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Category Archives: international health care
Global outreach: She volunteers to improve pediatric cancer care
BY AMBER SMITH Leukemia is the most common childhood cancer all over the world. Whether it’s diagnosed and how it’s treated help determine which children survive. Those in low- and middle-income countries such as Ethiopia and Kenya are four times more … Continue reading
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This is why she became a nurse
BY EMILY KULKUS Several times a year, Upstate nurse Susan Thomas packs two big suitcases — one new and one tattered — and heads to the airport. One suitcase is full of her own belongings; the other is from a … Continue reading
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5 questions on whether medical care is needed
Wendy Levinson, MD, a professor from the University of Toronto, lectured at Upstate in late 2019 about a global initiative to reduce unnecessary medical care. She says up to 30 percent of tests and procedures do not help patients and … Continue reading
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Chaplain donates a kidney to a dying refugee
BY JIM HOWE It was a note in a church bulletin that led an Upstate chaplain to donate one of her kidneys to a Bhutanese refugee. The Rev. Susan Joy Huizenga, the palliative care chaplain at Upstate since August … Continue reading
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On a mission to help: Doctor’s intensive-care skills help poor children with heart trouble in Peru
BY JIM HOWE A career spent caring for very sick children, plus some mechanical ingenuity, helped I. Federico Fernández Nievas, MD, when he accompanied a medical charity team to Peru. He joined about two dozen other medical professionals from around … Continue reading
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Tagged medical mission, medical mission trip, pediatric intensive care, pediatric intensivist, Peru
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Scientist walks political tightrope: He deals with Taliban to help his native land rebuild
BY JIM HOWE An Upstate faculty member who lost his mother as a baby and grew up in a refugee camp hopes he can help his war-scarred homeland, Afghanistan. To do this, he has secured the permission of the local … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghan charities, Afghan education projects, Afghan NGOs, Afghan nonprofits, Afghanistan, Afghanistan charities, Afghanistan education projects, Afghanistan nonprofits, Afghanistan school projects
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10 days in Ghana: Upstate volunteers help build community in Africa
BY SUSAN KEETER Near the end of an 11-hour flight from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, we finally see Ghana out the plane’s windows: saffron-colored earth and lush green foliage dotted with bright blue and pastel pink buildings. … Continue reading
Posted in adolescents, Alzheimer's/dementia, community, health care, HealthLink on Air, international health care, nursing, prevention/preventive medicine, public health, women's health/gynecology
Tagged Americans Serving Abroad Programs (ASAP), Ghana, Ghana medical mission, reusable menstrual kits, Sem Fronteiras
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Rolling iPads and sign language are part of her job
BY JIM HOWE A desire to communicate with a deaf acquaintance led Sue Freeman from her old job in the insurance business to a new career. Now, as manager of interpreting services at Upstate, she not only communicates with … Continue reading
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Tagged American sign language, ASL for patients, ASL translation, deaf patients, interpreters on wheels, medical interpretive services, medical translation, signing for the deaf
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She provided care in Ghana
Brandy Baillargeon of Watertown, a family psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, traveled to Ghana through Upstate nurse Lauri Rupracht’s Americans Serving Abroad Project. She was touched by the gratitude of those she helped in several villages during the eight-day … Continue reading
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From Elbridge to Ethiopia, with an Upstate nurse
BY AMBER SMITH Brooke Fraser, a 20-year veteran nurse from Elbridge who works in the Upstate Golisano Children’s Hospital, saves her days off for mission trips to countries in need. Last summer she travelled to Ethiopia and spent two weeks … Continue reading
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