The safety of our volunteers is our top priority. Our work requires long-term efforts from our host partners and countless volunteers. At times we must, unfortunately, pause our work in sites where political or environmental conditions have become dangerous. We remain...
An IVUmed team traveled to Maputo, Mozambique for a pediatric urology workshop at Hospital Central de Maputo. Drs. Heidi Stephany and Christina Ching led the team and were joined by Tina Zeigler, RN (pediatric nurse), Dr. Christine Ayoub (anesthesiologist), and Dr....
Dr. Amy Lim shares her experience from Mongolia, which was sponsored by the Society of Urologic Oncology: “I have always been interested in participating in a global health trip. However, unless your home institution has an established global health program, it is...
Thanks to the outstanding support of the Southeastern Section of the AUA, Dr. Alan Chip Carnes had an excellent experience in Cap Haitien, Haiti where he and his mentor urologists, Dr. Joseph Costa and Dr. Joseph Babiarz, worked with local urologists on reconstructive...
“Ever since I encountered their booth at AUA as a medical student, I had been hoping to take part in one of IVUmed’s trips. Now, as a 4th year urology resident, the wait was over and I was about to land in Dakar, Senegal – a city and country on a continent to which I...
