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University of Utah
Dr. Catherine deVries is Professor of Surgery (Urology) and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Utah. Her subspecialty is pediatric urology. Since her first volunteer surgical workshop in Honduras in 1992, Dr. deVries has been a devoted advocate for improving surgical and urological care in low resource countries in Africa, Asia, Central America and the Caribbean. She has inspired others to join by founding the non-profit, IVUmed in 1995 to support urological training in more than 30 countries. IVUmed has also sponsored global surgical training for over 200 urological residents from the United States. Dr. deVries was the founding Director of the Center for Global Surgery at the University of Utah. She co-authored the seminal text, Global Surgery and Public Health: A New Paradigm, and has edited and authored specialty specific texts, chapters and journal articles.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM