Below is a running list of faculty members at Virginia Commonwealth University who have responded to an ACCESS survey, indicating that they have engaged in global health within the last 5 years. Here, global health is defined as any research, clinical, educational or health policy activity that engages or directly impacts populations, stakeholders or systems outside the United States and Canada.
We hope this repository serves as a resource for students, trainees, and faculty who desire to collaborate on global health projects, training, or trips. We also wanted to showcase the breadth of participation in global health across the university.
Since April 2021, we have received 88 responses. 57 faculty members indicated previous global health experience with another 25 faculty members showing an interest for future involvement.
| Department | Name | Countries | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology | Jeannette Kierce | jeannette.kierce@vcuhealth.org | Belize, Guatemala, Honduras |
| Anesthesiology | John Drago | John.drago@vcuhealth.org | Senegal, Africa, Trinidad, Haiti |
| Anesthesiology | Olga Suarez-Winowiski | olga.suarez-winowiski@vcuhealth.org | Mexico |
| Anesthesiology | Rashid Hussain | Rashid.Hussain@vcuhealth.org | Ethiopia |
| Emergency Medicine | Amir Louka | amir.louka@vcuhealth.org | Sub Saharan Africa, South East Asia |
| Emergency Medicine | Grace Hickam | Grace.hickam@gmail.com | Dominican Republic |
| Emergency Medicine | Mahendra shah | Mahendra.shah@vcuhealth.org | India, Nicaragua |
| Emergency Medicine | Megan Donohue | Megan.Donohue@vcuhealth.org | South Africa, India, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ghana, Uganda |
| Family Medicine and Population Health | James Burch | burchj@vcu.edu | Ecuador, New Zealand, Chile |
| Family Medicine and Population Health | Lori Landes | lori.landes@vcuhealth.org | Honduras, Mexico |
| Family Medicine and Population Health | Mark Ryan | mark.ryan@vcuhealth.org | Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico |
| Health Behavior & Policy | Emmanuel A. Taylor | Emmanuel.Taylor@vcuhealth.org | Nigeria |
| Health Behavior & Policy | Hsin-Ling (Sonya) Hung | hsinling.hung@vcuhealth.org | Ukraine, Nepal |
| Health Behavior & Policy | Sunny Jung, Kim | sun.jung.kim@vcuhealth.org | South Korea |
| Internal Medicine | Aamer Syed | aamer.syed@vcuhealth.org | Rwanda, Honduras |
| Internal Medicine | David Jessee | david.jessee@vcuhealth.org | Honduras |
| Internal Medicine | Gonzalo Bearman | gonzalo.bearman@vcuhealth.org | Honduras |
| Internal Medicine | Irene Foley | irene.foley@vcuhealth.org | Dominican Republic |
| Internal Medicine | J. Brian Cassel | brian.cassel@vcuhealth.org | Europe |
| Internal Medicine | Nathaniel Warner | nathaniel.warner@vcuhealth.org | Honduras |
| Internal Medicine | Peter Jackson | peter.jackson@vcuhealth.org | Uganda, Haiti |
| Internal Medicine | Somaya Albhaisi | somaya.albhaisi@vcuhealth.org | Palestine |
| Microbiology and Immunology | Gregory Buck | gregory.buck@vcuhealth.org | Brazil |
| Neurosurgery | Gary Tye | gary.tye@vcuhealth.org | St. Vincent, Honduras |
| Ophthalmology | Nikisha Richards | nikisha.richards@vcuhealth.org | Haiti, Ghana, Kenya |
| Orthopaedic Surgery | Victoria Kuester | victoria.kuester@vcuhealth.org | Ethiopia |
| Otolaryngology | Daniel Coelho | daniel.coelho@vcuhealth.org | Barbados |
| Otolaryngology | Rajanya Petersson | rajanya.petersson@vcuhealth.org | Ethiopia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe |
| Pathology | Adele Kraft | adelekraft@gmail.com | Brazil, Nepal |
| Pathology | Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez | Malaysia, Bolivia, South Africa, Lithuania, Romania, Nicaragua | |
| Pathology | Greg Miller | greg.miller@vcuhealth.org | EU, UK, Canada, Korea, Japan, China, India, Australia |
| Pediatrics | Clifton Lee | clifton.lee@vcuhealth.org | Peru, Guatemala |
| Pediatrics | Jeffrey Donowitz | jeffrey.donowitz@vcuhealth.org | Bangladesh, Tanzania, Haiti |
| Pediatrics | Kara Greenfield | kara.greenfield@vcuhealth.org | Peru, Honduras |
| Pediatrics | Oliver Karam | oliver.karam@vcuhealth.org | Cameroon and various other countries in Africa |
| Pediatrics | Scott Gullquist | Scott.gullquist@vcuhealth.org | Dominican Republic, Honduras, cesarean Caribbean |
| Pharmacology and Toxicology | Hamid Akbarali | hamid.akbarali@vcuhealth.org | UK, Italy |
| Psychiatry | Jasmin Vassileva | jasmin.vassileva@vcuhealth.org | Bulgaria |
| Psychiatry | Jim Levenson | james.levenson@vcuhealth.org | Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, India, UK, various EU countries |
| Psychiatry | Nancy R. Gee | Nancy.Gee@VCUHealth.org | England, Scotland, Austria, Australia, Germany and the EU more generally |
| Radiology | Uma Prasad | uma.prasad@vcuhealth.org | India |
| Surgery | Edgar B. Rodas | edgar.rodas@vcuhealth.org | Ecuador, Ethiopia, Brazil, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Panama |
| Surgery | James Maher | james.maher@vcuhealth.org | Togo |
| Surgery | Jennifer Rhodes | jlrhodes@vcu.edu | Caribbean |
| Surgery | John Roseman | john.rosemanii@vcuhealth.org | Vietnam |
| Surgery | Patty Lange | patricia.lange@vcuhealth.org | Belize |
| Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science | Benjamin Van Tassell | bvantassell@vcu.edu | Honduras |
| Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science | Emily Peron | epperon@vcu.edu | Peru, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Puerto Rico |
| Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science | David Holdford | Daholdfo@vcu.edu | Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Portugal, South Korea, Argentina |
| Pharmaceutics | Michael Hindle | mhindle@vcu.edu | Various LMIC |
| Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering | Worth Longeset | pwlongest@vcu.edu | low resource settings/countries |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dean Krusienski | djkrusienski@vcu.edu | Germany |
| School of Nursing | Hallel Basco | bascohpm@vcu.edu | Egypt, Spain |
| School of Social Work | Denise Burnette | jdburnette@vcu.edu | India, China, Mongolia, Moldova, Botswana, Albania, Peru, Puerto Rico |
| Kinesiology & Health Sciences | Joann Richardson | jtrichar@vcu.edu | Jamaica |
| Center for Biological Data Science | Luiz Ozaki | lsozaki@vcu.edu | Brazil |