Honour: Gold

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

Michelle White

Location: Mercy Ships

Dr Michelle White is a Paediatric Anesthesiologist originally from the UK. In January 2012 she resigned her Consultant post in England and joined the international charity Mercy Ships full time. Mercy Ships operates the worlds largest non-governemental hospital ship and performs free surgeries and delivers free training courses and mentoring projects in Africa. Dr White is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Capacity Building Director for Mercy Ships. She first became involved in PTC back in the 2000’s completing an instructor course in Oxford, but took until 2013 to become involved again. She has co-ordinated PTC courses in partnership with Mercy Ships in Republic of Congo and in Madagascar.

Dr White has also co-authored the SAFE Paediatric Anaesthesia Course – an initiative of the the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology. Her research interests include surgical global health and capacity building. And in particular the implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and Lifebox pulse oximetry.

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Josephat Chiripanyanga

Location: Zimbabwe

Josephat Chiripanyanga is a Registrar in cardiothoracic surgery and is based at Parienyatwa Hospital in Harare.

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Alex Bangirana

Location: Uganda

Surname  Bangirana

First name  Alexander

Education

Primary Leaving examinations            1979

O level examinations                              1984

A level                                                        1987

Makerere Medical School(Degree)    1987 to1994

Makerere Medical School(Masters Degree)        1999 to 2003

Attachment Trauma Fellowship Fukui University (Japan)   2006 to 2007

Employment

Intern doctor Mulago Hospital   1994 to 1995

Medical officer Mulago Hospital (Accident and emergency unit)   1996 to 1999

Resident orthopaedic surgery Makerere university   1999  to 2003

Medical officer Special Grade (Orthopeadic surgeon)    June 2003 to March 2014

Consultant Orthopeadic Surgeon   March 2014 to date

Responsibilities  

Head accident and emergency Mulago National Refferal Hospital  Oct 2012 to date

Cosecsa PTC country representative   2012 to date

Clinical Head Orthopaedic department    June 2008 to Oct 2012

Assistant secretary Uganda Orthopeadic Association 2006 to 2010

Secretary Uganda Orthopeadic Association   2010 to 2012

President elect Uganda Orthopeadic Association 2013/ 2014

President Uganda Orthopeadic Association  2014 /2015

Hobbies

Playing  Squash.

Watching international sports events.

Research and Publications

  1. Miyazaki T, Kokubo Y, Kobayashi S, Yayama T, Sato R, Uchida K, Bangirana A, Baba H: Ochronotic arthropathy requring bilateral hip and knee joint arthroplasty: case study. Jpn J Rheum Joint Surg 25(4): 489-496, 2007
  2. Sato R, Uchida K, Kobayashi S, Yayama T, Kokubo Y, Nakajima H, Takamura T, Bangirana A, Itoh H, Baba H: Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine：histopathological findings around the calcification and ossification front. J Neurosurg Spine 7: 174-183, 2007
  3. Yayama T, Uchida K, Kobayashi S, Kokubo Y, Sato R, Nakajima H, Takamura T, Bangirana A, Itoh H, Baba H: Thoracic ossification of the human ligamentum flavum: histopathological and immunohistochemical findings around the ossified lesion. J Neurosurg Spine 7: 184-193, 2007
  4. Kokubo Y, Kobayashi S, Yayama T, Miyazaki T, Sato R, Uchida K, Bangirana A, Baba H: Bilateral massive new bone formation around the hip joint: a case report. Jpn J Rheum Joint Surg 26 (2): 117-124, 2007
  5. Kubota C, Kobayashi S, Miyazaki T, Kokubo Y, Yayama T, Uchida K, Sato R, Bangirana A, Baba H: Exceedingly large femoral condyle intraosseous ganglion cyst following high tibial osteotomy. J Orthop Sci 12 (6): 592-596, 2007
  6. Uchida K, Yayama T, Kobayashi S, Kubota C, Nakajima H, Bangirana A, Naiki H, Wada M, Baba H: Ganglioneuroma emanating from the C8 nerve root within the neuroforamen: a case which underwent intraneural selective tumor resection. Minim Invas Neurosurg 50: 350-354, 2007
  7. Yayama T, Kobayashi S, Sato R, Uchida K, Takamura T, Bangirana A, BabaH: Insidious progression of paraparaesis secondary to type III meningeal cyst: a study of six difficult cases. Spinal Cord 46(2): 159-161 2008
  8. Yayama T, Kobayashi S, Sato R, Kokubo Y, Nakajima H, Uchida K, Bangirana A, Itoh H, Baba H: Calcium crystal deposition in the ligamentum flavum of the lumbosacral spine: histopathological and immunohistochemical findings. Clin Rheumatol 27: 597-604, 2008

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Landouald Ruhungande

Location: Rwanda

He is a Senior Rwandan PTC instructor, General Surgeon working in Ruhengeri Referral hospital in Rwanda, he started being interested in trauma since he was in the post graduate training period in general surgery in University of Rwanda; and was trained in Primary Trauma Care (PTC) which has strongly boosted his interest. He organized and ran many PTC courses; instructor and provider courses as the Course Leader in Rwanda. He is fluent in both French and English which facilitates the trainings in many different countries. He also has been involved in running two distant instructor courses in Madagascar in collaboration with PTC foundation and Mercy Ships.  He continues to be very active in organizing and running PTC courses and he is a key point for PTC Rwanda.

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Mulinda Nyirenda

GCAC Member - Africa

Location: Malawi

Name & qualifications:
Mulinda Nyirenda, MBBS, MMed, FCP

Employment:

  • Senior Lecturer, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (formerly University of Malawi – College of Medicine and Kamuzu College of Nursing), Blantyre, Malawi
  • Emergency and Internal Medicine Physician, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

Other positions:

  • College of Medicine-Johns Hopkins Research Project, Blantyre, Malawi; Clinical Research Investigator
  • International Federation of Emergency Medicine, current Board Member (Regional Representative for Africa)
  • Africa Federation of Emergency Medicine, current Board Member (Regional Representative for Africa)
  • International Christian Medical and Dental Association, Board Member
  • International Faculty Member for Certification Program in Emergency Medicine, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
  • African Journal of Emergency Medicine Journal; Associate Editor

Awards:

  • 2021: William Rutherford Award Co-Recipient

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Mathenge Nduhiu

Location: Kenya

Dr. Mathenge Nduhiu. A General surgeon at the Nyeri County Hospital in Central Kenya.

Has coordinated PTC courses in Kenya since 2011.

Appointed member of  the trauma committee of the Surgical Society of Kenya in 2012.

Committed to improve the care of trauma patients in the public health sector in Kenya.

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Teddy Totimeh

Location: Ghana

Teddy Totimeh, Neurosurgeon

Department of Surgery Korle Bu Teaching Hospital

I trained in Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra Ghana. My main interests are in Pediatric Neurosurgery and Neuroendoscopy. I work in a centre which runs the only teaching neurosurgical service in Southern Ghana. We therefore manage a lot of neurological injuries because of our high road traffic accident rates. I have been teaching in the basic surgical skills course and have participated in the ATOM advanced trauma course in Ghana. I have completed 2 years of clinical neurosurgery fellowship in Israel and Kenya and 3 months base skull Neuroendoscopy in the US. Trauma care in Ghana is crucial and I will be privileged to learn methods that can be passed on.

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Jeanne Frossard

GCAC Member - Europe

Name & qualifications:
Jeanne Frossard Mb ChB. FRCA

Employment:
Semi-retired Consultant anaesthetist, University College London Hospital (UCLH) Trust

Other positions:

  • Primary Trauma Care instructor in 17 different countries, mainly Africa and the Middle East
  • Mentor for students of the Madrinha trust
  • Anaesthetist for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  • Emergency Room Trauma Care (ERTC) course for the ICRC
  • PTC instructor for Mercy Ships
  • Co-director for Anaesthesia in Developing Countries (ADC) course in Uganda
  • Lecturer on the Developing World Anaesthesia  (DWA) course

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Georgina Phillips

GCAC Member - Southeast Asia, Australasia & the Pacific

Location: Australia

Name & qualifications:
Georgina Phillips, MBBS, FACEM

Employment:

  • Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
  • Senior Lecturer and Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • PhD Scholar and Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Other positions:

  • Global Emergency Care Committee, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM); former Chair, current committee member
  • ACEM Foundation; Board member
  • ACEM Country Liaison Representative;
    • Solomon Islands
    • The Pacific Community
  • Visiting Emergency Medicine Lecturer and Faculty, School of Medicine:
    • Fiji National University
    • University of Papua New Guinea
  • Honorary Professor, Emergency Medicine
    • University of Medicine (1), Yangon, Myanmar
  • St Vincent’s Pacific Health Fund; Board Member
  • Emergency Medicine Australasia Journal; Section Editor

Awards:

  • ACEM 2019: Tom Hamilton Oration
  • ACEM 2012: Teaching Excellence Award
  • ACEM: Research awards for published / presented papers (2019, 2020), shared funding grants for research projects (2007, 2013)
  • ACEM: International Development Grants (project funding) (2012, 2020)
  • World Health Organisation: Project funding grant for ‘Epidemic Ethics’ research (2020)
  • Medical Journal of Australia publication prize (2015)
  • Australian Medical Association Sir Richard Stawell research prize (2007)

Gold Honour

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