PARTNERSHIPS TO BUILD INJURY RESEARCH CAPACITY IN

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAFiemu Nwariaku, M.D., FACS, FWACS

Professor of Surgery and Associate DeanUT Southwestern Medical Center and

Parkland Memorial HospitalDallas Texas

Objectives• Nascent program

• Describe strategic plan

• Learn from regional and international partners

Injuries and violence: the facts. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2010.

5.8 million deaths annually

1.24 million deaths from Road Traffic Injuries annually20-50 million non-fatal injuries

Injury

Injury Burden

Global Injury Data

Global Injury Distribution

Injury Research Resources

International Partners

National Trauma Centre, Abuja

• Disaster Response• Conflict Medicine

• Medium and long-term training

• Focus areas– Road traffic injuries– Injury Prevention– Disasters and Mass Casualty– Traumatic brain injury– Pediatric injury burden

• Leadership and Institutional Capacity

What are we going to do?

• Stakeholders meetings and phoneconferences, (Dallas, Abuja)

• Completed appointment of TAG members in Ethiopia and Nigeria

What have we done?

Dallas Ethiopia Nigeria

Dr. Fiemu Nwariaku Dr. Milliard Derbew Dr. Wole Olaomi

Dr Abier Abdelnaby Dr. Dereje Gulilat Dr. Emmanuel Ameh

Dr. Ahamed Idris Dr. Ken Ozoilo

Dr. Robert Toto Dr. Pius Iribhogbe

Dr. Chris Madden

Trainees

Dr. Abenezer TirsitAssistant Professor of NeurosurgeryAddis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Dr. Okoye Onyedika Godfrey, (General/trauma surgery), Department of Surgery, National Hospital Abuja (NHA).

PROJECT ONE

“We don't have ICP measurement . And most of the time we depend on clinical and radiological parameters for management decision , including indication for surgery and type of surgery . I am starting on a project ( waiting for IRB approval ) on the use of bedside ultrasound as a non-invasive and indirect measurement of ICP , we start the study togetter with colleagues from Emergency department”

- Dr. Abenezer

Collaboration

C

Strengthening Care for the Injured in West Africa:

Trauma Research, Trauma Quality Improvement

and Symposium on Success Stories and Lessons Learned from the Sub-Region

28 February, 2017 Ougadougou

• Dr. Olaomi attending Cape Coast training program

• Possible long-term training of Nigerian trainees at KNUST

Thank You!

Thank You!