Russia

2007–Russian Delegation on Trauma, Addiction, and Recovery

Sponsored by the Open World Leadership Center, a Russian delegation on trauma, addiction, and recovery visited the department in December, 2007. The national hosting organization of this visit is the Eurasian Leadership Program at the National Peace Foundation. The UMass Chan Medical School/UMass Memorial Medical Center is the local host. More…

2009–Russian Delegation on Health Care Professionals and Educators 

Nov. 2009, health care professionals, educators and a television journalist from Russia joined Marie Hobart, MD, chief medical officer at Community Healthlink (CHL), to discuss health care issues as part of a three-week visit to the United States sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development and coordinated by the International Center of Worcester at Clark University. Dr. Hobart acquainted her guests with many CHL programs, including healthy lifestyle initiatives as smoking cessation and the use of yoga to alleviate stress and anxiety in clients suffering from these and other disorders.