GICS 2022 Webinar

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Due to the pandemic, we are unfortunately unable to meet in person this year, but we are holding a webinar so that we can connect with our colleagues and hear about updates in the many GICS activities.  We plan to meet each day for 3 hours, followed by breakout sessions.  Click here to register for the 2-day event, and click here to download the full program.

Day 1:  19 February

• Introduction:  Emmanuel Ameh, GICS Chair
  
  
• Updates from the Executive Committee
  
  
• Working Group Updates:  Lightning Presentations
  
  
• Vaccine Equity
  
  
• Mitigating the Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Surgery:  Panel Discussion
  
  
• National Surgical, Obstetrics, and Anesthesia Plans
  
  
• Breakout sessions:  Specialty Working Groups:
  

  ●        General Surgery (Basil Leodoro)

  ●      Pediatric Surgery (Soji Ademuyiwa)

  ●      Anesthesia (Zipporah Gathuya/Faye Evans)

  ●      Neurosurgery (Anthony Figaji)

  ●      Orthopedic Surgery (Vrisha Madhuri)

  ●      Cardiac Surgery (Bistra Zheleva)

  ●      Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (Joanne Czechowicz/Shazia Peer)

  ●      Urology (Bankole Rouma/Paddy Dewan)

  ●      Plastic Surgery (Peter Nthumba)

  ●      Nursing (Olubunmi Lawal-Aiyedun)
  
  ●      Nursing (Olubunmi Lawal-Aiyedun)
  
  

Day 2:  20 February

• Selected areas of research/Member projects
  
  
• Training collaborations:  Panel discussion
  
  
• NGO Updates
  
  
• Tributes to people we have lost during the pandemic
  
  
• Breakout sessions:  Committees and Focus Areas
  

  ●      Trauma (Ali Abdelbasit)

  ●      Tumors (Hafeez Abdelhafeez)

  ●      Congenital Anomalies (Tahmina Banu)

  ●      Training/Education (Sabina Siddiqui/Phyllis Kisa)

  ●      Research (Dan Poenaru/Vrisha Madhuri)

  ●      Family Advocacy (Corne de Vos)

  ●      Organizations and NGOs

  ●      Social gathering

 

Click here to download the full program.

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