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Business And Capacity Development - A Blueprint For Progress In Myanmar

June 18, 2018
Originally published on Wouter Van Wersch’s LinkedIn. Wouter is the President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific. 
Since my first trip to Myanmar in 2013, I’ve been fascinated by its history, culture, and drive to “open up” since modernization reforms were announced in 2011.
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How To Get Boston Kids Into Science And Math? Call The Celtics.

Kristin Kloberdanz
January 01, 2018
Almost every day, 13-year-old Valerie Cameron-Goodwin carries a wooden business card etched with her name, email address and dream job: surgeon. She’s proud of what this card says — and prouder still that she made it herself using an industrial-grade laser cutter in a 32-by-8-foot trailer parked by her middle school’s front door.
“At first it was confusing — how can you create something on a computer and then transfer it to a machine?” says the eighth-grader. “But then it all made sense, and it was so exciting watching my design get carved on the wood.”
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Saving Mothers: ‘No Woman Should Die Giving Life,’ Safe Surgery Partners Stress

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2017
When a pregnant woman in New York City or London goes into labor, her family typically calls her doctor and summons a cab, and they all head to a hospital. Yeshialem Endalew, a 24-year-old teacher living in the Ethiopian highlands, didn’t have it so easy. Her husband drove more than 60 miles to a rural clinic so she could give birth to their first child. As arduous as the trip was, it saved the baby and her life.
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GE Completes Equipment Commissioning In Three Major Hospitals In Yangon, Myanmar

August 24, 2017
The Government of Myanmar has been hard at work to improve access and quality of health. Since March 2011, a series of far reaching reforms were introduced and undertaken.
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GE Is Helping Med Students Fight The Opioid Crisis In Its New Hometown

Maggie Sieger
August 23, 2017
Kelli Gills knew she wanted to be a doctor from the time she was a little girl. She remembers demanding that her mother let her “check her heart” and ultimately convincing her mom to buy her the game Operation. It wasn’t just the thrill of beating the buzzer set off by any wrong move that attracted her to the game — it was the sense of helping.
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The Fixer: Rebuilding Medical System In Cambodia Includes A Lesson In Mechanics

Bruce Watson
June 28, 2017
It was almost midnight Dec. 7, 2015 when Phil Camillocci got off a plane in Phnom Penh, Cambodia — the last leg of a 20-hour journey from West Palm Beach, Florida. He was carrying a large suitcase packed with a few days’ worth of clothes and a bunch of used medical equipment. Then the weary traveler saw his ground transportation.
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Ready For Takeoff: This Apprentice Program Is Launching Jobs In A Jet Engine Factory For High School Kids

Maggie Sieger
April 25, 2017
The Hydes' oldest daughter is an IT business analyst, their son is a computer engineer, and their youngest daughter will be studying art and psychology. Scott Reynolds’ daughters, both of whom were at the top of their classes in high school and college, now work in education, one as a teacher and the other as an operations manager for a national charter school network. When they were young, their father showed them a profile American Girl magazine had written about their grandmother’s career at GE.
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The Sumatran Rhino: A Sad Day For The Wild And How We All Have A Part To Play

September 04, 2015
Recently, the Sumatran Rhino was sadly declared extinct from the wilds of Malaysia. This wonderful animal that once inhabited rainforests from India right through the Asian Pacific is now limited to a critically endangered population in the jungles of Indonesia.
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Alicia Bonner Ness: Saving Lives with Access to Emergency Care, Anesthesia and Safe Surgery

Alicia Bonner Ness The New Global Citizen
June 09, 2015

Building a safe surgical infrastructure worldwide can save more than 17 million lives a year.

 

I remember with absolute clarity the moments before and after my appendix was removed. The procedure, performed laparoscopically, with a tiny laser and laparoscope inserted into my abdomen, took less than two hours and, once healed, left no scar. I was allowed to remain in the hospital for the rest of the day as I gradually regained my strength and, that evening, I was discharged.
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World’s Most Dangerous Airport Becomes a Toehold for Aid after Nepal Earthquakes

May 27, 2015
Lukla’s Tenzing-Hillary Airport has been called the world’s most dangerous landing strip. It’s now also one of Nepal’s busiest.
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