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Prof. Gretchen Birbeck

Rykenboer Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester, New York, USA. Consultant at Zambia’s University Teaching Hospitals Children’s Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. Director for the Chikankata Epilepsy Care Team in Mazabuka, Zambia

In this video, Professor Dr. Gretchen Birbeck discusses the significant challenges faced by healthcare systems in resource-limited settings. These include the critical shortage of trained clinicians and nurses, issues with outdated educational materials, and the lack of freely available unbiased state-of-the-art educational materials for training clinicians

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