Critical care recovery nurse Janet Shanley tickles Lise Marielle to get her to smile. Today will be Lise's second surgery by Dr. Sam McDonald who will repair Lise's palate. Photos by Jennifer Browning. By Jennifer Browning Port-au-Prince, HAITI--Taking the bumpy, winding road up to the Partner's...
Read MoreJeff St. Elois, 8, looks into a mirror for the first time since his surgery yesterday. A grant provided by The Smile Train to the University of Miami Department of Plastic Surgery made this week's cleft surgeries like St. Elois' possible. Photos by Jennifer...
Read MoreDoctors working with Project Medishare begin marking Clevil Nesilomme for his cleft lip surgery. Nesilomme said that many times when he notices people looking in his direction he covers his mouth to hide his cleft lip. He hopes that this surgery will help him look...
Read MoreSecond year resident Ying Zhuge and fourth-year medical student Reagan Ross stop by to check on Junior Viciere. Viciere was one of the first children to have cleft palette surgery during the week. Photo by Jennifer Browning. By Jennifer Browning Port-au-Prince, HAITI--Project Medishare is back in Haiti...
Read MoreBy Jennifer Browning Thomonde, HAITI--While the surgical team is working at Saint Bernard Mevs in Port-au-Prince, Morehouse School of Medicine along with George Washington University School of Medicine and School of Public Health is up in Haiti's central plateau working with Project Medishare's Haitian team. Morehouse...
Read MoreKimberly Green of the Green Family Foundation is currently featured on The Huffington Post in response to the recent "mud cookie" article by AP reporter, Jonathan Katz about malnutrition and hunger in Haiti. Kimberly has been an advocate for the people of Haiti since she...
Read MoreWhether it is a surgical trip in Port-au-Prince or the Bacom Palmer Eye Institute working in Marmont in the Central Plateau, Project Medishare documents its medical trips with its partnering universities not only here on the Project Medishare blog, but photographically on Flickr. Check out the...
Read MoreA recent Associated Press article alarmed many as they read about Charlene Dumas eating mud patties in Cite Soliel, one of Haiti's worst slums. Project Medishare for Haiti has been working to combat childhood malnutrition and related diseases in Haiti, still the poorest country in the...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler Thomonde, HAITI--Tonight officially marks the closure of our trip. Tomorrow will be our last day in the field. Today brought yet another highlight for all of us. A little more than a year ago, Zami Lasante (Partner’s in Health), opened...
Read MoreBy Julie Megler Thomonde, Haiti--The seventh evening of our adventure and we're indulging in our nightly ritual of counting pills as we listen to music off of Gaby's Ipod. There are thousands of them by the bottle. The whole process is meditatively monotonous, and...
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