Medicine Grand Rounds- Dr. Caleb King and Dr. Louise King presents: “A Vertical Approach to Global Health: Our Experience in Rwanda”

Dr. Louise King an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in the Dept of Internal medicine, in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology. She received her medical degree from Harvard University and did her residency in Internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has a special interest in resource-limited settings and spent 16 years practicing medicine in Rwanda, providing medical relief and medical education to postgraduates at the University of Rwanda. She is interested in the intersection of infectious diseases and chronic illness.

Dr. Caleb King primarily works for the UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for Convergent Science (ICS). He is interested in cross-disciplinary studies within the sciences. Dr. King holds a medical degree and engineering degrees which he utilized in his 16 years in Rwanda to help the citizens of Rwanda medically and structurally by building a power grid in remote regions. His goal is to train students to be able to apply their knowledge across a variety of fields in the sciences.