6:15 p.m.: Keynote Speaker Erica Seabold - "My Global Health Initiative Experience in the Republic of Congo"
Her first trip was to Liberia in 2012, when she was a student at Cedarville University. She had just finished her first year of nursing school and was traveling with African Bible Colleges to work out of a mobile clinic. The lack of health care surprised her. She saw that people didn't know what vaccines were, or readily believed the claims of shamans. Seabold watched as the doctors worked with meager resources to set bones, aspirate knee effusions, help burn patients, and treat children with epilepsy. The experience helped her to realize that she wanted to become a physician, and inspired her to take more foreign service trips and change her undergraduate major to biology. Since then, Seabold's trips to the Congo have reinforced that working in developing countries is the calling for her medical career. Her efforts to set up an emergency ambulance service in the Congo resulted in her receiving the Outstanding Third-Year Student award from the Wright State University Academy of Medicine.
Erica and her husband, Paul, live in Dayton. He works as a pastor. In her free time, Erica enjoys running, baking, and volunteering in her church nursery and at The Living Well Clinic.
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