November 19, 2007

Walsh and Trent to Report on Burma-Thai Refugees

Memphis- Meredith Walsh and Andrew Trent will be speaking at Christian Brothers University (CBU) about their experiences on the Burma-Thai border, working with internally displaced individuals, on Thursday, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. in Assisi Hall (formerly Science Building), Room 153. They will be sharing their first-hand experiences at the Mao Tao Clinic.

Walsh, a native Memphian, has been working with refugees in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) for two years and was previously a member of the Peace Corps. She is a Minority Health International Research Training (MHIR) participant and served as a MHIRT summer research mentor for Andrew Trent, a second year medical student from the University of Tennessee at Memphis, this past summer.

The event is open to the public. For further information, please contact Dr. Malinda Fitzgerald at (901) 321-3262 or malinda@cbu.edu.  ###