St Luke Foundation (Haiti) Memorial Day Fundraiser

I and many of my colleagues at the University of Maryland have forged deep connections with St. Luke's Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, over several years through many collaborative clinical research and medical educational efforts with the Haitian physicians there.

Our US-Haitian medical team's persistent work has yielded not only many direct benefits for the St. Luke's patients but also for many similar resource-constrained environments around the globe that have learned from our collaborative successes.  A few of those are listed below:

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28402924

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27837690

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25956595

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27287579

-http://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJAnes_2014021116583870.pdf

In fact, the St. Luke's physicians have led a collaborative effort among multiple groups (e.g., University of Maryland, Mayo Clinic, University of Notre Dame) to establish the first acute care conference in the country's history (http://www.stlukehaiti.org/blog/2017/3/23/new-st-lukes-hospital-to-host-international-training-conference).

We hope this event will raise awareness and  provide support to our friends in Haiti.   All profits will go to specific medical research and education efforts at St. Luke's, which will be on display at the Memorial Day gathering, in order to learn how to most effectively and cost-efficiently care for the critically ill in resource-constrained settings.  Some existing and upcoming projects include:  conducting the first comprehensive nationwide survey of existing resources within Haitian hospitals, establishing a cloud-based ICU patient database, sending two St. Luke's physicians to a conference focused on performing clinical research in resource-limited countries, growing our new global health volunteerism website (global.care.project.com), expanding available specialty-specific medical conferences for local clinicians in Haiti, establishing a formal "tele-ICU" connection between University of Maryland and St. Luke's Hospital, and many others!