Welcome to GEMINI
                     Global Emergency Medicine Initiative

                                    


With a Mission to improve the quality of Emergency Medicine
     in developing countries around the world

                        A Collaborative Rotary International Service Project
GEMINI Resources

                          
                 
                Providing  Training, Expertise and Equipment

Disaster Preparedness and Response
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

                                                   Primary Sponsors                                                

Rotary International District 7910


Rotary Club of  Westborough 
Westborough, Massachusetts USA

University of Massachusetts Medical School, (UMMS)
Worcester, Massachusetts USA


Rotary Clubs, Medical facilities and Governments
of participating countries

     Click here to go to YouTube  and see a brief video on the origins of GEMINI

     Click here for a comprehensive presentation on GEMINI

     Here is a comprehensive overview of international emergency medicine
     and Project  GEMINI. Click here for Part 1.   Click here for Part 2
 
     Read about opportunities for your club and its members. We want
     YOU! Just click here.
     Here is the GEMINI Model Framework, a guide to setting up a project
     and  a  good window on how GEMINI works in Rotary, medical and host
     country communities.

     Use GEMINI's Project Application Form and return it to Paul Gallagher for a new project.      

 

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  News...

GEMINI's Dominican Republic project was featured in the January 11, 2011, UMASSMedNow newsletter, 'Teach a man to fish...and to provide advanced cardiac life support'. Be sure to read this wonderful story -- a great intro to GEMINI and its UMass participants.

On Tuesday, March 20, 2012, the Worcester Telegram and Gazette published a feature front page story on GEMINI, focusing on its Guyana and an earlier Armenia Project.  Click here to read it.




With the support of Ovid Fraser's matching grant for Guyana, a team, including distinguished EMS instructors, went to Georgetown, Guyana, on January 29, 2012, for five days of training  The project is to train teachers to teach prehospital emergency medicine skills to classes of first responder personnel.  The trip includes a GEMINI 'first', a flash drive for students which includes instructional materials, EMS resources, and much more....

This is a very important part  of what we expect to be the Guyana Ministry of Health's program to establish of a modern prehospital service.  Check out the Guyana page to learn more, including bios of the medical team.

Here are photos from the Guyana trip.

Read a project report in GEMINI's brand new newsletter

Members of the original team will be returning to Guyana at the end of May to continue to upgrade teacher skills.


New Trip Photos

Click  here to see images from the April, 2011, Nicaragua training program.

Click here to enjoy a set of photos taken on GEMINI's October 2010 trip to the Domincan Republic

Click here to see some vintage photos from a 2003 trip to Honduras.

The Rotary Club of Westborough is an energetic and growing club that is involved not only in being the primary sponsor of GEMINI, but extremely active in its community, as seen in these photos from its highly successful 2012 Westborough Spring Festival. Click here to see our Spring Festival Photo archive . It provides an inside look at the good work of an active Rotary club.

  General Information
 
   Project  Documents
   Steering  Committee
   Directors and Officers
    

  Host Country Projects

     Armenia
     Dominican Republic
     Guatemala
     Guyana
     Honduras
     Nicaragua

   Sponsor Links

 UMMS
 District 7910
 Westborough Rotary Club
 Northborough Rotary Club
 Southborough Rotary Club
 Milford Rotary Club
 Gardner Rotary Club
 Athol-Orange Rotary Club

Calendar of Events 

Photo Gallery

Newsletters -- New!


Links and Resources
(English and Espanol)
 
Member Materials -- Minutes, Program Archive


GEMINI is highly visible at events such as the 2012 Westborough Spring Festival

Please Join or Support GEMINI. We welcome resources -- volunteers, medical professionials,  equipment,  financial contributions..........We're happy to discuss GEMINI at your Rotary Club . Contact Ron Goodenow (ron.goodenow@gmail.com) and we'll  work with you on a time and speaker.


We are still  building this new web site so check back often.......
  
Contacts: 

Paul H. Gallagher, International Service Director, Westboro Rotary Club, District 7910, 386 West Main Street, Northborough, MA 01532, U.S.A., Phone: 508 393 7900, Fax: 508 393 9622 Email: paulgallagherg@gmail.com

Jorge L.Yarzebski, M.D., M.P.H., International Service Co-Director, Westborough Rotary Club, District 7910,
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA 01655, U.S.A., Phone: 508 856 5176, Fax: 508 856 0058, E-mail: Jorge.Yarzebski@umassmed.edu

The site edited by Westborough Rotarian, and Gemini Steering Committee and Board of Directors member Ron Goodenow, Ph.D., ron.goodenow@gmail.com   508-393-5619. The site is hosted by GEMINI friend Matthew Von-Maszewski, matthewv@matthewv.com

The site was last revised on April 15, 2012