Volunteer Spotlight: Gail Grigsby
March 11, 2010
Name: Gail Grigsby...
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MedTeam Mission: Operation Haiti
March 11, 2010Armed with 400 lbs of medical supplies from MedShare, an Atlanta medical team spent a week in Haiti performing close to 40 surgeries on earthquake victims. The team was led by plastic surgeon, Dr. Alan Larsen, and with him were an orthopedic surgeon and three nurses. At this stage in the relief...
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Making a Difference in Ecuador the MedShare Way
March 11, 2010“When our travels began in Ecuador, I began to question whether the country needed the help we sent. However, as we began to visit hospitals, I saw another picture,” said Josh Kravitz, Programs Director for MedShare...
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Meet Tatiana Jean-Louis from Haiti
February 04, 2010Meet Tatiana from Haiti. She's been steadily volunteering at MedShare since the earthquake. She's an inspiring woman dedicated to helping her fellow Haitians.
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MedShare CEO, A.B. Short's Stories from Haiti
February 04, 2010When the news broke that a 7.0 earthquake had rocked Haiti, there was no question that MedShare would respond. Traditionally, we are not an emergency response organization, but over the past 10 years, we’ve shipped 37 containers of medical supplies and equipment to Haiti, and had established...
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2009: A Milestone Year for MedShare
January 05, 2010Another year has passed, but 2009 was not just another year for MedShare. It also marked 10 years of MedShare bridging the gap between surplus and need. TEN years of recovering surplus medical materials from hospitals and medical supply companies, thus saving them from being sent to landfills.
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Physical Therapist brings healing to Nicaragua
January 05, 2010My name is Becca Halperin, and I recently returned from a trip to Nicaragua where I worked as a physical therapist in a small town called San Ramon in a community of the same name. I spent 2 days a week treating children in a pediatric “clinic” where children came to receive therapy in the Los...
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Conor Flannery's Cause to Paddle
January 05, 2010Meet Conor Flannery of CausetoPaddle.org. He’s a 29-year-old medical device design engineer for a cardiovascular company in Los Angeles where he designs life-saving products for pacemaker and cardiac arrhythmia patients. But Conor is not only a biomedical engineer. He is also a kayaker embarking...
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MedShare Celebrates 500th Shipment of Medical Supplies and Equipment
December 01, 2009After 10 years of bridging the gap between surplus and need through the recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies and equipment to those in need, we celebrated our 500th forty-foot container shipment of medical aid abroad. The shipment bound for the Santa Rosa Maternity Hospital in...
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MedTeam Mission: Emory Health Against Human Trafficking
December 01, 2009Earlier this year some first-year Emory medical students were moved to action after hearing a presentation on human trafficking. They were inspired to use their medical knowledge to aid in the fight against this worldwide issue and they formed a group called “Emory Health Against Human...
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