Many of our faculty and residents are active both locally and internationally in medical outreach. You can contact Doctor Howie Werman for information about helping with any of these projects.
Local Outreach
Doctors Howie Werman and Rick Nelson regularly volunteer their time with the Physicians Free Clinic, which is operated by the Columbus Medical Association and Foundation. The Clinic meets every Monday night at the Columbus Health Department from 6P to 10P and sees patients with urgent primary care needs as well as specialty surgical and medical care needs. Students from the OSU College of Medicine first and second year classes regularly work with the faculty in the Clinic.
Doctors Mark DeBard and Howie Werman are also active at the Columbus Free Clinic. Below is a video about the Columbus Free Clinic. The Clinic operates every Thursday night at the Rardin Family Practice Center from 6P to 10P. Patients with limited financial resources are seen without charge for their primary care needs. Emergency Medicine residents have participated in the clinic. OSU College of Medicine students administer and staff the clinic.
International Outreach
Doctors Ayesha Khan and Howie Werman will be traveling to Haiti in February to aid in the relief efforts there. They have been to Haiti in the past along with some of our current and former residents. The Friends of Ft. Liberté sponsors the mission trips. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists and lay personnel staff the Ebenezer Medical Clinic which sees patients with medical needs in the community.
Posted Friday, February 12, 2010. Follow the mission team to Haiti on the Columbus Dispatch's website. See articles pictures and an interactive map of Haiti.
The Partnership for Ongoing Developmental, Educational, and Medical Outreach Services (PODEMOS) is an OSU based group of medical professionals, medical students and nursing students who provide relief in El Progreso, Honduras. Both Doctors Howie Werman and Ayesha Khan are involved with this group.
Dr. Ayesha Khan has also spent time in Lesotho, Africa in the "Out Patient" (essentially the ED) of a 160 bed hospital there with Doctor Daniel Bachman, one of our chief residents. Lesotho is a small country of about 2 million people surrounded by South Africa. It has only about one doctor for every 10,000 people and the highest per capita rate of HIV in all of Africa at 25%.
Please contact Doctor Howie Werman for information about how you can be a part of any of these projects.
