Shaping Tomorrow’s Global Health Workforce
By Medge Owen This year, we chart progress in reaching the Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2000. Goals four and five call for a worldwide reduction in newborn and maternal mortality. Progress has been made; however, too many deaths still occur. There are an estimated at 298,000 maternal and 3.7 million […]
Lifebox and Kybele Partner with Armenian Society of Anaesthesiologists for Safer Surgery
By Sarah Kessler, Lifebox Foundation Safe surgery can’t bring back the millions of women who have lost their lives in childbirth, but it can change things for future generations. A recent study by Higashi and colleagues1 found that if quality surgery were universally available, a tremendous number of maternal and neonatal diseases and surgical conditions in low-resource […]
The Ghana Journals – The Ongoing Global Health Mission (Kayla Bryan, Duke University)
The following essay is reprinted with permission from Duke Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine. Chief Resident, Kayla Bryan, MD describes her trip to Africa as part of the ongoing Global Health mission of Duke Anesthesiology. I had been looking forward to January 2015 for over a year, and I was not disappointed! I spent the […]
The Ghana Journals – The Ongoing Global Health Mission (Amy Mauritz, Duke University)
The following essay is reprinted with permission from Duke Anesthesiology at Duke University School of Medicine. Chief Obstetric Anesthesia Fellow, Amy Mauritz, MD describes her trip to Africa as part of the ongoing Global Health mission of Duke Anesthesiology. It has been more than two weeks since I returned from Ghana yet the sights and sounds of […]
Welcome New Board Members
By Kimber Whanger Kybele would like to welcome and recognize the following new members who recently joined our Board of Directors. Even though Dr. Curtis Baysinger and Nancy Pearson, R.N., are new to the board, they are definitely not new faces to Kybele. Baysinger is an associate professor of anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center […]
Meet Kybele Intern, Sung Min Kim
By Erin Pfeiffer Wake Forest School of Medicine medical student Sung Min Kim took a year off from her studies to assist in Kybele’s work toward improving childbirth outcomes in Ghana. In the following interview, Sung Min reflects on an experience that impacted both herself and the patients of Ridge Regional Hospital in Accra, Ghana. […]
Update on Croatia Program
By Erin Pfeiffer Kybele honors our Croatian host, Dr. Dragica Kopic, who was presented with the “Heart of Split Delivery Room” award during the 10-year anniversary celebration of the Club of Pregnant Women and the Parents of Split. Kopic is a leading obstetric anesthesiologist in Croatia and serves as a champion for the rights of […]
Meet Dayne Logan, New Editor of the Kybele Newsletter
Dayne Logan works as an assistant professor of communication at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he teaches primarily journalism and new media courses. Previously, he worked in the magazine and newspaper industries as a reporter, editor and app developer. Although classroom instruction is his primary focus, he remains a writer and editor […]
Dr. Kennedy Buntugu, A Man to Remember
By Medge Owen During the summer of 2014, while many of us lightheartedly took the ALS “Ice Bucket Challenge,” a dear friend in Ghana was bravely fighting the relentless advance of ALS. Dr. Kennedy “Ken” Buntugu, age 46, died on October 20, 2014. His death left a tremendous void at Ridge Regional Hospital that remains […]
