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Medical Missions
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| Carol Simpson, R.N., MHKH, assists Dr. Michael Schafer, surgeon, while actor Chris Meloni and others observe surgery being performed on a 4-year-old pediatric patient on a medical mission trip to Haiti with Surgical Volunteers International in February-March, 2009. Photo is courtesy of Anthony Karen.
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Luis A. Campos, M.D., of Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital, provides medical help in Peru, Nov. 2005. |
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| Houston Baptist University nursing student, Jane Ellen Saizan, attends to patients in the mountains of Matagalpa, Nicaragua on a medical mission trip led by Memorial Hermann Healthcare System physician Peter Kwan, M.D. in March 2009. |
Ali Shehata, M.D., renders aid to victims of a Pakistan earthquake. |
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| Dr. Michael Whetstone, plastic surgeon; and Eduardo Modesto and Chris Equia, surgical technicians, treat a patient on a medical mission trip to Guerrero, Mexico led by Scott Yarish, M.D., MHMC, in January, 2009. |
Dr. Richard Alexander attends to a young El Salvadoran boy recovering from neck tumor surgery in a hospital in Santa Anna. |
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| A Houston Baptist University student on the Mission Nicaragua Medical Team checks the blood pressure of a resident of a village in Nicaragua. Peter Kwan, M.D., Memorial Hermann Family Practice Center, participated on the medical mission team with Memorial Family Practice and Houston Baptist University in March 2005. |
Dr. Bob Morrow, right, screens a local resident for possible surgery. |
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| Long lines form as local citizens await treatment from the mission team. |
Dr. Lin Jones, left, consults with Dr. Bob Morrow, as they examine a surgery candidate. |
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| Local villagers await much-needed surgeries at Hospital De Zacamil in San Salvador. |
A mission participant comforts a pediatric patient with her mother in San Salvador. |
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| Greta Cool, R.N., MHSW cares for a pediatric patient during her medical mission trip to Haiti with Surgical Volunteers in September 2009. Photograph courtesy of Anthony Karen. |
Cynthia Jacobus, respiratory therapist, MHK, and Kim Parris, Builders Without Borders, care for a pediatric patient in Haiti in January 2010. |
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| Esi Rhett, M.D., anesthesia resident, MH-TMC, cares for patients in an outdoor clinic on her medical mission trip to Fran Ka dua, Ghana, West Africa in February 2010. |
Nancy Beasley, R.N., MHK, and Tamatha Staff, R.N., MHK, teach a group of labor nurses on their trip to India in February/March 2010. |
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| Aisha Haynie, M.D., MHTW, treats a woman in March-April 2010 with wounds she sustained while trapped under a building as a result of the earthquake in Haiti. |
Emma Archibong, M.D., Pediatric resident, is responsible for patient triage on her medical mission to Lilongwe, Malawi, May 1-28, 2010.
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| Willie Heitman, DDS, an MHHCS referral staff member, provided dental care on his medical mission to Honduras, June 12-20, 2010. |
Mary Brimer, RN, MC, receives a prescription from a patient and gives them a mosquito net during her medical mission to Uganda, July-August 2011. |
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| Deborah Lowery-Adams, perfusionist, MH-TMC, operates a heart lung machine in an operating room while treating patients on her medical mission to Iraq in November 2011. |
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