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This Team Does What It Takes to Serve Their Community
March 21, 2013 // Read More

Hats off to the Hospital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Rehabilitation team – they have taken it to the next level! 

While visiting with our partners at HAS today, we traveled with part of a rehab team, led by Haitian physical therapist, Nathalie.  She received her training in the Dominican Republic and even though her husband continues to live there, she wanted to move back to her home country to share her new skills.

Together we scaled mountains, reaching patients that would otherwise not receive the rehabilitation they need. 

Funded...

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How a Simple Manual Can Allay Fears
March 18, 2013 // Read More

Last week, we had a team at the pediatric burn unit of Aproquen in Managua, Nicaragua. Gretchen Carrougher, a nurse from Seattle, and Dr. Lisa Tropez-Arceneaux, a psychologist from New Orleans, began working immediately after their arrival. 

Gretchen made a brief presentation on the progress made since her first visit to Nicaragua.  The nurses have made tremendous strides in wound care, assessment and management of pain and collaborating with other members of the team. Tatiana (a local psychologist) was also given feedback about her progress and the positive changes that her...

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Equipment Donations Arrive at Optical Clinic in Isabela, Philippines
March 18, 2013 // Read More

Physicians for Peace assisted the optical clinic in Cauayan, Isabela. Shown in the photo is the auto refractor, lensometer and trial case.

 


Dr. Irene Maramag, our partner optometrist in Isabela, received the donations at our office in Intramuros.

 
Saving Sight for Children CrowdFunding Success
March 18, 2013 // Read More

Thank you to the following people who helped make sight for children a reality: 

Matilde Encarnacion
Paulina Sosa
Hae Jin Kang 
Cheyenne Bestuir
Mati Encarnacion
Christina Say
Kyle Engborg
Tyler Engborg
Emily E.
Trixie Barretto
Lanneth Lee
Eileen Sandoval
Elaine Roch
Chonaz Caguioa
Katherine T.
Margo Encarnacion
Aimee Clark

 
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Collaboration Locally and Globally
March 12, 2013 // Read More

Note: written by CEO and President of Physicians for Peace Brigadier General Ron Sconyers (USAF, Ret.) 

Just recently, Norfolk's Old Dominion University College of Health Sciences launched a Global Health Center to positively impact health and the well-being of populations.  One of its strategies is to stimulate collaborations...and Physicians for Peace has become an early beneficiary. The Center brought together Physicians for Peace with the National Center of Systems of Systems Engineering.   Huh?  How does systems engineering fit our model of teaching, collaborating and...

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