News & Events: Global Surgery

A recent study published in the British Journal of Surgery by Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH and a team of researchers at Lifebox, showed a dramatic reduction in the risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) after implementing Clean Cut, a quality improvement program that helps surgical teams address the causes of SSIs. The study, Outcomes Following Implementation of Clean Cut, an Adaptive, Multimodal Surgical Infection Prevention Program for Low Resource Settings: A Prospective Quality Improvement Study, showed a 35% reduction in the risk of SSI, based on the outcomes of more than 2,000 operations [...]

Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH, a general surgery research resident, was awarded an NIH Fogarty Global Health Scholars Fellowship for the 2020-21 year. Dr. Starr will spend her fellowship year at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the mentorship of Milliard Derbew, M.D., Tom Weiser, M.D., MPH, Andi Tenner, M.D., MPH, and Doruk Ozgediz, M.D., MSc. Her research will focus on building and implementing trauma quality improvement programs in Ethiopian public hospitals. Dr. Starr's team will establish trauma registries at three hospitals in the city of Addis Ababa to collect and [...]