{"id":24645,"date":"2010-11-15T08:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=24645"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:40:29","slug":"head-of-emergency-medicine-returns-from-latest-disaster-relief-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/11\/head-of-emergency-medicine-returns-from-latest-disaster-relief-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Emergency Medicine Returns from Latest Disaster Relief Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24687\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fuller_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24687 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"Dr. Robert Fuller, head of emergency medicine at the Health Center, is a volunteer with the International Medical Corp.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fuller_lg-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Dr. Robert Fuller, head of emergency medicine at the Health Center, is a volunteer with the International Medical Corp. Photo provided by the UConn Health Center&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fuller_lg-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/fuller_lg.jpg 401w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 240px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 240\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Robert Fuller, head of emergency medicine at the Health Center, is a volunteer with the International Medical Corp. Photo provided by the UConn Health Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Robert Fuller, head of emergency medicine at the Health Center, has just returned from an emergency response trip to St. Lucia, after Hurricane Tomas caused severe damage throughout the island. Fuller, a physician-volunteer with the International Medical Corp (IMC), was deployed a week ago to run the IMC\u2019s emergency response effort, after the hurricane damaged a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Despite landslides that severely damaged roads and access to affected communities, the emergency response team helped deliver healthcare, water\/sanitation, and hygiene assistance to the more than 65,000 residents affected by the disaster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lack of running water is likely to continue for some time,\u201d said Fuller. \u201cFood supplies in many of the areas are also low. Our team is distributing food and water, in addition to blankets, clothing, and tarps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Medical Corps helped equip St. Jude Hospital\u2019s temporary facility, which serves an estimated 66,000, with donated medicine, supplies, and critical equipment. The team has also been training hospital staff.<\/p>\n<p>Fuller has taken part in several disaster relief efforts in recent years. In another IMC mission, he was among the first physicians to arrive in Port-au-Prince following the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January. In 2004, he travelled to Indonesia after the tsunami that killed 300,000 people. Fuller also took a sabbatical from the Health Center last year to work in Ecuador. He provided his emergency medicine expertise in an inner-city hospital in the country\u2019s biggest city, Guayaquil, whose patients are mostly poor and underserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Health Center&#8217;s Dr. Fuller joined the emergency response in St. Lucia after Hurricane Tomas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-24645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 12:08:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37198,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24645\/revisions\/37198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=24645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}