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• 2010-08-01. Flights of Hope(pdf). Twenty hours after the devastating earthquake on January 12, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Dr. Barth Green landed in Haiti with Leo Harris, P.A. and three other trauma specialists to begin saving survivors.
• 2010-07-29. Dr. Barth Green addresses the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Project Medishare president and co-founder, Dr. Barth Green,
  testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 29, 2010 regarding a hearing on “The Crisis in Haiti: Are We Moving Fast Enough?”
• 2010-07-12. First Steps: Haiti Six Months After the Quake . Tonic features Project Medishare’s Wilfred Macena who came us as an amputee patient. Within a day of being fitted, Wilfred not only walked, but also kicked around a soccer ball. Wilfred not only received a new leg, but also a position with Project Medishare as a prosthetic technician in training allowing him to help train other Haitians who lost their limbs take their first steps towards recovery. Project Medishare continues to save lives months after the disaster, and has recently moved the field hospital to a permanent structure.
• 2010-04-04. University of Miami team sending new legs for Haiti quake amputees . Weeks after the earthquake Project Medishare purchased 500 artificial legs to help people like Violette. University of Miami’s Dr. Robert Gailey and prosthetist Adam Finnieston flew to Port-au-Prince with some of the prosthetic legs to begin fitting amputee patients. The two plan to eventually test the Finnieston’s company’s BioSculptor system which uses technology with a portable scanner to transmit 3-D images of residual limbs to the prosthetic factory in Hialeah, Fla. to create custom-fit sockets for them.The plan is to eventually teach the system to Haitian prosthetic technicians.
• 2010-04-01. Catholic church in Little Haiti to host free concert. Connecting Families: Project Medishare and the University of Miami Global Institute organized a free outdoor concert in the at Notre Dame D’Haiti Catholic Church’s backyard in Little Haiti. The event was sponsored by the Miami Dolphins/SunLife Stadium Haiti Relief Fund and also allowed families in Miami and Haiti to schedule times to use a videoconferencing system provided by Cisco Telepresence.
• 2010-03-31. Sovern Nation: The Blog-Three Days Can Change Your Life . KCBS’ Doug Sovern went to Haiti with a group of San Francisco Bay Area volunteers providing medical assistance to quake victims still suffering from injuries sustained after the disaster.
• 2010-02-19. Forgotten Harvest to deliver cash and donations for Haiti relief in March. Forgotten Harvest staff and board members plan to fly to Haiti March 17 to hand-deliver the last of the $1 million in cash and supplies it collected to aid in relief efforts. They will deliver in-kind donations to Project Medishare and Cross International.
• 2010-02-19. Local 4 Detroit Helps Haiti. Local 4, along with WJR and The Detroit Free Press are proud to team up with Forgotten Harvest, a Michigan-based food bank dedicated to collecting food for the needy, Cross International and Project Medishare.
• 2010-02-17. Berto shares pain, hope from Haiti. After the earthquake, Andre Berto and his older brother, Cleveland, traveled to Port-au-Prince to do what they could to help. They teamed with Project Medishare’s Dr. Barth Green to assist with medical assistance. Now Berto is back in the United States and continues to raise money for relief.
• 2010-02-15. Mourning named NBA Legend of the Year. Friend of Project Medishare, Alonzo Mourning received NBA’s Legend of the Year for his work in Hait with Project Medishare.
• 2010-02-09. Haitian man pulled from rubble 27 days after earthquake. Evans Monsigrace was found by villagers who were rummaging through the ruins of a marketplace when they found him buried underneath. He arrived at the Project Medishare and UM Global Institute Hospital where he was treated and recovered from his injuries.
• 2010-02-02. Project Medishare featured as GoodSearch’s Charity of the Day. Project Medishare was featured as GoodSearch.com’s charity of the day on Februrary 2, 2010.
• 2010-01-29. Emory medical students hold fundraiser to get to Haiti. Atlanta’s Emory University School of Medicine teamed up with Whiskey Park at the W Hotel in midtown Atlanta to host a fundraiser for earthquake victims of Haiti.
• 2010-01-29. I can’t wait to return to Haiti. Richard P. Usatine talks about his previous experiences with Project Medishare working with doctors and medical students from the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio.
• 2010-01-25. Queen Latifa & Diddy To Host BET’s ‘S.O.S Saving OurSelves: Help for Haiti’ Telethon. The program aired on BET and Centric, as well as MTV and VH1, on Friday, February 5, at 8 p.m. ET. The proceeds benefit Haiti relief organizations including Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti, CARE, and Project Medishare.
• 2010-01-24. Compassionate South Floridians help Haiti. Helping Hands gave $500,000 in grants to four agencies: World Vision, Food for the Poor, the Pan American Development Foundation, and the Project Medishare for Haiti.
• 2010-01-24. Out of the rubble, a miracle named Karen. A story in the Miami-Herald written by Project Medishare Co-Founder Dr. Arthur Fournier telling how he and his team saved a little girl near death and suspected to be an orphan. “In the meantime, we’ve named the baby Karen Patricia Jean. You already know the Karen and Patricia part, but why Jean? We want her always to know she’s Haitian.”

• 2010-01-23. Duke Athletics Raise Awareness for Haiti Relief.Duke Athletics joined a Project Medishare’s national fundraising effort titled “Save Haiti Saturday” to aid in the nation’s earthquake recovery efforts. Beginning with Duke’s men’s basketball contest at Clemson, the 15 Duke teams currently in competition will display “Save Haiti Saturday” patches in the upcoming weeks to maintain high awareness for the relief effort in Haiti. All money raised through Duke University’s “Save Haiti Saturday” efforts got toward Project Medishare’s earthquake relief fund.
• 2010-01-22. “Swipe” for Haiti raises over $6,000 in donations. Gworld card holders swiped their cards to donate to Haiti disaster relief, as part of George Washington University and the Caribbean Student Association’s university-wide initiative “GW Hands For Haiti.” At the end of the day, $6,324.70 was raised to be donated equally between The American Red Cross and Project Medishare, an independent non-profit organization that is providing health care to the Haitian people.
• 2010-01-21. Dave Barry: Email From Haiti. Humor columnist posted an email sent to a friend of his by a young American doctor from Miami who’s involved in the relief effort in Haiti with Project Medishare.
• 2010-01-20. Dalembert, Mourning help deliver Haitian orphans to U.S. As part of the Project Medishare relief group, Dalembert and Mourning helped deliver the orphans to their new parents.
• 2010-01-19. In Haiti, Project Medishare and IsraAID Doing Best Work On the Ground. I spent most of my time in makeshift tent hospitals. The University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Project Medishare, which had the largest tent hospital, followed by the Israeli Military tent hospital – IsraAID. Both are doing remarkable work and saving hundreds of lives a day. They each are doing a plethora of amputations of septic crushed limbs.
• 2010-01-19. San Antonio company sending two million dollars in medical supplies to Haiti. Kinetic Concepts, Inc. has sent two million dollars worth of medical supplies to the earthquake zone, and more help in on the way. KCI is partnering with doctors through the organizations of Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) and Project Medishare.
• 2010-01-19. Sixers’ Dalembert goes to Haiti with aid group. Philadelphia 76ers center Samuel Dalembert is going to his native Haiti with the aid group Project Medishare to assist with the earthquake relief effort.
• 2010-01-19. Belle Glade doctor and his Haitian wife return to island nation to help. Dr. Dan Kairys, a surgeon at Lakeside Medical Center in Belle Glade, and his wife Junia Kairys, a physician’s assistant, are working at the Project Medishare Triage Center at the United Nations compound at the airport in Port-au-Prince.

• 2010-01-18. Carnival Corporation & plc and its Cruise Brands Donate $5 Million Toward Haiti Relief Efforts. Carnival Corporation & plc’s donation has been earmarked for the following relief organizations: UNICEF, the University of Miami’s Project Medishare, American Red Cross, and Save the Children.
• 2010-01-18. Florida Governer Crist Hosts Haitian Relief Fundraiser during Super Bowl week.The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation announced it will donate half of the proceeds from its upcoming fund-raising event to Project Medishare’s Haitian Relief Effort.
• 2010-01-18. Miami’s Dr. Green lends key expertise to medical mission. Project Medishare co-founder, Dr. Barth Green who is also a UM Neurosurgeon may have been one of the first foreign doctors to reach Haiti after the earthquake.
• 2010-01-17, NBA Legend Alonzo Mourning Returns from Haiti wtih Project Medishare. Mourning traveled with a team of Project Medishare doctors to offer assistance to Haitian victims of the earthquake.
• 2010-01-17, UM Doctors Hit the Ground Serving in Haiti with Project Medishare. The UM doctors were uniquely suited to mobilize after the earthqake. Their leader in Port-au-Prince, Dr. Barth Green, co-founded Project Medishare, a health services and infrastructure initiative in communities throughout the central plateau of Haiti, including a physicians training program. Project Medishare had staff already in the country, contacts in the capital, and what fellow co-founder Dr. Arthur Fournier called a “moral imperative” to respond.
• 2010-01-17, Mentor doctor plans to help in Haiti. Dr. Paul Vanek was watching the 11 p.m. news Friday after the January 12 earthquake. After hearing about an 11-year-old Haitian girl who died after becoming trapped during Tuesday’s earthquake, he blogged and emailed and found a response from Project Medishare who had been on the ground in Haiti since the morning of January 13.
  
• 2009-03-16, Haiti’s maternal mortality rate soars. Haiti’s poor suffers the highest maternal mortality ratio in the Western Hemisphere.
• 2009-03-12, A ray of hope in the fight against AIDS, Prevention and care are considered factors in why Haiti’s HIV/AIDS rate is decreasing.
  
• 2008-12-22, Can do compasion in Haiti, Emory medical students learn to move easily among the most sophisticated technology and testing.
  
• 2007-02-07, College Kids Learn Real World Lessons of Sustainability in Haiti, Rotaract Club of the University of Miami speaks about how Project Medishare’s Akamil Nutrition Facility will combat malnutrition in an environmentally friendly way.
• 2006-06-21, Film Screening of Once There Was a Country: Revisiting Haiti. The Green Family Foundation, Project Medishare and the Kaiser Family Foundation host this film screening and panel discussion on ‘Once There Was a Country: Revisiting Haiti.’ Narrated by former U.S. poet laureate Dr. Maya Angelou and Guy Johnson, the film examines the causes of the present health care crisis in Haiti and provides examples of how innovative programs can alleviate poverty and disease in the country’s most isolated regions.
• 2006-05-16, Zombie Curse: A Doctor’s 25-year Journey into the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic in Haiti. Fournier sends out a cry from the front lines about the overwhelming role poverty plays in the spread of AIDS. His awakening came in the early 1980s when, as a faculty physician at the University of Miami Medical School, he saw AIDS spreading through the city’s Haitian population.
• 2006-02-09, Students to Assist in Haitian Medical Crisis. Florida State University sophomore Jorge Pedraza and several other students held a benefit for Project Medishare. Although raising funds was a goal, the event was about education.
• 2005-07-11, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MEDICAL STUDENT AWARDED Tod Gassen International Fellowship. Christopher Dy, University of Miami medical student was awarded a fellowship for his work in Haiti with Project Medishare. Chris traveled to Haiti two times with Project Medishare and was involved in providing primary care and specialty surgical procedures to people living in the Central Plateau.
• 2005-02-15, Local film chronicles Haiti’s healthcare crisis. A Miami Beach philanthropist’s documentary examines the medical crisis in Haiti. Despite the grim statistics, the film argues there is a ray of hope.
  
• 2005-01-04, The Longest House Call. In the mountains of Haiti, there are few distinct villages. The people live in homes constructed of thatched and woven palm fronds, spread throughout the countryside and connected by footpaths.
  
• 2004-11-30, Let’s rebuild health services in Haiti. Welcome to a world of contradictions. Welcome to Thomonde, Haiti
  
• 2004-09-27, Red Cross aims to help Haitians locate family. Project Medishare teams up with the Green Family Foundation, The Red Cross, and The Center for Haitian Studies, to support relief efforts in Haiti.
  
• 2004-09-22, Newsclip. Recently there was a piece on the NBC6 5:30PM news about our June trip to Haiti. You can view the clip online in RealPlayer format at: www.umsis.miami.edu/~cdy/Medishare.rm
  
• 2004-08-04, U.S.-Haitian project rescues town. ‘We are not medical missionaries. We are committed to sustained medical care assumed by Haitians themselves,’ said Medishare’s other co-founder, Dr. Barth Green, another University of Miami medical professor.
  
• 2004-06-29, Healing hands in Haiti: With the nation’s economy in shambles, a medical mission from Miami brings critical care. Here in the Central Plateau, balanced diets are as rare as electricity, indoor plumbing and paved roads.
  
• 2004-05-24, What Haiti Teaches: Starving children don’t respond to military firepower. Only one dusty track leads from Port-au-Prince through the mountains to the town of Thomonde and its outlying villages, which together have a population of about 35,000. That ‘road’ is so rough and strewn with so many sharp rocks that flat tires are inevitable. But at least vehicles can traverse it. The villages outside of Thomonde are accessible only by foot, horse, or motorcycle. To get basic healthcare information and services out there, Medishare trains some of the villagers to detect signs and symptoms of sicknesses such as malnourishment and dehydration. These workers are also trained to dispense desperately needed vaccinations against tuberculosis, diphtheria, polio, and measles.