After 15 years of intense training and studying that has taken her across three continents, Dr Claire Karekezi returns home to Rwanda as the only female neurosurgeon in the country. In this honest and passionate talk, Claire reflects on the commonality of her challenges as she seized opportunities on her journey to becoming a surgeon.
Claire paints a clear picture of the lack of access to surgery in Africa and how her role is to train future neurosurgeons to contribute to this deficient. “I refuse to let being African and a woman be a limitation for me”, Claire says as “there is no unattainable dream”.
Intro music - Blue boss by Sampa the great
Dr Claire Karekezi is a Specialist Neurosurgeon. Born and raised in
Rwanda, Karekezi completed her Clinical Fellowship in NeuroOncology
& Skull Base Surgery at the University of Toronto in 2018 and
returned to Rwanda as the country's first and only female
neurosurgeon. She is the recipient of several awards, the most recent
being the 2016 American Association of Neurological Surgeons
(AANS) International Visiting Surgeon Fellowship in
Neurosurgery/Neuro-Oncology. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]
