives program where he helped quantify the global volume of surgery and create, implement, evaluate, and promote the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. Most recently he was a contributor to the Disease Control Priorities Project evaluating the cost effectiveness of surgery and to the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. His current research focuses on quality and cost effectiveness of care, and strategies for improving the safety and reliability of surgical delivery in resource poor settings.
Micaela M. Esquivel MD
Micaela Esquivel is a General Surgery resident at Stanford University School of Medicine currently spending two years of dedicated research under the mentorship of Dr. Thomas Weiser. Her research interests focus on disparities in surgical care both locally and globally. Her goal is to improve the surgical care of patients in the most resource limited settings both in the US and worldwide; this includes timely access to safe and high quality surgery. She has completed work in support of The Lancet’s first Commission on Global Surgery. The launch of the report took place the spring of 2015, and she was able to share work that was used as a part of the commission’s key messages. She is now actively leading several projects aimed at better understanding timely access to surgical care in California and Zambia, and how this access impacts population health, specifically mortality. She plans to continue her research efforts throughout her career, with the ultimate goal of impacting positive changes in policy through research-driven surgical advocacy.
Naomi Garland MD
Naomi is a general surgery resident from St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston. She is spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow working to improve surgical safety and reduce postoperative infections in Cambodia.
Tarsicio (Pablo) Uribe-Leitz MD MPH
Pablo is a graduate from the Universidad Anahuac in Mexico and a research fellow investigating the variability in surgical mortality in Low and Middle Income Countries. He completed his Masters in Public Health at Boston University School of Public Health. He is interested in Surgery and Global Health research, particularly as it pertains to advocacy, data analysis, and the use geographic information systems to improve access to quality surgical care for underserved populations. He was actively involved in the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. His current research focuses on geographic visualization of surgical relationships and surgical epidemiology. He plans to complete a General Surgery residency and to become an academic surgeon with a focus on Global Surgery.