Baylor College of Medicine
Administrative Services:
AMSA (American Medical Student Association) – Drafted website page, drafted policy brief, led rountable discussions with med students across the country, led call between GetUsPPE and AMSA for new partnership, recruiting med students
Contact Information:
Ton La, Jr. (vpm@amsa.org)
Research and Data Collection:
BCM Convalescent Plasma – Creating Powerpoints, flyers, and helping w/ patient calls to collect convalescent plasma donations
Contact Information:
Dr. Yellapragada/Dr. Balasubramanyam (COVIDplasma@bcm.edu)
Screening and Testing:
BCM COVID 19 First Responder – First Responder lab results
Contact Information:
Lacey Stribling (lacey.stribling@bcm.edu)
Screening and Testing:
BCM EM Health Note Project – Help develop Health Note app for patients registering in the EC
Contact Information:
Dr. Erik Antonsen, Ryan Richardson (ryan.richardson@bcm.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
BCM PPE COVID Response Group – collect and organize PPE for Ben Taub per BCM EM faculty
Contact Information:
Melissa Kok (melissa.kok@bcm.edu, peter.yun@bcm.edu, mvigil@bcm.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Ben Taub Masks for New Moms – Sewing masks for new moms; Dr. Gannon to distributes to her moms at Ben Taub
Contact Information:
Cathy Gannon (Gannon@bcm.edu)
Household Help:
COVID Sitters HTX – centralized location for healthcare professional students to sign up to run errands, walk/care for pets, provide childcare, provide online tutoring and more for medical professionals who are working or now lack previous childcare/school.
Contact Information:
Aanchal Thadani, Madhushree Zope (info@htxcovidsitters.org)
IT and Technical Support:
Crisis Text Line – Volunter as crisis counselor. REQUIRES 30 HOUR ONLINE TRAINING.
Contact Information:
Andrea Grimbergen (https://www.crisistextline.org/become-a-volunteer/)
Research and Data Collection:
Fort Bend HHS – Helping with data entry, contact interviews, contact investigations, other epidemiological investigations (no field work or direct patient contact)
Contact Information:
UTSPH SEIS (Fort Bend HHS)
Advocacy:
Fundraiser for COVID-19 – Organized a fundraiser with the APC Foundation / Hubei North Texas Association to purchase PPE during the start of the COVID-19 outbreak
Contact Information:
Angela Huang (angela.huang@bcm.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
GetUsPPE – consolidated a dozen donor database platforms linking individual donors and makers to hospitals under one banner (about 130 people in total). It’s being led by a pretty amazing team of (mostly) non-medical volunteers. We now have a database of ~575 hospitals needing PPE and growing every day. Lead Facebook admin and answer posts and direct messages for those who are asking how to donate PPE, media requests, petitions, etc.
Contact Information:
Shikha Gupta, Varoon Jain (info@getusppe.org)
Food Services:
Guadalupe Center Food Pantry Emergency Food Distribution – packing and distributing food
Contact Information:
Karina Hernandez (khernandez@catholiccharities.org)
Screening and Testing:
Harris County Covid Call Center – students answer calls from pre-screened individuals and further triage whether they need to go to the hospital to seek treatment, go to one of the County testing centers or do not meet criteria for testing at this time.
Contact Information:
Ujval Pathak (upathak@bcm.edu)
Food Services:
Harvest Kitchen – Food pantry and distribution. View our website here.
Contact Information:
Audrey Wright (audrey.wright@bcm.edu)
Poverty and Assistance:
Houston Chinese Church – Fundraising for, ordering, importing, and distributing PPE
Contact Information:
Tiffaney Tran (tiffaney.tran@bcm.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Houston County Public Health – Harris County in running 2 testing sites (more to come) where students are helping run paperwork, verify patient’s identification, perform swabbing, directing traffic and more.
Contact Information:
Angelina Fontenot (Angelina.Fontenot@phs.hctx.net)
Food Services:
Houston Food Bank – volunteering as needed in warehouse and pantry
Contact Information:
Houston Food Bank (info@houstonfoodbank.org)
Screening and Testing:
Houston Health Deptartment – assist with contact tracing/contact monitoring of COVID cases in Houston
Contact Information:
Dr. Deborah Bannerjee (HHS Lead)/Jose Dominguez (Student Coordinator) (jrdoming@bcm.edu)
Food Services:
Interfaith Ministries/ Meals on Wheels – help applications for meals on wheels as applications have declined.
Contact Information:
Kathryn Boom (kathryn.boom@bcm.edu)
Food Services:
Kids Meals Inc – Driving food deliveries to children in need; packing and organizing meals in KMI locations
Contact Information:
Joey Hixson (sarah@kidsmealsinc.org)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
MedSupplyDrive – Contacting local companies who have new unopened PPE
Contact Information:
Adaah Sayyed (as4425@georgetown.edu, medsupplydrive@gmail.com)
Think Tank:
MIT COVID-19 Challenge – Work with a team to design solutions to COVID-19; winning solutions will receive implementation support
Contact Information:
MIT (https://covid19challenge.mit.edu/)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Mitchell Chang Foundation – sewing masks
Contact Information:
Academic Tutoring:
Pre-Med Mentoring Program – Provide mentorship between pre-med undergraduate student and medical student (advice on MCAT, application, interviews, etc.)
Contact Information:
Jessica Sheu (jcsheu@bcm.edu)
General Services:
Project Cure – Collecting PPE donations in drive-up supply drive. Volunteers are provided with PPE, contact minimized.
Contact Information:
Janet Thomason (janetthomason@projectcure.org)
Poverty and Assistance:
Second Baptist Church – phone and prayer outreach, grocery delivery
Contact Information:
bflanagan@second.org (bflanagan@second.org)
Blood Drive:
SSS/Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center- Help the Gulf Coast Regional blood center w/ day-of support; so far we have blood drives at Rice and potentially other hospitals soon
Contact Information:
Tahir Malik (tahir.malik@bcm.edu)
Poverty and Assistance:
Stand Up for Kids . – Providing care packages to homeless young adults in the Montrose area
Contact Information:
Joshua Ramos (houston@standupforkids.org, (706) 389-4264)
General Services:
Texas Medical Center Showers – Manage flow of providers to/from on campus showers to allow providers to be decontaminated before returning home to their families
Contact Information:
Ishu Pathak (upathak@bcm.edu)
Food Services:
The Beacon – Making sack lunches for homeless, gathering new clothes (socks, t-shirts, underwear) for distribution to Houston’s homeless, making small pocket cards noting common COVID symptoms so they can monitor and also where to go if they have severe sxs with places for testing
Contact Information:
Mike Puccio (mikep@christchurchcathedral.org)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
TX RX Labs – sewing and distributing masks to the community and to healthcare workers
Contact Information:
Roland von Kumatowski (info@txrxlabs.org)
Food Services:
Wesley Food Pantry/ The Beacon/ Target Hunger – sorting and distributing food donations
Contact Information:
The Beacon (rmarshall@beaconhomeless.org), Target Hunger(development@targethunger.org)
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Blood Drive:
Blood drive done at the school of medicine.
Contact Information:
Stephanie Gutierrez (gutierrezsr@uthscsa.edu)
COVID-19 Education:
Creating infographics for flyers and posters to inform and educate the community of San Antonio with information on social distancing, correct ways to wear masks, understanding signs and symptoms, as well as next steps for care. Students are also collecting stories from “essential” workers, from doctors to nurses to grocery workers, etc. Students are also pulling information out of the incoming literature into information sheets for front line providers.
Contact Information:
Stephanie Gutierrez (gutierrezsr@uthscsa.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Medical students are acting as temperature screeners for those coming onto the school of medicine campus. They are also collecting and distributing PPE.
Contact Information:
Stephanie Gutierrez (gutierrezsr@uthscsa.edu)
Information Hotline:
Students are helping man the San Antonio MetroHealth (city health district) provider Hotline and Epi case investigation contact tracing, the county general hotline, and VA Hospital hotline.
Contact Information:
Stephanie Gutierrez (gutierrezsr@uthscsa.edu)
IT and Technical Support:
Support various UT Health Physician clinics with setting up patients for electronic chart systems and telehealth visits. Other students are assisting a palliative care unit’s patients with their families via technology for virtual family visits.
Contact Information:
Stephanie Gutierrez (gutierrezsr@uthscsa.edu)
Clinical Work:
University Hospital Systems Infectious Disease COVID Service, assisting faculty remotely with chart checks, test follow-ups, and other non-patient clinical duties.
Contact Information:
Stephanie Gutierrez (gutierrezsr@uthscsa.edu)
Paul L. Foster School of Medicine Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
IT and Technical Support:
Assisting patients and providers with Web-ex for telemedicine.
Contact Information:
Alyssa Cervantes Benavides (alyssa.cervantes.benavides@ttuhsc.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Drive-thru COVID-19 testing clinic for healthcare workers and first responders.
Contact Information:
Nathan Waterhouse (nathan.waterhouse@ttuhsc.edu)
Food Services:
Food bank volunteering / Meals on Wheels volunteering
Contact Information:
Jessie Bangs (jessie.bangs@ttuhsc.edu)
Blood Drive:
Giving blood to local agencies is highly encouraged.
Contact Information:
Kelsey Van Noy (kelsey.van-noy@ttuhsc.edu)
Think Tank:
Interpreting current literature and writing summaries on google drive for physicians to look through.
Contact Information:
Jessie Bangs (jessie.bangs@ttuhsc.edu)
Screening and Testing:
Screening all patients who come to clinic and hospital.
Contact Information:
Tyler Trevino (tyler.trevino@ttuhsc.edu), M. Aleman (m.aleman@ttuhsc.edu), Lyca Intal (lyca.intal@ttuhsc.edu)
TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine
Fundraising:
Face Shield Manufacturing Fundraiser. One of our students located in New York has partnered with other medical students to create face shields for the healthcare workers in New York.
Contact Information:
Ali Mahfuz (a.mahfuz@tcu.edu)
Advocacy:
Girls Inc. Students will be creating virtual segments for high school age girls to participate in through the Girls Inc. Program.
Contact Information:
Sam Evans (s.l.evans@tcu.edu)
General Services:
Helping Hand COVID-19 Errand Services. A student-led errand service that a student founded in her hometown running errands for older adults, immunocompromised patients, and pregnant patients, etc.
Contact Information:
Juhi Shah (juhi.shah@tcu.edu)
Writing:
Lessening the Distance with Letters. A letter program to foster community connection with vulnerable populations during COVID-19.
Contact Information:
Sam Evans (s.l.evans@tcu.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
PPE Drive. A student-led PPE Drive to acquire needed resources for local hospitals and community organizations. We are collecting masks, gowns, gloves, shields, hand sanitizer, while supplementing with homemade masks.
Contact Information:
Connor Rodriguez (connor.rodriguez@tcu.edu)
Arts, Media, and Entertainment:
READ Fort Worth. A collaboration with READ Fort Worth where we as medical students can record ourselves reading books to share with our community through different platforms.
Contact Information:
Student Affaris (mdstudentaffairs@tcu.edu)
Information Hotline:
Tarrant Country COVID-19 Hotline. Students are signing up and volunteering for 6 hours shifts taking questions for the COVID-19 Hotline through Tarrant Country.
Contact Information:
Kav Kaur (kavneet.kaur@tcu.edu)
Blood Drive:
Virtual Blood Drive. The virtual blood drive is coordinating blood donations across the country to help with the blood supply crisis.
Contact Information:
Sarah Lyon (s.lyon20@tcu.edu)
Childcare:
We are currently providing supplemental childcare support to healthcare workers and their families by connecting graduate student volunteers to families in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas.
Contact Information:
Lexy Kindt (lexy.kindt@my.unthsc.edu)
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Screening and Testing:
Checking staff badges and screening incoming patients and visitors at the main entrances to several health care buildings on campus.
Contact Information:
Dami Akinmolayemi (dami.akinmolayemi@utsouthwestern.edu), Anthony Han (anthony.han@utsouthwestern.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Constructing face shields for hospital employees. Providing PPE donning and doffing training to staff who have not received it, primarily in ambulatory clinics.
Contact Information:
Jordan Hughes (jordan.hughes@utsouthwestern.edu)
Clinical Work:
General assistance in the Emergency Department – serving as runners, talking with patient families, and taking calls.
Contact Information:
Jenny Bachand (jennifer.bachand@utsouthwestern.edu)
Information Hotline:
Helping the Occupational Health Clinic with the numerous calls the clinic has been receiving and triaging incoming calls.
Contact Information:
Laura Kenyon (laura.kenyon@utsouthwestern.edu)
Resource Production and Acquisition:
Materials Management. Transporting materials between the basement and the units and conferring with nurses in order to maintain supplies. Field calls, help triage and resolve issues, and ensure the needs of the care teams on the units are met as quickly as possible.
Contact Information:
Laura Kenyon (laura.kenyon@utsouthwestern.edu)
Food Services:
Nutrition Services. Serving patients, guests, and staff by assisting with room service deliveries and Call Center orders.
Contact Information:
Priscilla Tanamal (priscilla.tanamal@utsouthwestern.edu)
Writing:
Providing an outlet through our school literary magazine to share short reflections or artwork on our individual experiences with COVID-19 and how they have affected us.
Contact Information:
Anu Asokan (annapoorani.asokan@utsouthwestern.edu)
University of North Texas Health Science Center Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (UNTHSC/TCOM)
Childcare:
We are currently providing supplemental childcare support to healthcare workers and their families by connecting graduate student volunteers to families in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas.
Contact Information:
DFW COVIDSitters (dfwcovidsitters@gmail.com)