05-SEP-B-8
A LISTING OF
PROPOSED MEDICAL MISSIONS WITHIN THE COMING YEAR FOR MMHOF
Thank you Susan!
I had spoken with Dr. Conway early this week after
having sent him a letter with the nominations for MMHOF consideration and
listed the forthcoming missions as they are being planned. A few of these have dates that will be
flexible--some revolving around events here (students exam and graduation
schedules as well as "matching program" dates) and some revolve
around ambiguities on the other end ( the instability around elections in
Afghanistan and Haiti, and travel restrictions or outright bans by the State
Department which had canceled the last recurrent Haiti mission.)
I will attach the letters we exchanged along with
the probable visits to the two nominees I had suggested in
For now, I will list the ones I am organizing now,
am planning to repeat, have committed, scheduled, and those being planned with
dates as yet unfixed.
2005--
last week of November, first weeks of December:
Kabul Afghanistan, Project Cure,
Surgical Project by my former surgical resident now in full time practice and
with Project Cure, Dr. Rick Manning and
I, (rickmanningcure@yahoo.com)
2006--
January
14--28 Surgical Mission to Mindanoa,
among the Tboli peoples in Edwards, and then at Malaybalay, Bukidnon Province
Mindanoa in the Bethel Baptist Hospital
of Mindanoa, Southern and biggest Island of the Philippines; Medical Ministries International, Dr. Allan
Mellicor and I (abmbknon@mozcom.com)
February: Embangweni Hospital, Malawi, Southern Africa
Medical/Surgical Mission with the CCAP, Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian,
Dr. George Poehlman and I (gpoehlman@rr.nc.com)
March (Medical student Spring Vacation--varies along
with Match Day) Medical/Public Health Mission to Thumond and Cange in the
Central Plateau Province of Haiti,
Project MediShare, GWUMC and I, Ellen Powers
(ellenpowers@projectmedishare.org)
April--May One or more of three Horn of Africa Missions Sudan,
(jillvl@nucleus.com)
Somaliland--Medical/Surgical Mission to Hargeisa and Berbera at
Ethiopia--medical/surgical mission to Black Lion Hospital,
and Mother Teresa Clinic and Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, and to Gondar
Medical College in Condar, Ethiopian Highlands through Dr. Rick Hodes and I (rickhodes@hotmail.com)
2007--
Mindanoa again in January
February---Surgical mission to Asmara Eritrea in Orotta Hospital, Halibet Hospital, and Hazhaz
Hospital, Asmara, Eritrea through Physicians for Peace and Dr. Haile Mezghebe
and I (spalmer@physiciansforpeace.org
and hmezghebe@fac.howard.edu)
Then--return to AFRICA (
Then--return to
As Hurricane Katrina and Indonesian Tsunamis have proven, at any time something urgent can
pop into this flexible schedule of fluid itineraries, and there will likely be
more, rather than fewer missions intercalated within the tentative schedule
projected.
I will keep you posted as the dates for each become
firmed up.
Keep up the good MMHOF work!
GWG
>>> <CLVC8@aol.com>
9/28/2005 3:47 PM >>>
Dear Dr. Geelhoed,
Thank you for the forward of the photos from your
trip to
Missions he had requested of you in his e-mail on the
26th of September. Would you be so kind as to send us a list of
future missions (dates, destinations,
person in charge, length of mission and other
pertinent details) we would
deeply appreciate it. Also any information that you may have on
other medical missions scheduled by others for 2006 would enable those med and non-med students interested in going
on a medical mission to schedule their
mission trips more effectively. We would like to include this information on our web site that we are
working on getting up and running in the near future. Thank you!
With kind regards,
Susan E.
Forester
Assistant to
Medical Missions
Hall of Fame Foundation
Diller Foundation
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