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Excited to have finished another successful trip this past week, and thankful for all who have made this possible! Atria Connected is happy to announce that we have one more group heading to tomorrow, and we are looking forward to their success :D

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A devastating earthquake of magnitude 5.9 hit Gros-Morne, Haiti and surrounding areas yesterday evening. 12 dead and 135 injured as of Sunday morning, but the total damage is still being assessed.

From what it sounds like, our friends at the Alma Mater Hospital have checked in and seem to be okay. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the affected Haitian community, and AtriaConnect stands strong with Haiti during this troubling time.

“The average life expectancy in Haiti is only 44 years, as most Haitians lack access to proper medical care and many providers lack the necessary resources to make proper diagnoses.“

This does not, and should not have to be the case.

Dr. Soni’s "Point of Care Ultrasound" educating providers in Project Haiti training program - The Bookmark Elsevier author, Dr. Nilam Soni donated copies of his book Point of Care Ultrasound, 1st Edition to the Alma Mater Hospital in Gros Morne, Haiti for use in their point-of-care ultrasound training program. The average life expectancy in Haiti is only 44 years, as most Haitians lack access to proper m...

We are happy to have Dr. Martin Rofael from Oakland, California, and student volunteer Klare Aziz from Portland, Oregon, join us for the second trip! Trip one was a big success, and we hope to continue making a difference!

Sonographer Victoria Vatsvåg completed her Bachelor's Degree in Radiography from University College of Bergen, Norway in 2005. The same year, she moved to Malawi where she worked for one year at a local hospital. Her job included running the hospital x-ray lab and traveling around the country teaching conventional x-ray to radiographers.

In 2007, Victoria moved to Dublin, Ireland, where she worked at a University Hospital and at the same time started her ultrasound studies. Over the course of five years she studied 7 ultrasound-related modules. Her clinical modules are general abdominal, gynaecological and vascular ultrasound.

In 2013, Victoria returned to Stavanger to start work at a private medical imaging clinic as a sonographer, and has stayed there since. As well as working full time with clinical ultrasound, she also has a second job as Training Manager for a small Stavanger based company.

Join Victoria and other physicians from across the United States in Project Haiti this fall! For more information, visit www.atriaconnect.org

UPDATE: We have successfully completed the first trip of 😍😍! A huge thanks to all of our volunteers and team members for their hard work and dedication towards improving Haiti’s healthcare for the better!

Thank you , , and all of our sponsors for making this possible!

The average life expectancy in Haiti is only 44 years. The top three causes of death can be prevented through proper point-of-care diagnosis. By providing valuable mentorship and continuous care to both medical staff and patients in Haiti, we hope to improve the health situation for the better.

Sonographer and Philips Representative Toni Burkett is teaching Dr. Mertyl how to interpret ultrasound images on the Samsung tablet, part of the setup. Dr. Mertyl is a family practitioner and OBGYN specialist at the Alma Mater Hospital, part of the POCUS Training Program.

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A huge shoutout to our amazing team as they continue onto day two of the first trip of !

UPDATE: We have passed the $30,000 donation milestone - $30,600 donated out of our goal of $36,900!!

We are excited as this brings us a huge step closer towards the launch of 😃

Please donate - every cent makes a difference! Every day, lives are lost to curable diseases due to lack of proper diagnosis or insufficient medical knowledge. Through Atria Connect’s Project Haiti, we will partner with a local Haitian hospital and provide medical staff/patients with resources, knowledge through seminars, and continued mentorship through our novel continuous care approach.

Thank you for all of your support!!

Enjoy an evening of virtuosic classical chamber and solo performances from different musical periods featuring the Daghlian Ensemble and pianist Michael Yao. This benefit concert is to support a medical charity co-founded by performers George Daghlian and Michael Yao called Atria Connect. Atria Connect focuses on bringing portable medical devices directly to underprivileged medical communities across the globe. Because Haiti’s average life expectancy is only 44 years and many of the leading causes of death are medically preventable, all proceeds from this concert will be used to send a team of 15 physicians to Haiti with portable ultrasound devices to teach local doctors on how to diagnose and treat these preventable illnesses. Help support their noble cause by attending this concert!

Tickets can be purchased at nocturne2018.com.

Thank you for your support!!

Dr. Danielson Jesper is a Swedish radiologist and has been Director of Capio St. Görans hospital ultrasound-unit since 2006. He received his specialization in radiology in 1999 and has concentrated on diagnostic abdominal ultrasound since 2002. Dr. Jesper has been teaching bedside ultrasound to non-radiologists, such as EM and critical care, since 2009. He’s also a co-founder of SonoSweden, a program dedicated to teaching diagnostic ultrasound in Sweden and Europe, and co-founder of the first ultrasound fellowship in Sweden.

We’d like to welcome Dr. Jesper to AtriaConnect’s team!

Dr. Karen Cosby is an emergency physician who practices and teaches at a large urban emergency department in Cook County, Chicago. She has focused her career work on Patient Safety and Point of Care Ultrasound, interests that augment each other well. She helped found the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Fellowship at Cook County Hospital in 2010, and is the lead editor for 2 editions of Practical Guide to Emergency Ultrasound - a major textbook in Point of Care ultrasound. She is interested in global health, and has had prior experience in teaching physicians in Rwanda.

She is eager to join the Atria team at an especially exciting time with the emergence of smaller, hand-held ultrasound devices that are especially promising for resource limited areas. We are just as excited to have her, and we look forward to her great work in !

Dr. Anna Maw is an academic hospitalist and board certified internist. She has been teaching point of care ultrasound since 2012 and uses it in her daily management of hospitalized patients at the University of Colorado, where she is a faculty member. She engages in health services research focused on the utility of lung ultrasound in the management of chronic heart failure.

We look forward to having Dr. Maw join the team for , where she will share life saving medical knowledge with the local community!

Dr. Sanjay Patel grew up in Ohio and graduated with a BS in Computer Science at Ohio State. He worked for about 2 years as a computer programmer but wanting to do something more personally fulfilling, he returned to medical school. Dr. Patel did his first 2 years of medical school in Luton (UK), wanting to get a new experience and live abroad. He finished his final 2 years of clinical clerkships in Chicago at various hospitals. He matched at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and has been there ever since, completing residency, chief residency and now his 5th year as an attending.

He currently serves as the Director of the Medical Procedure Service for the Hospital and the Ultrasound Curriculum. Dr. Patel works as a full-time attending hospitalist, doing all of his work on the teaching service and as a core faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency program. We are excited to announce that Dr. Patel will be apply his teaching and medical skills in , where he will join other volunteer physicians on the team to mentor and spread life saving knowledge to local physicians in developing countries.

Gigi Liu is a hospitalist and proceduralist in the Division of General Internal Medicine of Department of Medicine as well as the Department of Interventional Radiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Gigi has underwent extensive training in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in addition to tackling high-risk ultrasound guided procedures. She has been teaching POCUS locally and nationally with major medical societies, such as the American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians, and the Society of Hospital Medicine.

She is very interested in spreading the power of POCUS to the underserved and looks forward to the opportunity to increase access to health through POCUS with Atria Connect. We welcome Gigi to join us in making a difference with

Caroline Lund (MD) is a Norwegian doctor working in Fredrikstad, Norway. Her speciality is family medicine, but she has also worked in the gynecological department at her local hospital and developed a special interest in gynecology and obstetrics. She has used ultrasound in her diagnostics for 15 years. starting with gynecological and obstetric cases, and later expanding to using clinical ultrasound for most anything. Dr. Lund has been part of a group of Norwegian general practicing doctors who have been teaching other doctors in Norway clinical ultrasound - Point of Care Ultrasound - for ten years. She truly believes that bringing ultrasound technology to third world countries will make magnitudes of difference in the quality and price of health care received.

We are excited to have Dr. Lund join us as one of the physicians traveling to the Alma Mater Hospital for !

Rich Berkey, MD has worked as an Emergency Physician in Portland, Oregon for over 20 years. He incorporates Point of Care Ultrasound into daily practice, and looks forward to sharing knowledge and skills with Haitian providers.

We are excited to have Dr. Berle join us in making a difference with !

UPDATE: We are nearing our funding goal - $21,400 raised of $36,900 for launching Project Haiti! Please donate - every cent makes a difference!

Link: https://donorbox.org/atria-connect

WELCOME TO ATRIA CONNECT!

Atria is a nonprofit organization with the goal of connecting patients in low-income communities around the world with novel point-of-care devices, trained physicians, and continuity of care through Atrium Connect.

We are excited to be launching Project Haiti this upcoming fall! Haitians have access to fewer than 25 physicians per 100,000 individuals and only 25% of all births are attended by a healthcare professional.

During our Beta Trial, Project Haiti aims to make a difference by partnering with a local Haitian hospital, the Alma Mater Hospital in Gonaives. We will send in trained professional doctor volunteers with portable ultrasound devices to hold teaching seminars for local physicians. We will also focus on continuity of care by enrolling them in our online platform, where they can continue to learn more about the technology and connect with other mentors/physicians.

Through this project, we hope to provide the people of Haiti not only with short-term professional healthcare, but with a long-term, more sustainable method of continued medical education through a network of peer physicians and exposure to new technology/medical advancements.

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Atria Connect - Beta Trial | Atria Connect (powered by DonorBox)      While many doctors in the United States volunteer abroad in impoverished areas across the globe, there currently exists no streamlined method to coordinate volunteering trips to ensure that developing communities receive a continuity of care. After all, the ultimate goal to help these region...

Ricardo Henri is a young Haïtian physician (a general practitioner) who is actually working as a public service resident at Hospital Alma Mater in Gros-Morne (Gonaives, Haïti). He has been an active advocate for health for all and health equity. For him, this is necessary the best way of tackling and reducing the health disparities in and amongst the countries. He's been volunteering with various local and international organizations in the health field, working on mobile clinics, health education, peer to peer teaching and even translating - he speaks Haitian Creole, French and English.

He is extremely passionate about the magic of ultrasound, which is a low-cost and versatile imaging modality that would effectively help improve the healthcare in resources limited settings like Haïti. Since joining the effort for , he has contributed significantly in coordinating events on the Haïtian side. Learn more about how you can help make a difference too! (Link in bio)

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Dr. Nils Petter Oveland is a consultant at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Norway. His area of expertise is point-of-care diagnostics, especially pre-hospital use of mobile ultrasound machines.
In 2013, he finished his PhD looking at lung ultrasound detection of chest injuries. Based on his efforts, the national Air Ambulance Service of Norway has implemented point-of-care ultrasound into their helicopters and airplanes.

Dr Oveland is an inventor, author of scientific papers, host of international ultrasound congresses/courses and international speaker, and he has received multiple public and private grants as well as being a two-times winner of the Poster Prize for best research at the London Trauma Conference in 2012 and 2014.
In 2016, he started Prometheus Medical Nordic, an inventive medtech company providing emergency medical equipment and high-quality medical training courses for a wide audience; from the layperson to the healthcare professional.

We are excited to have Dr. Oveland join us for this fall! Learn more about how they will make a difference at AtriaConnect.org

For those of you who may be unaware, recent events in Haiti have been marked by civil unrest and protests in Port-au-Prince. Sparked by a rise in fuel prices, the unrest has shut down the Haitian capital, and the U.S. Embassy in Haiti has encouraged American citizens to take shelter.

The protests have understandably led to questions about Project Haiti, set to start this fall organized by Atria Connect.

I’d like to remind everyone that the guest hosts in Haiti, the private es**rt from Port-au-Prince to the Alma Mater Hospital, and all of the volunteers are making every effort to keep everyone as safe as possible and make it a pleasant and secure experience for all involved. Atria Connect’s priority first and foremost is to ensure the safety of its volunteers and additional personnel.

Project Haiti is currently set to start in the middle of September, which is approximately two months away. Atria Connect will do a preliminary assessment of the situation in Haiti in about a month at the beginning of August. Based on the situation in Haiti, we may elect to continue forward with the proposed start date, or delay the start of the project until the situation in Haiti has calmed. All options are currently on the table as we work to create a solution that best ensures the safety and wellbeing of our volunteers. A report will be publicly issued in August detailing our decision and associated rationale. As developments come to light, I’ll make sure to keep everyone updated as to how Atria Connect is responding.

Please join me in sending our prayers to the people of Haiti. May we hope that the conflict resolves soon and that the kind people are able to find peace.

Atria Connect firmly believes in the values of organizational transparency in our decision making. Should you have any questions about the steps we are taking to ensure volunteer safety, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].

Respectfully,

Michael Yao
Co-Founder of Atria Connect

A physician at Legacy Health based out of Oregon, Gordon Johnson specializes in General Point of Care Ultrasound, and Global Health, in addition to in-patient medicine and ambulatory emergency medicine. He has volunteered extensively abroad in the past, helping developing regions in Haiti, India, and other countries.

Dr. Johnson has played an integral role in putting together Project Haiti. As a Co-Founder and Chief Medical Advisor of Atria Connect, he has greatly helped in providing resources, media advertisement, and formation of the overall direction of the organization. Atria Connect thanks Dr. Johnson for his commitment to medicine and helping those in need.

Join Dr. Johnson and other physicians from across the United States in Project Haiti this fall! For more information, visit www.atriaconnect.org

UPDATE: Excited to be partnering with SonoSim to put together Project Haiti this fall!

The company will be putting together quality ultrasound training simulators and software! SonoSim is supporting Project Haiti with a simulator for both the Alma Mater Hospital in Haiti as well as for a group of student volunteers at the California Institute of Technology.

Looking forward to seeing the incredible things we’ll be doing with SonoSim!!

Learn more about them @ https://sonosim.com
Learn more about Atria and Project Haiti @ https://AtriaConnect.org