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Rachel Litwiller, Jim Arthur, Pete Wallace and Cal Litwiller This is our second mission with MOST.  We are definitely non-medical and non-Spanish speaking Rotary support volunteers.  This year Calwas in charge of record keeping – entering and updating the patient data on the MOST data base, plus up-dating and posting the operating schedule. Calalso posted…

Dr Cordon, left, Gary Pacha, right             Dr. Raul Cordon is chief surgeon of the hospital where we work and a specialist in therapeutic endoscopy.  As co-coordinator of this mission each year and a doctor on staff at the hospital, he has helped us to establish a very congenial relationship with…

Oscar Gomez, left, Pete Wallace, right Pete Wallace Pete Wallace Screening Potential Patients Dr Pete Wallace is a retired Pediatrician. Pete was in private Pediatric practice in IC his whole career.  This is Pete’s 6th Mission with MOST. Pete has been VP of Medical Staff Affairs of Mercy IC Hospital. Pete was an organizer and continues…

Nancy Pacha,right, with Diana Garcia Nancy with Lucia de DeLeon President of Rotary Ladies “I first came to Guatemalain 2005 with a group to search for a Guatemalan partner for Iowa MOST and I have returned for four of the seven missions.  It’s hard to resist being part of an endeavor that so positively affects…

Robyn in the Dental Suite Robyn Braverman has spent most of her adult life living and working in Latin America. She has worked with rural and urban populations, primarily women and children, in various projects that are geared toward reducing poverty and increasing children’s access to basic services such as protection, education, and health.  This…

Diana Garcia – Rotary Exchange Student to Wellman Iowa Diana, Ready to Visit the OR Our former Rotary Youth Exchange, to Wellman Iowa, student Diana Garcia helped us out on screening day translating for the anesthesiologists.  The first year medical student has returned twice this week to observe surgery.  Perhaps one day she will be…

Dan Jorgenson Dan Jorgensen, center Dan Jorgensen, center Dan received his training at the U of Iowa 1979-1983. Dan lives in Spencer, Iowa where his has a private ENT practice.  He has been married for 43 years, with 5 children and 3 grandchildren.  Lisa a Hearing and Audiologist; Seth, a Dentist in AZ; Luke, a Hearing and Audiologist; Sarah, an oil field…

            “People want to do things to help others”.  This is the belief of Reinhard Juraschek.  However, Reinhard believes it can be difficult for them to find “the magic to make it happen.”  Reinhard, a chemist and Director of Research and Development for Johnson & Johnson, says that, like a chemical…

            Krasimira Hristov, a staff engineer at Johnson & Johnson, develops medical implants.  Originally from Bulgaria, she has lived and worked in South Africa, Germany and the US.  Krasi can create about anything.  When we ran out of arm restraints for patients, Krasi fashioned new ones.  If you were to need…

Casa Colibri Clinic Throughout seven Iowa MOST trips there have been many developments that are an expansion of the scope of the mission.  For example, a badly needed ambulance and firefighter turnout gear have been donated to the Fire Department of Huehuetenango.  (See 2011 blog entry Emergency Vehicle)  This year there is another opportunity.  The…