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GLOBAL
GLOBAL HEALTH
HEALTH INITIATIVES
INITIATIVE

Contributions of Southern
California Anesthesiology Training
Programs to Global Health
Improvement and Education
By Mark Singleton, MD, Christopher Woolley, MD,
Ferne Braveman, MD, and Karen Sibert, MD, FASA

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ast year's issue of Vital Times featured reports on
a variety of international service and education
activities from the Northern California academic
programs, with a promise that this issue would contain
a similar article on such activities among programs in
Southern California. Here are some highlights from
three of them. These are meant to share some of the
volunteer activities of faculty and trainees at these
three institutions, and it should be understood that
many significant individual contributions to improve
care in underserved areas of the world are performed
by many others whom we admire and support.

Dr. Braverman is now a team leader for the program.
The mission of Kybele is to "create healthcare
partnerships across borders to improve childbirth
safety." To learn more, visit kybeleworldwide.org.

University of Southern California

The team's efforts in the Balkans (Serbia, Macedonia,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia) have been focused
on improving obstetric anesthesia care by providing
hospital-based training in hospitals throughout the
region. The team travels twice per year to the region.
In addition to hands-on training, they have worked
with their colleagues to support continuing education
and scholarly activity, resulting in 30 abstracts, 10
papers, and five SOAP supported grants thus far.

Ferne Braveman, MD, Professor and Vice Chair of
the Department of Anesthesiology, Keck School
of Medicine, has been a participant in the Kybele
Worldwide program in the Balkans since 2013.
This is the second year the team was in this region.

The team has helped develop solutions for providing
labor analgesia for parturients in under-resourced
hospitals and have encouraged and supported
the transition from general anesthesia to regional
anesthesia for Cesarean delivery. These activities

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