Ioana Medrea
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Neurology for Africa
July 22, 2008 - 11:24 PM
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Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Ioana Medrea, Project Representative of McGill Korle-Bu Neuro-science Foundation (www.kbnf.org)
IWe are starting a campaign drive toward an International Project that will engage students on one hand and the faculty administration on the other. Our goal is to create an open source project to facilitate the education of neuroscience, neurology and neuroscience specialists in West Africa in the short term and build the 1st tertiary clinical,basic research and teaching Neuroscience Hospital for West Africa in the long term. This hospital is direly needed by the 270 million people of West Africa where 10% of hospital admissions are for neurology, yet very little can currently be done. The Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill, the International Brain Research Organization, University of British Columbia, and University of Texas have all signed up for this project.
Our efforts will be coordinated by Dr. Albert Aguayo, world renowned neuroscientist and ex-President of IBRO and Dr. Richard Riopelle, Chief of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the McGill University Health Complex. Our immediate sources of funding include CIDA, Kremlin, IBRO etc...
With a McGill and University of Toronto chapter in place, we would be happy if you could find fellow students who would be interested in forming chapters at other universities. As soon as that is done, Dr. Riopelle would contact his colleagues/your professors at your school introducing the chapter and our initiative. We are hoping that student involvement can drive this project forward - we students have the time and passion to do some of the legwork (fundraising, locating resources, etc...). We are contacting the neuroscience and psychology undergraduate and graduate students and their organizations at schools all over Canada and in the US in order to create a chapter of the organization. Would you be interested? Please join to save lives, to change lives.
http://projects.takingitglobal.org/kbnf
http://www.kbnf.org
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