Global Health Track
Faculty Involved in Global Development
Douglas Stockman, MD – Director, Global and Refugee Health; Medical Director, Family Medical Center; Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Doug Stockman visited a number of West African countries including Senegal, Liberia, and the Ivory Coast during his medical training. After graduation from residency, he created a nonprofit organization to fund health care activities in Liberia and Ghana. Dr. Stockman spent three years in the West African bush providing health care and pursuing rural development projects. He believes strongly in prevention and rural development as the only ways to break the cycle of poverty and despair. In between his time in Liberia and Ghana, Dr. Stockman wrote a book entitled Community Assessment: Guidelines for Developing Countries.
Barbara Gawinski, PhD – Associate Director of Global Health Track;
Associate Director of Behavior Health; Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Professor of Family Medicine
Barbara Gawinski is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at the clinical practice and works both in the residency and at the Honduran site to help the rotating clinic staff to deliver effective psychosocial and culturally sensitive care. Her special interest has been in encouraging the development of programs and activities for the women there and educational opportunities for the children and community. She has been instrumental in developing on site residency training in patient centered and culturally sensitive patient care.
Stephen Schultz, MD – Residency Director; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Steve Schultz first developed an interest in the health care needs of developing countries while backpacking in China as an undergraduate, an interest acutely heightened when riding in a bus that had a head-on collision with a dump truck. He spent four months working in a small hospital in Kenya during his fourth year of medical school. During residency, he did a rotation on the Navajo reservation, which he found to have more in common with a developing country setting than it did with most of the US. Immediately after his residency, he participated in a USAID-funded project teaching methods of clinical ward teaching at a hospital in Kazan, Tartarstan. During his chief residency year, he did a survey of the involvement of Family Medicine residency programs in global health, which was published in Family Medicine ("International Health Training in Family Medicine Residency Programs," 1998; 30(1):29-33) and incorporated into the AAFP's Global Health Opportunities in Family Medicine. Steve traveled to Iran in 2004 and 2005 as a consultant to help establish Family Medicine residency programs there. ("Family Medicine in Iran: The Birth of a New Specialty", Family Medicine 2005, 37(7), 502-05). He has recently completed another survey of global health programs within Family Medicine residencies and is working with the AAFP to disseminate this information to medical students. Steve worked for five years at an inner city community health center and is interested in how to apply community health interventions from developing countries to underserved communities in the US.
Jeffrey Harp, MD – Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry
Jeff Harp has had an interest in health care in developing countries since 1979, when he spent a summer as a pastoral assistant while wait-listed for medical school. His interest came to fruition in 1991, when he was asked to serve as the physician for a medical team traveling to Haiti. Due to a governmental coup, the trip occurred in 1992. He has returned to Haiti with a health care team every 18 months.
Ronald Epstein , MD – Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry
Ron Epstein facilitates an exchange between residents from Spain who wish to learn about Psychosocial Medicine, and several of our students have gone to Spain as well.
Kevin Fiscella , MD, MPH –Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community & Preventive Medicine
Kevin Fiscella is currently Chair of the Health Subcomittee for the Board of Directors of H.O.P.E., a small nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people in the community of Borgne, Haiti, based on grassroots partnerships with the people of Borgne, the Haitian Ministry of Health, and the local parish. Current initiatives include renovation, staffing, and equipping of a local hospital; support for a small mill; establishment of a Center to dissiminate low technology, reforestation, and community health outreach.
Stephen Lurie , MD, PhD – Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
Steve Lurie is participating in a project with Rebecca Loy PhD, UR Research Associate Professor of Neurogeriatrics, and Nancy Chin PhD, UR Assistant Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine, to develop a clinic in Tibet. At his last visit in August 2005, the team met with local government and health officials, as well as villagers, nomads, and monks, to define the health needs of the population. Construction on a clinic is now underway. Steve anticipates returning in the summer of 2007 to participate in the training of local midwives and doctors who will staff the clinic.
Susan McDaniel, PhD – Associate Chair, Department of Family Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine
Susan McDaniel’s most recent international trip was to Japan in June 2006, where she spoke to 75 primary care physicians in Osaka to celebrate the publication of the Japanese translation of the 2nd edition of Family-oriented Primary Care (McDaniel, Campbell, Hepworth & Lorenz; Springer-Verlag, 2005). In addition, she was a discussant for a panel of family physicians at a conference at Takasaki University where she spoke about Family Systems Medicine and the development of Family Medicine residencies in Japan. The first residencies started in April 2005. She said this was an exciting experience to consult with and witness the Japanese as they construct their approach to Family Medicine training from the ground up.