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