Dr. Monica Diaz departs for Uganda today to serve at Mulago Hospital in Kampala.
A Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholar, Dr. Diaz was selected and sponsored among forty physicians to serve abroad. She will be a resident neurologist at Mulago Hospital for six weeks where she will primarily be responsible for ward consultations. Dr. Diaz’s expertise is expected to make significant impact to patient care at the busy Uganda hospital; at the time of this writing, Mulago has only one other full-time neurologist.
Dr. Diaz is a third-year neurology resident on the global health track, which connects residents with mentors and allows for continuous elective time for international service. Dr. Diaz’s mentors at Yale are neurology-infectious disease specialists Drs. Ana-Claire Meyer and Serena Spudich.