{"id":9456,"date":"2018-02-21T16:44:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2018-02-21T17:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T22:49:40","slug":"geisel-renews-partnership-agreement-with-peruvian-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2018\/geisel-renews-partnership-agreement-with-peruvian-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Geisel Renews Partnership Agreement with Peruvian Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Left to right) Dartmouth representatives Anne Sosin (Dickey Center) and Lisa V. Adams (Geisel) celebrate the renewal of the partnership with Hospital Cayetano Heredia with the hospital director Dr. Aida Cecilia Rosa Palacios Ramirez (center), Dr. Manuel Diaz De Los Santos, and Dr. Ra\u00fal Acosta.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine recently renewed its partnership agreement with Hospital Cayetano Heredia<\/a>\u2014a public university hospital in Lima, Peru, which serves as a national reference hospital in the country and is one of the leading clinical teaching and research institutions in Peru.<\/p>\n

The five-year agreement is based on the two institutions\u2019 desire to collaborate on mutually beneficial projects that can address a variety of health priorities in Peru. This includes ongoing research, capacity building, training, and exchange of faculty members and students\u2014and builds on previous work that was started by Dartmouth and the hospital in 2013, which has been supported by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding<\/a> at Dartmouth and Geisel.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a number of years, we\u2019ve been sending undergraduates and medical students to Peru to work with Dr. Ra\u00fal Acosta, who is an emergency medicine physician there, and it\u2019s been a fabulous experience for them,\u201d says Lisa V. Adams, MD, MED \u201990, director of the Center for Health Equity<\/a> and associate dean for global health at Geisel. \u201cDr. Acosta has been one of the best mentors that our students have had. He\u2019s very \u2018hands-on,\u2019 he gives them discrete and manageable projects to work on, so they\u2019re really contributing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last summer, Soham Rege \u201920, a Geisel Global Health Scholar<\/a>, worked on a project with Acosta to determine a profile of potential volunteer characteristics that is now helping to guide the recruitment and development of a disaster medical assistance team, based out of Lima for future disaster response.<\/p>\n

Projects like Rege\u2019s have been a major area of focus for the partnership. Peru\u2019s geographical characteristics and population density from rapid urbanization\u2014the hospital\u2019s catchment area has increased from 300,000 to 3 million in the last 10 years\u2014make the country particularly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, and floods.<\/p>\n

While visiting Hospital Cayetano Heredia recently to sign the agreement, Adams discussed current partnership activities, as well as some exciting potential projects with her colleagues. \u201cThis year, Dr. Acosta introduced us to partners at another hospital, and now we\u2019re looking at doing a policy project for the Ministry of Health on telehealth in conjunction with the Dickey Center\u2019s Global Health Policy Lab, which would involve pulling a team of students together to assess telehealth potential in the country,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Lisa Adams, MD, with Anne Sosin, program manager for the Dickey Center\u2019s Global Health Initiative, and Ra\u00fal Acosta, MD, outside Hospital Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While in Lima, Adams also met with leadership of the medical school. \u201cThey are interested in starting a bilateral medical student exchange program,\u201d she says. \u201cThe students that I met there are all highly proficient in English and seemed quite well trained and competent, so I think they would integrate well into the Dartmouth-Hitchcock setting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Creating these kinds of reciprocal opportunities for students who are interested in international health enhances their readiness to work in an increasingly connected world, says Adams. \u201cIt\u2019s right in line with so many of Geisel\u2019s values\u2014about having impact where we can, building partnerships, and training our medical students to take on some of the biggest challenges that we know are going to be facing health and health care in the future,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine recently renewed its partnership agreement with Hospital Cayetano Heredia\u2014a public university hospital in Lima, Peru, which serves as a national reference hospital in the country and is one of the leading clinical teaching and research institutions in Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":9457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,14,1],"tags":[81,23,843,186,886],"class_list":["post-9456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-improving-lives","category-news","tag-center-for-health-equity","tag-global-health","tag-partnership","tag-peru","tag-south-america","author-26"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/02\/global-health-peru-MOU.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-2sw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9466,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9456\/revisions\/9466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}