Faculty
Ralph Corey, MD - HYC Director | Christopher Woods, MD - HYC Co-Director | John Hamilton, MD
John Bartlett, MD | Nathan
Thielman, MD | Vance Fowler, MD |
David Walmer, MD
Carol Dukes Hamilton,
MD | J. Brice Weinberg MD | Barth Reller MD | John Crump MD
Kathleen Clem, MD |
Truls Ostbye, MD, PhD | Kathryn Whetten, PhD | Dennis Clements, MD, PhD
Cheryl Baker, MD | Jeffrey Wilkinson, MD | Michael M Haglund, MD, PhD | Julie Adams, MD
Eric J Velazquez, MD | Charles J Gerardo, MD
Staff
Cynthia Binanay, RN, BSN, MA - HYC Program Director | Cecelia Pezdek - Global Health Residency Program Coordinator
Michael M. Haglund , MD, PhD
Dr. Michael M. Haglund is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurobiology, former member of the Duke Global Health Executive Committee, and current Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) Affiliate. He is also the faculty mentor for neurosurgery residents in the Duke Global Health Residency Program. For ten years, he has engaged in missionary work in Guayaquil, Ecuador, serving in a General Internal Medicine clinic built to accommodate the disadvantaged of that region. Over the last three years, he has helped found and initiate projects in the Duke Global Health PLUS (Placement of Life-changing Usable Surplus) program along with Jane Pleasants, Head of Procurement for Duke, and Anne Bax of the DGHI. This has resulted in over $3,000,000 in used surplus being shipped to New Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. Each summer since 2007 he has taken neurosurgical teams of 28-55 people to Uganda to do neurosurgery, anesthesia, and nursing in the operating rooms, ICU and general neurosurgical floor in order to train and equip Ugandan physicians and health care workers. Prior to Dr. Haglund’s arrival, the 1,500 bed New Mulago Hospital had only one ventilator and no monitoring capabilities. As a result of three summer trips through the Duke in Uganda program, the Ugandans have doubled their output of surgeries, performing more complex surgeries, and with the equipment for anesthesia, ventilators, and proper neurosurgical equipment like operating microscopes, drills, and plating, they have been able to dramatically improve patient care at New Mulago Hospital. Ongoing research projects involve trauma and neurosurgical head injury databases, outcome studies, and the impact of the Duke Global Health PLUS program and other training camps in East Africa.
Dr. Haglund is also the Program Training Director for the Duke Neurosurgery Program and is the new Co-Director, along with Dr. Michael Muhumuza from New Mulago Hospital, of the Ugandan East African Neurosurgery Training Program which began in August of 2009. This program will train Ugandans to become neurosurgeons in a country with only four adult neurosurgeons for 30 million people. Dr. Haglund is also a Board member of Madaktari Africa, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating sustainable healthcare in East Africa and in particular helping address the massive neurosurgeon shortage there. Dr. Haglund is actively involved in the Christian Medical Dental Association for Duke-UNC Chapel Hill and has a basic science research laboratory where he studies optical imaging of epilepsy, along with his interest in the cortical organization of language.