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Doing Good Globally Dr. Mark Newton is the co-founder and director of the Vanderbilt International Anesthesia program. Dr. Newton's global health involvement has spanned his entire career. He has lived full time within walking distance of AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya for more than 18 years, where his commitment to service as well as education and training of local providers has resulted in vastly improved anesthesia capacity, in turn contributing to the increase in access to safe surgery in an entire region of East Africa. At the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Dr. Newton was presented with the Nicholas M. Greene, MD, Outstanding Humanitarian Contribution Award. This award is Mark Newton, MD Kenya | Somaliland | South Sudan Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology conferred by the ASA's Global Humanitarian Outreach (GHO) Committee and recognizes an ASA member whose career supports international humanitarian aid and disaster relief or education and training in low income countries through personal sacrifice, academic contribution, or technological innovation. At Kijabe Hospital, Dr. Newton instituted and leads the innovative Kenya Registered Nurse Anesthetist (KRNA) Program that trains Diploma level nurses to perform officially recognized anesthesia at a high level throughout rural East Africa. This program has trained more than 150 nurses from Kenya and South Sudan in anesthesia and graduates have gone on to serve underserved populations, with more than 90% of graduates working in rural facilities. The KRNA training program will host its 6th Kenya Registered Nurse Anesthetist annual education conference in June of 2017. This conference will include simulation based training workshops in Kijabe Hospital's new simulation center, launched at the end of 2016, the first of its kind in Kenya and one of only a few in Africa.
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Doing Good Globally
Dr. Mark Newton is the co-founder and director of the Vanderbilt InternationalAnesthesia program. Dr. Newton's global health involvement has spanned his entire career. He has lived full time within walking distance of AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kenya for more than 18 years, where his commitment to service as well as education and training of local providers has resulted in vastly improved anesthesia capacity, in turn contributing to the increase in access to safe surgery in an entire region of East Africa.
At the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Dr. Newton was presented with the Nicholas M. Greene, MD, Outstanding Humanitarian Contribution Award. This award is
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conferred by the ASA's Global Humanitarian Outreach (GHO) Committee and recognizes an ASA member whose career supports international humanitarian aid and disaster relief or education and training in low income countries through personal sacrifice, academic contribution, or technological innovation.
At Kijabe Hospital, Dr. Newton instituted and leads the innovative Kenya Registered Nurse Anesthetist (KRNA) Program that trains Diploma level nurses to perform officially recognized anesthesia at a high level throughout rural East Africa. This program has trained more than 150 nurses from Kenya and South Sudan inanesthesia and graduates have gone on to serve underserved populations, with more than 90% of graduates working in rural facilities.
The KRNA training program will host its 6th Kenya Registered Nurse Anesthetist annual education conference in June of 2017. This conference will include simulation based training workshops in Kijabe Hospital's new simulation center, launched at the end of 2016, the first of its kind in Kenya and one of only a few in Africa.
