South America
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Trip Description: Basic hospital and clinical work
Participants: Renee King, '02
July 1999, 1 month of M1 summer
Program/Organization: Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities
Dr. Mario C. Petersen, M.D., Director
711 Jefferson Ave.
Memphis, TN 38105
Phone: (901) 448.6511 or (901) 572-6511
Bolivia
Suere
Trip Description: Spanish classes, lectures on public health and indigenous medicine, community clinic
volunteering
Benjamin Hardy Crenshaw, '04
June-July 2001, 1 month of M1 summer
Program/Organization: AmeriSpan Unlimited
Miriam Padilla, Director
P.O. Box 40007
Philadelphia, PA 19106-0007
Brazil
Recife
Trip Description: Pediatric surgical oncology observation
Gary Michael Martin, '03
June-August, 2 months of M1 summer
Program/Organization: St. Jude's Children's Hospital, International Outreach
Dr. Lynne Bowers, PhD., Director
332 North Lauderdale St
Memphis, TN 38105
Phone: (901) 495-2891
Fax: (901) 495-3122
Rio de Janeiro
Trip Description: Medical and dental care to poor areas of Rio de Janeiro
Jennifer Zurawick, '03
June 2000, 9 days of M1 summer
Program/Organization: First Baptist Church, Nashville TN
Dr. Michael Vaughan, DDS., Director
5537 Peninsula Park Landing
Hermitage, TN 37076
Ecuador
Mountain Village, Rain Forest, and Urban Areas of Ecuador
Trip Description: Medical Spanish language and primary health care work in a mountain village, rain
forest, and urban settings
Kevin Arnold, '08, Benjamin Kellogg, '08, Gabriel Starace, '08, Michael Yatsula, '08
June-July 2005, 4 weeks of M1 summer
Program/Organization: Interhealth South America
Mountain Village, Rain Forest, and Urban Areas of Ecuador
Trip Description: Medical Spanish language and primary health care work in a mountain village, rain
forest, and urban settings
Annie Glover, '07, Ben Greene, '07, Catherine Habashy, '07
June-July 2004, 4 weeks of M1 Summer
Program/Organization: Interhealth South America
Naranjal
Trip Description: Clinical work and ministry
Adam Esbenshade, '04, Rachael Smith, '04, Clairalyn Baucom, '05, Jake Bostrom, '05,
Cara Bostrom, '05, K.T. Park, '05, Brandon Riggan, '05, Catherine Scarbrough. '05,
Josh Spencer, '05, Melissa Smith, '05, John Ho, '06
March 2003, 9 days of M1 spring break
Program/Organization: Christian Medical and Dental Associations
Global Health Outreach
John and Marilyn Guido; Bob and Lauren Capaldi
PO Box 7500
Bristol, TN 37621
Quito and Otavalo
Trip Description: Medical Spanish language and primary health care work in a mountain village or urban
setting
Wes Diddle, '04, Shiraz Moinuddin, '04, Scott Polk, '04
July 2001, 3 weeks of M1 summer
Program/Organization: Interhealth South America
Dr. Don Wedemeyer, M.D., Director
Mondana
Trip Description: Clinical experience with a mobile medical team in rural Ecuador
Brett Anthony Cuthberton, '00, Margaret Allison Brooks, '00
April 2000, 19 days as an M4 elective
Program/Organization: FUNEDESIN
Dr. Clemente Pome, MD, Director
FUNEDESIN Clinical Rotation Program
Casilla 17-17-92, Quito, Ecuador, SA
Email: clinic@funedesin.org
Phone: 5932-543-851
Quito, Otavalo, and Tena
Trip Description: Participated in medical Spanish classes and assisted with medical care in conjunction
with local clinics.
Emily Noggle '21 and Audrey Sharp '21
Summer 2018 - 4-6 weeks of M1 summer
Program/Organization: Interhealth South America
Paraguay
A-che Village
Trip Description: Basic health care to A-che Indians in the rainforest of Paraguay
Amy L. Hirsh, '03
September 2001, 2 weeks as M3 elective
Contact: Dr. John R. Wickman, Director
1064 Breedlove St.
Memphis, TN, 38107
Phone: (901) 526-1208
Encarnacion
Trip Description: Research, teaching adolescents sex education
Rob Comer, '03
August-September 2002, 2 months as M4 elective
Program/Organization: St. Jude's International Outreach
Dr. Miguala Caniza, Director
Phone: (901) 495-4001
Peru
Lima and Cusco
Trip Description: Spanish language training, public health projects with a gastroenterologist, parasitology
Matt Koury, '02
April-May 2002, 1 month as M4 elective
Lima
Trip Description: Assisting medical and surgical subspecialists with pediatric congenital hearts defects
Patricia Scott, '03, Dawn Borromeo, '03
May-June 2000, 16 days of M1 summer
Program/Organization: International Children's Heart Foundation
Dr. Bill Novick, MD
1750 Madison Avenue, Suite 100
Memphis, TN 38104
Phone: (901) 869-4243 (ICHF)