Dr. Janice Manjuck completed her medical training at the University of Florida, followed by a residency at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco and a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in New York City. She has been practicing Critical Care Medicine for 30 years and holds an additional certification in Neurocritical Care. Her experience includes medical work and critical care teaching in California, West Africa, Serbia, the Philippines, and, most recently, Nepal in conjunction with OSC.

The Princess met Dr. Gude and the team at the RI Convention in Lisbon in 2013. She visited us in California shortly afterwards. From then on, she has focused her efforts on promoting telemedicine and supporting projects in Africa, beginning with a successful project launch at Federal Medical Center of Yenagoa (FMC Yenagoa), where she was on staff as a psychiatrist. That first launch was distinct because it had the full support of the hospital administration and because they integrated Global Grand Rounds in the continuing medical education program. The Princess then initiated a global grant working with the Rotary Club of Sebastopol Sunrise in the US and her own Rotary Club in Yenagoa. After an intensive seven-day training experience visiting several hospitals all implementing telemedicine and a series of talks by a variety of specialists, they were awarded a certificate of completion. The Princess was designated Telemedicine Ambassador. On returning to Nigeria, she went into action, screening potential sites to extend telemedicine to the surrounding communities. The
following year, she inaugurated Otuoke, the community outreach clinic for FMC Yenagoa. She has led the establishment of several additional telemedicine projects in Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda,
and India since then.