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ACS-COSECSA Women Scholars Are Announced

April 10, 2023

Operation Giving Back—the volunteerism initiative of the ACS—has announced the 2022 and deferred 2021 ACS-College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) Women Scholars.

This scholarship program is supported by the ACS Foundation and Association of Women Surgeons Foundation. Up to 10 scholarships are provided annually, each worth $2,500. The award is used for travel to the COSECSA annual meeting and educational expenses, including accreditation and fellowship examination costs.

If you are interested in supporting the scholarships, visit the ACS Foundation webpage and designate your support toward Operation Giving Back at facs.org/about-acs/acs-foundation/donate-to-ogb

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See related story: ACS, COSECSA Join Forces to Bring Quality Surgical Care to Patients in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Deferred from 2021

Shikuria Lemma Nida, MD
Orthopaedic surgery resident at Black Lion Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Samrawit Esayas Birhanu, MD
Lecturer of orthopaedic surgery at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Bezayit Tesfaye Habteselassie, MD
Orthopaedic surgery resident at St. Paul’s Millennium College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tsion Tilahun Girma, MD
General surgery resident at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Veronica Afework Abera, MD
General surgery resident at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Elsa Alemayehu, MD
Orthopaedic surgery resident at Black Lion Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Kondjela Hamunyela, MD
Head of pediatric surgery department at the Ministry of Health in Windhoek, Namibia

2022

Juru Gisele Bunogerane, MD, MMed
Faculty surgeon at University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda

Irene Mutua Mariga, MD
Pediatric surgeon at Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya

Rovine Naluyimbazi, MBBS, MMed
Pediatric surgery fellow at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Yohanna Aregawi Hailu, MD
General surgeon at St. Paul Medical Millennium College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mwongeli Matheka, MBBS, MMed
General surgeon at Eldoret Regional Hospital, Kenya

Nathalie Umugwaneza, MD, MSc
General surgery resident at University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda

Yadani Michael Deressa, MD
Assistant professor of surgery and general surgeon at Jimma University Medical Center, Ethiopia

Simret Abera Debele, MD
Pediatric surgery resident at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia