Mother and IVU patient at Hebron Hospital in the West Bank, 2017. Photo Credit: IVUmed Operating in the West Bank brought me back to the fundamentals of care. It’s the Team and the Patient. It is urological care and teaching at its zenith. Benjamin J. Davies, MD IVU...
Warm touch. Bhopal, India, 2006. Photo Credit: IVUmed Following my experience at a IVU workshop in Bhopal, India, it is my intention to continue to give back by providing quality urologic care to patients in need around the globe. I am deeply grateful to the gracious...
Dr Melanie Aube and Dr Madina Ndoye operating together in Dakar, Senegal, 2018. Photo Credit: Kurt McCammon, MD Connecting and sharing experiences with the local host surgeons and residents was the highlight of my trip. It was eye-opening to see the level of...
Meghan Schneck playing around with IVU patients in Lusaka, Zambia, 2017. Photo Credit: Francis Schneck, MD Over the last 8 years, I have had the privilege of participating in IVU workshops all over the world, as a support staff team member. This is where my love for...
Market in Kumasi, Ghana, 2019. Photo Credit: Sunil Patel, MD I came to Ghana as a non-medical support team member. My job was to help the medical team with logistics. Sometimes, that was exchanging money into local currency, grabbing bottled water for the team at the...
Woman at the Evangel Hospital in Jos, Nigeria, 2005. Photo Credit: IVUmed When you meet a woman, who has leaked urine from her body and soaked her clothes for the past 15 years and is afraid to interact with anybody in her society, and through a relatively simple...
