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Global Health Tuesday: UW–Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative to Improve Global Health

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EVENT DATE: December 9, 2025, 9-10am (CST). Join Calyn Ostrowski, GHI Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships & Development as she moderates a discussion about the UW-Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative’s global reach. She is joined by panelists Dr. Abdullah Keles, Scientist, and Dr. Mutafa Baskaya, both from UW–Madison’s Microneurosurgery Initiative and SMPH; and Dr. Yannick Canton Kessely, Specialist Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery,Hôpital La Renaissance de N’Djamena, Chad.

The Inspiration Behind The Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative: Meet Abdullah Keles

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By Katie Newcomb, GHI Communications Director…Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative (MMI) Founder Abdullah Keles, MD, saw a problem and wanted to solve it. The problem, illuminated through his work as Mustafa K. Baskaya Lab Manager within the Department of Neurological Surgery in UW–Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, was the lack of available microscopes and microneurosurgery …