The article “Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery (GICS) Pediatric Trauma Care Initiative: A Call for a Comprehensive Approach to a Global Problem” by Abdelbasit E. Ali , Adesoji Ademuyiwa, Simone …
Family Support Working Group
MISSION STATEMENT
Supporting all patients born with congenital surgical correctable diseases and their families across the globe.
Goal #1
Magnifying voices of all the different groups on the GICS website.
Goal #2
Trying to bring support groups of similar diseases together.
Goal #3
Encourage web based meetings of the working group.
LATEST GICS UPDATES
Several GICS Members have published a new paper Action against birth defects: if not now, when? The authors are: Kathleen Strong, Judith Robb-McCord, Salimah Walani, Cecilia Mellado, Lorenzo D. Botto, …
We are excited to announce a low-cost surgical simulator competition that will occur during GICS V, in collaboration with the WHO Safe and Affordable Surgery Group and the WHO …
Facilitator
Corne de Vos
Facilitator
Disease-specific support groups are an important part of the long emotional road for patients and their families. The GICS Family Support Working Group aims to bring all these different diseases together to accomplish their goals.
Members
Waleed Abdalla
Moruf Abdulsalam
Corne de Vos
Jenny Garcia Castaneda
Julie Harrington
Regina Ibeafu
Dawn Marie Ireland
Ala Khalid
Allan Kochi
Geetika Mittal
Amabelle Moreno
Cecilia Patton-Bolman
Beverly Power
Meghan Rauen
Hanan Said
Santosh Singh
Maz Spruce
