Louisville Medicine Volume 67, Issue 3 | Page 28

ALLIANCE NEWS GLMS ALLIANCE NEWS AUTHOR Debi McDonald The GLMS Alliance exists to promote support among physician families and better the health and wellness of our community through supporting local charities. Together we live a life unique to the challenges and rewards of being a physician family. If you are a physician or the spouse/child/parent of a physician, please JOIN US! For more information, visit the Alliance link on the GLMS.org website. Rhonda Rhodes assisting with ultrasound Sherry Coons (right) and Dr. Stokes with Kaka (left), Whispers' HR Manager. Dr. Michelle Elisberg, a.k.a. Doc Shelley, un- packing SOS supplies. GLMS ALLIANCE GOES GLOBAL ONCE AGAIN! Five members of the GLMSA adventured out onto a 17-day medical mission trip on June 24th to Jinja, Uganda. Working with Whispers Children's (and Maternity) Hospital, the same children's hospital that received our member-sponsored Supplies Over Seas (SOS) shipment in May this year, the hospital saw over 600 children and women in the time we were there. We worked in the hospital as well as in outreaches in small villages three hours away. Arriving in Entebbe, Uganda, after 28 hours of travel. 26 GLMS Alliance with SOS hand carry medical supplies LOUISVILLE MEDICINE Dr. Gini Stokes (OB/GYN) and Debi McDonald welcomes a new infant in the Whispers Children's Maternity Department.