Developing Emergency Services in Haiti is Focus of July 24 Grand Rounds.

Please join the Department of Emergency Medicine for a Public and Global Health Grand Rounds on Tuesday July 24th at 11 AM in the Dowling 1 Auditorium

Speaker: Dr. Regan Marsh, Partners in Health, Director of Emergency Services, Mirebelais National Teaching Hospital, Mirebelais Haiti

Developing Emergency Services at the New Mirebelais National Teaching Hospital in Haiti

 As the nation of Haiti struggles to recover from the devastating earthquake that rocked the nation in January 2010 it has determined to, in the words of former US President and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, “build back better.” Part of that effort is the development of a new national teaching hospital at Mirebelais.

Centrally located in the high central Haitian plateau, the new teaching hospital will provide world-class medical services to the nation and much needed tertiary care to the majority of Haitians who live outside the countries main cities. The teaching hospital is being built in cooperation with international partners including teaching hospitals from around the US and the world, as well as NGOs. The effort is being coordinated by the renowned Boston-based health NGO, Partners in Health, which has over 20 years history partnering in Haiti through it’s Haitian affiliate Zanmi Lasante. Come hear about the challenges and opportunities they face as they work to build this remarkable new center.

About the speaker: Regan Marsh, MD, MPH graduated from Princeton University in 1999 and then received her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her emergency medicine training at the Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, where she was chief resident. After finishing residency, she moved to rural Malawi to work for Partners In Health (PIH), developing emergency care services and a women’s health program. She returned home to Boston in 2009 to complete a Master in Public in Global Health and Population and works clinically at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA. Currently, she works half-time in Haiti, where she is a member of PIH’s leadership team preparing to open l’Hôpital Universitaire Mirebalais, a state-of-the-art referral hospital, and the lead for emergency medicine development and capacity building.