Announcing the IRF’s campaign to fund Kumasi Rehab
Today, at the AAPMR, the International Rehabilitation Forum announced our plan to raise $1.9 M to build Kumasi Rehab, our first rehabilitation medicine training center
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This year the International Rehabilitation Forum had a stellar year! But 2023 requires even more of us as we build medical rehab around the world. To put it bluntly, WE GOT NO CASH! help us out, please! https://t.co/jm3Wht3vTi.
Happiest Holidays Ever!
Andy Haig
President
@UMich@WHO As Ethiopian minister of health Tedros helped our Michigan team build SubSaharan Africa’s first Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency, still going strong under the International Rehabilitation Forum. A visionary leader!
The SubSaharan Africa representative to the International Society for Physical and Rehabilitation medicine was a white guy from Wisconsin, USA from 2008 to about 2016. Today in Lisbon I was so happy to NOT be in this picture!
Great progress with the AAP Global rehab committee today. I am tasked with writing a white paper on how the organization can build American academic excellence in Global research, education, and policy. The AAP Leadership is strongly supportive
Representing the Internatinoal Rehabilitation Forum, I'm pushing for more global health involvement at the Association of Academic Physiatrist's meeting in New Orleans this week. Our session: 'Buiilding Resources for Physiatrists Around the World'.
Check out my latest article: COVID-19 Medical Rehabilitation Must Begin on Admission. Here are the Tools to do it. https://t.co/Ct1ay0xgRE via @LinkedIn
I had the lowest entering GPA in my med school. Mark Goddard's college advisor discouraged him from medicine. Talking this weekend we agreed that, after barely surviving the schooling, our 'disabilities' created our successes as global leaders. Hang tight!. #DocsWithDisabilities