Dr. Faustin Ntirenganya: Leveling Up Plastic Surgery in Rwanda

In this Leveling Up episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts  Podcast, Dr. Faustin Ntirenganya discusses his journey into medicine and surgery, why he chose to focus his efforts not just on being a clinician, but also on founding and growing a plastic surgery residency program, why avoiding complications is particularly important in his practice, the importance of physical exam and clinical diagnosis, how he balances teaching and taking care of as many patients as possible, how he individualizes the training of his residents, the new Pan African Plastic Surgery conference planned for the fall of 2024, and why his father is his biggest inspiration.

 

Read a recent PRS Global Open paper by Dr. Ntirenganya and co-authors, “Building Sustainable Reconstructive Microsurgery in Countries with Limited Resources: The Rwandan Experience”: https://bit.ly/SHARERwanda  

 

Dr. Faustin Ntirenganya is an associate professor of surgery, and the chair of the department of surgery and the division of plastic surgery at the College of medicine and Health Sciences in the University of Rwanda. He trained in General surgery at the National University of Rwanda, followed by Breast, Oncoplastic, and reconstructive surgery at the University of Paris XI, and finally he completed a fellowship in plastic surgery at the College of Surgeons of East Central and Southern Africa in Rwanda. He is one of the founders of the plastic surgery residency program at the University of Rwanda in Kigali.

 

Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

 

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