October 4, 2010 - 6:39am
By Dr. Christina Gagliardo, now a pediatric infectious disease fellow at Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical CenterDr. Gagliardo and a new friend at Weill Bugando 1/29/10 through 3/14/10, Weill Bugando Medical Center, Mwanza, Tanzania Having done some work in... Read More
October 3, 2010 - 7:40am
Mr. Shaibu Hussen, 40, from Kigoma Msimba, was attacked by a crocodile on May 2nd, 2010. Mr. Hussen is a farmer who grows tomatoes and other vegetables. He lives in Msimba but goes to Mgumili village where his farmland is.
On that day, Mr. Hussen was next to his farmland fishing in Lake Tanganyika.... Read More
October 1, 2010 - 8:06am
Dr. Jean Pape, founder and director of GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, received a Clinton Global Citizen Award from former President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in New York City on Thursday, Sept 23.
Dr. Pape, honored for his leadership... Read More
September 20, 2010 - 1:26pm
November 3, 2010 at 4pm in Uris AuditoriumPanel on WCMC/NYP Response to Haiti Earthquake Perspectives from:Patrice Severe, MD, senior physician, GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, HaitiSatchit Balsari, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine at NYPDebra Tupé, PhD, MPH, MS, OTR/L, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy... Read More
September 15, 2010 - 7:21am
September 18, 2009President John Kufuor Former President of Ghana (2001-2009); Global Ambassador against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme
October 12, 2009Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH Medical Director, Partners In Health Director; Institute for Health and Social Justice Assistant Professor of Medicine,... Read More
August 24, 2010 - 10:23am
by Charles Vorkas
Charles (MD'11) is a Fogarty Scholar working with the University of North Carolina in Lilongwe, Malawi
Dr. Dumbani Kayira and Charles Kyriakos Vorkas standing in front of the Bwaila In-patient TB Ward where they study HIV/TB and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
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July 12, 2010 - 4:27pm
Within 24 hours of the Haiti earthquake, GHESKIO was providing care to its established cohort of HIV patients, and emergency services to earthquake victims. Weill Cornell Medical College has been affiliated with GHESKIO for thirty years. Weill Cornell has received donations in support of GHESKIO from... Read More
January 28, 2010 - 6:37am
by Katharine Boyle Last summer I spent two months in Haiti working at GHESKIO, an HIV clinic, located in Port-au-Prince. I was interested in working at GHESKIO because it is a locally-run clinic, and its doctors have helped forge a path for providing HIV care in Haiti and other developing countries. ... Read More
October 9, 2009 - 7:31am
by Cora Walsh
Cora and the pediatric nutrition team
Following my first year of medical school, I had the opportunity to spend the summer in Port au Prince, Haiti at the GHESKIO center for clinical care and research in HIV/AIDS and related diseases. Through clinical rotations I was able to learn from... Read More
September 8, 2009 - 8:22am
by Carlo Canepa
Carlo leads a training session on solar-powered head lamps
Liberia: it's hard to know what to expect. A few ideas come to mind: bucket showers, friendly faces, a rich culture, and crippling poverty exacerbated by civil war. But what do I, a first year medical student, know beyond that... Read More
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