Emergency Medicine Grand Rounds will take place on Thursday, December 10, 2015, from 11:00 a.m. to noon in Room S-214, Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus Avenue.
Dr. Teri Reynolds leads the WHO Emergency and Trauma Care program in the Department for the Management of Noncommunicable diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention (NVI). She was previously the Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency and research programs at Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania. She serves as the Chair of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) Scientific Committee, Editor of the AFEM Emergency Care curriculum, and directs the AFEM regional Trauma Data Project. She completed her MD, MS in Global Health Sciences, and fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at UCSF; residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California; and PhD in literature at Columbia University in New York.
WHO is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of health systems to respond to acute illness and injury. The Emergency and Trauma Care program provides technical guidance to support ministries, policy makers, and health system administrators strengthen emergency care systems, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
