Nadine Semer
About Nadine Semer
Nadine Semer, MD, MPH, FACS is a reconstructive plastic surgeon living and working in Los Angeles. She has done medical work in rural South Africa and Malawi. More recently she has worked in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo and has been helping with trainings for trauma medics working in Burma. In an attempt to help providers working in rural settings with no access to plastic surgeons, she has authored a text “Practical Plastic Surgery for Non-Surgeons” and a companion website www.practicalplasticsurgery.org.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Physician
Organization
- Kaiser Permanente
- University of California, Irvine
- University of California Los Angeles - UCLA
- University of Southern California - USC
Work Location(s)
- United States
Nadine's Communities
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Recent Contributions
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Nadine Semer started a discussion "Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group Meeting - Agenda and Press Release" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
The annual Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group (BoSD WG) Meeting begins tonight at Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Nashville, Tennessee. The BoSD WG's mission is to advocate for the global delivery and improvement of surgical services, especially in low-income countries: www.burdenofsurgicaldisease.com To view the agenda and list of speakers, click here: http://www.globalhealth.vanderbilt.edu/bosd/global-burden-of-surgical-disease-working-group-agenda.html Click on the following link to read the press release (also copied below): http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3696134.htm We look forward to sharing discussions from this ...
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Nadine Semer replied to "Negative pressure devices for wound care" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
You are exactly right and the reference is quite interesting- thank you. Negative pressure therapy has become an important part of wound care in the developed world and I have my concerns about its use, particularly as applied to chronic wounds. Complicated acute wounds, in my opinion are a better target for this modality and this therapy has been shown to be quite effective. In resource poor areas, the challenges of limited nursing staff and ...
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Nadine Semer replied to "Pre-trauma care: training lay people on basic life support" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
The non-profit organization GHAP (Global Health Access Program) has an innovative program in emergency trauma care which trains community members from Karen State, Burma. As quoted from their website http://www.ghap.org/programs/landmine/: GHAP has been providing training in landmine injury management and material support to local health workers who treat approximately 150 landmine victims each year. For several years, GHAP has procured surgical instruments, anesthetics and other supplies, and provided surgical training to over 45 health workers. ...
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Nadine Semer replied to "Fracture care in the SCDH manual" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
You make a really important point. We want to promote access to treatments which optimize patient outcomes. As you say, perhaps educating providers/administrators about best practices (which have been shown to be achievable in low resource areas), will help push demand for these services in areas where they are not yet available.
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Nadine Semer replied to "SIGN Disaster Relief Handbook" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.
For those interested, the 2010 Annual SIGN Conference is Sept 15-18 in Richland, WA www.sign-post.org
Recent Recommendations
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