Location

I'm willing to help wherever my skills can be useful. Following is my relevant training/experience (click "read more" to see it on the home page):

MEDICAL:

-Completed my first year (out of 4 years) of graduate medical school (University of Sydney, Australia)

-Bachelor's degree in Medicinal Chemistry with minors in biology, medical physics, and radioenvironmental sciences (University of Missouri, USA).

-2 years experience at a microbiology lab (primarily with processing sputum specimens) - I could volunteer to process samples (i.e. Gram stains, etc.) to help control the infections that are undoubtedly rampant.

-Familiar with surgical technique through 1 year experience as a recovery technician at an eye bank, during which I was responsible for extracting eyes or ocular tissue from recently-deceased organ donors.

TECHNOLOGY/non-medical:

-Substantial experience in web design/development and graphics design/image processing.

-Able to help set up hardware infrastructure.

-Experienced blogger and freelance writer - I could help maintain some of the PR sites that exist to recruit volunteers and collect donations. There also seems to be a shortage of people who can report on the goings-on in Port-au-Prince in an online news format.

-Languages: English (proficient), Urdu/Hindi (fluent), Spanish (semi-fluent)

SUMMARY

Able to do the following:

-Basic medical work (I'm only 25% of a full doctor)

-Microbiology lab work

-Medical/Surgical assisting

-Diverse array of technology-related work, including web design and graphics design.

-Writing/blogging