World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Course Using a Training of the Trainers Model (GEMA Sponsored) #4
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Shama Patel, MD, MPH
Member-at-Large
University of Florida - Jacksonville
Dr. Shama Patel is an emergency medicine physician who has worked globally for over 10 years. She began her career in public health at the CDC with the Global AIDS Program as part of the PEPFAR program where she worked as a technical advisor in HIV prevention with high risk populations in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She went on to receive her M.D. from the Medical College of Georgia in 2014 and completed an Emergency Medicine residency program at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey in 2017. During her time at Morristown she completed an international elective in Nepal where she trained health workers on emergency care and point-of-care-ultrasound in remote villages devastated by the 2015 earthquake. Dr. Patel finished a 2-year Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship in 2019. During her fellowship she completed the ICRC Health Emergencies in Large Populations course as well as the University of Minnesota tropical medicine diploma course. Dr. Patel responded as a member of the Greater Hospital Association of NY to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico serving as a lead physician responding to both emergency care and inpatient needs. In Rwanda, she provided residency leadership to the masters in emergency medicine training program including developing didactics, exams and providing simulations. Currently, Dr. Patel works as technical advisor to the Emergency and Critical Care Directorate of the Ministry of Health of Ethiopia. In this position she has led the WHO Basic Emergency Care initial training the trainer courses and provides ongoing monitoring and evaluation for the rollout of BEC throughout the country. She services as co-PI for an implementation study to assess the effectiveness of the WHO emergency care toolkit. Now she works as Assistant Professor at University of Florida-Jacksonville. Dr. Patel has worked for the last several years with GEMA founding the GEMA engagement committee and working closely with the decolonizing GH group as well as the programming council. I hope this year to take more of an active role and recruit a diverse GEMA body through being your member at large.