Vanderbilt Receives Award to Strengthen Medical Education and Expand Access to Ophthalmology Care for Ebola Survivors in Liberia
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM), Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH), and the Vanderbilt Eye Institute (VEI) have joined forces in an effort to assist partners in Liberia to strengthen medical education and expand access to Ophthalmology care for Ebola survivors in response to the aftermath of the West African Ebola epidemic of 2014-2015.
Vanderbilt is partnering with the Liberian College of Physicians and Surgeons to develop a new, fully accredited ophthalmology residency training program and to build institutional as well as research capacity at the University of Liberia's A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine in the capital city, Monrovia. This work will be supported by a three-and-a-half year, $570,000 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Agency for International Development through its Partnership for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER-Liberia). This initiative will provide curriculum development, in-country workshops, distance learning, training for community-based and ancillary health care providers, mentoring of faculty and residents, apprenticeships and clinical rotations.
Program principal investigators are
Bonnie Miller, M.D., senior associate dean for Health Sciences Education at VUSM and executive vice president for Educational Affairs at VUMC, and
Troy Moon, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, VUSM.
Marie Martin, Ph.D., M.Ed., research assistant of Health Policy and assistant director of education and training at VIGH, will serve as program director, and
Elizabeth Rose, M.P.H., M.Ed., will serve as curriculum and evaluation advisor.
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