Global Orthopaedics and Service, with special guest Coleen Sabatini, MD, MPH

In this episode, Mo and Marc are joined by special guest Dr. Coleen Sabatini, MD, MPH (Professor and Vice Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in Oakland, California) in a discussion of her passion for international medicine and her ongoing collaboration with local surgeons in Uganda, with a focus on capacity building, partnership, bidirectional learning, global information-sharing, and the importance of understanding the challenges faced by surgeons in other countries. 

Links:  

• Research4Life: https://www.research4life.org/about/ 

• J. Robert Gladden Orthopaedic Society: https://www.gladdensociety.org/ 

• Operation Walk: https://operationwalk.org/ 

• Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology (IGOT): https://orthosurgery.ucsf.edu/outreach/global/igot_program 

• COSECSA (College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa): https://www.cosecsa.org/ 

• COEDN (Children’s Orthopedics Education for Developing Nations: https://www.multibriefs.com/briefs/coa/coedn.pdf 

Subspecialties: 

• Pediatrics 

• Trauma 

• Orthopaedic Essentials