A senior leader at Worcester鈥檚 Medical School has been honoured for her contribution to furthering global healthcare.
Professor Kay Mohanna, who was born in Evesham and brought up in Upton-on-Severn is the course lead for the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) degree at the 国产视频’s Three Counties Medical School.
She has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award for "Outstanding contribution to Primary Care/Family Medicine in the South Asia Region" by the World Organisation for National Colleges and Associations of Primary Care (WONCA).
Professor Mohanna said: “The award recognises the sustained number of networks which we’ve created, and the outcomes of those networks. I’m obviously thrilled and delighted, but for me this award recognises the work of all the people I’ve worked with along the way. You cannot do this kind of work in isolation.”
Professor Mohanna is a practicing GP and trainer and has led several teams to advance the association’s goal of ‘a family doctor for every family’ in countries across South Asia since 2010.
Her activities with the association include establishing a twinning project to allow for cultural, research and clinical exchanges between South Asia and the UK, with medical students, resident doctors and family physicians travelling in both directions to learn from each other.
Over time, that has developed into the Worcester Fellowship scheme for Sri Lankan family physicians to achieve their mandatory overseas training, and sixteen doctors have now completed twelve months of training on the scheme and gone on to be leaders in their field, including the current President of the Sri Lankan College of Specialist Family Physicians.
Professor Mohanna said: “Every time I’ve asked someone to help with these partnerships the answer has always been yes. Nobody has ever said no to what we are trying to do, and because of that collaboration doctors from the UK and South Asia have had great experiences.”
She continued: “We’re very privileged in this country that we can go to a GP with a health concern, and they’ll help us, or signpost us to someone who can; your GP will advocate for you.”
She added: “In some countries it’s the opposite, and there’s nobody to do that so patients get passed around between different specialities and so what we’re doing is trying to address this issue, which isn’t just an issue of inequity, it’s also an issue of efficiency and cost effectiveness as well.”
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