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Page move

Hi there - I've moved The Global Surgical Consortium to Global Surgical Consortium, as the beginning "The" is not required -- samtar ^whisper 19:05, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

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Kelly McQueen

Kathryn Ann Kelly “Kelly” McQueen (born June 27th, 1962) is an American anesthesiologist and global health expert. She currently works at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Early Life & Education

McQueen was born at Fort Gordon Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, the daughter of Jon Anthony and Betty Kay Green. Shortly after her birth, her parents returned to their hometown in Minnesota. When McQueen was 5 years old, her parents moved the family to Littleton, Colorado where she spent the rest of her childhood. McQueen has 2 sisters, Holli Marie and Julie Louise.

McQueen graduated from Littleton High School in 1980, and then from Colorado College in 1984 with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. McQueen took several gap years after college before going on to attend the University of Vermont College of Medicine, graduating with an MD in 1991. After 7 years of private practice in anesthesiology, Dr. McQueen returned to school to study Public Health, graduating from Harvard School of Public Health in 2002 with an MPH and a concentration in International Health.

Medical Career

Following medical school, McQueen completed an internship in Internal Medicine at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as the majority of her residency in Anesthesiology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. She spent the remainder of her Anesthesiology Residency at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. She subsequently completed a Fellowship in Obstetrical Anesthesia at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Upon completing her training in anesthesiology, McQueen joined Valley Anesthesiology Consultants, a private practice in Phoenix, Arizona where she worked as a full partner from 1996-2012.

In 2012, McQueen moved to Nashville, TN to take on the position of Director of Vanderbilt Anesthesia Global Health and Development at Vanderbilt University. She currently directs the Global Anesthesia Fellowship and serves as adjunct faculty for the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health. She spends approximately 1/3 of her time working on global efforts, including research in Ethiopia and Mozambique.

Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief

McQueen began her involvement in humanitarian work early in her medical career with her first experience in an overseas rotation in the Dominican Republic. Her next opportunity came while she was a resident, where she joined an Obstetrical Team for People to People on a trip to Russia in 1992. Since then, McQueen has worked in over 25 countries for a variety of global health organizations including Doctors Without Borders and Operation Smile.

McQueen was introduced to the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) after completing her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002. She later became a fellow for HHI and went on to conduct of her work on anesthesia and surgical infrastructure. During her time at HHI, McQueen began developing her ideas for the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group, and later Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence and The Global Surgical Consortium.

Public Health Career

After receiving her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2002, McQueen went on to complete a fellowship at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) from 2002-2003. During her fellowship, she served at the Office of Naval Research where she worked with the US Navy’s International Field Offices on infectious disease topics of national interest. The Anthrax letter scare of 2002 ocurred during her tenure with AAAS, prompting McQueen to plan and coordinate a bilateral meeting with Mexico on Emerging Infectious Disease Threats in Latin America in Cuernavaca, Mexico in September 2003.

McQueen’s 10 years of research have led to numerous publications and speaking opportunities. In 2015, her work played contributing roles in the 3rd Edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and the World Health Assembly Resolution on Safe Surgery and Anesthesia.

National Leadership

McQueen is an active member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) led the ASA Committee on Global Humanitarian Outreach from 2009-2015. She continues to serve ASA as a board member of the ASA Charitable Foundation. From 2011-2012, she served as President to the Arizona Society of Anesthesiologists. She currently serves as an alternate ASA delegate and is on the Annual Meeting Committee for the Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists.

Global Leadership

McQueen is currently a member of the World Health Organization Global Initiative on Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC). In 2007, she founded the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group and served as the group’s leader until its transition to the Alliance of Surgery and Anesthesia Presence in 2010.

Charitable Activities

McQueen has been a volunteer for organizations providing surgery and safe anesthesia for over 25 years. In 2010, the founded The Global Surgical Consortium, a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing the evidence and data required for responsible building of infrastructure in low-income countries.

Author

McQueen is the author of multiple peer-reviewed research and review articles, and is the author of two children’s books: What’s A Virus Anyway, published in 1990 and Let’s Talk Trash, published in 1992. Both books have received the Vermont Book Publisher’s Association Special Merit Award and in 1991, What’s A Virus Anyway was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Children’s Book Award.

Publications

Fassler D, McQueen K, Duncan P, Copeland L. Children's Perceptions of AIDS. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1990; 29(3):459-462.

McQueen K, Fassler D, Copeland L, Duncan P. Attitudes about AIDS Education for Young Children Among Parents and Teachers. Children's Health Care 1992; 211(1):26-30.

McQueen K, Fassler D. The Role of the Pediatrician in Educating Young Children About AIDS. Children's Hospital Quarterly 1992; 4(1):3-5. Cork RC, Azari DM, McQueen K. Effect of esmolol given during cardiopulmonary bypass on fractional area of contractions from TEE. Anesthesia and Analgesia 1995 Aug;81(2):219-224. PMID 7618705.

McQueen KA, Burkle FM Jr, Al-Gobory ET, Anderson CC. Maintaining baseline, corrective surgical care during asymmetrical warfare: a case study of a humanitarian mission in the safe zone of a neighboring country. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2007 Jan;22(1):3-7; discussion 8. PMID 17484356.

McQueen KA, Magee W, Crabtree T, Romano C, Burkle FM Jr. Application of outcome measures in international humanitarian aid: comparing indices through retrospective analysis of corrective surgical care cases. Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine 2009 Jan;24(1):31-38. PMID 19557956.

Ozgediz D, Hsia R, Weiser T, Gosselin R, Spiegel D, Bickler S, Dunbar P, McQueen K. Population health metrics for surgery: effective coverage of surgical services in low-income and middle-income countries. World journal of surgery 2009 Jan;33(1):1-5. PMID 18958518.

McQueen KA, Parmar P, Kene M, Broaddus S, Casey K, Chu K, Hyder JA, Mihailovic A, Semer N, Sullivan SR, Weiser T, Burkle FM Jr. Burden of surgical disease: strategies to manage an existing public health emergency. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2009 Jul;24 Suppl 2:s228-31. PMID 19806545.

McQueen KA, Hyder JA, Taira BR, Semer N, Burkle FM Jr, Casey KM. The provision of surgical care by international organizations in developing countries: a preliminary report. World Journal of Surgery 2010 Mar;34(3):397-402. PMID 19685261.

Dubowitz G, Detlefs S, McQueen KA. Global anesthesia workforce crisis: a preliminary survey revealing shortages contributing to undesirable outcomes and unsafe practices. World Journal of Surgery 2010 Mar;34(3):438-44. PMID 19795163 PMC 2816796.

Mock C, Cherian M, Juillard C, Donkor P, Bickler S, Jamison D, McQueen K. Developing priorities for addressing surgical conditions globally: furthering the link between surgery and public health policy. World Journal of Surgery 2010 Mar;34(3):381-5. PMID 19876689.

Bickler S, Ozgediz D, Gosselin R, Weiser T, Spiegel D, Hsia R, Dunbar P, McQueen K, Jamison D. Key concepts for estimating the burden of surgical conditions and the unmet need for surgical care. World Journal of Surgery 2010 Mar;34(3):374-80. PMID 19862570 PMC 2816802.

McQueen KA, Ozgediz D, Riviello R, Hsia RY, Jayaraman S, Sullivan SR, Meara JG. Essential surgery: Integral to the right to health. Health and Human Rights 2010 Jun;15(12):137-52. PMID 20930260.

Notrica M, Evans F, Knowlton LM, McQueen KA. Rwandan Surgical and Anesthesia Infrastructure: A Survey of District Hospitals. World Journal of Surgery 2011 Aug;35(8):1770-1780. PMID 21562869.

Zafar SN, McQueen KA. Surgery, public health, and Pakistan. World Journal of Surgery 2011 Dec;35(12):2625-34. PMID 21964819. Chackungal S, Nickerson JW, Knowlton LM, Black L, Burkle FM, Casey K, Crandell D, Demey D, Di Giacomo L, Dohlman L, Goldstein J, Gosney JE Jr, Ikeda K, Linden A, Mullaly CM, O'Connell C, Redmond AD, Richards A, Rufsvold R, Santos AL, Skelton T, McQueen K. Best practice guidelines on surgical response in disasters and humanitarian emergencies: report of the 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit Working Group on Surgical Issues within the Humanitarian Space. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2011 Dec;26(6):429-37. PMID 22475370.

Knowlton LM, Gosney JE, Chackungal S, Altschuler E, Black L, Burkle FM Jr, Casey K, Crandell D, Demey D, Di Giacomo L, Dohlman L, Goldstein J, Gosselin R, Ikeda K, Le Roy A, Linden A, Mullaly CM, Nickerson J, O'Connell C, Redmond AD, Richards A, Rufsvold R, Santos AL, Skelton T, McQueen K. Consensus statements regarding the multidisciplinary care of limb amputation patients in disasters or humanitarian emergencies: report of the 2011 Humanitarian Action Summit Surgical Working Group on amputations following disasters or conflict. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2011 Dec;26(6):438-48. PMID 22559308.

Thind A, Mock C, Gosselin RA, McQueen K. Surgical epidemiology: a call for action. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012 Mar;90(3):239-40. PMID 22461720 PMC 3314201.

Nickerson JW, Chackungal S, Knowlton L, McQueen K, Burkle FM. Surgical care during humanitarian crises: a systematic review of published surgical caseload data from foreign medical teams. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2012 Apr;27(2):184-9. PMID 22591739.

Linden AF, Sekidde FS, Galukande M, Knowlton LM, Chackungal S, McQueen KA. Challenges of surgery in developing countries: a survey of surgical and anesthesia capacity in Uganda's public hospitals. World Journal of Surgery 2012 May;36(5):1056-65. PMID 22402968.

Burkle FM, Nickerson JW, von Schreeb J, Redmond AD, McQueen KA, Norton I, Roy N. Emergency Surgery Data and Documentation Reporting Forms for Sudden-Onset Humanitarian Crises, Natural Disasters and the Existing Burden of Surgical Disease. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2012 Sep;1-6. PMID 22999226. Chao TE, Burdic M, Ganjawalla K, Derbew M, Keshian C, Meara J, McQueen K. Survey of surgery and anesthesia infrastructure in ethiopia. World Journal of Surgery 2012 Nov;36(11):2545-53. PMID 22851147.

Lebrun DG, Saavedra-Pozo I, Agreda-Flores F, Burdic ML, Notrica MR, McQueen KA. Surgical and anesthesia capacity in bolivian public hospitals: results from a national hospital survey. World Journal of Surgery 2012 Nov;36(11):2559-66. PMID 22864566.

Lebrun DG, Dhar D, Sarkar MI, Imran TM, Kazi SN, McQueen KA. Measuring global surgical disparities: a survey of surgical and anesthesia infrastructure in Bangladesh. World Journal of Surgery 2013 Jan;37(1):24-31. PMID 23052803.

Knowlton LM, Chackungal S, Dahn B, Lebrun D, Nickerson J, McQueen K. Liberian Surgical and Anesthesia Infrastructure: A Survey of County Hospitals. World journal of surgery 2013 Apr;37(4):721-729. PMID 23404484.

Solis C, León P, Sanchez N, Burdic M, Johnson L, Warren H, Iddriss A, McQueen K. Nicaraguan Surgical and Anesthesia Infrastructure: Survey of Ministry of Health Hospitals. World journal of surgery 2013 Sep;37(9):2109-21. PMID 23756772.

Lebrun DG, Chackungal S, Chao TE, Knowlton LM, Linden AF, Notrica MR, Solis CV, McQueen KA. Prioritizing essential surgery and safe anesthesia for the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Operative capacities of 78 district hospitals in 7 low- and middle-income countries. Surgery 2014 Mar;155(3):365-373. PMID 24439745. Merchant A, Outhay M, Gonzaléz-Calvo L, Moon TD, Sidat M, Taibo CL, McQueen K. Training Laypersons and Hospital Personnel in Basic Resuscitation Techniques: an Approach to Impact the Global Trauma Burden in Mozambique. World journal of surgery 2015 Feb; PMID 25663007.

Vansell HJ, Schlesinger JJ, Harvey A, Rohde JP, Persaud S, McQueen KA. Anaesthesia, surgery, obstetrics, and emergency care in Guyana. Journal of Epidemiological Global Health 2015 Mar;5(1):75-83. PMID 25700926.

Simon Hendle, Thomas Coonan, Sarah Thomas, Kelly McQueen. The Rate Limiting Step: The Provision of Safe Anesthesia In Low-Income Countries . World Journal of Surgery 2015 Apr;39(4):833-841.

Watters, Hollands, Gruen, Maoate, Perndt, McDougall, Morriss, Tangi, Casey, McQueen. Perioperative Mortality Rate: A Global Indicator of Access to Safe Surgery and Anesthesia. World Journal of Surgery 2015 Apr;39(4):1-9. PMID 24841805.

Jackson T, Stabile V, McQueen K. Chronic Pain without Clear Etiology in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Narrative Review. Anesthesia and Analgesia 2016. Taibo CL, Moon TD, Joaquim OA, Machado CR, Merchant A, McQueen K, Sidat M, Folgosa E. Analysis of trauma admission data at an urban hospital in Maputo, Mozambique: results of a prospective observational study. Int J Emerg Med 2016 2016 Feb;9(6).

Walters JL, Jackson T, Byrne D, McQueen K. Postsurgical pain in low- and middle-income countries. British journal of anaesthesia 2016 Feb;116(2):153-5. PMID 26787783.

Wanderer JP, McQueen K, Rathmell JP. Anesthesiologists Without Borders: Working for Better Surgical Outcomes in Resource Limited Settings. Anesthesiology 2016 Mar;124(3):A21. PMID 26881410.

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The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP)

The Organization

The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP) was named in 2010 and became an international society in 2013 under the umbrella of the International Surgery Society (ISS.) Originally founded in 2007 as the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group (BoSDWG), the multidisciplinary society is made up of surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians and public health specialists dedicated to improving the delivery of surgical care, particularly in low and middle income countries (LMICs).

The History

The BoSDWG was co-founded by Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH and Doruk Ozdigez, MD, MPH, originally convening a small group of colleagues committed to documenting the important role of surgery and safe anesthesia to global public health through the international literature. The initial working group represented many academic groups engaged in international surgical delivery, and included Haile Debas, MD (Surgery), Skip Burkle, MD (Public Health), Dean Jamison, PhD (Economist), Steve Bickler, MD (Surgery), Richard Gosselin, MD (Orthopedic Surgery), Charlie Mock, MD (Trauma Surgery), John Meara, MD (Surgery), and Robert Riviello, MD, MPH (Surgery). Central to the initial mission of the group was autonomy from any one university or organization and collaboration with international groups and individuals representing the great unmet need of surgery and anesthesia in LMICs.

The working group collaborated with the World Health Organization's Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care, The World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, The American College of Surgeons, Operation Giving Back , and the International Surgical Society. The World Journal of Surgery became the official journal of the working group early in the group’s tenure, and has published an abundance of data and reports on rural and international surgery. The inaugural meeting of the BoSDWG was hosted by the University of Washington in 2008. Subsequent meetings were hosted by The American College of Surgeons, Operation Giving Back in 2009 and Vanderbilt University in 2010. During the 2010 BoSDWG meeting in Nashville, TN, the group was renamed as the Alliance of Surgery and Anesthesia Presence Today with the support of Bob Isherwood.

Annual Meetings

The ASAP’s annual meetings have been hosted by the University of California, San Diego in 2011, The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Melbourne, Australia in 2012, The International Society of Surgery in Helsinki, Finland in 2013 (in conjunction with ASAP’s incorporation as an “integrated society” of the ISS), and by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in Singapore in 2014. In 2015, the ASAP annual meeting was held during the World Congress of Surgery in Bangkok, Thailand and in 2016 the group met in Association with the College of Surgeons of East, Central and South Africa (COSECSA).

Leadership

The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence became the 6th Integrated Society of the International Society of Surgery on Aug 25, 2013. Under the leadership of Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, President, Steve Bickler, MD, Vice President, Kathleen Casey, MD, Secretary, Russell Gruen, MD, Treasurer, and David Watters, MD, acting Past-President, the first international, multidisciplinary society committed to surgery and safe anesthesia in LMICs continues growing and advocating for improvements in delivery of surgical and anesthesia care. The members of ASAP have contributed more than 100 peer-reviewed articles to the global surgical literature in journals such as the World Journal of Surgery , online forums like the World Health Organization Bulletin, and more.

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