Pritzker News
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine REMEDY Chapter Honored with National Award of Excellence
REMEDY members Renee Rodriguez, John Paro, Randy Sweis, Rohit Puranik, Martin Anderson, John Lee, Annie Dude, Karl Balch with the surgeons at the Hospital General Policia Nacional in Santo Domingo, DR
January 11, 2008—The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine chapter of REMEDY (Recovering Medical Supplies for the Developing World) has been named the Outstanding Program in the Country by the National Office of REMEDY. Pritzker’s chapter will receive the award at the First Annual REMEDY Spring Fling and Global Impact Awards on April 5, 2008 in Connecticut.
The Outstanding REMEDY Program Award recognizes the REMEDY chapter that demonstrates excellence in programming, strength in membership, and a continued dedication to helping those in the developing world by recovering medical supplies in the community. Pritzker’s REMEDY group was selected from more than 600 programs nationwide to receive the inaugural honor.
REMEDY member Rohit Puranik helps conduct a mother and child health survey in Batey 1
Of their goals, the REMEDY UChicago mission statement notes, “We are…dedicated to relieving the health disparities of third world countries. Our focus is to recover and collect medicine and medical supplies in the U.S. and to distribute these goods to needy populations. In doing so we experience and witness the health disparities in these countries, and understand these issues in order to ultimately become health advocates by educating our community.”
Just some of the thousands of medications REMEDY UChicago brought to clinics in the Dominican Republic
REMEDY UChicago will travel to Peru this summer to continue their work. To learn more about the organization and their accomplishments, please visit http://remedyuchicago.org/ and the University of Chicago Medical Center’s website. A feature story on REMEDY UChicago can be found on the University's website.
