OCT-12
THE COMPLEX PLANNING
OF THE TIMING, PERSONNEL AND SUPPLIES
FOR THE “MISSION TO
MALAWI-03”
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: George Poehlman
Date: 10/16/02 10:18AM
Subject: Fwd: Re:
This is to introduce two second year pediatric residents from National Children's Hospital Medical Center at GWU who are interested in joining us in Embangweni for the month of April, 2003.
Candace Chen and Michelle Caing are introduced through me to the opportunity there and have also spoken with John Sutter who was with me there last February. They will be talking later with Elizabeth Yellen, currently at Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center (one of my own alma maters) as a first year pediatric resident, who was also with us in this last February's mission at the time that Neil Kennedy and family completed the handover of the Embangweni Mission Station direction.
I have spoken with George Poehlman who will be arriving around the first of April and staying for the month, "drumming up" surgical cases, for which Mister Tembo and we should be prepared about the time of my arrival with othr medical students. This will be about April 24 when we arrive for the last week of April when we will overlap with the Poehlmans before accompanying them out to Lilongwe with an en route brief holiday in Mvuu or other areas‑‑an opportunity I missed last year.
My medical students, Amy Hayes and possibly John Sutter and several others that I am working with to determine their timing, will arrive either with the pediatricians or with me, to be under the delegated supervisions of Dr. Poehlman until I am their direct supervisor for the subsequent period until about Mid‑May (their graduation time.)
Additionally, I will be continuously collecting and distributing supplies to accompany each of those leaving, at whatever their departure timing, to be carried in for the surgical needs and medical requirements I have assessed, and for which I have promised Mister Tembo I would try to search out and supply.
Additionally, I have written in a request for specific pharmaceutical supplies to the extent that they can be furnished through my longstanding association with MAP (see 02‑Sep‑C‑6 attached.)
The timing of this repeat medical mission to Malawi is intended to coincide with the last month of the rainy season in the disease and illness peak that comes along with malaria season and the exhaustion of the food stores and the starvation that accompanies this period before the new harvest. It is also done with enough lead time so as to move conflicting events from that calendar period and steer around other fixed dates such as student graduations (and, in my own interest of full disclosure, the 107th running of the Boston Marathon on April 21!) Just before the anticipated April departure, I will be giving my third presentation in support of Malawi missions before medical centers in a series from Cambridge MD, Univ. of Florida Shands Medical Center Gainesville, FL, and Schneider Children's Hospital Long Island New York.
Because I will be out of contact on US domestic travel and a Malaysia mission, much of the next two months, and starting in January, the international missions to Mindanao Philippines, Central America, and Himalayas, I had hoped to confirm the personnel and supplies and, soon, the itinerary of the Malawi Medical Mission within the next month.
I hope to be with you and helping in any way we can soon!
GWG
CC: Internet:candacepchen@hotmail.com; Internet:ccaphea@malawi.net; Internet:esyellen@gwu.edu; Internet:fdimmock@malawi.net; Internet:hayden_boyd@ita.doc.gov; Internet:joanmck@yahoo.com; Internet:joyceheath@aol.com; Internet:poehlman@helios.acomp.usf.edu; Internet:rodehaver@staffservices.com; John Sutter; Virginia Croskery