Purpose Prize fellow Andy Harris is finding fulfillment in his encore career. He developed a college course designed to give U.S. medical professionals a chance to provide care in poor countries overseas. It also enables them to provide care locally – in free medical clinics for the uninsured where course participants volunteer one evening per week.
Purpose Prize Fellow Helps Others Develop Encore Skills
12/09/2011 - 11:52:10am
When retired ophthalmologist W. Andrew Harris wanted to use his skills to help people in developing nations, he needed a refresher on primary care. And he needed to learn how to treat people in poor, potentially dangerous regions.
Finding no sufficient options for training, he created his own: Professionals Training in Global Health, a course at Oregon Health & Science University's Global Health Center.
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Poverty and the lack of resources prevent most people in rural India from accessing primary health care. But there is hope in the form of Arogya Ghar, a self-sustainable social venture by 2009 Purpose Prize fellow Bhagwati P. Agrawal.
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| Kathleen Taylor , Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer |
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Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer
Purpose Prize Fellow 2011
Kathleen Taylor, a doctor of obstetrics and gynecology who practiced in California, was motivated to join her first medical mission to a developing country in 2003 after two medical scares: her own emergency cardiac surgery at age 56 and just two years later the near death of her 39-year-old son from an aneurysm. Life, Taylor realized, is precious, and it spurred her to live to the fullest.
Executive Director
WiRED International
Purpose Prize Fellow 2011
While a Fulbright communications professor at the University of Zagreb in 1997, Gary W. Selnow was asked by the U.S. Department of State to visit war-ravaged Vukovar in eastern Croatia to tell schoolteachers about the Internet. But he found no Internet facilities there.
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| Donald Lombardi , Institute for Pediatric Innovation |
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Institute for Pediatric Innovation
Purpose Prize Fellow 2011
Imagine a 2-pound baby in a hospital neonatal intensive care unit with a breathing tube secured to her body with adhesive tape. Later, when the nurse removes the tape, the infant's fragile skin tears. Or picture a child with hypertension who gags on the foul-tasting concoction he must take every day for the rest of his life. He refuses to take the drugs, and his treatment stops.
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| Im Ja P. Choi , Penn Asian Senior Services |
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Penn Asian Senior Services
Purpose Prize Fellow 2011
Nine years ago, Im Ja P. Choi faced the most difficult decision of her life: whether to put her mother – who only spoke Korean and weighed just 62 pounds after stomach cancer surgeries – in a nursing home. Choi was thrilled to discover that her mother was eligible for home health care covered by Medicaid.
But soon another hurdle emerged: Not a single agency in the Philadelphia area employed Korean-speaking aides. It took Choi seven months to find someone.
President and CEO
Lakeview Ranch Inc.
Purpose Prize Fellow 2011
For seven years, Judy Berry watched her mother endure 12 hospitalizations for dementia-related behavior. However, Berry thought her mother didn’t fare well during treatment – she was often overmedicated (with what Berry later learned were inappropriate psychotropic drugs), strapped into a chair and left to wither away.
Bill Clinton, Bill Gates and Al Gore may all be remembered for the work they did after the end of their hugely successful midlife careers. And what about the rest of us? (This article originally published on The Huffington Post on Huff/Post50.)
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| Arthur J. Ammann , Global Strategies for HIV Prevention |
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Global Strategies for HIV Prevention
Purpose Prize Fellow 2011
In 1982, when pediatric immunologist Arthur Ammann documented the first known cases of AIDS transmission from mothers to infants, little was known about the disease. Today, more than two dozen drugs treat those infected by HIV, especially in wealthier countries. In resource-poor regions, however, the AIDS epidemic rages on, with particularly devastating effects on women and children.
