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2012

Two students of the graduate programme in Public Health at Cave Hill, Lisa Bishop and Lisa Brathwaite-Graham received funding of $5,000 to attend the 57th Caribbean Health Research Council Conference in the Cayman Islands.

Two students in the Faculty of Medicine received partial funding to pursue electives at the Nelson School of Medicine in South Africa. They were Tiffany Jordan and Kharija Mangera.

In October with the assistance of funding from the ACF Miss Beulah Beckles attended the 28th Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Nurses Organization held in Suriname.

Under its newly created $5,000 research scholarship fund the ACF awarded Principal Investigator Heather Hennis, Medical Lecturer Faculty of Medicine and her co-investigators. Professors Anselm Hennis and Michael Branday funding to investigate the readiness for self-directed learning among pre-clinical students in the MBBS programme at Cave Hill.

The winner of the annual ACF/COB $5,000 scholarship went to Krystal Boyea student of the Public Health Programme at Cave Hills’ Faculty of Medical Services.

2011

Sandra Beckles-Hackett was granted funding for occasional trips to her university to pursue an online MSc degree in Risk Management at the University of Wales at Bangor.

Two students Tanya Martelly and Walter Alleyne were awarded the ACF/COB prize to attend the Caribbean Health Research Conference in Guyana.

In association with Dr. Akor Kumar (Consultant Paediatrician and Dr. CJ Nicholls (Consultant Hematologist at the QEH, Dr. Kim Quimby a Ph.D Immunology student in the Faculty of Medicine was awarded a grant by the ACF to investigate the induction of Hemoglobin Scavenging Mechanisms in Hemolytic Conditions.

2010

The ACF committed funding to three staff members of the QEH who were all pursuing on-line training with periodic attendance at their Universities of Choice. They were: Mrs. Jennifer Daniel, a physical therapist, who was seeking a Ph.D degree in Human Services, specializing in Rehabilitation Counselling at Walden University, Chicago. The second recipient was a Health Planner at the QEH who was pursuing a Ph.D in Health Economics at the St. Augustine Campus. The third awardee was Dr. Heather Harewood, a Medical Officer in the polyclinic system who was pursuing a Doctorate in Public Health at the Faculty of Medicine Mona Campus, UWI.

Dr Alana Warren, a master’s degree qualified clinical psychologist, employed by the QEH was given a grant to attend a training programme for the diagnosing of autism soectrum disorders in children.

The ACF/ COB scholarship was awarded to Priscilla Jordan, employee of the QEH enrolled in the Public Health Programme 2010 at UWI Cave Hill. The scholarship is for $5,000.

The winner of the 10 Walrond Symposium’s third prize presented by the ACF was Dr. Don Brathwaite.

In 2010 the ACF donated $10,500 of its own funds for a study of Health and Nutrition of children to determine the link with obesity.

The investigators were Dr. Parnela Gaskin of the Faculty of Medicine and Dr. Anne St. John, Consultant Paediatrician at the QEH.

2009

At the request of the Barbados Cancer Society the ACF partially paid for a nurse at the QEH - Virginia Leandre Broome to go to the Sloane Jettering Centre in New York to attend a course in Chemotherapy Administration. Nurse Broome is employed with the Hematology Department in the QEH.

The Ninth Annual Walrond Symposium’s winner of the third prize sponsored by the ACF was Chevonne Bodkyn of Trinidad and Tobago.

2008

The winner of the ACF third prize at the Errol Walrond Symposium was Dr. Sasha Sanjar Maharaj.

The ACF used $10 000 it had committed to wound care to provide QEH nurse Mrs. Cheri Jarvis Fund to participate in a Wound Care Management Course at Toronto University.in two parts. The funds were boosted by a donation of $10,000 with the expressed instruction that it be used for any aspect of Wound Care Management.

Additionally at a cost of $11,000 the ACF purchased a Jetox Wound Cleaning and Debridgement System for use by Nurse Jarvis and the other nurses.

2007

A Commitment of $30,000 , $20 000 from the Peter Moores Trust and $10,000 from the Arnott Cato Foundation was made over a period of two years to Dr. Ann St.John to train Paediatric Nurses at the QEH. The training was conducted by a retired nurse Marcia Hinds. That same year a research project in Rheumatic Diseases at the QEH costing $28,000 was submitted by Dr. Cindy Flower. The project which was funded by the Peter Moores Barbados Trust, the Robert Gavron Trust and the ACF was designed to provide for a study of the spectrum of auto-immune rheumatic diseases at the QEH, The upshot of the study with further assistance from the ACF was the establishment of a Rheumatic Registry. Winner in 2007 of the ACF third prize at the ER Walrond Symposium was Dr. Satyendra Persaud.

Mrs. Sandra Collymore - Clinical Risk Officer at the QEH was provided with funding to undertake Parts l and 2 of the modules of a course in Patient Safety and Clinical Risk via the internet with the University of Leeds. The ACF also funded a Level 1 Hand Therapy course at the Royal Free Hospital in London for Mrs. Sanjean Taylor, Occupational Therapist at the QEH.

The ACF made funding available to allow a new Patient Satisfaction Survey to take place at the QEH .The survey was conducted, under the supervision of Professor Henry Fraser by Dr. Keisha Carrington, Dr. Natasha Sobers and Dr. Mike Campbell.

2006

QEH Consultant Dr. Ann St.John was assisted to participate in the 15th World AIDS Conference which was held in Thailand from July 11 to14.

2005

At the request of Dr. Emile Mohammed Consultant Nephrologist, QEH $15000 of the Foundation’s money was donated to the Kidney Association of Barbados to assist with the restart of the kidney transplant programme at the QEH by facilitating the visit of two consultants from the United Kingdom to train designated nurses in Kidney transplantation for three weeks and laboratory technicians for a period of two weeks.

The ACF received $10,000 from the Peter Moores Trust which was passed to the Heart Foundation to train 100 nurses in Basic Cardiac Care Life Support and seven in Advance Cardiac Life Support. The programme was so successful that the trustees made available to the Heart Foundation $5,000 of its own money to train another 50 nurses in the Basic Training and three in the advanced.

Also in 2005 there were three awardees:

• Ms. Lesline Nurse - Senior Cardiac Technologist at the QEH to attend the 30th annual Heartbeat International Pacemaker Workshop;
• Dr Kirk Miller attended the annual conference of the American Association of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus; and
• Dr. Ayana Critchlow received an award to defray some of the expenses involved in her participation in the Scoliosis Research Society’s 40 annual meeting and one day course in Florida.

2004

QEH Consultant Dr. Ann St.John was assisted to participate in the 15th World AIDS Conference which was held in Thailand from July 11 to14.