David Kuwayama is an Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery at the University of Colorado. He holds a master’s in public administration with a focus on international relations from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. His surgical experience abroad includes work with Partners in Health, Save The Children, and annual trips with Medecins Sans Frontieres / Doctors Without Borders. He has spent time in Haiti, West Darfur, Sudan, and central Africa.

Yihan Lin is a surgical resident at the University of Colorado, and a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Fellow at the Harvard Program for Global Surgery and Social Change. She is dedicated to increasing surgical access and capacity in low and middle income countries, and is currently working on global surgery research in Rwanda.