William Douglas, Lindsay Katona and Sean Lena receive Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Fellowship Award to conduct research on first-aid in Sudan
William Douglas, MSI I, Lindsay Katona, MS I, and Sean Lena, MS I, have been awarded the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Fellowship Award in the amount of $9,000 for their project, 鈥淭he Delivery and Evaluation of a First Aid Training Program in the River Kit Region of South Sudan.鈥
Douglas, Katona, and Lena will travel to Sudan this summer to conduct a pre/post research project to determine knowledge, skills and attitudes regarding first-aid training for the South Sudan village community members that participate in the training. The grant will be administered by UNECOM鈥檚 Department of Geriatric Medicine.