Ptolemy is a partnership involving the University of Toronto (UofT), the Association of Surgeons of East Africa (ASEA), the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Andrew Howard, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Director, Office of International Surgery
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon,
Hospital for Sick Children
Dr. Howard is a pediatric orthopaedic surgeon who has a large and diverse clinical practice. His clinical interests include complex orthopaedic trauma and surgery for spinal and lower extremity deformities. He is an orthopaedic consultant in the cerebral palsy clinic at Erinoak in Mississauga. In addition to his surgical training, he holds a Masters of Science in Epidemiology (1998) from the University of Ottawa.
He sits on the advisory committee of Safekids Canada.
Dr. Howard's research focuses on prevention of road traffic injuries to children, which are overwhelmingly the leading cause of death for children in developed countries. Dr. Howard studies the biomechanics and epidemiology of child motor vehicle occupant injuries. This work is done in close cooperation with the Road Safety branch of Transport Canada and is unique in Canada. He is a member of the Auto21 Network of centres of excellence, leading a project on computer simulation of children's crash injuries.
He also studies the epidemiology of other major categories of unintentional childhood injury, including pedestrian and cyclist injuries, falls, and sports injuries. He has worked with the Toronto District School Board to study the relationship between playground equipment and injury risk, and is carrying out a randomized trial in this area.
Dr. Howard also does research on the prevention and treatment of unintentional injury to children in low income countries, and is the Director of the Office of International Surgery and of the Canadian Network for International Surgery.
Contact:
Dr. Andrew Howard
Room S - 107
Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Toronto Ontario M5G 1X8 CANADA
Tel:+1-(416)-813-6439
Fax: +1-(416)-813-6414
Massey Beveridge, BA, MPhil, MD, DTM&H, FRCSC
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Office of International Surgery
University of Toronto
Dr. Massey Beveridge trained initially as an anthropologist at McGill and Cambridge, he went to medical school at Queen's (1990), interned in Toronto and completed his general surgery in Ottawa (1996). He also holds fellowships in Burns and Trauma (Toronto) and the Diploma of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (DTM&H). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and of the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa. He completed his anthropology field work in Papua New Guinea in 1985 and has worked in a medical capacity in a variety of countries including Cambodia, China, Fiji, Vanuatu, Thailand, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and St. Lucia. He served as a war surgeon with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kenya and Afghanistan. In 2000 he founded the Office of International Surgery at the University of Toronto to advance surgical education and research for development. He serves as chair of the Canadian Association of General Surgeons - Committee for International Surgery.
As Director of the Office of International Surgery he organizes the Annual Bethune Round Table on International Surgery, which brings surgeons from across Canada and around the world to discuss the issues of surgical advancement in developing countries. He also runs the Ptolemy Project, which provides surgeons in east Africa with free full text access to the medical journals and texts held at the University of Toronto libraries and spends a month each year teaching burn reconstruction at the Children's Surgical Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, of which he is a Director. Current projects include developing a children's burn centre, burn prevention activity including a new series of public service announcements for Cambodian television, a series of children's books focused on burn safety, a school-based burn prevention and first aid project in Kampot province and an acid burn survivor's support group at CSC.
Dr. Beveridge's passion is to find new ways to bring
an acceptable standard of surgical care to all the people in developing
countries that lack access to it now. His research interests include burns,
trauma, injury and surgical education in developing countries with a particular
focus in Cambodia and east Africa.
Contact:
Dr. Massey Beveridge
Office of International Surgery
St. Michael's Hospital
70 Richmond Street, Suite 315
Toronto, ON M5C 1N8 CANADA
Warren
Holder
User Support Services
Electronic Information Resources Co-ordinator
University of Toronto
Warren Holder has been a librarian at the University of Toronto since 1978. During his time at the university Warren has been the head of the undergraduate library as well as the head of the circulation department (book stacks, periodical reading room, document delivery etc) of the Robarts Graduate Library.
Currently Warren is the Electronic Information Resources Co-ordinator with responsibility for identifying content, negotiating site licenses and vetting legal agreements that will allow access to electronic resources for the faculty, staff and students at the University of Toronto.
Warren is a member of the Ontario Council Of University Libraries Information Resources Committee and is on the steering committee of COOL (Consortium Of Ontario Libraries) plus he has been active in the formation and ongoing activities of Consortia Canada. These activities also link up with the international library consortia world through ICOLC (International Consortium of Library Consortia). Recently Warren has been negotiating electronic access to resources on behalf of COAHL (Consortium of Ontario Academic Health Libraries) and ACMC (Association of Canadian Medical Colleges).
Contact:
Warren Holder
Information Technology Services (ITS)
7th floor, John P. Robarts Research Library
130 St. George Street, University of Toronto Libraries
Toronto, ON, M5S 1A5 CANADA
Tel: +1-(416)-978-2286
Fax: +1-(416)-978-1668
David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD
Director, Centre for International Health, University of Toronto
Associate Professor, Departments of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
& Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Executive Director, HIV/AIDS Initiative for Africa
Dr. Zakus is the Director of the Centre for International Health and Associate Professor in the Departments of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation & Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He has knowledge and experience with both non-governmental organizations and institutions. He was previously the President and CEO of Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR), a medium size Toronto based NGO with field offices in three African countries. He has worked in some 20 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, both as an academic and as a consultant.
His previous work in Africa included: a review of primary health care in Tamale/Northern Region, Ghana; leading a team of evaluators of a UNICEF sponsored and CIDA funded health education program in Uganda; a study of the role of the nurse in community participation and primary health care in Botswana; the implementation of nursing information systems in Swaziland and Lesotho; a three year stay in Ethiopia as a professor at Addis Ababa University and the director of the McGill-Ethiopia Community Health Project which helped establish a masters degree in public health at AAU, a six month training program for district health managers, and research programs (including HIV/AIDS); and directed various health (including HIV/AIDS) projects as part of his role as the chief executive of CPAR.
Presently, Dr. Zakus's teaching and research focus is on international health, health systems development and reform, community-based health services, primary health care and community participation. He teaches four graduate courses, supervises and advises many undergraduate and postgraduate students, and directs and manages the Centre for International Health at the University of Toronto.
From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Zakus was the director of International Health and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for International Nursing Development at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
Dr. Zakus is a member of the board of directors of USC Canada, a member of the International Programs Advisory Board and the President's Taskforce for Internationalization at the University of Toronto, and a founding member of the Canadian Network for International Surgery.
Dr. Zakus earned a BSc in biochemistry at the University of Saskatchewan (1975), a master’s degree in environmental studies (MES) at York University (1978), and an MSc (1987) and PhD (1992) in community health/health services management at the University of Toronto.
Contact:
Dr. David Zakus
Centre for International Health
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Health Sciences Building
155 College Street, Suite 569
Toronto, ON, M5T 3M6 CANADA
Tel: +1-(416)-946-7909
Fax: +1-(416)-946-7910
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