Team
Director of Global Engagement Strategy
Dr. Ana Maria Crawford, an Associate Professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Stanford University, founded her department’s Division of Global Health Equity and serves as its Director of Global Engagement Strategy. Dr. Crawford has a passion for global engagement as a way to facilitate reciprocal professional development, diverse community, and equitable healthcare access. For over a decade she has worked through academic partnerships, primarily in underserved and variably-resourced areas, to promote medical education, systems change and quality improvement. She holds an honorary appointment at the University of Rwanda, chairs the California Society of Anesthesiologists – Global Health (CSA-GH) committee and serves on the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists – Education committee. She has served as a consultant advisor to several non-profit organizations, the WHO, and the Lancet Commission for Global Health.
Dr. Crawford is the creator and Editor-in-Chief of the Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center (“the LRC”), an online education platform offering free and open access resources for healthcare providers. Key to the COVID-19 response, these programs have reached over 8000 learners from 145 different countries. Dr. Crawford believes global includes local, also working in her local community to address social barriers to health. As the proud recipient of the 2021 Kevin Malott Humanitarian Service Award, Dr. Crawford worked with the Pine Ridge Native American community in South Dakota assisting local teams preparing to care for critically-ill patients with COVID-19.
Global Health Program Administrator
Michelle has led as Program Manager since 2015 and is a founding member of the Division of Global Health Equity Leadership Council. She has a hybrid role and is also the Project Manager for Quality Improvement initiatives in the department. She earned a Master’s in Health Care Administration (MHA) from California State University, East Bay through which she helped formalize the Division of Global Anesthesia at Stanford. For the practicum of her Master of Science in Global Health (MSGH) degree from Northwestern University, she created and taught a course on Global Health Care Management to the administrative staff at University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences (UZCHS). Michelle partnered with faculty to create the Global Anesthesia Resident Pathway and lecture series at Stanford and currently serves as Co-Director. Michelle is fluent in Spanish, and has visited over 30 countries – including our ACGME rotation sites in Rwanda and Zimbabwe.