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[Jul 01 '09] AOFAS Celebrates 8th Surgical Outreach with POF to Vietnam |
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The AOFAS surgeons have recently returned from their eighth mission to aid the children and adults of Vietnam, an experience that affords the opportunity to do something truly special for others. During these eight years, hundreds of Vietnamese patients have received needed corrective surgeries and 24 AOFAS members have had the honor of participating as volunteers. |
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[Feb 02 '09] Kendall Barker Rehabilitation Building Dedicated |
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On January 20th 2009, in Makeni, Sierra Leone, over 200 people attended the dedication of a new prosthetics center funded by the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation. Named the Kendall Barker Clinical Rehabilitation Building, the facility meets an urgent need in a country populated with thousands of amputee victims of a 10-year civil war which ended in 2002. |
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[Sep 01 '07] Prosthetics Outreach Foundation Mourns Passing of Kendall Barker |
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Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) mourns the passing of Kendall Howard Barker (1953-2007), a physician who lost a leg to cancer many years ago. Ken was instrumental in helping POF launch a prosthetic rehabilitation initiative in Sierra, West Africa. His support resulted in nearly 100 amputees receiving urgently needed prosthetic care within the first 12 months of operations of a new prosthetics center that he helped establish. |
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[Jan 16 '07] Robert G. Veith, M.D., Elected New President of POF |
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In January 2007, Robert Veith, M.D., was elected President of the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF). Dr. Veith is an orthopedic surgeon with Valley Orthopedic Associates in Renton, Washington. He graduated from Stanford University and attended medical school at the University of Washington, where he also completed his orthopedic surgery residency. Dr. Veith was welcomed into his new leadership role by outgoing POF President Donna Burgess, the daughter of the late founder of POF, Ernest M. Burgess, M.D.
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[Jan 12 '07] Kim Trinh, POF Volunteer, Conducted Interviews During Recent Visit to Vietnam |
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Kim Trinh is currently a junior at Whitman College. She is majoring in English (American Literature) and is a bilingual speaker of English and Vietnamese. Kim was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City and immigrated to the United States along with her family in 2001. She joined the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation as a volunteer reporter and was in Vietnam interviewing amputee patients from December 20th, 2006 to January 9th, 2007. |
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[Jan 02 '07] Another Segment Completed! Three Legs Across America: The Rockies |
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In 2006, Nancy Nelson and her husband, Dan Fender, continued their cross-country bicycle ride as part of their Three Legs Across America campaign to raise funds to help Vietnamese amputees. This second year of their planned five-year trip had them tackling the most physically demanding stretch yet of their route as they crossed the Rocky Mountains, journeying from Missoula, Montana, to Rawlins, Wyoming. |
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[Aug 15 '06] Prosthetics Outreach Foundation Announces Bagby Family Endowment |
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Prosthetics Outreach Foundation Board Member George W. Bagby, M.D., (Spokane, Wash.) has provided generous seed funding to establish an endowment with the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation. The primary goal of the Bagby Family Endowment is to support the long-term operations of the Nalta Hospital in rural southwestern Bangladesh. |
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[Jun 19 '06] Sixty Disabled Vietnamese Children and Adults Treated |
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Hanoi, Vietnam. When Drs. Loretta Chou and Nimrod Ron boarded their plane home in mid-June, the fifth annual orthopedic surgical mission to Vietnam came to an end. More than 60 disabled Vietnamese children and adults had received life-changing orthopedic surgical care over the preceding four weeks. The surgeons responsible for this success included Drs. Chou and Ron, who were preceded by Drs. Robert Veith, Thomas Lee, Ruth Thomas, and mission leader Dr. Naomi Shields. |
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[May 15 '06] Volunteer Orthopedic Surgeons Return to Vietnam for Expanded Mission |
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Vinh, Vietnam – A first team of volunteer surgeons arrived at the Vinh Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center on Sunday. The surgeons, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation Board Vice President Robert Veith, M.D., and Thomas Lee, M.D., will provide life-changing orthopedic surgery for 15 Vietnamese patients with debilitating limb deformities, most of them children... |
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[May 11 '06] Container with Medical Supplies Arrives in Sierra Leone |
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After more than 3 months, a container with medical supplies and vital prosthetic fabrication equipment arrived in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. The container had been sent from the Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) headquarters in Seattle, Washington, in early February 2006. |
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[Feb 03 '06] Container of Prosthetic Equipment and Materials Sent to Sierra Leone |
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"The prospect of helping hundreds of amputees in Sierra Leone regain their mobility is truly exciting," declared Winfried Danke, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation (POF) Executive Director. "They have waited so long for a chance to walk again and rebuild their lives." Mr. Danke’s remarks came as POF sent a 20-foot container from Seattle, Washington to Sierra Leone, West Africa, filled with prosthetic equipment and materials to outfit a rehabilitation center in Makeni, the country’s northern provincial capital. |
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[Jan 03 '06] Vietnamese Athletes Bring Home the Gold in Asean Paragames |
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Three Vietnamese track and field amputee athletes competed in the 2005 ASEAN Paragames in Manila, Philippines in December 2005. Through POF, Freedom Innovations, an international prosthetics manufacturer, donated advanced prosthetic feet to the Vietnamese runners that are custom designed for use by sprinters. POF is proud to report that the Vietnamese amputee team did spectacularly in all of their events. |
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