Biography:

Dr. Brohim is a certified management consultant (CMC) with an MD degree and a PhD in biomedical engineering. He has more than 30 years’ international experience in health management; project management, policy development, financing and insurance, monitoring and evaluation, hospital management, and working with many international funding agencies and development banks, in the public and private sector as well as NGO’s.

Brohim is also an experienced lecturer in the Physiotherapy and MPH programs of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname. His teaching topics include covering wound healing and infection, public health, health financing and health management.

Brohim has served on several (international) boards during his career: Board Member of the Caribbean Institute of Certified Management Consultants (CICMC), 2015-2017; Vice President of the Board of Commissioners of the Academic Hospital Paramaribo, 2001 – 2012; Chairman of the Society of Consultants in Suriname (VCS), 2002 – present; and Member of the Board of AIDsail, a HIV/AIDS foundation in California, USA, 2003 – 2010.

Brohim has given many invited keynote speeches, of which a the most recent ones were at the symposium “Priorities in the health crisis in Suriname”, September 2023 and the symposium “Financing our health care, National Basic Health Insurance” April 16, 2022, in Paramaribo, Suriname.

Publications 

Trimbos JB, Brohim RM, Van Rijssel EJC: Factors Relating to the Volume of Surgical Knots. International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 1989, 30: 355-359.

Brohim RM, Foresman PA, Hildebrandt PK, Rodeheaver GT: Early Tissue Reaction to Textured Breast Implant Surfaces. Annals of Plastic Surgery 1992, 28: 354 –362.

Brohim RM, Foresman PA, Grant GM, Merickel MB, Rodeheaver GT: Quantitive Monitoring of Capsular Contraction Around Smooth and Textured Breast Implants. Annals of Plastic Surgery 1993, 30: 424 -434.

Brohim RM, Foresman PA, Rodeheaver GT: Development of Independent Vessel Security After Ligation With Absorbable Sutures or Clips. The American Journal of Surgery 1993, 165: 345 -349.

Books:

On Interactions Between Surgical Biomaterials and Tissue, wound repair to textured breast implants and suture or clip ligated blood vessels. Dissertation to achieve the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, May 17, 1994.

Fundamentals of Wound Management; Wound Healing, Biomaterials, and Infection Potentiation (in press).

Politics, Policy and Management in Health, a professional experience (in preparation).

Research:

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Contact details:

robertbrohim@gmail.com
Tel: +597-8755139
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-brohim-md-phd-cmc-09491060/