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
June 6, 2009 - 4:00pm
by Erica Miller
Cornell University student Erin Byrt ('09) (left) and WCMC student Erica Miller ('11) (right) at Weill Bugando
I had the tremendous opportunity to study at the Weill Bugando Medical Center and Bugando University School of Health Sciences in Mwanza, Tanzania during the summer between my... Read More
June 6, 2009 - 4:00pm
by Erin McClellanIn the summer of 2008, Mallory Delehanty and I spent six weeks working at Fundacion Tierra Nueva health clinic in south Quito, Ecuador. The clinic was founded by a Catholic, Italian Priest in 1970 and offers primary care and specialty care at low cost. It primarily serves the working... Read More
June 6, 2009 - 4:00pm
Monica Prieto, a second-year medical student at WCMC, participated in a pediatrics project at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in Mwanza, Tanzania during the summer of 2008. Monica's general interests lie in pediatrics, community medicine, and minority health. After a memorable college internship at a... Read More
June 6, 2009 - 4:00pm
by Lisa KingI met my first pediatric AIDS patient today. She’s in the bed by the window wearing a red jacket, and that’s not her mother sitting on the foot of her bed, that’s a woman from the orphanage where she lives. Her smile charms me instantly- melts me to the core really. I flip through her chart... Read More
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