Inside Duke Medicine
Medical, PT students selected as N.C. Schweitzer Fellows
posted June 15th, 2011Three Duke graduate medical students and one graduate student in physical therapy have been selected as 2011-2012 North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows.
Over the next year -- in addition to their regular graduate school responsibilities -- the students will join approximately 260 other 2011-12 Schweitzer Fellows across the country in conceptualizing and carrying out service projects that address the unmet health needs of underserved individuals and communities.
The Duke students are:
• Bryan Choi, School of Medicine, who will work to enhance transitional care for brain tumor patients immediately post-craniotomy in Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers at both Duke and Durham. Community Site: Duke University Medical Center, Division of Neurosurgery.
• Uniwanaobong Nseyo and Eziamaka Okafor, School of Medicine, who will expand the “You Are What You Eat” awareness-centered nutrition education program to include high school students and additional curriculum content. Community Site: Durham School of the Arts.
• Kelly Raney, School of Physical Therapy, who will seek to improve the health and quality of life of African- American seniors by creating a targeted fall-prevention program. Community Site: Durham Housing Authority.
Fellows also work at the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Africa, collaborating with hospital staff to help provide skilled care through over 35,000 outpatient visits and more than 6,000 hospitalizations
annually for patients from all parts of Gabon.
Founded in 1940 to support Dr. Albert Schweitzer’s medical work in Africa, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to develop leaders in service, people dedicated and skilled in meeting the health needs of underserved communities, and whose example influences and inspires others.