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January 28, 2010

More local teams depart for Haiti

A crew of 22 doctors, nurses and other health professionals from the University of Maryland Medical Center and the University of Maryland School of Medicine departed for Haiti this afternoon with plenty of medical supplies and medications.

The group, which is working with Catholic Relief Services, includes surgical staff from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and four infectious disease specialists from the University of Maryland Institute of Human Virology. They'll spend more than a week working at St. Francois de Sales hospital in Port-au-Prince, which was badly damaged in the earthquake.

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Meredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends. Her aim is to bring you the latest news and information from the local and national medical and wellness communities.

Andrea K. Walker knows it’s weird to some people, but she has a fascination with fitness, diseases, medicine and other health-related topics. She subscribes to a variety of health and fitness magazines and becomes easily engrossed in the latest research in health and science. An exercise fanatic, she’s probably tried just about every fitness activity there is. Her favorites are running, yoga and kickboxing. So it is probably fitting that she has been assigned to cover the business of healthcare and to become a regular contributor to this blog. Andrea has been at The Sun for nearly 10 years, covering manufacturing, retail , airlines and small and minority business. She looks forward to telling readers about the latest health news.

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