Case medical students raise $1,800 for tsunami help
Dean, vice dean match the amount raised through
potluck
February 3, 2005 | For more information: George
Stamatis 216-368-3635
A potluck lunch held by the International Health Interest Group (IHIG)
at the medical school generated $900 thanks to
the generous donations of the estimated 150 faculty, staff and medical
students who attended. In addition, Ralph Horwitz, M.D., dean of the
School of Medicine, and Robert Daroff, M.D., interim vice dean for education
and academic affairs at the medical school, who attended the event,
generously decided together to match the amount raised through the potluck,
making the total $1,800.
Twenty students and staff cooked dishes, including Shanghai style noodles,
South Indian lentil rice, Romanian Clatite and Middle Eastern lentil
soup. The event was organized by several students from the School of
Medicine: Yachna Ahuja (Class of ´07), Abi Tan (Class of ´07),
Bisher Tarabishy (Class of ´07), Saad Mahmood (Class of ´08)
and Haruko Okada (Class of ´08). They held the potluck on the
4th floor of the Sears Tower with diners paying a minimum of $5 a plate.
Medical student Mahmood said the money raised
will go directly towards providing tsunami disaster
relief work in Thailand through Health Frontiers,
a small all-volunteer non-profit organization
founded in 1991 by Case Western Reserve University
pediatrician Karen Olness, M.D., Hakon Torjesen,
and several of their university colleagues. The
Health Frontiers team engages in health-related
activities in the United States and overseas
(more information is available at http://www.healthfrontiers.org)
Other members of the IHIG are Maheen Quadri (Class of ´08) and
Marie Ramas (Class of ´08).
IHIG also has been raising funds for the past
two weeks with undergraduate the Global Medicine
Initiative group. Medical students sit in the
Biomedical Research Building lobby from noon
to 3 p.m. weekdays, collecting money for UNICEF
in specially marked donation boxes.
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