Volunteer...
Volunteering is the key to our manpower. Medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and educators join ear surgeons and participate in the educational process. Come and join us help make the world a safer place for those who suffer from ear disease.
Volunteering is the key to our manpower. Medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and educators join ear surgeons and participate in the educational process. Come and join us help make the world a safer place for those who suffer from ear disease.
Calendar of Events
2012
January 14 -21 Cambodia
March 12-17 Ukraine
April 2-6 Ethiopia
May 7-18 Argentina
May 19-26 Peru (TBC)
June 3-6 Zimbabwe meeting
June 11-16 Ethiopia
July 16-21 Cambodia
July 21-Aug 2 Burma
November Peru (TBC)
2013
Jan Cambodia
May Peru (TBC)
June IFOS Seoul
June Cambodia
June Ethiopia
November Peru (TBC)
*(TBC) temporal bone course
News and Events
LIMA, Peru- The Otology training lab in Peru recently received recognition from Karl Storz as a training center and will now be added to the list of its centers situated around the world. The CBM-GEO Lab developed 5 years ago has been training ENT residents and practitioners from Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The only training center in these andean countries of South America, we are delighted to partner with Storz in improving the education of ENT so that the standard of care being delivered in this region of the world improves.
KARL STORZ and GEO OTOLOGY TEACHING CENTER, PERU
TEMPORAL BONE LAB OPENS IN PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Ravaged by the Khmer Rough from 1975-1979, Cambodia lost 90% of their physicians and now after 30 years is recovering and rebuilding its infrastructure and capacity to support the countries needs. In January 2011 the GEO team from USA and the UK embarked on their first training session in the newly developed lab thanks to the donation from IMPACT UK. Cambodian ENT are now being trained in ear surgery techniques and refining their knowledge of ear anatomy in the state of the art lab.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - GEO-EU, Dr. Glenn Isaacson, Temple University, Dr. Richard Kelly, Syracuse, NY, and Dr. Belachew Tessema from Conneticut, have all collectively under the umbrella of People to People supported the program in ENT in Ethiopia directed byDr. Nega Kiros from Addis Ababa. The individual programs work in various regions of Ethiopia and collectively collaborate to provide a uniform program in education. GEO's role with its German partner CBM, is to support annual week long surgical workshop in Butajira, Ethiopia for all Ethiopian ENT.
CONSORTIUM - EXPERIENCE UNDER ONE UMBRELLA, ETHIOPIA
Support Our Work...
Donations are the backbone that allows us to provide education to the doctors that we train and along with this comes the ability to help those surrfering from ear disease in a sustainable way. Please contact us to discuss how you might help.
Donations are the backbone that allows us to provide education to the doctors that we train and along with this comes the ability to help those surrfering from ear disease in a sustainable way. Please contact us to discuss how you might help.
Award…
GEO Received the AAOHNS
Humanitarian Award-2009
