Bruce Steffes was appointed CEO of the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeon in March of 2006. Since early 1998, Bruce has spent the majority of each year as a volunteer physician, general surgeon and administrator in developing countries. He has served in Haiti, Belize, Guatemala, Brazil, Kenya, Uganda, Togo, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Monrovia, Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan. He has also visited several other countries and medical works in developing nations.
A member of CMDA for over 30 years, he is active in other ministries of the CMDA and is especially interested in medical education. He is a commission member and faculty member of the Continuing Medical and Dental Education Commission (CMDE) which is involved in the provision of continuing medical education for American medical missionaries, has taught resuscitation courses in East Africa with Medical Education International (MEI) and has spoken several times at the Global Missions Conference in Louisville, KY and the Prescription for Renewal Conference at The Cove in Asheville, NC. He and his wife, Micky, have written the “Handbook for Short Term Medical Missionaries”, published by ABWE (2002), and updated it in two volumes, Medical Missions: Get Ready, Get Set, GO! (S3 Publishing, 2009) and Your Mission: Get Ready, Get Set, GO! (S3 Publishing, 2010), both of which are available through the CMDA resource Web site. When in the US, Steffes has served for a decade as a volunteer associate clinical professor of surgery at Duke University and teaches anatomy, physiology and general surgery each fall in the Physician Assistant Program at Methodist University in his home city of Fayetteville, NC.
His personal goals for his role as CEO of PAACS include creation of a solid administrative structure; facilitation of a uniform and high-quality academic curriculum with recognition of PAACS graduates by the various international accrediting bodies; increased numbers of short-term surgeon volunteers to assist in the training of PAACS residents; recruitment of additional program directors; growth in the number of mission hospitals hosting PAACS training programs and the establishment of a solid financial donor base. All of that is for the ultimate purpose of giving glory to God and serving mankind.
| Contact Information: Bruce C. Steffes, MD, MBA, FACS, FWACS CEO, PAACS PO Box 9906 Fayetteville, NC 28311-9906 910-630-6366 ceo@paacs.net |