CEPAR NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT Help the Go Team In Haiti: If you would like to support Johns Hopkins CEPAR efforts in Haiti, please consider making a donation online. CEPAR Go Team Completing Mission in Haiti This WeekA  group of six Johns Hopk nTents set up at University Hospital serve as the adult ward.rses will wrap up their medical mission thisA group of six Johns Hopkins doctors and nurses will wrap up their medical mission to Haiti this week. The team has been in Port-au-Prince for almost two weeks helping earthquake victims at University Hospital. The medical experts serve on the Johns Hopkins Go Team, which has approximately 185 members trained to respond to disasters. Go Team members report seeing hundreds of patients a day, ranging from earthquake injuries such as fractures and wound infections to chronic medical issues, such as HIV. In addition, team members are working in 100 degree heat, high humidity and other difficult conditions. Go Team leader Dr. Tom Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. has put in place mandatory break and water rehydration schedules to ensure Go Team members stay healthy. You can follow team reports, blogs and see photos and a video at www.hopkinsmedicine.org/haiti The Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) in collaboration with International Medical Corps, a humanitarian nonprofit based in California, organized the mission.
Gabe Kelen, M.D., professor and chair of the Johns Hopkins Department of Emergency Medicine and the director of CEPAR, said he and other CEPAR leaders spent many days carefully evaluating a number of requests for medical assistance in Haiti and decided to move forward with the IMC and the U.S. Navy because of their strong credibility and disaster experience. 
The "emergency department" which the Go Team is running, is also
set up inside tents at University Hospital in the capital. 
Go Team members at Baltimore-Washington International Airport before deployment to Haiti. The team includes:
(Back row, left to right back row) Michael Clemmons, M.D.; Alicia Hernandez, RN; Gene Gincherman, M.D; Thomas Kirsch, M.D.; Rocky Cagle, RN. (Front row, left to right) Beth Sloand, NP, and Emmanuelle Clerisme-Beaty, M.D.
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