Gail Rosseau, MD
Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery
Gail Rosseau’s areas of clinical expertise include skull base surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and traumatic brain injury. She is a leader with many global surgery organizations, including the Foundation for International Education in Neurosurgery (FIENS) and ThinkFirst, the international head and spine injury prevention program.
She chairs the Board of Directors for the Global Alliance for Surgical, Obstetrics, Trauma, and Anesthesia (G4 Alliance), has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and has served as a visiting professor at more than 20 universities.
Rosseau serves as the Global Champions editor for World Neurosurgery, and the Global Neurosurgery section editor of the journal Neurosurgery. She also serves as co-principal investigator with global health colleagues at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at GW on two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants focused on traumatic brain injury in Zambia, Africa. In addition, she is the principal investigator on a George Washington Equity Institute grant to study surgical training in Africa.
She regularly collaborates with colleagues in Phoenix, Arizona, and Tanzania as an Adjunct Professor of Global Neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute. She is co-founder of the Global Alliance for the Prevention of Spina Bifida-F (GAPSBIF), which successfully passed a World Health Assembly Resolution and is working with the member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) to eliminate spina bifida.
Rosseau earned her BS degree from the University of Iowa and her MD from the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Kate Douglass, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, and of Global Health
Kate Douglass is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and of Global Health at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at GW.
Her research interests center on international emergency medical systems development with an emphasis on sustainability, cost effectiveness, and effective educational interventions. Douglass also focuses on the global impact of road traffic injuries, and implications for emergency medical systems development.
She has extensive experience with international medical programs and policy initiatives, including projects in India, Saudi Arabia, Zambia, Turkey, Ethiopia, and Peru. Douglass currently directs 10 post-graduate emergency medicine education programs across India, graduating trained and qualified emergency physicians to address the nation’s injury epidemic and severe emergency medicine human resource shortage. Over her career, Douglass has worked with consensus groups at the national and international level to develop guidelines for trainees embarking upon global health experiences.
From 2021 to 2023, Douglass served as a senior technical clinical advisor for FHI 360, as part of the nonprofit human development organization’s global COVID response team. In this role, she supported the pandemic response planning for a robust profile of countries. Her passion for global emergency medicine systems development was bolstered by the COVID pandemic, a crisis that illustrated the universal need for effective emergency and acute care development.
Douglass earned her BS degree from Villanova University and her MD from Georgetown University. She completed her emergency medicine residency training at Drexel University. In addition, she completed a fellowship in international emergency medicine and earned her Master of Public Health degree from the George Washington University.
She currently serves as the Global Emergency Medicine Section Chief in the Department of Emergency Medicine.