Photo courtesy of World Health Student Organization.
The World Health Student Organization's fifth annual Health for the Holidays fundraiser will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Wayne State University Student Center Ballroom, located at 5221 Gullen Mall in Detroit.
All proceeds will go toward purchasing medications and medical supplies for the Wayne State University School of Medicine-based WHSO teams that provide medical relief during aid trips in Haiti, Nicaragua and Ecuador. Profits will be split among the trips. For trip dates and information, visit http://waynewhso.org.
The event will include dinner, live music, a silent auction and guest speakers who will share their global health experiences and insight, including anesthesiologist Jamey Snell, M.D., and Run Haiti co-founder Kyle Martin, D.O.
WHSO is an all-volunteer, non-profit, student-run organization comprised of WSU medical students whose mission is to gain medical and cultural experiences outside their immediate communities. Goals include providing free medical care to underserved populations in remote regions of the world, volunteering at community outreach projects that serve Detroit residents, and teaching fellow students about global health through lectures and seminars. First- and second-year students on overseas missions are accompanied by at least one senior medical student, two physicians, a pharmacist and others.
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Dr. Snell is a Harvard Medical School graduate who completed his residency at New York University, where he was chief resident of Anesthesiology. He completed a fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, where he also served as a staff anesthesiologist. He recently accepted a position at the Detroit Medical Center, and also is an instructor of Anesthesiology at Harvard. Dr. Snell has extensive global health experience working in Rwanda, and has taught Anesthesiology as part of a medical mission in Ethiopia.
Dr. Martin received a bachelor of arts and master's in Public Health from Michigan State University. He earned his medical degree from MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine program. He is an Emergency Medicine resident at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. Throughout his career, Dr. Martin has been heavily involved with global health initiatives. He is the co-founder of Run Haiti and was the Haiti country director for Humanity First USA. He also served as director of Community Health and Statistics for Cloud Forest Medical Clinic in Haiti. Dr. Martin has participated in several of WHSO's trips to Haiti.