Who are the health care professionals involved?
In September 2002 the team included four gynecologists from the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology: Dr. Mary Lake Polan, MD, PhD, MPH, Eritrean Women’s Health Project Leader and Founder and Professor and Chair of the Stanford Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (pictured in center); Dr. Amreen Husain, MD, Assistant Professor of Stanford Gynecologic Oncology (pictured second from left); Dr. Joelle Osias, MD (pictured third from right); Dr. Carol Glowacki, MD (pictured second from right) and one gyn-oncologist from Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Clifford R. Wheeless Jr.,MD (pictured at far right). 2002 Fistula Repair Team In February of 2004, the team returned to Eritrea to continue their work training the physicians in Eritrea to do fistula repair, this time in the city of Massawa. The team consisted of Dr. Mary Lake Polan, Dr. Amreen Husain, Dr. Bertha Chen and Dr. Chad Hamilton from the Stanford University Department of Obstetrics and Gyn