Meet Bruce Steffes, MD, MBA, FACS, FWACS, the Chief Executive Officer of PAACS

 

^{Photo by Andrew Craft, Fayetteville Observer} 

Bruce Steffes was appointed CEO of the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons 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), which is 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 new 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.

 

To join in the training and/or financial support of the PAACS ministry, you can contact Dr. Steffes at ceo@paacs.net or at the phone number and address below (he is in the country only from August – December of each year):

 

Bruce C. Steffes, MD, MBA, FACS, FWACS
CEO- PAACS
323 Damsel Court
Linden, NC 28356
910-630-3366