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BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
SHE was not born here, but Dr Heather Miller — younger daughter of the late Olympian Dr Lennox Valencia "Billy" Miller — feels very Jamaican.
"I have always felt a great connection to Jamaica. I am definitely happy to be here," Dr Miller told the Jamaica Observer in an interview last Wednesday, before leaving her hotel to start preparing for surgery on patients at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine.
Dr Miller is part of the 35-member medical and educational team arranged by the Jamaica Awareness Association of California, which comes to Jamaica annually to do surgeries and other medical procedures at select institutions.
An obstetrician and gynaecologist, California-based Dr Miller is on her first such mission and is excited about the visit and making mental plans to return.
"It's something that I have always wanted to do. Part of my mission in life is to help. I just feel that there is a need here for surgeries and because my dad is from Jamaica I said it was perfect to have that kind of combination.
"The Jamaica Awareness Association of California, over the past 10-15 years, has built a programme where they come to Jamaica and do medical, educational, dental and now surgical missions. They have a great partnership with Annotto Bay Hospital, and now Victoria Jubilee Hospital and Spanish Town Hospital, working with local doctors to do laparoscopy surgeries, gynae and general surgery.
"I would love to do this every year, I would like to make it as my yearly trip to Jamaica. They are doing such an amazing job with this association, touching on areas of Jamaican life that we can help improve," the practising doctor of 10 years said.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1xZgbZyAY
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
SHE was not born here, but Dr Heather Miller — younger daughter of the late Olympian Dr Lennox Valencia "Billy" Miller — feels very Jamaican.
"I have always felt a great connection to Jamaica. I am definitely happy to be here," Dr Miller told the Jamaica Observer in an interview last Wednesday, before leaving her hotel to start preparing for surgery on patients at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine.
Dr Miller is part of the 35-member medical and educational team arranged by the Jamaica Awareness Association of California, which comes to Jamaica annually to do surgeries and other medical procedures at select institutions.
An obstetrician and gynaecologist, California-based Dr Miller is on her first such mission and is excited about the visit and making mental plans to return.
"It's something that I have always wanted to do. Part of my mission in life is to help. I just feel that there is a need here for surgeries and because my dad is from Jamaica I said it was perfect to have that kind of combination.
"The Jamaica Awareness Association of California, over the past 10-15 years, has built a programme where they come to Jamaica and do medical, educational, dental and now surgical missions. They have a great partnership with Annotto Bay Hospital, and now Victoria Jubilee Hospital and Spanish Town Hospital, working with local doctors to do laparoscopy surgeries, gynae and general surgery.
"I would love to do this every year, I would like to make it as my yearly trip to Jamaica. They are doing such an amazing job with this association, touching on areas of Jamaican life that we can help improve," the practising doctor of 10 years said.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1xZgbZyAY
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