Careers in Global Health tomorrow - David Green and Larry Cai
Michelle Rose Meyer
Tomorrow's lunchtime talk will feature two MS2s (taking a break from studying for Step 1 - thank you, guys!) who have done some great work abroad! See below for more information about Larry Cai and David Green.
S-214, 12-1 PM. No burritos this week - but they'll be back next week for the last session.
See you there!
Cheers,
Michelle, Jay, Jenn
Larry Cai and David Green
Larry Cai: David a UCSF MD/PhD student, currently in the second year of medical school. He went to college at UC Berkeley. While he was there, he took an interest in global health. During winter break in 2009, he decided to volunteer abroad with Unite For Sight, working at Kalinga Eye Hospital in rural areas of Orissa, India. There, he screened patients in outreach events and worked with nurses and eye doctors in the hospital. Unite For Sight is an organization committed to delivering effective, affordable, and sustainable eye care services to by providing equipment, supplies, funding, and volunteers (from college students to ophthalmologists) to healthcare organizations in developing countries.
David Green: David is currently an MS2 here at UCSF. He grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin and did his undergrad work in Biopsychology (and Spanish) at UC Santa Barbara and graduated in 2006. He spent several years living, working, volunteering, and traveling in South America during and after my undergrad studies. Global health is a big area of interest for him (as is ophthalmology), and so he decided to spend a month in Ghana with Unite for Sight last Summer. He spent most of his time working with patients in the field (in rural and urban communities) and also did some shadowing and volunteering at the various eye clinics affiliated with U.F.S in Accra and Kumasi, Ghana. The groups he worked with during the month screened approximately 2000 Ghanians, many of whom received low cost medication, glasses and sight restoring surgeries free of charge.