Cardiac Consultation in Milot
Dr. Russell Cross is an attending in the divisions of Cardiology, Telemedicine, Cardiac Imaging, the Fetal Medicine Institute, and Children’s National Heart Institute. He currently serves as the Director of Cardiac MRI, and has been at Children’s National for over twenty years. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Cross travelled to Milot, in the […]
Mobile Clinics in Central Haiti
Dr. Jeremy Kern is a co-leader of the George Washington University School of Medicine – Project Medishare in Haiti following seven years of involvement with the organization. The project is located in central Haiti and is focused on providing primary care and improving medical access through mobile clinics that decrease patient travel time from potentially […]
Consultation for Improved Pediatric Imaging
Dr. Dorothy Bulas has planned several clinical and education missions to Haiti. Attending one of these trips, Dr. Bulas was able to provide consultation to the local providers on the potential improvement of their radiological equipment and treatment systems. Filling a similar role on trips to Eritrea, Dr. Bulas travelled through a grant from Children’s […]
Mental Health in Williamson
Dr. Laura Willing routinely travels to an orphanage in Williamson, Haiti through Mount Sinai. There, she works on providing psychiatric training for teachers and caretakers as well as clinical care for the children in the orphanage and partner school. Currently, she fills a consultory role, working with the local providers through telemedicine to diagnose and […]
Primary Care in the Central Plateau
Dr. Kristen Breslin has travelled to Haiti several times through a partnership between George Washington University’s International Medical Office and Project Medishare. A team of providers and students organized by GWU travels to the central plateau region in Haiti annually, setting up mobile clinics in the most rural areas which receive hardly any medical care. […]
Children’s National Residents participating in the Global Health Pathway travel to Milot, Haiti with CNH and GWU providers and educators as part of their international electives.