Paraguay

Breaking Frontiers in Education

In 2008 Global ENT Outreach embarked on a project to build the first temporal bone lab for teaching purposes in Lima, Peru. Since its initiation, the course has hosted physicians from Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Ecuador. Basic surgical anatomy and operative skills are taught in the operating theater and laboratory.

Peru

Ten years 19 courses in Latin America

In 2008 Global ENT Outreach embarked on a project to build the first temporal bone lab for teaching purposes in Lima, Peru. Since its initiation, the course has hosted physicians from Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Ecuador. Basic surgical anatomy and operative skills are taught in the operating theater and laboratory.

Ethiopia

GEO Fellow in Ethiopia for 1 year

In July, Josh Wiedermann, a Pediatric Fellowship Trained ENT from Washington, D.C started a one year Global Health project in ENT in Mekelle, Ethiopia. Josh is training residents and helping to build the academic program at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Northern Ethiopia. Follow him on wordpress.

London

British Doctors join forces with GEO

The newest members to join GEO are a group of British Doctors in London under the direction of Misha Verkerk and Jeremy Lavy. Collectively they work with GEO and head the project in Mekelle, Northern Ethiopia.

Cuba

Cuban Seminar in Otology

November 2018 GEO will join Cuban partners in an Otology seminar-workshop based in Havana, under the direction of Dr. Tony Paz.
Temporal bone drilling and lectures by international speakers will comprise the program.

Ethiopia

Training Ethiopian ENT Residents

Core to GEO is the training of the next generation of ENT. In Northern Ethiopia we are doing just that at the Adyer Speciality Hospital in Mekelle. Twice a year US- British based teams go to Ethiopia to lecture, train in surgery, and audiology.