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Town Hall to Discuss Haiti Tragedy
- Ramon Cestero, left, and Henri Ford on Feb. 3 discuss their experiences treating earthquake victims in Haiti.
- Photo/Jon Nalick
By Leslie Ridgeway on February 8, 2010 8:14 AM
All USC faculty, staff and students are invited to a town hall meeting intended to explore how the USC community can help restore and rebuild Haiti.
“USC’s Response to the Tragedy in Haiti” will take place Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Salvatori Computer Science Center, Room 101, Auditorium on the University Park campus. The event is sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Institute for Global Health.
The event will include presentations from members of the USC/L.A. County Haiti Medical Aid Team, which spent two weeks in and around Port-au-Prince, providing surgical and medical care to hundreds of Haitians injured in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Henri Ford, vice dean of medical education for the Keck School and chief of surgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, and Ramon Cestero, Keck School fellow and trauma surgeon at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center, will discuss the team’s experiences. The team was among the first medical personnel to arrive in Haiti.
“There will be opportunities for the Keck School and the entire Trojan family to really play a pivotal role in the building of a ‘new’ Haiti,” said Ford, a native Haitian, during a well-attended town hall meeting that took place on the USC Health Sciences campus on Feb. 3.
Following the presentations, Keck School dean Carmen A. Puliafito will moderate a discussion about how USC can offer continued support to the Caribbean nation. After the town hall, attendees will have an opportunity to donate to Haiti relief efforts. A reception will follow.
For information, go to the USC/L.A. County Haiti Medical Aid Team blog at http://www.usc.edu/schools/medicine/haiti_blog/ or call (323) 442-2830.
TAGS: medicine
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