Trainees from the 2015 Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway program. From left: Program director Nathan Thielman, Adam Olson, Titus Ngeno, Brian Meier, David Goodman, Devon Paul, and program coordinator Sarah Brittingham.
Published July 14, 2015, last updated on July 13, 2016 under Research News
Last week, five new trainees joined the Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway program, administered by the Duke Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health.
The program offers postgraduate training experiences that integrate research opportunities tailored to the trainee’s specialty area. In addition, trainees receive faculty mentorship and pursue graduate-level coursework to earn a Master of Science in Global Health.
This year, the trainees represent two firsts for the program: the first global health radiation oncology resident and the first pulmonary/critical care medicine fellow.
Meet the New Trainees
- David Goodman, joining the program as an obstetrics and gynecology fellow, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) School of Medicine and recently completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at Wake Forest University. He also earned a master’s in public health at UNC. For his fellowship research, Goodman plans to extend recent work in Ghana with Kybele, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving childbirth safety worldwide through educational partnerships.
- Brian Meier, who will be an emergency medicine fellow, earned his MD at the Medical College of Wisconsin and recently completed an emergency medicine residency at Virginia Tech Carillion. Meier, who had formative global health experiences as a medical student in Kenya, will will work closely with DGHI faculty member Catherine Staton on trauma and injury care in Moshi, Tanzania. He plans to focus on the development of clinical practice guidelines in the casualty ward.
- Titus Ngeno joins the program as an internal medicine resident. Born and raised in Kenya, Ngeno completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (equivalent to MD) at the University of Nairobi. As a medical officer at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, Ngeno became known to several Duke faculty members as an outstanding clinician with notable leadership qualities. Ngeno will be conducting implementation research on cardiopulmonary rehabilitation programs in Eldoret, Kenya.
- Adam Olson, the program’s first radiation oncology resident, completed medical school at University of Pittsburgh. After a transitional year internship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Olson came to Duke in 2013 as a radiation oncology resident. He will investigate outcomes of HIV-related malignancies in patients who receive radiation therapy and plans to pursue fieldwork in Mwanza, Tanzania.
- Devon Paul, the program’s first pulmonary/critical care medicine fellow, completed medical school at the University of Kansas and internal medicine residency at Vanderbilt University before coming to Duke for his pulmonary/critical Care fellowship. Paul has a head start on his work in Eldoret, having spent several weeks there this past winter working on a project to establish spirometry norms for the population in western Kenya.
New Recruits Join Three Continuing Trainees
Along with the five new trainees, three other doctors will be continuing the Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway:
- Laura Musselwhite, who recently completed her internal medicine residency at Duke, has pioneered a new collaboration in Barretos, Brazil, to study racial differences in the epidemiology of cervical neoplasic and human papilloma virus (HPV) distribution in Brazil. Musselwhite is also a Duke School of Medicine alumna.
- Jana Halfon, a second-year obstetrics and gynecology fellow who joined the Global Health Pathway after completed residency training at Columbia, is working in Rwanda to address the high rates of post C-section wound infections and peritonitis.
- Kristin Schroeder, a second-year pediatric oncology fellow and Duke alumna, is treating patients and creating a cancer registry in Mwanza, Tanzania, that will help to describe the burden of pediatric cancers in western Tanzania. Schroeder also completed fellowships at Duke in pediatric hematology/oncology and neuro-oncology.
To learn more about the Global Health Residency/Fellowship Pathway program, visit the Duke Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health website.
