University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine
Blood Drive:
Student-created virtual blood drive involving KC metro area. Click here to donate. Group Code: TP8G
Contact Information:
Adiba Matin (ampzb@mail.umkc.edu)
Childcare:
We are working with Kansas City area health professional and undergraduate students to help match KC healthcare workers in need of childcare to student volunteers who are able to assist with childcare, pet care, or grocery help in an effort to make this difficult situation a little less difficult in whatever ways we can.
Contact Information:
Maggie Urschler (mmudn2@mail.umkc.edu)
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Research and Data Collection:
Each day, we prepare summaries of the most recent research on COVID-19 to share with physicians. The idea is that these summaries provide a quick overview of any new developments in the field, so that doctors can stay abreast of any relevant updates.
Contact Information:
Cyrus Ghaznavi (cghaznavi@wustl.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Screening stations throughout hospital for all patients and visitors.
Contact Information:
Bruin Pollard (bruin.pollard@wustl.edu)
Food Services:
Students will deliver donated food and groceries to St. Louis residents. Our primary community targets are high-risk groups, such as the elderly, immunocompromised, or currently quarantined individuals.
Contact Information:
Cyrus Ghaznavi (cghaznavi@wustl.edu)
Outreach and Social Media:
Support for Spanish-speaking community through informational and educational videos to dispel common myths surrounding COVID-19.
Contact Information:
Bruin Pollard (bruin.pollard@wustl.edu)
Blood Drive:
The goal is proactively prevent blood shortages, which are anticipated due to the cancellation of blood drives. The tasks involve increasing awareness for the American Red Cross individual blood collection appointments and possibly helping with any institution-sponsored blood collection efforts.
Contact Information:
Christopher Chermside-Scabbo (ccherms@wustl.edu)
Think Tank:
The goal is to develop specific plans for recovery that would be beneficial for the St. Louis community because almost all current efforts are focused on the immediate response. We are looking forward by studying how countries like China are managing their recovery efforts (i.e. preventing new waves of infection once the current one is under control) and applying these lessons to community initiatives that may help St. Louis after the initial surge.
Contact Information:
Christopher Chermside-Scabbo (ccherms@wustl.edu)
Screening and Testing:
The goal is to help relieve the burden of calling back and making notes for patients who test negative for COVID-19.
Contact Information:
Jared Goodman (jvgoodman@wustl.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
The goal is to procure personal protective equipment (PPE) from both internal and external (community) sources. We’re working closely with the WashU Emergency Management to procure PPE with a special emphasis on masks and face shields.
Contact Information:
Christopher Chermside-Scabbo (ccherms@wustl.edu)
Outreach and Social Media:
The goal is to share and learn from other community service initiatives that are ongoing at other medical schools. We started a Slack channel, which now has ~650 medical students from around the nation/world to share best practices.
Contact Information:
Cyrus Ghaznavi (cghaznavi@wustl.edu)
Childcare:
The goal is to supplement childcare for healthcare workers so that school and daycares closures do not detract from the healthcare workforce. We had over 100 provider responses in the St. Louis area within the first 24 hours, so we are now prioritizing front-line healthcare workers.
Contact Information:
Christopher Chermside-Scabbo (ccherms@wustl.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Triage e-mailbox to advise students/staff/faculty whether to self quarantine or return to work.
Contact Information:
Bruin Pollard (bruin.pollard@wustl.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Volunteer support for the St. Louis County health department, including tracing contacts and investigating suspected COVID-19 cases.
Contact Information:
Bruin Pollard (bruin.pollard@wustl.edu)
Outreach and Social Media:
We are actively promoting ourselves via Twitter, a national Slack channel that we started for med students, and our official website.
Contact Information:
Cyrus Ghaznavi (cghaznavi@wustl.edu)
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine (KCU–COM)
Academic Tutoring:
Offering academic tutoring to the homeschooled children of healthcare workers and other essential professionals in the Kansas City region.
Contact Information:
Sierra Miller (sierramiller@kcumb.edu)
Childcare:
Offering childcare to the children of healthcare workers and other essential professionals in the Kansas City region.
Contact Information:
Brittany Sipp (blsipp@kcumb.edu)
Household Help:
Offering pick up and delivery of groceries and other essential items to individuals and families of healthcare workers and essential professionals.
Contact Information:
Cathryn Sawalski (cat.sawalski@kcumb.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
In collaboration with UMKC medical students, we are helping to reach out to individuals and local businesses to see inquire if they have personal protective equipment they would be willing to donate to area healthcare facilities as well as coordination of obtaining and distributing those resources.
Contact Information:
Maggie Urschler (mmudn2@mail.umkc.edu)