Join us for this discussion on ethical dilemmas in providing care in resource limited and multicultural environments. Led by a team of experienced medical professionals at CNH in a range of departments: Drs. Kathy Ferrer, Eiman Abdulrahman, and Stacey Stokes.
Dr. Ferrer is an attending physician in the Pediatric Hospitalist Division and the Special Immunology Section of the Infectious Disease Department at CNH. Currently, she is the Education lead for the Children’s National Global Health Initiative and serves on the Global Health Steering Community for the APPD (Association of Pediatric Program Directors). She is a clinician for the Children’s National Special Immunology clinic caring for children with
perinatally- and horizontally-acquired HIV and the co-director for the Ryan White HIV Services Quality Management Committee. She is a Global Health Faculty Mentor for CNHS residents and co-director of the Global Child Health Curriculum at CNH. Previously, she served as the Medical Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Bristol-Myers Squibb Children’s Clinical Centre of Excellence in Maseru, Lesotho from 2005-2009 where she assisted with scale-up of pediatric HIV care and treatment for the country. She has lectured frequently on pediatric HIV, malnutrition, tuberculosis and global health topics in sub-Saharan Africa, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, China and the United States. She also served as a locum tenens physician for the Indian Health Service in Chinle, Arizona. She completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 2003.
Dr. Abdulrahman is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at George Washington School of Medicine and Children’s National Medical Center. She completed her Emergency Medicine Fellowship training at Emory University where she helped set up a global health tract for pediatric residents. At Children’s National, she teaches Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment and Ethics in Global Health for the Pediatric Residency Global Health Course. She is originally from Ethiopia and has worked at the government hospital in Addis Ababa. She regularly attends meetings to discuss health issues in Ethiopia. Currently, she is involved in establishing ED protocols and a therapeutic hypothermia program in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
Dr. Stacey Stokes is an attending in the Division of Hospitalist Medicine at Children’s National Hospital. Her global health career has included work in South Africa, Guyana, India and Haiti. Current international work involves yearly visits to Port au Prince, Haiti to provide inpatient clinical care and medical education to Haitian pediatric residents through Project Medishare. She has a special interest in international and local global health resident education and current work is surrounding growth of an e-module learning platform for global health education. She is co-director of the Global Health Curriculum at Children’s National Hospital and is available as a global health mentor for CNH residents.
Session Objectives:
- Recognize ethical issues that commonly arise in international volunteer work
- Describe an approach to address ethical problems that are related to volunteer work and patient care in developing countries
