Trocar Placement

Name of the Content Author(s)

• Dr. Grace Kim

  Chief coordinator of the Michigan site Dr. Grace Kim, one of our team leads, is an associate professor of surgery and the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan.  Fellowship-trained in minimally invasive surgery, Dr. Kim has a busy laparoscopic surgery practice and teaches and mentors surgical residents and medical students.  She has led numerous surgical missions to sub-Saharan Africa.  Dr. Kim serves as the Chair of the General Surgery Council and is the Vice Chair of the Curriculum Committee at PAACS.
• Dr. David Jeffcoach

  Former Chief coordinator of Soddo, Ethiopia site Dr. David Jeffcoach, one of our team leads, is an assistant clinical professor of surgery in trauma, critical care, and acute care surgery at the University of California San Francisco, Fresno as well as fellow of COSECSA. He is the former program director of the general surgery residency at Soddo Christian Hospital in Ethiopia.
• Dr. Deb Rooney

  Dr. Deborah Rooney is an associate professor of Learning Health Sciences and the Director of Education and Research for the Clinical Simulation Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Rooney has served as the Chair for the American College of Surgery Technology and Simulation Committee and developed a successful simulation program for use in a hospital in Ethiopia.
• Dr. Melanie Barnard

  Simulation Coordinator Dr. Melanie Barnard is an assistant professor of surgery at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Dr. Barnard grew up in Kampala, Uganda before moving to the United States to complete her undergraduate and medical education. Dr. Barnard is strongly committed to surgical education with expertise in surgical simulation, where she was able to design a multi-disciplinary intra-abdominal hemorrhagic shock simulation used at her institution.
• Dr. Mark Snell

  Dr. Mark Snell was the assistant program director of the general surgery residency program at Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Cameroon and assistant professor of surgery at the Loma Linda School of Medicine.
• Dr. Kevin El-Hayek

  Kevin El-Hayek, MD, MBA, FACS is an Associate Professor of Surgery at MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University, where he leads endoscopic and hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery. Trained at Harvard and Cleveland Clinic, his work focuses on minimally invasive and HPB surgery. He is also active in global surgical education in Africa.