Several weeks ago, UNC Health Care was honored to be the site of the most recent HealthLeaders Rounds event on women’s health. Participants included our own Drs. Daniel Clarke-Pearson and Nancy Chescheir, Mary Anne Graf from Bon Secours Richmond and Sue Korth from Methodist Women’s Hospital in Omaha. The half-day panel discussion was shared with [...]

Because of several unrelated developments, we have the opportunity to reload the senior ranks of the UNC School of Medicine.

I welcome this — and see it as a chance for us to prepare ourselves and the institution for the next phase of our work together.

I’m sending a few more photos of our trip while we are waiting in the Brussels Airport.
This is of Will making bricks at the Dufatanye Co-op.

Will with the pitcher he made at the Co-op.

The entrance to the faculty of medicine (the med school) at the National University of Rwanda in Butare.

The rector of NUR (our [...]

This may be my last blog entry written from Rwanda. It has been a simply fabulous trip in every respect.
Will and I are the Hotel des Mille Collines, made famous by the film, “Hotel Rwanda.” It is a very nice upscale hotel. We stopped here because we are early for the airport, [...]

I had a very pleasant weekend in Kigali and beyond.
One of the places I saw was the Hotel des Milles Collines, which was featured in the film “Hotel Rwanda.”
On Saturday evening, I had a dinner meeting with the leader of the Anglican Church in Rwanda, Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini and several others. Our church in [...]

I spent two days at the remote and idyllic Shyira Hospital.
In many respects they lack much of what we take for granted in the US — for example, they only have electricity for two hours each evening, when the generator is running.
But in other respects, they have so much that we lack — [...]

Yesterday we went trekking to see the famous mountain gorillas.
Approximately 700 gorillas live in the Volcanoes National Park, which straddles the Rwanda-Congo-Uganda border. They were made famous by Diane Fossey, and the movie, “Gorillas in the Mist.”
Each day 56 people are allowed to visit, and they go out in groups of eight, with guides, [...]

Today we are in Musanze (formerly known as Ruhengeri).
We went to the early service (in English) at St. John the Baptist Cathedral. The Anglican service of Morning Prayer was very familiar, and all the songs were ones we knew. There were some other Americans and other non-Rwandans there as well.
After a break, I [...]

Today was a very good day.
We did several things to get settled — changed money, got cheap cell phones, got our passes for the mountain gorilla tour (which we will do in a couple of days).
Then we went to the Kigali Genocide Memorial. It tells the incredible story of the 1994 genocide in very [...]

On the way here via Brussels, we got to spend an unplanned extra day in Belgium. Our plane flight was cancelled, and we had to wait a day for it to go.
Everyone was very kind to us — they put us up in a hotel at the Brussels Airport, and served us great food.
We [...]