Lunch & Conversation | Dr. Russ White from Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya

8 Searle Center Drive,Durham NC 27710

29 March, 2023

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Please join us for a free lunch and round table conversation with Dr. Russ Whites alongside fellow students at Duke. The event will begin promptly at 12pm and conclude at1pm. Following the viewing of a short video and a brief interview, students will engage in conversation and a round table Q&A with White. Registration required. This event is for students. Please show a student ID upon entrance. Students from outside Duke are also welcome. Co-sponsored by the Theology, Medicine, & Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School, The Purpose Project at Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, & History of Medicine. Dr. Williams will also be giving the Catena Lecture in Medicine, Faith, and Service on Thursday, March 30 at 5:30pm. Free and open to the public. More information. About Dr. Russell E. White Dr. Russ White was born in the Belgian Congo to medical missionary parents. He attended Roberts Wesleyan College, the University of Michigan School of Medicine, and the Harvard University School of Public Health. He completed a general surgical residency at Brown University and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol, England. He has served as the chief of surgery at Tenwek Mission Hospital in Kenya since 1997, where he spends the majority of his time. His is a clinical professor of surgery at Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was the program director of the Tenwek Hospital General Surgery Residency program from 2008 until 2017. In this capacity, he worked as a full-time medical missionary with World Gospel Mission with other consultant Christian surgeons at Tenwek Hospital to train ten surgical residents in a fully approved 5-year general surgical residency. In 2018, he initiated the first fellowship level training in cardiothoracic surgery in the region, which graduated its first board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon in January, 2021. He is also the Chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee for the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa, responsible for education and research for surgical residents in training in 13 different countries in the region. His passion is for teaching and mentoring young surgeons in a distinctly Christian setting. He has special interests in cancer of the esophagus and rheumatic heart disease. Dr. White was awarded the American College of Surgeon’s “Humanitarian Surgeon of the Year” award in 2012, The Surgical society of Kenya’s “Surgeon of the Year” in 2017, and the L’Chaim Prize for Outstanding Christian Medical Mission Service in 2017, awarded through the African Mission Health Foundation. Dr. White is currently working closely with Tenwek Hospital and Samaritan’s Purse to build a new cardiothoracic center at Tenwek Hospital. This will be the largest dedicated cardiothoracic unit in Sub-Saharan Africa. Construction began in 2021, and should be completed by January, 2024.