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Ratan Banik created the Global Online Pain Fellowship to provide anesthesiologists from low-resource settings with essential pain management training without requiring them to leave their home countries.

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility has awarded seven University of Minnesota faculty members Global Engagement Grants, funding that will be used to advance novel global health projects.

Dr. Melissa Geller, a gynecological oncologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, is completing a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Galway to develop novel ovarian cancer treatments.

Three generations of the Sanchez family came to the U of M to study from their home in Venezuela—and put down roots.

Board members and administrators from three hospitals in the Netherlands recently participated in an Innovation Tour to the United States, visiting the Visible Heart Lab and talking with Medical School leaders.

This year’s funding, awarded to Noelle Noyes, Caleb Skipper, and Byron Vaughn, will advance global health research projects in Africa and South America. 

Joseph Baluku completed the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship in July, studying whether people living with HIV who recovered from tuberculosis were at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.

Pelvic floor disorders are estimated to affect up to 40 percent of women in Ethiopia. The urogynecology fellowship aims to help by ensuring local healthcare practitioners have what they need to adequately treat such conditions.

Kristen Mark, PhD, with the University of Minnesota Medical School, received a $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance the quality of life for individuals with disabilities in Tanzania through a new project.

Dr. Gregory Beilman and Dr. Jeffrey Chipman in the Medical School’s Department of Surgery established a surgical camp in Uganda seven years ago to give U of M surgeons and anesthesiologists a chance to give back.