Helping Hands

A young Iraqi burn victim brought to the United States by the Maryland-based foundation Hope M.D. will soon be returning home after a series of pro bono operations performed at DHMC by pediatric surgeon Dr. Mitchell Stotland, Adv’07. Now 22 months old, the girl arrived in Hanover in June, seven months after suffering third-degree burns over much of her upper body in an explosion of unknown origin in her neighborhood.

Getting the child here despite obstacles imposed by the military was almost as difficult as the surgeries, say Hope M.D. volunteers. Foundation co-founder Jon Heavey ’98, an Army surgeon who served in Iraq and is now completing his tour of duty at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., initiated contact with Dartmouth by reaching out to student activities director Linda Kennedy. The child has been comforted by her mother while staying in the home of two College employees: Amin Plaisted, a senior programmer, and his wife, Nahid Tabatabai, a research associate in the economics department.

“We’re always going to see fatalities. All living things die.” —GROUNDS SUpeRvISOR BOB TheBODO ON The RemOvAl Of ThRee OlD AND DISEASED ELM TREES FROM CAMPUS THIS YEAR

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