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Jason Harlow

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About Jason Harlow

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Manager (Site/Facility, Program, Project)

Organization

  • Massachusetts General Hospital - MGH
    Website: http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest in New England. The 900-bed medical center offers sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care in virtually every specialty and subspecialty of medicine and surgery. Each year, MGH admits more than 46,000 inpatients and handles nearly 1.5 million outpatient visits at its main campus and at its four health centers: in the Back Bay, Charlestown, Chelsea and Revere. Its Emergency Department records nearly 80,000 visits annually. MGH is the only hospital in the United States to hold concurrent Level 1 verification for adult and pediatric trauma and burn care. The surgical staff performs more than 35,000 operations and the MGH Vincent Obstetrics Service delivers more than 3,500 babies each year.

Work Location(s)

  • United States

Jason's Communities

Language(s)

  • English

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    Jason Harlow replied to "Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Resource-Limited Settings" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

    Thank you, Maggie. We just added a third speaker to the program - Dr. Julianna Schantz-Dunn from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women's Hospital will be joining us to add her perspective on service delivery at Kiwoko Hospital in Luwero, Uganda. Please join us for a great afternoon seminar and discussion.

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    Jason Harlow replied to "Rwanda Human Resources for Health - recruiting surgical faculty" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.

    The MGH Center for Global Health has also posted this opportunity (and a similar one for pediatrics) on our website. http://www.massgeneralcenterforglobalhealth.org/how-to-get-involved/other-opportunities/ All the best, Jason

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    Jason Harlow started a discussion "Upcoming Seminar -- The Elephant in the (Operating) Room: Surgery, Anesthesia and Critical Care in Uganda and Rwanda" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.

    Please join the Center for Global Health at the Massachusetts General Hospital for a discussion of surgery, anesthesia and critical care in resource-limited settings. Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. O'Keeffe Auditorium Blake Building - 1st Floor Massachusetts General Hospital Speakers: Paul Firth Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Peter Fagenholz Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care Massachusetts General Hospital Robert Riviello Department of Surgery ...

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    Jason Harlow started a discussion "Internet Connectivity Speeds" in the Health IT community.

    Our academic research collaboration in rural southwest Uganda is facing a critical challenge in internet connectivity and bandwidth. Currently, the collaboration spends USD1500 (subsidized by the ISP for our non-profit academic institution) per month for 512kbps; approximately 45 users or host machines are connected at any given time. The collaboration relies heavily on an on-line research database which requires a relatively fast connection for data entry and data analysis and on a digital document scanner ...

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