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Highlights
 32 Zimbabwean nurses and
16 doctors underwent intensive Trauma training in the first teaching course to inaugurate the new St Philips
 A Course Director from
Zimbabwe and 6 fully accredited Zimbabwean
Instructors taught the final
ATCN Course
The first class of ATLS/ATCN students and instructors outside
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.
St Philips
The Trauma Teaching team from Knoxville was led by Dr Blaine Enderson of the University of Tennessee Trauma Division , RCK President Dr Roy King and spearheaded by 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.
 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
Acknowledgements
Map of participants
3
4,5
6
U n i v e r s it y of Ten n e s see T r a u ma D i v i s i o n Te a c he s th e f i r s t e ve r A d v a nc e d T r a u ma C a r e N u r s i ng i n A f ri c a
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.

Prof. Dr Blaine Enderson, Trauma Leader, Dr Roy King President
Knoxville Rotary Club and Sandy Whitehead of Rotary Club of Bulawayo South Address the first class of Trauma Students at the beginning of the course.
Dr Roy King with the third year class of NUST medical students
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
Dr Roy King (who also was Rotary leader for the Trauma Team ) gave a comprehensive series of Undergraduate Pathology Lectures to the
3rd Year Medical Students at the School of Medicine 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 assisted 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 King and Dr Whitaker take note at Dr Coleman’s lecture
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
The ATLS South Africa Team (Liesl, Andrew, George and Ian) c elebrate after conducting the first ATLS Course held in Zimbabwe

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 conferenced lectures from ATCN International Chair , Rich-
The St Philip’s Nursing Staff named the ard Henn RN in Arizona and University of Tennessee
ATLS Instructor Dr Stephen Pacifico MD . This was the
Nic Rudnick Lecture Room at St Philip’s
Nursing School to acknowledge his help. 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 videoconference 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.
T h e Z S A Z S A Te a m v i s i t s B u l a w a y o
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
U n i v e r s it y of Ten n e s see C o l l ege o f
N u r s i n g T e a ch in g T e a m t o Z i mb a b w e
Asst Prof, Karen Lasater (International Coordinator ) and Clinical
Instructor, Lynn Blackburn , , University of Tennessee College of Nursing accompanied the Trauma Teaching Team. Their mission was one of establishing relationships with the NUST, Mater dei Hospital and UBH teaching sta ff 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 Bulawayo 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
Theresa Day in the the two day seminar on
Lynn Blackburn
( UTMCK TrauWomen’s Breast Health
(UT College of ma) and Karen given by Dr Jenny Edge and
Nursing) and Deb
Lasater (UT Lieske Wegelin from Cape
Tuggle (UTMCK
College of NursTown to 120 nurses and or-
Trauma ) ing wait for the ganized by Sr Maureen Ja-
Bulawayo flight mieson . Thanks to Dean Vickie Niederhauser for her help in facilitating and funding this project.

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Mat North
1 RN ATCN Binga
5 MD’s ATLS
4 RNs ATCN
1 RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN Mberengwa
11 MD’s ATLS
14 RN’s ATCN
I RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN Gwanda
1 RN ATCN
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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

O u r C orp or at e f ri e nds a nd d on or s …
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 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 Zimbabwe. Thanks also to Bob Marquis and Dick Gillespie for their help.
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,
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 capacity to spend the time to pack efficiently and safely. Thanks also to Karen Taylor for her help and support
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.
Many thanks to Dr Ken Bell, Joe De Fiore and Teresa Copeland of Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic and OrthoTennessee who organized donations of orthopedic textbooks and orthopedic medical supplies from their physicians, nurses and clinics at Maryville Orthopaedic Clinic, University Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopedic Surgeons of Oak
Ridge
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 Instructors. 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.
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
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 distribution 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.

O u r I nd i v i d u a l V o l u n tee r s a n d D o n o r s …
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 Osborn , Elisa Ki ng, Roy King Sandy Martin Bob
Marquis, Neil Coleman Jim Holleman
(Volunteer Rotary Club), Allen Pannell and
Pat Rutenberg,
Rotaract members Bill Clayton, Katie Conrad 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 Coaches Jay Moore, Kevin Catlett, Randy Carroll,
Robby Collier with the Webb High School
Football players Davis Delozier, Riley Wofford, Brody Leonard, Stone Cummins, Christopher 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 Martin, Leslie Baugues, Jennifer Sepaniak,
Kathryn Johnson, Allen Pannell, Jim Holleman, Bob Marquis, Breese Johnson and
David Martin.
Knoxville (cont)
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 Knoxville while we were in Zimbabwe
Evanston, Il
Jasmine Alkhatib ACS
John Kortbeek MD ACS
Flagstaff, Az
Richard Henn RN SCN
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
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 Mafu, 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