Global Health
Resident Logan Harrold, MD, providing care at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia
As part of the Global Academic Anesthesia Consortium, the UNMC Department of Anesthesiology is committed to improving access to surgery, anesthesia and patient safety in developing countries through education, research and perioperative clinical training.
The department will send two teams consisting of faculty, residents and fellows for two weeks each year.
Michael Dancer, MD, Michaela Randall, MD, Logan Harrold, MD, Megan Chacon, MD, and Lucas Deschenes, MD
Zambia
The University of Zambia School of Medicine is Zambia's first medical school. It is situated in the University Teaching Hospital in the capital city Lusaka, Zambia.
The University Teaching Hospital is composed of five hospitals: adult, pediatric, ophthalmology, cancer diseases, and women and newborn.
The population of Zambia is 18.11 million and more than 80% of the population lives more than two hours from a safe surgical facility.
2024 Teams
Team One
- Megan Chacon, MD, Director, Global Health
- Dennis Thiel, MD, assistant professor
- Jeremy Payne, MD, CA3 resident
- Elizabeth Ternent Rech, DO, CA3 resident
- Megan Rolfzen, MD, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellow
Team Two
- Lucas Deschenes, MD, assistant professor
- Nancy Rogic, MD, assistant professor
- Lauren Costello, MD, CA3 resident
- Taylor Ziegler, MD, CA3 resident
- Nathan Goergen, MD, CA3 resident
2023 Teams
Team One
- Megan Chacon, MD, Director, Global Health
- Lucas Deschenes, MD, assistant professor
- Michaela Randall, MD, CA3 resident
- Logan Harrold, MD, CA3 resident
- Michael Dancer, MD, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellow
Team Two
- Kyle Johnson, MD, Assistant Professor
- Jeff Songster, MD, Associate Professor
- Lucas Reitz, MD, CA3 Resident
- Kevin Rance, MD, CA3 Resident
- Brad Eichhorn, MD, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellow
Global Academic Anesthesia Consortium
The consortium is a collaboration of academic departments of anesthesiology, and provides both in-person and virtual anesthesia education programs, research, and perioperative clinical training in areas where a sustainable partnership is possible.
- Create collaborative opportunities to support anesthesia education and training, and research development in low and middle-income countries.
- Offer Global Health experiences and education for interested residents and fellows and medical students, through sustained programs providing service, education and research.
- Share planning, curriculum and simulation development, and costs/resources among academic anesthesia programs with the goal of a sustained presence in a location in need.
- Pre-operative assessment
- Simulation teaching
- Regional anesthesia
- Obstetrics, analgesia knowledge, skills
- Cardiothoracic teaching, National Heart Hospital
- Pain management
- Pediatric, neonatal surgery anesthetic management
- Neurosurgery, traumatic brain injury anesthetic management
- Critical care
- Anesthesia oral exams: Questions, prep and examiners for orals, OSCE, dissertations
- Research prep course for residents, interested faculty
