This award recognizes one who demonstrates care and concern for cultural diverse communities and who gives selflessly of time and resources for their benefit. Pam Franks, RN BSN, began serious cross-cultural endeavors when she and her husband moved to Guatemala. During their five-year residency, she helped lead the medical care of a large Christian […]
This award recognizes those who have made significant leadership contributions to bridging cultural gaps in healthcare services and have set an example for other leaders to emulate. Greg Seager, RN MSN, and his wife, Candi, first became involved in cross-cultural healthcare when invited by their home church. Moving up quickly in leadership, they were
China’s medical system was built around care by subspecialists: cardiologists managing hypertension, endocrinologists overseeing diabetes mellitus, gastroenterologist treating GERD. Like the United States in the 1970s and 80s, China’s policy makers today recognize the profound inefficiencies of this organ-system approach to medicine. While a small percentage of patients do indeed need the expertise of
This award was established by the INMED Board of Directors to recognize people who demonstrate care and concern for those in need, who give selflessly of their time and resources, and who inspire others to take similar action. Compassion is at the center of Lawand Talal’s professional life. This American-trained Kurdish attorney abandoned a lucrative
This award recognizes individuals and organizations who that provide exemplary disaster response services for highly vulnerable communities. In doing so, they accentuate the value of life and provide an exemplary model for us all. On the morning of October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew slammed into Haiti with winds of 145 miles per hour –
The INMED International Healthcare Preceptor Award is offered to an individual who has made an important impact in training of the next generation of international medical volunteers. Through their instruction and their role modeling, the award winners listed below have demonstrated that indeed every life matters. Vicki Hicks, RN MSN, entered international service via
Many health care professionals within their own nations are sacrificing personal comfort in order to care for their neglected neighbors. The award winners listed below are role models in providing health care for their own people. The 2017 INMED National Healthcare Service Award Recipient is Juli McGowan Boit. Juli lives a life of international
“We Kurds are a persecuted people, condemned for centuries by foreign lords,” proclaims Iraqi Kurdish attorney Lawand Talal. “So when Syrians fleeing utter terror from ISIS arrive at our borders how can we not but respond with compassion? We know exactly their plight,” explained Lawand to me on location last year in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Today I’m writing from Thailand, where humanitarian health leaders from all over Asia gathered for analysis and re-equipping. Included among the participants are several INMED graduates engaged in healthcare on this continent, including Timothy Stephens. Dr. Stephens was part of INMED’s very first graduating class: 2004-05. And since then? Beyond mastering Mandarin and
“I like giving patients medicine that will help them. I like draining pleural effusions, seeing the fluid run out, and people breathing easier again. I like setting broken bones. I like delivering healthy babies. I do not like problems I can’t solve. I hate suffering that medicine won’t fix,” says Rebekah Rose, INMED International