2024

2015

This year, IPSAC activities have expanded to combined clinical, educational activities and research development.

In collaboration with our Vietnamese colleagues, the clinical team will continue our prior activities in providing joint patient care. IPSAC medical volunteers will have follow up of our past program projects at the various hospital sites. The sites are:

1. Children's Hospital #1, Ho Chi Minh City: Pediatric surgery capacity building with pediatric surgical exchanges and workshops. Children's Hospital #1 will host the first American Board of Surgery-approved pediatric surgery fellow clinical rotation in Vietnam.
2. Children's Hospital #2, Ho Chi Minh City: Pediatric Urology and Pediatric Oncology program development with clinical exchanges and workshops.
3. Danang Women's and Children's Hospital: Pediatric Urology, Pediatric Surgery Minimally Invasive operative techniques and Pediatric Anesthesia program development
4. Kon Tum General Hospital: Pediatric Surgery and Neonatology program development.

In collaboration with the U of Illinois at Chicago and the U of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria, the research team projects include:

1. Assessment of the hospital trauma system in major urban hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City- by representatives from the Emergency Medicine department.
2. Applied engineering to provide low cost medical devices and equipment by representatives from the department of Bioengineering.
3. Assessment of quality enhancement opportunities of hospital practices through cardiac, trauma, pediatric and neonatal life resuscitation training courses.