Global Health Activities/Research Information

 

 

Brandon Cox, Ph.D.

  • Department: Pharmacology
  • Type of Activities: Basic science research related to hearing
  • Foreign Investigator and Country: Dr. Kristen Rak, University of Würzburg, Germany
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any):

Lisabeth F. DiLalla, Ph.D.

  • Department: Family and Community Medicine, SIUSOM, Carbondale, IL
  • Type of Activities: Research Project
  • Foreign Investigator and Country: Dr. Giancarlo Lucchetti and Dr. Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Brazil
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Doctor-physician relationships and medical student wellness

Janak Koirala, MD, MPH

  • Department: Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Type of activities: Collaborative research
  • Foreign Investigator and country: Nepal, India, Kalmykia (Russia), The Gambia, Ghana, Nicaragua
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any):

Edem Agamah, MD, MS, FACP

  • Department: Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Member, Simmons Cancer Institute
  • Type of Activities: Leads Mission Teams to Ghana twice a year to provide medical care
  • Foreign Investigator and Country:  IHDN MIssion Hospital, Ghana, West Africa
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care  

Tabatha Wells, MD

  • Department: Family and Community Medicine 
  • Type of Activities: Global Health Trip
  • Country: varies for each trip
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care

Asiya Mohammed, MD

  • Department: Family and Community Medicine 
  • Type of Activities: Global Health Trip
  • Country: Peru, Dominical Republic, Costa Rica
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care

Karen Hoelzu

  • Department: Medical Mission Volunteer 
  • Type of Activities: Global Health Trip, 1 HDN, Samaritan’s Purse
  • Country: Ghana and Ethiopia
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care

Careyana Brenham, MD

  • Department: FCM 
  • Type of Activities: Medical trips with students, residents, fundraising and awareness activities
  • Country: Haiti, Nigeria, Honduras, Panama, Dominical Republic, Peru, Costo Rica, Mexico
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care (organization – IAMM, Global Brigades, FIMRC)

 Jordan Sestak, MD

  • Department: Neuroscience
  • Type of Activities: Medical trips
  • Country: Honduras, Ecuador, Ghana, Ethiopia
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care (organization – International Rehab Forum)

Laura Beth Hicks, RN

  • Department: Surgery, Urology
  • Type of Activities: Medical trips, mission work with church
  • Country: Mexico
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Medical care

 

John Mellinger, MD

  • Department:  Surgery
  • Type of Activities:  Assist with faculty development programs and oral certifying examinations
  • Foreign Investigator and Country:  Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) and the College of Surgeons of South, East, and Central Africa (COSECSA)
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education

Edem Agamah, MD, MS, FACP

  • Department: Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Member, Simmons Cancer Institute
  • Type of Activities: Leads Mission Teams to Ghana twice a year to teach and host CME program for doctors
  • Foreign Investigator and Country:  IHDN Mission Hospital, Ghana, West Africa
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education

Janak Koirala, MD, MPH

  • Department: Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Type of activities: Visiting professor, ID training and CME programs
  • Foreign Investigator and country: Nepal, India, Kalmykia (Russia), The Gambia, Ghana, Nicaragua
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education

Ezzeldin Saleh, MD

  • Department: Pediatrics
  • Type of activities: Co-founder and current Board of Trustee chair of Sudanese American Medical Association, a non-profit organization involved in humanitarian medical services, training and education
  • Foreign Investigator and country: Sudan
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education

Sangita Basnet, MD

  • Department: Pediatrics/Pediatric Critical Care
  • Type of activities: Academic and research
  • Foreign Investigator and country: Nepal
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education – pediatric ICU training/Research

John Sutyak, MD

  • Department: Surgery
  • Type of activities: Clinical Seminars
  • Foreign Investigator and country: Ghana
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education

Shawn Holcomb, DO

  • Department: FCM, Quincy FM
  • Type of activities: Developing an international rotation for residents and students
  • Foreign Investigator and country: India
  • Research/Academic Projects (if any): Education