Oklahoma Foundation for Orthopedic Health

The Oklahoma Foundation for Orthopedic Health (OFOH) is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, established in 1996. The OFOH promotes a higher standard of care through innovative research, education and treatments focusing on orthopedic and arthritis care.

The OFOH is dedicated to developing a higher standard of patient care in the medical community by:

• Creating an expanded interest in and understanding of medicine and specialty areas including orthopedics, hand, microvascular surgery, foot/ ankle, spine, sports medicine, and rheumatology.
• Providing continuing medical education opportunities for health professionals through lectures, workshops, and conferences; patient education through public service lectures, classes, videos, and free educational materials; and educational research opportunities for physicians and medical students.

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Local orthopedic surgeons to leave for Haiti

BY SUSAN SIMPSON The Oklahoman Comments 0 Published: January 28, 2010

A group of orthopedic surgeons and staff plans to travel to Haiti next week to perform surgeries on earthquake victims.

What is needed

Donations of money or supplies can be made through the Oklahoma Foundation for Orthopedic Health, a nonprofit organization. Visit 1044 SW 44, or call 609-6150 or 609-6019 to contribute. Items needed include: medications (especially antibiotics), bandages, gowns, gloves, needles, syringes, a suction machine, gauze, orthopedic braces, retractors, bone clamps, hemostats, scalpels and blades, surgical scissors, sutures, casting supplies, paper supplies, orthopedic tools and implants, external fixation equipment, pens and office supplies.

Dr. Houshang Seradge said he is among employees of the Orthopedic Institute in southwest Oklahoma City who will leave as soon as Monday for Haiti. They were asked by the nonprofit Double Harvest to help treat patients with orthopedic injuries.

Double Harvest supports a tilapia farm, school and clinic in eastern Haiti. Although far from the earthquake site, they will care for orphans and others who fled Port-au-Prince.

"Fishermen are being trained to do stitching and operating,” Seradge said. "They’ve turned two classrooms into operating rooms.”

Seradge and several others from the Orthopedic Institute will be gone about 10 days, he said.

Seradge has never been to Haiti but has experience in treating severe trauma. He treated patients after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, including a woman who suffered 108 broken bones.

Seradge is asking Oklahomans and other medical professionals to donate money and supplies for the trip. The team plans to take with them medicines, braces, surgical instruments, orthopedic implants and supplies.

Read more: http://www.newsok.com/article/3435215?searched=haiti&custom_click=search#ixzz0dvemfWmG