Rebecca Maine, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of General and Acute Care Surgery chosen to Co-Direct Malawi Surgical Initiative
Rebecca Maine, MD, has been selected to co-direct the Malawi Surgical Initiative. Dr, Maine completed her medical degree at the University of California in San Francisco in 2009, recieved her Masters in Public Health from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in 2015. She completed her General Surgery Residency at UCSF in 2016 after which she finished her education at the University of Washington in 2017 with a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship., In 2017 Dr. Maine became an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at UNC, Division of General and Acute Care Surgery.
In collaboration with surgeons at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, the Malawi College of Medicine in Blantyre, Haukland University Department of Surgery, Bergen, Norway and the University of North Carolina Departments of Surgery and Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery, a new surgical resident training program was established at Kamuzu Central Hospital in July 2009. The program is accredited by the College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA). After 5 years of post medical school training, these young men and women will spend a lifetime providing surgical care to some of the poorest people in the world. In addition, they will become the faculty for the self-sustaining training program, training generations of surgeons and leaders.
Providing surgical care requires a diverse team of professionals: general and subspecialty surgeons, anesthesiologists, intensive care physicians, nurses, pathologists and radiologists. The Malawi Surgical Initiative brings together professionals from UNC and other institutions to provide training for the KCH General Surgery Residency Program and conduct research of surgical diseases. Click here to find out more about the Malawi Surgical Initiative.
Dr. Anthony Charles, Chief, Division of General and Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Director of the Institute of Global Health, “Please join me in congratulating Rebecca Maine on her appointment as the co -Director of the Malawi Surgical Initiative. Her passion and Academic interest in Global Surgery is unparalleled and I look forward to working with her as we make UNC the premier Academic Global Surgery program in the country.”