NYU Community Helping Haiti
January 26, 2010I am so proud to be a part of the NYU community. The NYU Medical Center is helping Haiti by assembling a group of physicians who volunteered their time and skills. Dr. Robert Grossman, Dean and CEO, wrote an email to the NYU community about this project. "Dr. Fritz Francois, Dr. Patricia Poitvien, Dr. Mona Rigaud, and Mekbib Gemeda, assistant dean for diversity affairs and community health, have been working together to create NYULMC-HEART (Haitian Effort and Relief Team). With support from Partners in Health, an international organization that provides medical services to impoverished communities, this group of faculty and staff is volunteering their time and skills on the ground in Haiti."
If any physician or nurse would like to help out in volunteering their time and skills for future relief trips, e-mail Joyce Long at haitivolunteers@nyumc.org with the following information:
* Name and credentials (MD or RN only)
* Specialty
* Phone number and e-mail address
* Languages spoken
* Passport status
The first HEART team leaves for Haiti today for a one-week relief effort. The team members include:
* Fritz Francois, MD, MS, Medicine – Team Leader
* Prisca Bernard-Joseph, RN (Bellevue) Labor & Delivery/OR
* David Feldman, MD, Pediatric Orthopaedics
* Mary Ann Hopkins, MD, MPhil, Surgery
* Kenneth Mroczek, MD, Orthopaedic Surgery
* Patricia Poitevien, MD, Pediatrics
* Diana (Lucia) Voiculescu, MD, Anesthesiology
HEART will be bringing a large amount of medical supplies with them. While in Haiti, the team will be assisting at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, providing presurgical, surgical, and postsurgical care to victims of the earthquake.
During their stay, they will be blogging their experiences and reflections at http://heart.med.nyu.edu/.
We also have another group of clinician volunteers waiting for a flight confirmation to go to Haiti in about a week.
The outpouring of support from our community has been tremendous. I'd like to thank the HEART team members for their compassion, dedication, time and skills in this effort. I know their service will have a lasting and profound impact.
Posted by Anna Fernando. Posted In : Inspiration
