Events

The inaugural meeting of the BoSD WG was hosted by the University of Washington and supported by Operation Smile in April 2008.  The 2nd annual BoSD WG meeting was hosted by the American College of Surgeons in May 2009.  Presentations from these meetings can be viewed at www.gsd2008.org and information on the meeting agendas follows.  A symposium of the meeting will be published in the World Journal of Surgery later this year.

The 3rd Annual BoSD WG meeting will be hosted by the Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health (VIGH) March 10-12, 2010 in Nashville, TN.   To register  please go to http://bosd.vumcevents.com/.  A call for abstracts is underway, for poster abstract submission details and deadline please contact bosdworkinggroup@gmail.com.

2010 Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group Meeting

The upcoming March 10-12, 2010 meeting will be hosted by the Vanderbilt University Institute for Global Health in Nashville, TN.  Details regarding related events and agenda specifics will be found at this site in early January.

2009 Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group Meeting

The second annual meeting of the BoSD WG was hosted by the American College of Surgeons in Chicago May 20 – 22, 2009.  Topics of focus included the prioritization of global surgical services, surgical cost effectiveness, surgical proxies as an estimation of trauma burden, models of surgical delivery and training, value and challenges of surgical data collection and evaluation, the global anesthesia crisis, anesthesia workforce challenges and solutions,  maternal morality and obstetrical emergencies, and the role of NGOs in surgical delivery.  Breakout groups focused on Academic Partnerships, the technical evaluation of the burden of obstetrical disease, the global anesthesia

Keynote Speakers:  John Tarpley MD, FACS, Vanderbilt University; Tom Russel, MD, FACS, Executive Director American College of Surgeons; Dean Jamison, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; Angela Enright, MB, BCh, BAO, President, World Federation of the Societies of Anaesthesia; Greg Elder, MBChB, MIA, Deputy Desk Manager, Médecins Sans Frontières-France.

Invited speakers:  Kathleen Casey, MD, FACS, Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons; K A Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative;Stephen Bickler, MD, DTM&H, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego; Meena Cherian, MD, Emergency and Essential Surgical Care Project, WHO; Charles Mock, MD, MPH, PhD, FACS, Department of Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO; Renee Hsia, MD, MSc, Assistant Clinical Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Richard Gosselin, MD, MPH, MSc, Institute for Global Orthopedics and Traumatology; Rachel Idowu, MD, Vanderbilt University; Tom Weiser, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health; Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School; Doruk Ozdegiz, MD, MsC, Fellow, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto; Georges Azzie, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto;  Kathryn Chu, MD, MPH, Surgeon, Médecins Sans Frontières-South Africa; Luis Bermudez, MD, Operation Smile, International; Gerald Dubowitz, MB, ChB, DA, BSc, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco; Mark Newton, MD, Director, Kijabe Hospital Kenya, Director, Vanderbilt International Anesthesia (VIA); Cynthia Stanton, PhD, Assistant Professor, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health;  Colin McCord, MD, FACS, Associated Professor of Clinical Surgery, Columbia University; R Serene Perkins, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Director, International Surgery Program, Oregon Health and Science University.

To follow the meeting a symposium of related work was published by the World Journal of Surgery.  Many thanks to John Hunter, MD, FACS, Editor for making this publication possible.

2008 Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group Meeting

The inaugural meeting of the BoSD WG was hosted by the University of Washington, Center for Public Health Informatics, and generously sponsored by Operation Smile April 20-22, 2008 in Seattle Washington.   Topics of focus included unmet surgical need, surgical metrics and evaluation, effective coverage, cost effectiveness and sustainability, delivery of surgical care in low resource settings, essential and emergency surgery, trauma and prevention, surgical safety, surgical initiatives and the role of non-governmental organizations in the delivery of surgical services in low and middle income countries.  Two breakout groups focused on the technical evaluation of the burden of surgical disease and the delivery of surgical services in low and middle income countries.

Keynote speakers:  Haile Debas, MD, Executive Director, Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco; Dean Jamison, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; Frederick M Burkle, Jr, MD, MPH, DTM, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

Invited speakers:  Theo Vos, MD, University of Queensland, Australia;  Steve Lim, MD, University of Washington; Richard Gosselin, MD, MPH, FACS University of California, Berkley;  Charles Mock, MD, MPH, PhD FACS, World Health Organization; Meena Cherian, MD, World Health Organization; Tom Weiser, MD, MPH, World Health Organizaiton; Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, Brigham and Woman’s Department of Surgery; Sarah MacFarlane, PhD, University of California, San Francisco; Ellen Agler, MPH, Operation Smile;  Doruk Ozdegiz, MD, MSc, University of California San Francisco, and K A Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.