INT 75 – Underserved Medicine The Underserved Medicine Seminar is one of the 6 programs of Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM). This class, like all of the work of DWW-SBSM, is a collaborative and volunteer effort. None of our speakers are accepting honorariums or any financial rewards to participate in teaching this class. [...]
Download the DWW-SBSM Fact Sheet here. Doctors Without Walls (DWW) was founded in 2005 by three family physicians: Mark Stinson MD, Sabina Diehr MD and Noemi “Mimi” Doohan MD PhD. The creation of DWW was inspired by the need for local humanitarian medical volunteerism in response to disasters both acute, such as 9-11 and Hurricane Katrina, and [...]
Doctors Without Walls – Santa Barbara Street Medicine is a 501 (c) non profit organization, all donations are 100% tax deductible. For more information view our most recent financial report or our “Why Donate” page. Ways to support Doctors without Walls Make a One Time Online Donation Become a partner by donating monthly – : $5.00USD [...]
Street Medicine is the term used to define a collaboration of professionals who deliver health care and related services directly to people living and sleeping on the streets and in austere environments.
The term Street Medicine was coined by pioneer Dr. Jim Withers, one of the leaders in the movement, and one of the inspirations behind the creation of DWW-SBSM
DWW has compiled and published out first ever Fact Sheet to give volunteers, beneficiaries, journalists, and members of the community some of the essential information and statistics about out origination. The fact sheet can be downloaded HERE as a PDF. It can also be found permanently on out About Us page. Please contact us if you have any further [...]
By Tayler James “This is really special,” remarked Dr. Mimi Doohan, founder of Doctors Without Walls–Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW_SBSM), to the room full of veteran and new volunteers at the third volunteer training for DWW. The training, held at the Santa Barbara Public Health Department, took place over the weekend of Nov. 12, 2011. [...]
At UC Berkeley, the California Pacific Public Health Training Center (CALPACT), a Federal HRSA funded program that serves Northern California, Central California, Hawaii and the US associated Pacific, invited Dr. Jim Withers to give a street medicine training for the San Francisco East Bay on Oct. 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at [...]
By J.J. Crist I was born on August 13,1979, in the small village of Compton near the province of Surrey in England. Or that’s what I’ve been told. At three days old, my unwed teenaged mother left me at an orphanage. I spent the first six years of my life there. When I was three, [...]
Fighting Tetanus One Mama Kit at a Time By: Michael Robinson and Rustam Kabidenov Neonatal tetanus is one of the number one causes of death to children under the age of five in the entire world. Though the word tetanus is most commonly associated with rusty nails and lack of vaccinations, the most common way [...]
This is an article from our September and October Newsletter – The Word on the Street The Kind of Change I was Looking For by Allison Nuovo As a student at UCSB, I thought a lot about what my next step would be after graduation. I knew I wanted to help people, but that hardly narrowed [...]
This is an article from our September and October Newsletter – The Word on the Street by Krista Daly The Women’s Free Homeless Clinic at the McCune Family Transition House recently hosted their second Diva Day event at the Santa Barbara location of the Paul Mitchell School, where the homeless women of the community could get [...]
This is an article from our September and October Newsletter – The Word on the Street by Ric Hovespian As many of you know, there are three programs under the Doctors Without Walls umbrella. They are; Wrap Around Care, which includes the clinics in the park and the Women’s Free Homeless Clinic, Education, and the Disaster and Emergency [...]
Deborah Schwartz, Santa Barbara City planning commissioner and city council candidate, attended the most recent women’s clinic at transition house. She sat down over a bowl of chili, provided by the organic soup kitchen, to talk to Doctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM) communications team members Lauren Fryling and Dr. Jason Prystowsky. The [...]
We recently published individual pages for each of our 4 clinics. Each page details the respective clinic and what makes it unique. Check back Soon for more updates! Isla Vista Alameda Park Pershing Park Women’s Clinic
