Paul Park, MD, MSc-GH
GHP Graduate
Internal Medicine
Duke University, Department of Medicine
GHP Graduate
Duke University, Department of Medicine
Dr Paul Park graduated from the Global Health and Internal Medicine Pathway in 2013 and is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Partners In Health in Rwanda at the Butaro Cancer Center. As a Global Health Resident, he completed a Master of Science in Global Health, also at Duke. He received both his bachelors of science in chemistry and his MD at Indiana University.
Dr Park elected to take a year off during medical school to work in Eldoret, Kenya. Under the auspices of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPATH, he worked on a number of operational research projects, including the expansion of MDR-TB surveillance, which has since been published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and International Health. He also played an integral role in starting the first community-based MDR-TB treatment program in Kenya which has since been adopted and replicated by the Ministry of Health resulting in a joint publication. Dr Park then worked as a medical coordinator for the Red Cross during the 2008 Kenyan post-election violence. He returned to Kenya in his final year of medical school and again played a key role in establishing a treatment program for the first XDR-TB patient in Kenya.
As a Global Health Resident, he returned to Eldoret and was awarded a Fogarty Global Health Fellowship for his research entitled: Improving diabetes management and cardiovascular risk factors through diabetes peer group education in western Kenya. Dr Park’s long-term career interests include implementation science surrounding innovative models of community-based healthcare delivery for chronic diseases.