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Medicine

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• January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Medicine  Monday, October 12, 2009 - 5:36 pm [25]

• November 5, 2004: Headlines: Medicine: Obstetrics: Gynecology: OC Metro: Vivian M. Dickerson MD, professor and president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, says “As a response to the horrible stuff that went on in the Vietnam war, I joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Africa. I started working with women, many of whom were pregnant, and discovered this was what I wanted to do.”  Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 6:46 pm [2]

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• Medical Anthropology: Statement by Marshall Islands RPCV Glenn Alcalay before the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments 5 March 1995

• Medical Care for Volunteers: A Volunteer's Courage 5 July 2003

• Medical Care for Volunteers: How Returned Volunteers get medical treatment 6 July 2003

• Medical Clinics: Ecuador PCV Erik Janowski on the Road to Pedro Vincente 25 June 2001

• Medical Missionary: Liberia RPCV Kelley Jewett, a physician and missionary to Liberia and India, awaits her next assignment 7 December 2002

• Medical Outreach: Honduras RPCV Kathryn Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach 17 January 2003

• Medical School: Swaziland RPCV Chester Rogers studied medicine in Zimbabwe 6 July 2003

• Medical Services: Peace Corps Training Officer Kim Skrtic attended White House Ceremony 28 May 2003

• Medicine: Schistosomiasis in U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers -- Malawi, 1992 30 July 1993

• Medicine: Peace Corps Volunteer, Health and Sanitation 1 January 1996

• Medicine: Psychological and Readjustment Problems Associated with Emergency Evacuation of Peace Corps Volunteers 1 January 1997

• Medicine: Malawi RPCV Jon Andrus responsible for coordinating polio eradication in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Thailand 15 December 2000

• Medicine: Notes of Peace Corps Physician Robert Davidson in Malawi 1 January 2001

• Medicine: Notes of Peace Corps Physician Robert Davidson in Malawi (Part II) 1 January 2001

• Medicine: William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. - 1973-1975 Medical Director, U.S. Peace Corps, Brazil 23 June 2001

• Medicine: Kaiser doctor Michael J. Chaffin has his hands full - chose his medical career after Peace Corps service in Brazil and has adopted 8 children 23 June 2001

• Medicine: Skya Gardner-Abbate began her career as a medical sociologist serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil 23 June 2001

• Medicine: Abortion Expert Warren M. Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. - served as a Peace Corps physician in Brazil (1966-68) 23 June 2001

• Medicine: In April 1963, the Peace Corps was seeking a short-term Peace Corps physician in India - William H. Foege 24 June 2001

• Medicine: Andrew W. Nichols, M.D., M.P.H. - Peace Corps Peru, 1966 - 68 26 June 2001

• Medicine: 1999 Functional Medicine Linus Pauling Award Presented to Sidney M. Baker, M.D., Chad RPCV (1966-1968) 2 July 2001

• Medicine: Sidney MacDonald Baker's early medical career was as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad. 2 July 2001

• Medicine: Dr. Robert S. Sullivan was a volunteer in Ethiopia in 1970 who adopted two two Ethiopian children 3 July 2001

• Medicine: Chikungunya Fever among U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers -- Republic of the Philippines 13 July 2001

• Medicine: The Master's International Program: Public Health 14 July 2001

• Medicine: Dr. Steven Weinberg appointed Associate Director of Volunteer Support 8 September 2001

• Medicine: Rabies: Risks, recognition, and prophylaxis - a study of rabies using Peace Corps Volunteers in high risk areas 1 October 2001

• Medicine: Afghanistan RPCV Lois V. Backus Addresses Anthrax Threats Against Abortion Providers 18 October 2001

• Medicine: Afghanistan RPCV Lois V. Backus Addresses Anthrax Threats Against Abortion Providers 25 October 2001

• Medicine: Dr. Richard Derman thanks his Peace Corps service in India for creating his life's direction. 1 November 2001

• Medicine: Peace Corps leaves Gabon Ebola zone 13 December 2001

• Medicine: Fighting tobacco nothing new for Liberia RPCV 26 May 2002

• Medicine: A Multiyear Prospective Study of the Risk Factors for and Incidence of Diarrheal Illness in a Cohort of Peace Corps Volunteers in Guatemala 1 July 2002

• Medicine: Ethiopea RPCV Courtney Arnold put words on discs for the blind 5 July 2002

• Medicine: Bolivia Peace Corps Staff Physician writes book about American Health Care Problems 5 August 2002

• Medicine: RPCV John Scott Porterfield worked in Ethiopia for eradicate Smallpox in 1970's 30 October 2002

• Medicine: India RPCV Helen Sheehan says traditional medicine survives in South Asia 14 November 2002

• Medicine: Venezuela RPCV Steve Schilling runs $30M non-profit Clinica Sierra Vista 23 November 2002

• Medicine: Costa Rica RPCV James Gray explains why our drug laws have failed 10 December 2002

• Medicine: Afghanistan RPCVs Norma and Cendric Emory bring medical relief to a war-weary people 20 December 2002

• Medicine: Ethiopia RPCV Physician Chuck Johnson plans to skip smallpox vacination 23 December 2002

• Medicine: Thailand RPCV Mike Sinsko fights West Nile virus 31 December 2002

• Medicine: Kiribati RPCV Matthew Chico is Director of the Americas Region at the American Red Cross 27 January 2003

• Medicine: Peace Corps Doctor Mae Jemison answers the question "What Was Space Like?" 2 February 2003

• Medicine: I went with the Peace Corps in Thailand as a Peace Corps physician 22 February 2003

• Medicine: Sierra Leone RPCV Lisa Sechler and her husband Stephen Dolan teach doctors about treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda 23 February 2003

• Medicine: Bolivia Peace Corps Physician C. William Keck retiring after 27 years as Akron health director 30 March 2003

• Medicine: Kate Whetten-Goldstein came to know the Zairian people as a Peace Corps volunteer working with AIDS patients in the late 1980s 18 April 2003

• Medicine: In Hiding—an Ecuadorian Woman by RPCV Corella Payne 19 April 2003

• Medicine: Botswana RPCV Richard Lundebrek joins medical staff at Benson Minnesota 18 May 2003

• Medicine: In 1966, Eli H. Newberger and Carolyn left for Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), with our five-week-old daughter. 26 May 2003

• Medicine: Treating this Heavy Midlife of Men by Burkina Faso RPCV Eli H. Newberger, M.D. 26 May 2003

• Medicine: Peace Corps Doctor Norman Haug named Rural Health Practitioner of the Year 28 May 2003

• Medicine: RPCV Laura A. Koutsky develops breakthrough vaccine against cervial cancer 22 June 2003

• Medicine: RPCV Laura Koutsky develops Cervical cancer vaccine 24 June 2003

• Medicine: Swaziland RPCV Chester Rogers studied medicine in Zimbabwe 6 July 2003

• Medicine: Dr. Jeff Taylor taught in the Peace Corps in Libya and was a Green Beret in the U.S. Army serving in Panama 13 July 2003

• Medicine: Son of Iran RPCV Bob Dunkle fought near-fatal bout of leukemia 26 July 2003