BRCCH | Addressing the Global Health Challenges for Children with Surgical Needs in LMICs

Speaker: Prof Kokila Lakhoo (Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, UK)
Prof Kokila Lakhoo is a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Children’s Hospital in Oxford and the University of Oxford. She is also Chair of the International Forum for the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the President of the Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS). She is developing paediatric surgery through a link in Tanzania and has collaborative research projects in Malawi and South Africa. Besides general paediatric surgery and ambulatory surgery, her special interests are global health, fetal counselling, neonatal surgery, paediatric tumour surgery, paediatric thoracic surgery and specialist gastrointestinal surgery.
This seminar is within the theme "Refining Paediatric Treatments for All", as part of the BRCCH 2022 Seminar Series.