2015
Dates: November 15 – 21 2015
Team Leader: Dr. Judith Banks
Mission: This global health OB/Gyn trip provided training to Haitian medical professionals from Haiti Hospital Appeal and Justiien Hospital in portable ultrasound use at mobile clinics. Patients at mobile clinics and outpatient clinics were also seen, and a portable ultrasound machine was donated for use at Haiti Hospital Appeal.
Dates: October 10-19 2015
Team Leader: Dr. Dick Barter
Mission: This team from Canada, from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, were based at our Haiti Village Health Site in Bod me Limbe. The team focused on Pediatric Outreach with Global Health training for residents in Family Practice. The team provided community education by paramedics on injury prevention and immediate first aid. Sponsored by Team Broken Earth and MUN.
Dates: October 11-18 2015
Team Leaders: Dr. Allison Platt; Co-leader Katrina Bates, RN
Mission: This was a general-pediatric trip with community education about clean water and health, health education for adolescents, review and follow up of malnutrition programs, and community outreach opportunities. The team had raised money for and sponsored two new water wells and visited those during their time on the ground.
Dates: September 27-October 4 2015
Team Leaders: Andrea Feddes, RN; Co-leader Jennifer Harding, RN
Mission: This trips was a general-pediatric medical mission trip with a special education focus on mental health issues. The team engaged in community teaching, community outreach and clinical opportunities.
Dates: July 26-August 2 2015
Team Leaders: Dr. Jill Ratner & Dr. Mary Ann LoFrumento
Mission: This was a combined Public Health, Program Evaluation and Clinical Outreach Trip. The team worked with our Haitian teams and community focus groups to develop meaningful data and surveys to evaluate the impact of our programs, particularly our malnutrition programs and those related to safe drinking water. The team also worked with our nurses at four clinical sites, to help and enrich our malnutrition programs for children and the education of their families, and to provide direct medical care to these children as well.
Dates: May 9-May 16 2015
Team Leader: Dr. Alexis Capozzoli
Mission: This was a Global Health Medical and Direct Care Outreach Trip based at Haiti Village Health, with an emphasis on teaching, training, and collaborating with our Haitian counterparts and general health care workers. The team also worked at Shada and Haiti Hospital Appeal.
Dates: April 24 – May 3 2015
Team Leader: Christina Mavinic, R.N.
Mission: This was a Global Health Nursing and Direct Care Outreach Trip based at Haiti Village Health, with an emphasis on teaching, training, and collaborating with our Haitian counterparts and general health care workers.
Dates: April 11-19 2015
Team Leader: Dr. Adly Thebaud
Mission: This was a Psychiatry-Neurology trip with an emphasis on teaching, training, and collaborating with our Haitian counterparts and general health care workers.
Dates: March 15-22 2015
Team Leaders: Dr. Jill Ratner Co-leader: Regina Clark
Mission: General/Pediatric trip, focused on maternal and neonatal care.
Dates: February 7-14 2015
Team Leaders: Dr. Beth Bromberg Co-leader: Dr. Mitch Stein
Mission: This was an ophthalmology trip during which the team continued their work at Open Door Clinic and in other areas around Cap Haitien, providing direct outreach and teaching.
Dates: February 9-20 2015
Team Leader: Dr. Chris Raab
Mission: This was a combined Global Health medical education trip and outreach mission, held at Haiti Village Health in Bas Limbe.
Dates: January 25- February 1 2015
Team Leaders: Dr. Wendy Marx Co-leader: Stephanie Korn
Mission: This was a clinical and educational mission, focusing on both pediatrics and internal medicine.
Location: Clinics: Open Door, Cap Haitien, Shada , Grande Riviere, and Labadee
2014
Dates: November 2-9
Team Leader: Mary Ann LoFrumento MD, Judy McAvoy RN
Mission: This was a combined Global Health medical education trip and pediatric outreach mission.
Location: Haiti Hospital Appeal, Haiti Village Health, Shada , other locations.
Dates: June 1-8th
Team Leader: Jill Ratner, MD
Mission: This was a clinical and educational mission, focusing on both pediatrics and internal medicine.
Location: Clinics: Open Door, Cap Haitien, Shada , Grande Riviere, and Labadee
Teaching: Justinien and Haiti Hospital Appeal
Dates: April 26-May 3rd
Team Leader: Hemant Kairam MD, Alexis Capozzola
Mission: This was a combined Global Health medical education trip and pediatric outreach mission. It was at Haiti Village Health in Bas Limbe. It also included work at the Shada clinic.
Dates: March 15-22
Mission: Ophthalmologists Beth Bromberg, MD and Mitch Stein, MD, returned to Bois de Lance and Cap Haitien. The team continued their work at Open Door Clinic & Justinien Hospital.
.
Dates: January 5-12th
Team Leader: Dr. Jill Ratner Mission: This was a pediatric trip with five clinical days. Locations were Open Door, Limonade, Shada, and Labadee.
2013
Dates: November 9-16th
Team Leaders: Mary Ann LoFrumento MD, Judy McAvoy RN
A week long pediatric outreach that took place in Bas Limbe region at Haiti Village Health, with clinics in several villages including Labadee village and the Shada clinic in Cap Haitien. Over 700 children seen this week and multiple children identified for our malnutrition program. Adolescent specialist, Dr. Ann Engelland held a workshop for teens on sexual education and also spent a morning with the residents at Justinien Hospital, making rounds and giving a lecture on Adolescent Medicine. Neonatal ICU nurse, Valerie White and Pediatric resident, Amy Matherne held an advanced newborn resuscitation course for nurses at Ft. St. Michel hospital and Dr. Jennifer Graham, Pediatric Emergency Medicine had a training session on trauma care for the new ambulance team at Haiti Hospital Appeal. And nurses, Judy McAvoy and Valerie White helped run a refresher Helping Babies Breathe class for the traditional birth attendants at Haiti Village Health.
Dates: October 9-16th
Team Leaders: Allison Platt MD (Pediatrics), Michael Shaw MD (Ob-Gyn)
Mission: Pediatric Clinics, Malnutrition Program, Obstetrical and Gynecologic clinics, Educational Sessions on prenatal care, Helping Babies Breathe, Nutrition, and edication on cervical cancer screening and prenatal ultrasound use. Haiti Hospital Appeal, Justinien Hospital, Open Door, and Shada.
Dates: July 13-20
Team Leader: Amy Parkin, RN
Mission: Adult and Pediatric Clinics, Malnutrition program at Open Door Clinic and clinics at Shada.
Dates: June 17-24
Team Leader: Katie Lynn RN
Focus: Nursing Education
Mission: Classes were held at Haiti Hospital Appeal, Shada, Fort St Michel, and Open Door. Helping Babies Breathe was taught to nurses at HHA, and traditional birth attendants at Open Door in Bois de Lance. Breastfeeding and Childbirth was taught to nurses at HHA and to women in Shada, puberty and sexual education was taught at both Shada and Open Door. And violence prevention in relationships, including rape counseling approaches was taught both to nurses and young women in multiple places.
Dates: June 1-8 2013
Team Leader: Beth Bromberg, MD
Specialties: Ophthalmology & Urology
Clinics: Open Door Clinic & Justinien Hospital
Mission: The team spent two days at Open Door clinic, seeing a total of 185 patients. In Cap Haitien, the eye team worked with the Haitian ophthalmologists at the new Vision Plus Clinique. It is a freestanding clinic with eye exam lanes, an operating room and an optical shop. It services both public and private patients. We worked in both the public and private clinics examining preoperative patients for cataract surgery, postoperative glaucoma and cataract patients, and consultations requested by the local ophthalmologists. Jean Moise, an engineer from Propper manufacturing, inventoried all the equipment in the eye clinic, instructed a local mechanic on repairs, repaired many of the defective equipment and repaired the new phacoemulsification machine when it broke down at the beginning of a surgical case. Our two ophthalmic surgeons, John Ettenson and Mitch Stein, worked in the operating room at the IEF clinic in Cap Haitien with Haitien ophthalmologists Pierre Dupuy, Jr. and Marie Carmelle Guerrier. Late last year Alcon donated a machine for the OR which would allow them to perform phacoemulsification, the newest technique for cataract surgery. The eye team made great strides in helping the Haitian ophthalmologists in their quest for creating sustainable eye care in the north. There is much work to be done, but we are making good progress.
Warren Bromberg, MD and Joanne Hall, RN initiated the organization’s first urology team. They saw 55 patients in two days at Open Door, several of whom required urgent critical intervention. One of the highlights of the Open Door mission proved to be the community educational event attended by about 40 people of all ages. In Cap Haitien, the urology team worked with Dr. Desir in his public clinic consulting on difficult cases, assisting with procedures, participating in resident conferences, making pre- and post-operative rounds, and performing ultrasound studies. At the hospital, the urology team participated in a multitude of surgeries including open prostatectomies, orchiectomies, transurethral prostatectomies and bladder tumor resections, supra pubic cystotomies, hydrocelectomies, urethral reconstruction, drainage of an abscess, and cystoscopies.
Dates: April 27-May 4 2013
Team Leader: Hemant Kairam MD
Specialties: Pediatrics
Clinics: Haiti Village Health & Shada Clinic
Mission: This was a global health education trip for pediatric residents.
Dates: March 2013
Team Leader: Jill Ratner MD
Specialties: Pediatrics
Clinics: Open Door Clinic & Shada Clinic
Mission: The team visited an organization in Port au Prince working on literacy, traveled to Open Door to work two days in the clinic, and spent one day at Shada. The team did community outreach with our nurse at Open Door, MaryLucie , for the Medika Mumba nutrition program, and then went to Grande Riviere to work with the agent sante and nurse there. The team included business and hospital administrators who met with their counterparts in Haiti and toured the three hospitals we work with: Justinian, Haiti Hospital Appeal, and Forte St Michel.
2012
Dates: December 2012
Team Leader: Beth Bromberg
Specialties: Ophthalmology
Mission: (see blog posting) The eye team worked at Justinien Hospital and Open Door Clinic in Bois de Lance screening patients for ocular diseases, when possible treating the diseases we diagnosed, prescribing and dispensing donated glasses and glasses we purchased with donated funds, and referring the patients we identified who needed follow up to the Haitian ophthalmologists.The team again worked at Justinien Hospital and also visited the new eye clinic in Cap Haitien being built for the Haitian ophthalmologists by IEF (International Eye Foundation). The clinic will offer eye care for both public and private patients and will have an optical shop as well as an operating room.
Dates: December 2012
Team Leader: Tom Lacy
Specialties: Helping Babies Breathe
Mission: sponsored by the LDS charities, several Helping Babies Breathe workshops were conducted. 100 Haitiian midwives and healthcare providers were taught these vital newborn resuscitation techniques. In addition, several Haitian medical professionals were certified as teachers.
Dates: November 10-17 2012
Team Leader: Mary Ann LoFrumento MD
Specialties: Pediatric Initiative
Mission: This was a global health education trip to Bas Limbe and the Haiti Village Health CLinic. The trip included four pediatric residents as well as two pediatricians, a pediatric nurse practitioner, and maternity nurse. We visited six villages and provided pediatric care, and immunizations to 600 children. We identified 22 children who were malnourished and referred them for treatment. In addition Dr. Judy Banks, OB-GYN came to provide obstetrics education and donated a portable ultrasound to Haiti Village Health and provided training.
Dates: October, 2012
Team Leader: Allison Platt MD and David Berck MD
Specialties: OB-GYN and Pediatrics
Mission: Dr. Berck taught ultrasound at Justiniene, and Open Door, trained Dr. Telemaque, and Dr. Trevant. Outreach in Bois de Lance for Medicine and Food for Kids, taught MariLucie had to run the program, weighing and measuring, and assessing children.
Dates: October, 2012
Team Leader: Jill Ratner MD, Christine Caserta
Specialties: Pediatric & nursing student innitiative
Mission: logistics, meeting with ministry of health, and planification, meeting at Open Door and review of Medika Mamba program, set up our storage and inventory, taught at Grande Riviere nurse and Agent Sante and examined the children enrolled in MFK.
Dates: June, 2012
Team Leader: Amy Parkin RN, Ann Engelland MD
Specialties: Pediatric and Education
Mission: This team worked at Open Door and in the Shada clinic. Dr. Ann Engelland taught at Justinien Hospital and Haiti Hospital Appeal
Dates: May 5 – May 12, 2012
Team Leader: Jill Ratner MD, Mary Ann LoFrumento MD & Judy McAvoy RN
Specialties: Pediatric & nursing student innitiative, Helping Babies Breathe
Mission: (see blog post)This team worked in clinics, teaching children and the community about health prevention, contraception, and nutrition. Two Helping Babies Breathe workshops were held for the birth attendants of Bas Limbe at Haiti Village Health. Joining us on this trip was an information technology consultant looking at the possibilities for integrating electronic medical records in the clinics and in the field as part of community health care outreach.
Dates: February 18 – February 25, 2012
Team Leader: Beth Bromberg, M.D.
Specialties: Ophthalmology
Clinics: Open Door Clinic & Justinien Hospital
Location: Bois de Lance & Cap Haitien
Mission: Team members from the May 2011 mission, ophthalmologists Beth Bromberg, MD and Mitch Stein, MD and optometrist Lori Rothman-Allee,OD, returned to Bois de Lance and Cap Haitien. The team screened patients in Bois de Lance prior to their visit in Cap Haitien, and referred patients with serious eye diseases to the local ophthalmologists for treatment and follow up. The team continued their work with the local Haitian ophthalmologists. Joining them in Cap Haitien, was Keyvan Keyhai, MD, an oculoplastic surgeon, who evaluated and performed surgery on patients preselected by Guerline Roney, MD, the director of Ophthalmology at Justinien Hospital. Lori Rothman-Allee,OD taught technicians at Justinien Hospital the art of prescribing glasses. Lori’s son Austin Allee asssted Lori in screening patients and prescribing glasses. Drs. Stein and Bromberg gave lectures to local ophthalmologists and residents at Justinien Hospital and performed consultations, with the Haitian ophthalmologists, on challenging patients brought in from villages in northern Haiti. Andrea Klausner, a lawyer and writer, assisted the team and interviewed the local doctors and patients regarding their perspective. Donated medications and supplies from donors, US pharmaceutical companies and NGOs were provided to the team and the Haitian doctors to provide continuing care.
Dates: January 21 – January 28, 2012
Team Leader: Jill Ratner, M.D. & Christine Caserta
Specialties: Pediatric & Neonatal Initiative
Mission: Neonatal Initiative: This was Hands up for Haiti’s first neonatal team and included physicians, nurse practitioners and a nurse manager. One team member was born in Haiti and now is studying in the states and returened to Haiti for this trip for the first time since the earthquake to help out. They visited and worked at three hospitals during their stay, Sacre Coeur, which is run by an American bases organization called CRUDEM, Haiti Hospital Appeal which is run by a British organization, and Justinian Hospital, which is the only teaching hospital in the area. They assessed the present level of care and equipment at each site, and brought tools to teach neonatal resuscitation, and the STABLE course, which involves how to stabilize newborns after birth. They worked side-by-side with Haitian doctors, nurses, and staff to see patients. Among the medical supplies and equipment that were donated to Haiti during this trip, was a positive pressure respiratory system which will provide support for immature lungs. This will help increase survival in premature infants. The Pediatric team worked at an outpatient clinic, and conducted a Helping Babies Breathe workshop to selected leaders of the community identified by community leaders. they worked closely with Haitian doctors and nurses, and begin a program with Medical Food for Kids combating malnutrition. We will also have the opportunity to teach basic pediatrics at Haiti Hospital Appeal and worked at an inner city clinic in Shada, that Hands up for Haiti has helped renovate along with our partners, Haiti Village Health.
