Principals

R. Richard (Rick) Coughlin, MD, MSc, Director

Richard Coughlin is a Clinical Professor of Orthopaedics in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at University of California, San Francisco. He works at San Francisco General Hospital, the county hospital for trauma and the indigent of the city and county of San Francisco. He has been a champion for overseas volunteerism and involvement since 1988 with the establishment of the orthopedic division of Operation Rainbow, a non-profit that offers free orthopedic surgery to children, with his private practice partner Taylor Smith. After joining the faculty at UCSF, he founded the first formal overseas rotation for orthopaedic surgery residents’ in the Transkei of South Africa in 1999. Dr. Coughlin completed his master’s degree in ‘Public Health in Developing Countries’ at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2004. Dr. Coughlin was awarded the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Humanitarian of the Year Award, which is given to one surgeon world-wide annually, for care of disadvantaged populations both at home and abroad.

 

Richard (Rich) Gosselin, MD, MSc, MPH, FRCS(C), Co-Director

Richard Gosselin is a native of Montréal, Canada. He attended Collège André-Grasset for his undergraduate degree in Health Sciences. After graduating from college, he attended the University of Montréal Medical School, where he obtained his M.D. degree in 1979. He finished his Orthopaedic Surgery training at his medical school alma mater in 1984. Post residency, he completed a series of Orthopaedic Surgery fellowships: Musculoskeletal Infections in Senegal, Pelvis and Acetabular Surgery in Paris, and Orthopaedic Trauma at the San Francisco General Hospital-UCSF. He served as an Attending at SFGH from 1988-1991, and after pursued some international relief opportunities through the Red Cross. He later settled on his private practice in Merritt Island, FL where the focus of his clinical practice was Trauma and Joint Replacement. In 1999, he retired from his practice to pursue additional training as a public health scholar at the UC-Berkeley School of Public Health (MPH, 2001), and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (MSc, 2002). Ever since, he has been a Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. His hobbies include traveling, photography, reading, and wine tasting. He has worked in over 40 different developing countries.

 

Harry Jergesen, MD, Co-Director

Harry Jergesen graduated from Harvard College in 1968 and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1972. He completed two years of general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a residency in orthopaedic surgery in the Combined Harvard Orthopedic Residency Program. He was chief resident at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. In 1978, he was appointed assistant director of Rehabilitation Engineering Research and Development at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he served as chief of Orthopaedic Surgery till 2007. In addition to his work at the Veterans Hospital, Dr. Jergesen works as an attending arthroplasty surgeon in the UCSF Arthritis Center where he specializes in surgery of the hip and knee as well as at San Francisco General Hospital. In addition to participating in medical missions to Central and South America, he is active in the orthopaedic section of the UCSF Global Health Sciences Program, designed to promote academic ties with UCSF and medical schools in developing countries and in providing care in underserved areas in our country.

 

Amber Caldwell, BA, Director of Development

Amber Caldwell graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2004 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Global and International Studies, emphasizing in Cultural Ideology and minored in Sports Medicine. She was an Athletic Trainer for the collegiate sports teams while an undergraduate and pursued combining her interests in the global health field working for non-profit health organizations. Amber joined the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF in 2006 as the Practice Manager for the Foot and Ankle Service. In 2008 Amber traveled to Mthatha, South Africa to work alongside IGOT’s colleagues at the Bedford Orthopaedic Hospital to launch an outreach education program for trauma assessment and fracture management. Upon returning from South Africa Amber joined the Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at SFGH as the Director of Outreach Development.  She works alongside Dr. Theodore Miclau on reducing orthopaedic implant costs and expanding resident education within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. She is pursing a Master’s Degree in Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and hopes to bring sustainability in healthcare and hospital infrastructure to developing countries.

 

Angelique Slade Shantz,  MBA, Strategic Development

 

Executive Members

Amir Matityahu, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Eric Meinburg, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor

Theodore Miclau III, MD
Professor and Vice Chair

Saam Morshed, MD, MPH, Ph.D
Assistant Professor in Residence

Coleen Sabatini, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor in Residence

Jesse Slade-Shantz, MD, MBA
Orthopaedic Trauma, Clinical Research Fellow

 

Affiliate Members

Joseph Carey, MD
Plastic Surgeon, University of Southern California

Robert Detch, MD
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Stanford University

Col. James Ficke, MD
Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center

James Oliver Johnston, MD
Musculoskeletal Oncologist, Kaiser South San Francisco

Charles Saltzman, MD
Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at University of Utah

David Spiegel, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Peter Trafton, MD
Professor at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School / Rhode Island Hospital’s Division of Trauma