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Calnali

This program in central Mexico provides basic health care and health education in a partnership between IUSM and the Universidad Autonoma de Hidalgo.

Faculty involved: Dr. Kelly Anderson, Dr. Diane Lorant, Dr. Sarah Stelzner, Dr. Alvaro Tori

  • Alvaro Tori teaches local health care workers in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) as part of a National/International program.

 

Cambodia

ORBIS International Flying Eye Hospital

Faculty involved: Dr. Daniel Neely

  • Dr. Daniel Neely is welcomed to Phnom Penh by Cambodian doctor Phara Khauv who worked with him there.
  • The ORBIS International flying eye hospital, a DC-10 converted to a teaching eye hospital, where surgeries are performed.
  • Dr. Neely with two Cambodian children who received strabismus surgery.

 

Cuba

ORBIS International Flying Eye Hospital

Faculty involved: Dr. David Alan Plager

  • Welcome to Havana. Orbis flying eye hospital.
  • Orbis plane - DC-10 flying eye hospital.
  • David Plager MD with four Cuban pediatric ophthalmologists.
  • Assembly line eye surgery technique styled after Fyodorov from Russia in 1980's.

 

Dominican Republic

Dr. Mark Corkins serves on the board of Hope International which directs missions work in the Dominican Republic and sponsors an annual medical mission.

Faculty involved: Dr. Mark Corkins

  • Dr. Mark Corkins sees patients at a clinic in the Dominican Republic.

 

Guatemala

Dr. Kerstin Sobus spent time with a medical mission trip to rural Guatemala and to an orthopedic hospital to donate braces and to a children's home and to do some rehabilitation teaching.

Faculty involved: Dr. Kerstin Sobus

  • Dr. Kerstin Sobus spends time with children at an orthopedic hospital.
  • Dr. Kerstin Sobus spends time with children at an orthopedic hospital.
  • Dr. Kerstin Sobus spends time with children at an orthopedic hospital.

 

Jordan

Dr. Anne Farrell and Dr. Mark Turrentine were able to operate on 9 children with congenital heart disease (5 Iraqi, 1 Palestine, and 3 Jordanian).

Faculty involved: Dr. Anne Farrell, Dr. Mark Turrentine

  • Dr. Anne Farrell pictured with patient Halima.
  • Dr. Mark Turrentine pictured with patient Sajad.
  • Dr. Mark Turrentine pictured with patient Sajad before he leaves the hospital.
  • Dr. Mark Turrentine operating on a baby.
  • Scott and Julyana.
  • Megan, Khaldoon and ICU nurses.
  • Megan caring for a child.
  • The Riley-Amman team in the OR.
  • Megan, Becky, Jill, Baysalan and her mother.
  • Two of our patients from last year.
  • The Riley team pictured with patients.
  • Mike and the pump team.
  • Mark, Rand, her mom, Sejad's mom, Fatima's mom and Fadi.
  • Dr. Anne Farrell pictured with Fatima's mom and Sejad's mom.
  • Rami and his Colts blanket.
  • The Riley team.
  • Dr. Anne Farrell pictured with a patient.

 

Kenya

Since 1989, the Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine in Kenya have worked in partnership to develop leaders in health care for both the US and Africa.

Faculty involved: Dr. Paul Biondich, Dr. Stephen Downs, Dr. David Dunn, Dr. Maria Finnell, Dr. Dennis Fortenberry, Dr. Jill Helphinstine, Dr. James Lemons, Dr. Edward Liechty, Dr. Jo Ann Matory, Dr. Coby Richeson, Dr. John Sidle, Dr. Rachel Vreeman, Dr. Sarah Wiehe, Dr. Gregory Wilson, Dr. Jason Woodward

  • Newborn Kenyan baby with a large cystic hygroma (lymphangioma) extending from the axilla into the neck.
  • Dr Fred Rescorla teaching a Kenyan surgical resident in the excision of this large tumor.
  • The Mother and Baby Hospital of Kenya, March 2008.
  • The Mother and Baby Hospital of Kenya, which was handed over to the Director of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in a ceremony in July 2008.
  • The Mother and Baby Hospital of Kenya, which was handed over to the Director of Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in a ceremony in July 2008.

 

Lithuania

Dr. John Lubicky works with Lithuanian Children's Hope to provide direct patient care as well as medical education.

Faculty involved: Dr. John Lubicky

  • Vilnius University Children's Hospital in Lithuania.
  • Dr. John Lubicky, Riley Orthopedic Specialist, at Vilnius University Children's Hospital in Lithuania.

 
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