Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Emily E: Ashwin Viswanathan
The establishment and support of neurosurgical residency programs in developing regions: the challenges and opportunities.
Alina W: Margaret Tarpley
Medical volunteer efforts involve cross-cultural issues including social, economic, ethnic, religious, education, or language. Cultural humility and sensitivity as well as respect are vital.
Guillem A: Rick Spurlock & Vikki Flier
How to be culturally sensitive to the local / indigenous populations you are serving during missions abroad. (Haiti)
Ali C: Steve Roser, Dana Buffin & Carl Bailey
Providing treatment and follow up of a common birth defect among indigenous children in Central and South America: Cleft lip and palate
Emily D: Anita Rich
The richness of experience in screening and treating congenital heart defects in children in Mongolia.
Nolan K: Jonathas Moreira
Volunteering to provide healthcare assistance and other services to the river-banks people of the Amazon Basin (Brazil) through World Hope Mission Ministry.
Kimberly R: Kelly McQueen
The delivery of responsible humanitarian aid during short and long term surgical missions and delivery of disaster relief; considerations including outcomes assessment and provision for follow up.
Jeremy S: Kamal Mansour
Building bridges between Emory and Egypt: seeing patients, sharing knowledge, and performing difficult surgical procedures…improving the picture of the USA in the Middle East
Caroline W: Richard Kowalske
Giving hope to orphans and street children in Eastern Africa by: a) Providing medical care, education, food, and clean water and b) Building a self-sustaining orphan village.
Nora Z: Haren Joshi & Pratima Tolat
These doctors specialize in vascular, trauma and ophthalmology. After 34 years of working in USA as a vascular / trauma surgeon and my wife as an ophthalmologist we decided to go to remote part of India where no health care was available. we took over a defunct government hospital and turn it around providing basic services to poor people. There were about 5-10 pt before now we see about 250 tp 300 pt and about 1000 op a month. we do cleft lip surgery once a year. Our experience in working in rural tribal area. How difficult is to start and how to overcome local resistance and be successful. How to work with local government machinery and get help from them to serve poor people. At the end how it makes us happy.
Sonia D: Jen Hartley
How to help a community help itself: Teaching scar massage therapy as part of the rehabilitation process for pediatric burn survivors in Nicaragua to improve their physical and psychological state.
Lexi K: Allen Dollar
Emory School of Medicine partners with Ethiopian medical schools to teach cardiology to Ethiopian medical house staff. Bringing it all home: A doctor's international medical mission work and his growing family as he adopts kids during these missions.
Savannah D: Warren Cooper
A general surgeon’s insight into the challenges of performing wartime and developing world surgery in difficult areas such as Sudan, Congo, and Pakistan.
Katrina I: Nina Church
An overview of the global water crisis and the dramatic impact clean water can have in eradicating preventable diseases worldwide: Providing clean water and sanitation to villages around the world through an innovative eco-friendly method of sustainable funding. Examples from Kenya, Uganda, Sri Lanka, and Nicaragua.
Derek MH: Nick Boulis
Dept. of Neurosurgery. Powerpoint presentation: “Treating mental defects in children in Guatemala."
Aarin A: Khaled Abughazaleh
Palestine Children's Relief Fund: Nineteen years of providing specialized surgical care to children in the Middle East…an overview and personal experiences.
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