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Our EventsSeptember 2013September 2013 RJW teams up with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to offer an annual International RJW - Master in Public Health Scholarship

November 2013November 2013, RJW teams up with Vanderbilt University Neurosurgery Group for the 2013 Surgical Mission Trip to Eldoret, Kenya in collaboration with the Moi University School of Medicine.

Dr Andrew Warshaw, MD, FACS was the 2011 RJW Distinguished Professor

He travelled to Kenya accompanied by Dr Hayanga and gave Grand Rounds in Nairobi on October 6th 2011 at the Aga Khan University Teaching Hospital to a capacity crowd. Read more about it

Drs Pritchett, Hervey-Jumper and Aliu - RJW Health PolicyScholars articulate the health policy process in an original article published in August issue of Archives of Surgery - Legislating Change in Surgery Residency-

ELDORET 2010 ( Executive Director's Report)Eldoret 2010 was RJW's second surgical intervention mission. Our first mission in 2008 was an unqualified success and so we were chomping at the bit to execute another mission to Eldoret and we exceeded even our own high expectations of ourselves. Read more about it

2010 RJW Distinguished Speaker

Russell G. Robertson, MD - Chairman, Council on Graduate Medicine Education, Advisor to Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services with regard to physician Supply and distribution. Chair of Family and Community Medicine Council of Graduate Medical Education , Northwestern University, Feinberg School Of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine.

2010 Second Neurooncology Johns Hopkins Mission trip To Eldoret RJW is thrilled to announce our second surgical intervention mission to Kenya. Our first missionin 2008 was a huge success but the difficult economic environment of 2009 prevented RJW fromrunning a mission last year. We are now back on track with a 7 day mission planned for the last week of October at the Moi Teaching and Research Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. RJW will be sending a team of 8 medics: 2 attending neurosurgeons, 2 NUS residents, 1 anesthesia attending and 1 anesthesia resident, 1 critical care specialist and 1 nurse. The team hopes to complete between 24-27 cases during their time in Kenya and we wish them every success. Neurosurgery is the most underserved medical discipline in Kenya, where 99% of all curable brain and spinal tumors are left untreated, and where there are only 2 neurosurgeons for the 34 million Kenyans who do not live in Nairobi, therefore RJW's intervention in neurosurgery is particularly impactful.

November 2009:

Dr Michael Mulholland MD, PhD, the Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chair, Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan delivered Grand Rounds in Nairobi at The Aga Khan Teaching Hospital on the 12th of November 2009.

October 2009:RJW at the 95th Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Il Awori J. Hayanga, M.D., M.P.H. of the University of Michigan Health System and co-founder ofthe Ruben J. Williams Foundation, is being honored by the American College of Surgeons (ACS)as the recipient of the 2009 Surgical Volunteerism Award for Resident Outreach. Dr. Hayanga will receive the award at the ACS Clinical Congress on October 13, 2009 in Chicago. This awardis given to recognize those surgeons committed to giving back to society by making significant surgical care contributions through organized volunteer activities.1 Dr. Hayanga co-founded the Ruben J. Williams Foundation in 2005 to help address the disparity of surgical and critical healthcare in the third world. His organization facilitates the hosting of visiting surgeons from Europe and the United States in eastern Africa. His initiatives have brought much needed supportand training to severely underserved populations, thereby improving countless lives and the quality of care in the region.

April 2009:

On Saturday April 4, 2009, RJW held a gala to celebrate the collection of medical equipment worth $100,000 to be shipped to Mukurweini Hospital in Nyeri, Kenya. Read more about it

December 2008:RJW Foundation partners with Mukuweini Hospital, Nyeri, Kenya The RJW Foundation, has begun partnering with the Mukuweini Hospital project in efforts to bring medical supplies to rural Kenyan hospitals. Under the leadership of New York Presbyterian Hospital radiology nurse Michelle Korn, RJW and Mukuweini collected over $30,000 worth of unused equipment for donation to African hospitals. New York Presbyterian radiology vice chair Keith Hentel, and chief residents David Boyajian and Richard Hong helped facilitate the transfer of materials to Mukuweini Hospital principal Abidah Chiera, RN. Ms. Chiera, in turn, arranged for the transfer of materials to Kenya. Ms. Chiera's efforts have also resulted in an ongoing effort to collect supplies from the Johns Hopkins' radiology department for transfer to Kenya. She has been assisted in these efforts by Anita Smith, RN, and Vicki Migues, RT. For her efforts, Ms. Chiera was recognized as the Johns Hopkins Hospital employee of the year in 2008. RJW has been represented in these efforts by Dr. Thomas Keane.

October 2008:

RJW's first surgical intervention-based mission to KenyaRead more about it View Video

October 2007: Dr Murray Brennan delivers the 2nd Annual 2007 RJW Distinguished Lecture in Nairobi, KenyaThe recently concluded trip to Kenya by Dr Murray Brennan on invitation by the Aga Khan and RJW Foundations was a success. The immediate former chair of The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York delivered Grand Rounds at the Aga Khan University Teaching Hospital in Nairobi on October 24th 2007. The Aga Khan Group has embarked on a multi million dollar endeavor to establish the first Comprehensive Cancer Center serving over 240 million people in East, Central and Southern Africa and drew on Dr Brennan's experience as surgeon, administrator and teacher.His talk, the second annual RJW Distinguished lecture entitled, "Why a Cancer Center?" highlighted the predicted disproportionate increase in the oncologic burden of disease predicted for the developing world as compared to that in industrialized countries emphasizing the need to mitigate the predicted increase in cancer mortality forecasted for sub Saharan Africa over the next two decades. Dr Brennan pledged his commitment in assisting in the search for educational opportunities for Kenyan surgeons seeking one or two years of further training but with a view toreturning to work within the Kenyan Health System. Dr Brennan was accompanied by his host and RJW Founder Dr Awori Hayanga, University of Michigan's Dr Vincent Cimmino and Dr Allan Pickens. The team participated in a two day series of multidisciplinary meetings with Asmita Gillani, the Aga Khan Group CEO, Professor Asad Raja, Aga Khan Chair of Surgery , The Vice Deans of Graduate Education, Residents and Faculty.

Dr. Murray Brennan accompanied by his host and RJW Founder Dr. Awori Hayanga and University of Michigan's Dr. Vincent Cimmino and Dr. Allan Pickens pose for photos with Prof Asad Raja, The Chair of Surgery, Aga Khan Teaching Hospital together with the current SurgicalChief Resident at the Aga Khan University Teaching Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.

August 2007:Dr. Meghan Arnold, a fourth year surgical resident, becomes the first resident from Hopkins to travel to Nairobi for an 8 week chief resident rotation at the University of Nairobi and Aga Khan University Teaching Hospital.

July 2007:July 2007: RJW foundation and The JB Grant International Society of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health host Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services at Hopkins.RJW Director Dr Thomas Keane, Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan, RJW Advisor and Vice President JB Grant International Society, Katherine Westphal and RJW Founder and Class Assembly Representative of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Dr Awori J Hayanga, pose for a Picture before the Deputy Secretary's Lecture at the Johns Hopkins School

of Public Health.

June 2007:RJW foundation hosts Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services at New York Hospitals.The Acting Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Serivces, Eric Hargan, accepted an invitationfrom the RJW Foundation to engage in a dialogue with health care providers at several New YorkCity hospitals.Mr. Hargan met with the CEOs and senior leadership of three hospitals, and delivered speeches on the topic, "Improving Health Care by Empowering Consumers." The hosting hospitals included Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Cornell University Hospital, and Columbia University Hospital. On hand for the visit were Thomas Keane, MD, an RJW Foundation director, and Murray Brennan, MD, the 2007 RJW Visiting Professor. Officials from the hospitals and deputy secretary's office described the visit as "productive and informative." Dr Keane, director of the RJW foundation, was on hand to introduce him.

2006 Visit by Dr. Julie Freischlag

The William Stewart Halsted Professor and Chair of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Click here for more information.

June 2006

RJW Publicity Ball held in Trinity College Dublin attended by numerous dignitaries, delegates, faculty and students kindly organized by Dr Fanta Kaloma.

RJW First Trip to Kenya 10/22 - 10/30 2005