GEC Staff, Board of Directors, and Volunteers came together in September for our annual meeting in lovely Seattle! We’re thinking the stereotype of rainy gray Seattle is a lie fabricated to keep people away – we had sunny weather the…
On April 5, 2018, Dr. Heather Hammerstedt, GEC's Executive Director, appeared on the Hippocratic Hustle podcast to talk about her start in global health and how GEC came to be. Hippocratic Hustle is a podcast created by Carrie Reynolds, MD where women…
Written by: Heather Hammerstedt MD, Executive Director This year was a landmark year for Uganda and for our GEC executive team and Ugandan trainers and staff. For a decade, our GEC volunteers and staff in the US and in…
"By putting some money into a horizontal program, like emergency care, that touches on all specialties, [you] can really strengthen the whole health care system itself." GEC Executive Director, Dr. Heather Hammerstedt, was recently interviewed on EM:RAP - the Emergency Medicine…
Please join us for a benefit for Global Emergency Care (GEC). We're raising funds to educate emergency medical providers to save lives, and to help build an effective emergency medicine system in Uganda. Obec Brewing is a 10 barrel brewery…
We are honored and humbled to receive recognition from the honorable U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren for our 10 years of work building emergency care systems and saving lives in Uganda. Give today and be an integral part of saving thousands…
" I am most proud of the Emergency Care Practitioners because they are the first line for severely sick patients and they know they can save lives when empowered to do so." Dr. Stacey Chamberlain is one of the co-founders of…
"I am so proud and amazed by all that our ECPs have done and the number of lives that they have saved. They are each remarkable individuals and they are part of a movement to improve access to emergency care…
10. National Council Higher Education (NCHE) approval of ECP curriculum - The Uganda NCHE provided the official approval of the Emergency Practitioner Diploma program at Mbarara University (MUST) after many years of effort. 9. Published 10 articles on the need and methods…
We are honored to receive a commendation letter from the honorable Gov. Charles Baker of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for our 10 years of service training Emergency Care Practitioners, treating over 70,000 patients, and saving lives in Uganda.