Boston-Africa Anesthesia and Critical Care Collaborative

Welcome to the Boston-Africa Anesthesia and Critical Care Collaborative (BAAC)

BAAC is a unique program that is working with colleagues in Liberia to enhance anesthesia and critical care education in order to create a self-sustaining, home-grown system of learning. This will allow Liberians themselves to provide the expert teaching and clinical training that will allow them to give skilled clinical care to their fellow citizens, improve health and literally save lives.

We are a committed collaborative effort that includes clinicians and faculty from Phebe-Esther Bacon College of Health Sciences Program in Liberia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)/Harvard Medical School, Northeastern University Nurse Anesthesia Program (NEU) and Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH).

Most importantly, we have been remarkably effective and made much progress since our beginning in 2015, and we plan to keep moving ahead together with our Liberian colleagues to continue our remarkable success.

Eileen Stuart-Shor, PhD, ANP, FAAN

Director: Eileen Stuart-Shor, PhD, ANP, FAAN

Our plan is to help build a healthier Liberia

Mission: BAAC aims to build capacity for excellence in anesthesia education and practice that is locally responsive, improves universal access to high quality, safe anesthesia and surgical care, and improves individual and population health outcomes with an emphasis on health equity.

Vision: Every Liberian in need of surgery deserves access to high quality, safe anesthesia when and where they need it; where a person lives should not determine if a person lives.