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2009

Distinguished Humanitarian Award
This GEO received the Distingushed Humanitarian Award at the American Academy of Otolaryngology meeting in San Diego California in October 2009 for their recognition in lifelong dedication to humanitarian outreach, especially in the field of otology.
Source: AAOHNS-Oto Meeting Bulletin, USA

Tranquilo in Paraguay
This article was written by Jon Russell a medical student from Case Western Reserve Medical School about his experience in Paraguay in June 2009.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

New Techniques in Ear Surgery-Paraguay
June 2009- In June GEO visited the Fundacion Vision in Asuncion, Paraguay. As reported in ABC.com.py, over 30 surgeries were performed during the visit to Paraguay at both public and private hospitals.
Source: ABC News.com

2008

Mission to Quito, Ecuador
In February 2008, Dr. Eric Wilkinson a fellow from the House Ear Clinic traveled with GEO to Quito, Ecuador. The following article is his reflection on the experience.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

2007

Humanitarian Missions Published in the American Academy of Otolaryngology, this article reflects on the accounts of four different organizations that lead humanitarian missions undertaken by members of the academy of Otolaryngology. GEO was one of the organizations mentioned in the article.
 Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 American Samoa- Land of The Gentil Giants Written after the first trip to American Samoa, this article published in the bulletin tells of the conditions in Samoa and the accomplishments of the mission undertaken by GEO.
 Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 Specialist Visits Manu's Islands of Samoa to Examine Patients During the second trip to American Samoa, GEO participated with the department of health to provide an ENT Clinic on the tiny island of Tau in the Manu'a chain of islands in American Samoa.
 Source: Samoa News Times

 Academy Members Reach Out Around the Globe This article was published in the bulletin and reflected on the global outreach being performed by ENT from the American Adademy. GEO is mentioned as planting its seeds through training and teaching globally.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 Otology Missions for Teaching and Training Otology missions are few to say the least and GEO is one of the leaders in this subspeciality area of ENT. The article addreses the needs and the gobal work being done in this area.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 Ethiopian Educational training Program at NYEE Infirmary Spearheaded by the changes in the political system in Ehthiopia, GEO fulfilled its committment to the ENT of the Yakatit Hospital in Addis Ababa by sending their two ENT the NYEE Infirmary to get advanced training in temporal bone surgery. This achievement is a reflection of overcoming political obsticles and making advancements in the area of education
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 Beyond Borders, Mission to Yaruqui, Ecuador Published in the journal of the House Ear Clinic, this is the story of the contribution the House Ear Clinic has made internationally by allowing their Fellows to participate with GEO in their global work. Dr. Eric Wilkinson, a House Ear Fellow traveled to Ecuador to teach, share his skills, and help the uderserved.
Source: House Calls, Bulletin of the House Ear Clinic, USA

 House Ear team Makes House Call in Africa In 2007, Dr. Joni Doherty, a House Ear Fellow travled with GEO to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to train Ethiopian ENT and also to provide humanitarian services to the many underserved of this country of 80 million.
Source: House Calls, Bulletin of the House Ear Clinic, USA


 2006

 Video System in Surgery at the ISSS Hospital This short article was written by the ISSS Hospital, the leading hospital for workers in El Salvador. The article focuses on GEO and the use of the video system connected to the microscope to project live images of surgery for edeucational purposes.
Source: El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, El Salvador

 Doctor Without Borders The article written in the Whidbey News Times summaries the work of GEO and the accomplishments thy have made in the area of hearing loss and prevention.
Source: Whidbey News Times, USA

 Medical Mission to Ethiopia Dr. Ashkan Monfared, who at the time was a chief resident at Stanford University in ENT, joined GEO and traveled to Ethiopia. He wrote the article and its a reflection of his travels to the hidden empire.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 Restoring Hearing To The Deaf Ethiopian Journalist Nolawi Melakedingle travled with GEO while in Addis Ababa and through his eyes he tells the story of GEO's quest to restore hearing to the deaf who struggle in their daily existance to survive.
Source: The Reporter, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa

 Global ENT Reaches Santa Ana, El Salvador Not far from the Guatemala border in El Salvador is the public hospital in Santa Ana. Surrounded by beautiful gardens, the hospital provides services to those who have do not have access to the capital of San salvador.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 2005

 Cirguia al Oido-Especialista Estadounidense Intercambia At the University Catetano Heredia in Lima, Peru, GEO works with Peruvian ENT and instructs in surgery of the ear. Peru has a high incidence of ear disease and a great demand by the ENT to learn new techniques.
Source: La Voz de Cayetan, Lima, Peru, South America
Speechless Children of Ethiopia Eleven Ethiopian children suffering from laryngeal papilloma underwent a new techinique for the removal of the lesions and for their ultimate return home after years in the hospital.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 Primera Operacion de Raro Cancer de Cerebro In August of 2005, GEO in collaboration with Dr. Danesi from Italy and Dr. Murillo from the Hospital Escuela in Tegucigalpa, performed for the first time in Honduras, extensive surgery for the removal of nasal angiofibromas.
Source: EL Heraldo, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America

 Solidaridad Versus Otitis Close to the carribean cost of Honduras, lies the city of San Pedro Sula home to over a million Hondurans and the center of the countries commerce. In coordination with Dr. Pazzetti, GEO assisted in the humanitarian care of patients at the seguro social hospital and public hospital. Advances in teaching were also made .
Source: La Prensa, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Central America

 Doctoring From The Neck Up The Parmaribo Post dedicated this article to the work that GEO had done in the past in the country of Suriname. The article was published in Dutch. The article reflects the human spirt and the deep dedication that the foundation has to serve those with hearing loss and disorders.
Source: The Reporter, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa

 Responding To Great Need January 2004-Written and published in the Pasadena Star News, this article mentioned Dr. Wagner and GEO in their work and at the same time Americares, with whom GEO has worked with and of their support to the victims of the Tsunami of December 2004.
Source: Pasadena Star News, Pasadena, California, USA

 Suriname Revisited (2005) In January 2005, this article was written and is the last of the trips to Suriname. Since its work there Dutch ENT come and provide the services that are needed for the population of half a million.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 2004

You Should Not Take But Also Give This article written when GEO was back in Suriname for the second time. Having had the opportunity to travel to the countires interior, GEO had a new perspective on the country and also on the immense need for its global work.
Source: The Paramaribo Post, Parmaribo, Suriname, South America

 Donan Moderno Equipo A Sala de Otorrhinolaryngologia In cooperation with the Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa, GEO donated surgical instruments to the ENT department with the support of Karl Storz Endoscopy.
Source: EL Heraldo, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America

 Global ENT Outreach Team In Suriname Suriname an isolated and linguistically displaced country in South America was in May 2004 at site of the GEO mission to provide surical and clinical services to the Surinamese population that lascks adequate ENT case.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 2003

Temporal Bone Lab Launched In Honduras Medical School In its committment to education and in a country with so few resources, GEO mustered up the needed resources to being a temportal bone lab to the ENT residents of Honduras.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 NIUE- An International Medical Aid Mission September 2003 - Deep in the heart of the South Pacific, GEO with its first international team from New Zealand and the USA, traveled to the isolated tiny island of Niue to provide general ENT services to the country of 1800.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA

 2000

 REI Cuba- A Humanitarian Effort September 2000 - GEO traveled to Cuba on the foundations first humanitarian mission and the beginning of its international work in the treatment of ear disease as its global committment to making a change in the area of hearing loss and prevention.
Source: Bulletin of The American Academy of Otolaryngology, USA