Highlights

32 Zimbabwean nurses and

16 doctors underwent

intensive Trauma training in

the first teaching course to

inaugurate the new St Philips

Nursing School in Zimbabwe

A Course Director from

Zimbabwe and 6 fully

accredited Zimbabwean

Instructors taught the final

ATCN Course

These were the first ATCN

Courses ever taught in Africa

This is the first ATLS

partnership sponsored by the

American College of

Surgeons The teaching was

funded by a VTT Global

Grant from the Rotary

Foundation, the World

Community Service

committee and numerous

RCK donors and friends

In this issue:

First Advanced Trauma Nurse

Training in Central Africa

1

Pictures from the Course 2

Fiberoptic for St Philips 3

Acknowledgements 4,5

Map of participants 6

The Rotary Foundation Vocational Training

Team departed Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on Saturday

14th Feb 2015. They successfully completed 3

separate Advanced Trauma Life Support Training

Courses for ER nurses and doctors over a two

week period. The ATLS and ATCN Courses were

chosen to inaugurate the new St Philips Nursing

School in Southern Zimbabwe.

The Trauma Teaching team from Knoxville was spearheaded Dr Blaine Enderson of the University of Tennessee Trauma Division, RCK President Dr Roy

King with UT Trauma Teaching Specialists Niki Rasnake, RN, Debi Tuggle, RN, and Theresa Day, RN, and

partnered by ATLS South Africa Instructors, Dr Andrew Baker FCS (Orth) MBChB, FCS (Orth) (ATLS

Europe) Dr George Oosthuizen MBChB ( Chief of Metropolitan Trauma Services, Pietermaritzburg, Kwa

Zulu Natal and President of Trauma Society of South Africa) Dr Liesl Baker MBChB, FCA and Dr Ian Stead.

MB ChB, FC(Orth) The team was responsible for teaching the Advanced Trauma Care Nursing (ATCN)

course to 32 nurses and the Advanced Trauma Life Support Course (ATLS) to 17 doctors from hospitals and

clinics from all over Zimbabwe (see page 6)

From the initial teaching course of 16 nursing trauma students, a total of nine nurses were selected to attend the

ATCN Instructor’s Course over two days. On completion of the Instructor Course, a Zimbabwean senior Critical

Care Nurse, Sr Sue Samboko, was appointed as Trainee Director and she and 6 other new Trainee Instructors

taught a monitored final two day ATCN Course training a second class of 15 additional Trauma nurses to

achieve full International Accreditation. The Director, Sr Samboko and the five Instructors now are scheduled

to teach their first independent ATCN Course to Zimbabweans in June 2015 in the new St Philip’s Nursing School.

Univers ity of Tennessee Trauma Div is ion Teaches the

f i rst ever Advanced Trauma Care Nurs ing in Africa

At a combined meeting of the members of the

three Bulawayo Rotary Clubs and Rotary Club

of Knoxville representatives President , Dr Roy

King and Dr Phil Mitchell presented a summary

of the VTT Trauma Training Project at a lunch

held at the historic Bulawayo Club.

Dr Mitchell emphasized that the success of the

Project was dependent on a human chain of

hundreds of essential links... US and Zim Rotary

Clubs and their members, cooperating medical

organizations the University of Tennessee

Medical Center Trauma Division, ATCN and

ATLS USA, ATLS South Africa, American

College of Surgeons, Zimbabwe Medical

Project and the many individuals who recognized

the importance of the Project and stepped forward to help.

Dr King and Dr Mitchell were also able to attend a very impressive Projects meeting of the Rotary Club of

Bulawayo South where the current projects were discussed and planning made for the itinerary of the

visiting Zsa Zsa team of Knoxville Rotarians.

ROTARY CLUB OF KNOXVILLE

ROTARY FOUNDATION OF KNOXVILLE

District 6780 • Club No. 3866 • Chartered September 1, 1915

The first class of ATLS/ATCN students and instructors

outside St Philips

Knoxville Rotary Trauma Training

Team Opens New Nursing School

with First Ever ATLS and ATCN

Training in Central Africa

Prof. Dr Blaine Enderson, Trauma Leader, Dr Roy King President

Knoxville Rotary Club and Sandy Whitehead of Rotary Club of Bula-

wayo South Address the first class of Trauma Students at the beginning of the

course.

The UT Trauma Team Nurses (Niki, Deb and Theresa), UT College of

Nursing Team (Karen and Lynn) and Sr’s Samboko, Mandhiza and Sr

Moyo present SR Maureen Jamieson with a plaque to honor her vision

and hard work in establishing St Philip’s Nursing School

The ATLS South Africa Team (Liesl, Andrew, George and Ian)

celebrate after conducting the first ATLS Course held in Zimbabwe The 2015 Knoxville Teaching Team L to R Blaine Enderson, Lou Smith, Paul

Parris, Phil Mitchell, Deb Tuggle, Niki Rasnake, Theresa Day, Amy Madigan,

Lynn Blackburn, Karen Lasater, Roy King

Dr Roy King (who also was Rotary leader for

the Trauma Team) gave a comprehensive se-

ries of Undergraduate Pathology Lectures to the

3rd Year Medical Students at the School of Med-

icine at NUST. Organized by the Dean of the

School of Medicine, Dr Noma Ndiweni and

Dr Roger Chigangacha.,Dr King coordinated

the lecture series for the students and was as-

sisted in the second week by Dr Judy Whitaker

(ex Townsend High School and Bulawayo) from

Cape Town.

Knoxville Pathologist, Dr Neil Coleman, (top right)

gave a live interactive lecture to the NUST medical

students on Cardiac Pathology using, for the first

time, web based video conferencing given live

from Knoxville Tennessee to the Bulawayo campus.

Dr Roy King with the third year class of NUST medical students Dr King and Dr Whitaker take note

at Dr Coleman’s lecture

On February 17th, following the Trauma Teaching Teams, the RCK

ZSA ZSA Team (Zimbabwe South Africa Team) left icy Knoxville

and flew into Joshua Nkomo airport, Bulawayo Zimbabwe.

The Rotary Club of Knoxville members of the ZSA ZSA Team was organized and led by Townes

Osborn included L to R, sitting Whitney Ray-Dawson, Townes Osborn, President Elect Sandy

Martin, Leslie Baugues, Jennifer Sepaniak, Kathryn Johnson, standing Allen Pannell, Jim Holleman,

Bob Marquis, Shepherd Ndlovu RCBS, Breese Johnson, David Martin, Channing Dawson, Piet te

Velde RCBS,

The team was given royal treatment by the RCBS members and visited several potential

philanthropic projects. The next day they visited a breeched dam site in the Kezi district of

Matabeleland South that could use a RFK Global Grant. Then they trekked through the historic

World Heritage site of the Matobo Hills and viewed Cecil Rhodes' Grave at World’s View which

was breathtaking. The purpose of the ZSA ZSA Team visit was to build strong working relationships with the Bulawayo Rotary members

and understand their projects and needs. Rotary collaborations are based on people around the world who know one another and can

work together to accomplish so much.The Knoxville Rotarians returned enthusiastic and energized by the wonderful Bulawayo South

Rotarians. The RCK provided a $1,000 appreciation grant to the Bulawayo club to help with some of the club's current projects and are

already looking forward to returning and to hosting some of the BSR members for the RCK's Centennial on September 1, 2015. Read the

ZSA ZSA blog here: http://www.zsazsagroup.com/ and Dropbox photos here

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kne2th62az35gcb/AACetRzvTw2ZHhcZgrTQMXJQa?dl=0

The ZSA ZSA Team v is i t s Bulawayo

Former Bulawayo resident, Nic Rudnick, Founder and CEO of Liquid

Telecom, based in London (http://liquidtelecom.com/) generously

stepped forward to donate fiberoptic broadband access to St Philip's

Nursing School and the Mater Dei Hospital when he learned about

the need. Because of his contribution the VTT Global Grant Trauma

Teaching Team was able to complete real time, interactive video con-

ferenced lectures from ATCN International Chair, Rich-

ard Henn RN in Arizona and University of Tennessee

ATLS Instructor Dr Stephen Pacifico MD. This was the

first time this form of teaching had been used in Zimbabwe

and opens the way for future myriad teaching possibilities in Central Africa. During the time the Trauma

Team was in Bulawayo Dr Mark Dixon, and Dr Cynthia Makosa of Bulawayo delivered videoconfer-

ence real time lectures on the state of Cervical Cancer and HIV in Central Africa to University of

Tennessee Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics, and Family Practice organized by UT Chief of

Medicine Dr Mark Rasnake and AV Staff Pam Tipton and Tracey Whitt. Having broadband access

at St Philips links the school and library to a worldwide web of educational opportunities.

The St Philip’s Nursing Staff named the

Nic Rudnick Lecture Room at St Philip’s

Nursing School to acknowledge his help.

Asst Prof, Karen Lasater (International Coordinator ) and Clinical

Instructor, Lynn Blackburn, , University of Tennessee College of Nurs-

ing accompanied the Trauma Teaching Team. Their mission was one of

establishing relationships with the NUST, Mater dei Hospital and UBH

teaching staff and teaching. Karen was able to give didactic lectures in

the HINARI electronic library access, and to introduce a cataloguing system for the many hundreds of nursing and medical textbooks. Nurses in Bulawa-

yo now have access to “Librarything” a web based software program that allows nurses to search for available textbooks in the new St Philips Nursing

library. (Thanks also go to Martha Earl at UTMCK )

Lynn gave extensive lectures to the NUST Masters Midwifery program and organized videoconferencing from UT CON to the Midwifery class. Both

Lynn and Karen participated

in the the two day seminar on

Women’s Breast Health

given by Dr Jenny Edge and

Lieske Wegelin from Cape

Town to 120 nurses and or-

ganized by Sr Maureen Ja-

mieson. Thanks to Dean Vickie Niederhauser

for her help in facilitating and funding this pro-

ject.

Theresa Day

( UTMCK Trau-

ma) and Karen

Lasater (UT

College of Nurs-

ing wait for the

Bulawayo flight

Lynn Blackburn

(UT College of

Nursing) and Deb

Tuggle (UTMCK

Trauma )

Univers ity of Tennessee Col lege of

Nurs ing Teaching Team to Zimbabwe

5 MD’s ATLS

4 RNs ATCN

11 MD’s ATLS

14 RN’s ATCN

1 RN ATCN

1 RN ATCN Gwanda

1 RN ATCN

Beitbridge

1 RN ATCN Binga

1 RN ATCN Mberengwa

I MD ATLS

Mat North

1 RN ATCN

I RN ATCN

1 RN ATCN

Location of the home hospitals and clinics in Zimbabwe of the Nurses

(RN’s) and Doctors (MD’s) who underwent training in ATCN and

ATLS

RCK President, Dr Roy King, RCBS Past President, Sandy Whitehead, RCBS

President, Alvord Mabena, RCBS Past President, Jean Whiley and RCK Dr Phil

Mitchell after the Combined Rotary Luncheon at Bulawayo Club

RCK President Elect Sandy Martin and RCK Townes Osborn

after presentation of the Paul Harris Award to

RCBS President Alvord Mabena

Our Corporate fr iends and donors…

Many thanks to Dr Ken Bell, Joe De Fiore and Teresa Copeland of Knoxville Ortho-

paedic Clinic and OrthoTennessee who organized donations of orthopedic textbooks

and orthopedic medical supplies from their physicians, nurses and clinics at Maryville Or-

thopaedic Clinic, University Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopedic Surgeons of Oak

Ridge

University of Tennessee College of Nursing Faculty and members of the Zimbabwe Nursing Teaching

Team, Lynn Andersen, Karen Lasater and with the support of Dean Victoria Niederhauser collected over

240 nursing textbooks from the College of Nursing students and Faculty to give a great start to the library at the

nursing school in Zimbabwe.

Knoxville Rotary Club member, and CEO of A and W Supply, Rob Johnson donated over thirty items for the

school and library including desks, bookcases, chairs, filing cabinets and dry erase boards,

Our grateful thanks to Pete DeBusk, Tracy Edmundson and Johhny Hibbet, of the DeRoyal Industries family

that donated so generously toward hospital and orthopedic supplies for the hospitals and clinics in Southern Zim-

babwe. Thanks also to Bob Marquis and Dick Gillespie for their help.

Randy Fields with Messer Construction contributed 6 projection, pull down slide screens for the lecture

rooms….thanks to Doug Lawyer for taking the initiative to organize this! These are now in St Philips !

We our pleased that we were able to partner with two other NGO’s that are engaged in

philanthropic work in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Medical Project

(http://www.zimproject.org) donated $2500 to the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville to

help fund the Education Project.

Books for Africa (http:www.booksforafrica.org) contributed over one thousand children’s textbooks for distri-

bution by the Rotary Zsa Zsa Team, led by Townes Osborn, to Zimkids in Bulawayo. The Osborn Rotary Team

followed the medical team to Bulawayo in Feb 2015.

University of Tennessee Medical Center helped with supplies for the Trauma Teaching Team members Niki

Rasnake, Debi Tuggle and Theresa Day who will be teaching both the Advanced Trauma Life Support

Course to doctors and the Advanced Trauma Care Nursing Course with 12 Fully accredited ATCN Instruc-

tors. a Course Director and 30 new ATCN Certified ER nurses as part of the inauguration of the new nursing

school

Jasmine Alkhatib with The American College of Surgeons and Operation Giving Back helped supply student course

manuals, X ray sets and teaching aids for the ATLS and ATCN Courses. Richard Henn and Mike Glenn with the Society of

Trauma Nurses went out their way to help us get official approval and support for the project, and assisted with ATLS

Student manuals.

Don Hasson, Knoxville Rotary Club member donated the use of his warehouse at Southern Kitchen for the

storing and packing of the 1100 cubic feet of educational and medical supplies….giving us the an invaluable capaci-

ty to spend the time to pack efficiently and safely. Thanks also to Karen Taylor for her help and support

Nic Rudnick CEO of Liquid Telecom London stepped forward to organize direct fiber optic broadband access to the St

Philip’s Nursing School. Completed in record time to be available for the Trauma Teaching Teams arrival our thanks to

him and to the help of Ilan Elkaim. Congratulations as well to Richard Henn RN Society of Trauma Nurses and Dr

Stephen Pacifico of UT Medical Center who completed the first video conferenced Trauma lectures to Africa

Our thanks, once again, go to Keith and Su Holshausen of Lazy Lizard Travel (http://lazylizardtravel.com) for

the invaluable donation of their time and expertise in making the involved travel arrangements and bookings for

our Zimbabwe medical teaching and clinical teams

Our Indiv idual Volunteers and Donors…

Rotary Club of Knoxville members and World

Community Service Committee members.

Townes Osborn ($2000)

Neil Coleman ($1000)

Bo Croley ($500)

Paul Kedrow

Bob Samples,

Brown Wright,

J Mark Webb,

Doug McKamey,

Bill Hurt.

Frank Rothermel

Bruce Williamson

US Military SFC David Murray and CPT

Ramon Gomez.

Erma Morgan and her staff at Fort Sanders

West Out Patient Surgery

Volunteer Moving and the FSW team led by

Mike Marshall

Container loading volunteers Townes Os-

born, Elisa King, Roy King Sandy Martin Bob

Marquis, Neil Coleman Jim Holleman

(Volunteer Rotary Club), Allen Pannell and

Pat Rutenberg,

Rotaract members Bill Clayton, Katie Con-

rad and Dennis Stepp, plus Knoxville lawyer

Jason Murphy and Reagan Murphy and

Melissa Childs

Knoxville physicians Dr Joe De Fiore, Dr Eric

Bell, Dr Bill Tyler, Dr Kent Farris and Dr Bob

Madigan, Dr Robert Ivy, Dr Tom Sullivan, Dr

Chris Testerman

Webb Head Coach David Meske and Coach-

es Jay Moore, Kevin Catlett, Randy Carroll,

Robby Collier with the Webb High School

Football players Davis Delozier, Riley Wof-

ford, Brody Leonard, Stone Cummins, Chris-

topher Stephens, Hunter Green, Conner

Courtney, Myles Rasnick, Juwann Jefferson,

Conrad Jones, Sam Werner, Alec Vetrano,

Elliott Headden,Tucker Riddick, Stokes

Needham, Andrew Craig, Jack Nadand,

Wrinn Alexander, Dean Miniard

Knoxville News Sentinel’s Paul Efird and

Lance Coleman

The Zsa Zsa Team Townes Osborn, Whitney

Ray-Dawson, Channing Dawson, Sandy Mar-

tin, Leslie Baugues, Jennifer Sepaniak,

Kathryn Johnson, Allen Pannell, Jim Hol-

leman, Bob Marquis, Breese Johnson and

David Martin.

Bulawayo

Rotary Club of Bulawayo South

Alvord Mabena, Sandy Whitehead, Jean

Whiley, John Sullivan, Jackson Munye, Shep

Ndlovu, Denis Paul, Roger Russell, Lesley

Williams, Matilda Muzvondiwa, Priscilla

Mabena, Dingi Dhlamini, Piet te Velde,

Angelina Phiri , Brian Meikle, Buhle Francis,

Busani Bafana, Delay Dube, Everson

Ndlovu, Gilbert Simela, Lesley, Marie-

Helene, Mercy Moyo, Mpumelelo

Mkhwananzi, Paul McCay, Peter Edmeades,

Richard Arrowsmith, Rose Moyo, Terry Ma-

fu, Thandi Takawira, Thembi Muzvagwa and

Chiku

MDH: Sr Maureen Jamieson

Adolf Macheka MBChB

Sr Sue Samboko

Sr Mandhizwa

Gavin Stephens

ZMP Board Members :

Dr Noma Ndiweni PhD

Amy Madigan JD

Mark Dixon FRCP

Sen Dave Coltart

Bishop of Matabeleland

South Africa

Zimbabwe

UTMCK: Dr Stephen Pacifico MD,

Dr Mark Rasnake MD, Pam Tipton,

Tracey Whitt

The supporting families who kept the

home fires burning in bitterly cold Knox-

ville while we were in Zimbabwe

Evanston, IL

Jasmine Alkhatib ACS

South Bend INJanet Howard In

Flagstaff, Az

Richard Henn RN SCN

Seattle, Wa

Mike Glenn RN SCN

Durban

Dr Andrew Baker MB ChB

Dr Liesl Baker MB ChB

Dr Ian Stead MB ChB

Di Baker

Pietermaritzburg

Dr George Oosthuizen MB ChB

Calgary

Dr John Kortbeek FCS

United States

Knoxville

United States,

Knoxville (cont)

Canada

South Africa

Dr Judy WhitakkerDr Jenny EdgeSr Lieske Wegelin