FEATURE
>BY CHRISTOPHER HANN
(Left to right, lower row): Professor of Nursing G. Elaine Patterson, Runa Khanom ’13, Whitney Gordon ’13, Kaitlyn Francese ’12, Chris McKenna ’12, Florence Dorwie ’10. (Left to right, back row): Jessica Catena ’12, Ken Rodenheiser ’12, Christina Vega ’13 and, Avani Rakholia ’14 with Holy Rosary School students during the Sierre Leone trip. Photo credit: Kathy Burke
Leone Sierra
Ramapo College students travel to Sierra Leone on a study abroad program designed to introduce them to a health care system very different from anything they had been exposed to.
Above: A native of Sierre Leone and a nurse practitioner at ColumbiaPresbyterian Hospital in New York City, Florence Dorwie (left) works with Kaitlyn Francese ’12 (right) to check a patient’s blood sugar at Freetown Health Clinic. (L-R): Ken Rodenheiser ’12, Jessica Catena ’12, Avani Rakholia ’12, Bo Hospital doctor, Kaitlyn Francese ’12 and Professor of Nursing G. Elaine Patterson observed a C-section at Bo Hospital.
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Ramapo College Magazine Winter 2012