Hello, I'm looking to make contact with any blind medical doctors practicing in the US. I have a new consumer who was an MD in another country. The individual can't send e mail yet so I want to collect some resources for him to call. If you know of any blind doctors, or even nurses, please pass on my e mail address. I would like him to be able to return to his practice if he chooses and not think that the onset of blindness has to keep him from it. Many thanks, Jane Lansaw NOMC
Jane, Stanley Wineapple (not sure if I've got the right spelling) addressed the general session at our national convention several years ago. He was in charge of rehab medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY at the time. He has very likely retired from that job but the national center may have his contact information. I met a blind physician assistant at a Ski for Light event a few years ago and will see if I can find his name somewhere. Good luck. Sumara From: NOMC [mailto:nomc-bounces at lists.nbpcb.org] On Behalf Of Lansaw,Jane (DARS) Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 11:21 AM To: NOMC at lists.nbpcb.org Subject: [Nomc] blind MD. Hello, I'm looking to make contact with any blind medical doctors practicing in the US. I have a new consumer who was an MD in another country. The individual can't send e mail yet so I want to collect some resources for him to call. If you know of any blind doctors, or even nurses, please pass on my e mail address. I would like him to be able to return to his practice if he chooses and not think that the onset of blindness has to keep him from it. Many thanks, Jane Lansaw NOMC This E-mail, including any attachments, may be intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the sender and recipient(s) named above. This message may include advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material and, as such, would be privileged and confidential and not a public document. Any Information in this e-mail identifying a client of the Department of Human Services or the Department of Children and Families is confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not review, transmit, convert to hard copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it and you must delete this message. You are requested to notify the sender by return e-mail.
Jane: I don't know whether this is a warm lead or a cold one, but about 5 years ago Iowa Department for the Blind was working with a young blind man toward getting his MD. His name was Tim Cordes, and he was doing his medical training at University of Wisconsin. IDB's house magazine, The White Cane, had an article about him back then, and he was featured speaker at an Orientation Center alumni banquet, if my memory serves me right. I had not heard of him since he was in his final year of med school, but I did a little Google search and it seems he now is a pediatric cardiologist at Riley Hospital for Children at University of Indiana Health Care in Indianapolis. He has had some affiliation with NFB in the past, so I expect he would be helpful to your consumer. I hope that is so. Jonathan Ice From: NOMC [mailto:nomc-bounces at lists.nbpcb.org] On Behalf Of Lansaw,Jane (DARS) Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 9:21 AM To: NOMC at lists.nbpcb.org Subject: [Nomc] blind MD. Hello, I'm looking to make contact with any blind medical doctors practicing in the US. I have a new consumer who was an MD in another country. The individual can't send e mail yet so I want to collect some resources for him to call. If you know of any blind doctors, or even nurses, please pass on my e mail address. I would like him to be able to return to his practice if he chooses and not think that the onset of blindness has to keep him from it. Many thanks, Jane Lansaw NOMC
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