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Muriel Cleary
Muriel Cleary
MHS, MD, FAAP, FACS
Dr. Cleary is a Pediatric Surgeon at the University of Massachusetts with research interests in improving clinical outcomes and disparities of care in pediatric patients.
Chihena Banda
Chihena Banda
MD, PhD
Dr. Banda is the head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at University of Zambia and faculty at the University Teaching Hospital. His research interests are in microsurgery and reconstructive surgery.
Email: chihenab@gmail.com
Lily Gutnik
Lily Gutnik
MD, MPH, FACS
Dr. Gutnik is a Breast & Endocrine Surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a longstanding research passion that has revolved around the impact of breast cancer screening and early detection in low-resource settings.
Email: lgutnik@uabmc.edu
Website: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/surgery/breast-endocrine/faculty/gutnik-lily-a-m-d
Isaac Fwemba
Isaac Fwemba
PhD, MPH, BSc
Dr. Fwemba is a biostatistician and researcher at University of Zambia. His research focus and expertise is in Bayesain modeling and public health.
Email: isaac.fwemba@gmail.com
Cassandra Villegas
Cassandra Villegas
M.D., MPH, FACS
Dr. Villegas is a general/trauma surgeon and critical care intensivist at Weill Cornell / New York Presbyterian Hospital with research interests in outcomes research utilizing large scale and institutional datasets and multi-institutional clinical trials.
Email: cav7003@med.cornell.edu
Ashutosh Tamhane
Ashutosh Tamhane
MD, MPH
Dr. Tamhane is an epidemiologist at University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research interest and expertise is in data management and analysis and SAS programming.
Email: tamhane@uabmc.edu
Mary Byrnes
Mary Byrnes
PhD, MUP
Dr. Byrnes is an assistant research scientists in surgery at University of Michigan. Her research focus and expertise is in health inequalities, specifically social determinants of health.
Email: mabyrnes@umich.edu
Website: https://medschool.umich.edu/profile/7300/mary-byrnes
Victor Mapulanga
Victor Mapulanga
MD
Dr. Mapulanga is the academic head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Zambia and University Teaching Hospital. His research focus and expertise is in urologic oncology.
Email: vmapulanga@yahoo.com


Elyse LeeVan
Elyse LeeVan
MD, MPH
Dr. LeeVan is a Colorectal Surgeon and the Program Officer in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the NIH. Her research focus and expertise is in cancer screening and organizing and executing international research initiatives.
Email: elyse.leevan@nih.gov
Website: https://prevention.cancer.gov/about-dcp/staff-search/elyse-leevan-md-mph
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