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How Transnational Healthcare Professionals Import and Adapt Medical Expertise in Cambodian NGOs

[Webinar] Managing Patients and Impressions: How Transnational Healthcare Professionals Import and Adapt Medical Expertise in Cambodian NGOs 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 Professional work is increasingly transnational in scope, as professionals who are trained and credentialed in one country often apply their expertise and skills in other countries. Medicine is no exception, especially in Cambodia where many healthcare professionals travel from the Global North to volunteer their expertise and treat Khmer patients in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). My research investigates the transnational movement of volunteer healthcare professionals from the Global North to NGOs in Cambodia by asking, “How do transnational healthcare professionals, and the organizations in which they work, manage the application of medical expertise in new settings?” I answer this question through a comparative ethnography of three NGOs in Cambodia that provide healthcare services and rely on foreign volunteer healthcare professionals to assist with treating patients and training local staff. I find that although foreign volunteer healthcare professionals perceive their medical expertise as universally applicable and readily transportable to Cambodian NGOs, their unfamiliarity with NGOs’ structures, staff, and patients requires them to adopt various impression management strategies to successfully perform their roles as medical experts. How such impression management unfolds depends on a multitude of factors that variously enable or constrain the execution of their professional duties. 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 Derek Richardson is a sixth-year sociology PhD candidate at Indiana University Bloomington in the United States. He spent 16 months in Cambodia at three nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide healthcare services conducting ethnographic observations and interviews for his dissertation entitled “Foreign Experts, Local Problems: Tracing the Transnational Movement and Application of Medical Expertise in Cambodian Nongovernmental Organizations.” His dissertation examines how foreign volunteer healthcare professionals import and adapt medical expertise from the Global North when working alongside Khmer healthcare professionals and treating Khmer patients. 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 Sokro Suong was graduated in 2015 from the Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA), Phnom Penh. In 2017, he got a Master’s degree in Human and Social Sciences from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilization (INALCO) in Paris. Currently, he is pursuing his doctoral degree in historical anthropology at INALCO. His research topic is Historical anthropology of therapeutic practices within a Buddhist royalty: the case of the Khmer kingdom (late 15th century-early 21st century). He is currently the Executive Director of Yosothor organization and a lecturer of Cambodian history and old-Khmer epigraphy at the Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA). *Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in the publications and through webinars are solely those of the authors or speakers. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of The Center for Khmer Studies, Inc. The designations employed in the publications and through the webinars, and the presentation of material therein, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of The Center for Khmer Studies, Inc. as to the matters discussed therein. The responsibility for opinions expressed in the publications and webinars are solely those of the authors or speakers, and the publication does not constitute an endorsement by The Center for Khmer Studies, Inc. of the opinions, views or issues discussed therein.