Volunteer/Non-Profit - Florida Newsmakers of the Year
• BARTH GREEN
University of Miami Neurosurgeon
Dr. Barth A. Green and his University of Miami team arrived in Haiti within a day of the earthquake and began working to assist the injured. They treated more than 400 in the first three days. [Photo: University of Miami] |
First to Haiti
[Photo: University of Miami] |
"We began doing surgical amputations on a converted kitchen table outside the tent with the very crudest of resources," Green says.
Among the first foreign doctors to arrive after the earthquake, Green's team included Dr. Enrique Ginzburg, Dr. Edgar Pierre and Dr. Daniel Pust, all colleagues of Green at UM's Miller School of Medicine. The group included Leo Harris, a neurotrauma physician assistant at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Green was able to get his team to Haiti so quickly and elude the red tape that delayed others because he had been leading missions to Haiti as co-founder of Project Medishare since 1994. Project Medishare also has medical facilities in place in Haiti, including some that were damaged during the earthquake.
[Photo: University of Miami] |
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