Emory Medishare will be presenting at the Emory University Department of Surgery’s Grand Rounds on December 9 at 7am in the main auditorium of Emory University Hospital. Themes discussed will include a general orientation to Emory Medishare, the logistics of planning and executing a short-term surgical trip, and larger issues that arise. For more information, please click here.
In November 2009, our community health trip encountered a number of cases of children who had been handed over to other families for being too great a burden on the child’s biological family. Unfortunately, this social relationship known as “restavek” often leads to neglect or worse. Given the health implications of this system of informal foster care, we found it important to publicize this issue more broadly. A full article describing our findings and the greater context in which this systematized neglect occurs can be found at the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s website at www.ajtmh.org.
A trip that had originally been designed to focus on complex urological cases has grown to handle whatever fortune throws at it. Click here to read the incredible story of how a boy’s hand was saved on our recent trip a few weeks ago.
Sameer Kapadia and Ira Leeds presented on the platform of sustainable programs offered by Emory Medishare at Emory University’s International Medical Volunteerism Conference on April 18, 2010. Special thanks to Sandy Zaeh, Katie Lee, and Patricia Engel for staffing Medishare’s exhibition booth. View the presentation here.
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heck out data regarding number of patients seen and categories of their diagnoses from our Fall 2008 and Fall 2009 trips here. Click here.
The e-mail below (click “more”) was sent out by the Executive Committee to the larger Emory Medishare community including long-time supporters, trip veterans, etc on January 14, 2010. With the launch of our new website we wanted to make sure any newcomers to Emory Medishare know how we are responding to the recent natural disaster. Please feel free to distribute to any friends and family. More »
In July 2009, Nick Vittone, an Atlanta-based photojournalist and commercial photographer, captured the in-country aspects of our second surgical trip. Click here to see his photos.
In November 2008, Chris Lowell, an award-winning photojournalist traveled with Emory Medishare to document our work. View his pictures here.
Thanks for visiting our new website. We’ll have familiar and new features up and running soon.
