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Elinor Catherine Hamlin, AC, FRCS, FRANZCOG, FRCOG (née Nicholson; 24 January 1924 – 18 March 2020) was an Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist who, with her husband, New Zealander Reginald Hamlin, co-founded the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the world's only medical centre dedicated exclusively to providing free obstetric fistula repair surgery to poor women with childbirth injuries. [1]
In 1958, Catherine and Reginald Hamlin answered an advertisement in The Lancet for an obstetrician and gynaecologist to establish a midwifery school at the Princess Tsehay Hospital in Addis Ababa. They arrived in Addis Ababa in 1959 on a three-year contract with the Ethiopian government, but only trained about 10 midwives when the government ...
The film tells the story of five Ethiopian women treated by Dr. Hamlin and her staff at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. PBS's NOVA is the other major sponsor of the documentary. [70] In 2016, Comedian Louis C.K. won $50,000 for the Fistula Foundation on the Jeopardy! "Power Players" edition. [71]
Although S.C. OB-GYN was an independent practice, it was housed on Prisma Health-Midlands’ campus, and the doctors used Baptist Hospital on Taylor Street for births. ... Prisma Health was formed ...
Dr Catherine Hamlin at the Hamlin Fistula Hospital, Ethiopia 2009. Photo: Lucy Horodny, AusAID; Camera manufacturer: SONY: Camera model: DSC-W150: Exposure time: 1/30 sec (0.033333333333333) F-number: f/3.5: ISO speed rating: 500: Date and time of data generation: 19:01, 16 January 2009: Lens focal length: 6.9 mm: Latitude: 0° 0′ 0″ N ...
In 1972, physicians from Columbia Orthopaedic Group joined with a number of other physicians from around Columbia to build Columbia Regional Hospital. Construction began after the land was purchased on February 7, 1972, and the new Columbia Regional Hospital and 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m 2 ) orthopedic clinic to the south opened in 1974.
The flagship hospital of MU Health Care, University Hospital, is a 247-bed facility located in Columbia, Missouri. [1] The hospital's physicians and staff cared for 19,096 hospital patients Fiscal Year 2009. [2]
It is popularly called the "Gray Journal". Since 1920, AJOG has continued the American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children, which began publishing in 1868. AJOG has been Medline-indexed since 1965. The current editors-in-chief are Catherine Bradley, MD, MSCE & Roberto Romero, MD, DMedSci. [1]