Pitt-Bradford Nursing Professor, Student
Take Part in Medical Mission to Cameroon
By Kimberly Marcott Weinberg Assistant Director of Communications and Marketing A University of Pittsburgh at Bradford nursing professor and student left today for a medical mission in Cameroon, West Africa. Tammy Haley, coordinator of the Bachelor of Science in nursing program at Pitt-Bradford, and Amy Silvis, a nontraditional nursing student from Bradford, will be making the trip with Christina Siewe, a nurse and native of Cameroon. Siewe and her sister, who is also a nurse, founded the Good Samaritan Clinic in their childhood home in Ekona, a town of about 23,000 in the interior of Cameroon. Siewe has lived in the United States for many years, and she and her husband, Dr. Youmasu Siewe, came to Bradford when Dr. Siewe became the director of the Center for Rural Health Practice at Pitt-Bradford. The couple joined First Presbyterian Church, which has taken on sponsorship of the clinic. Haley learned about the medical mission through church member and Pitt-Bradford employee Dr. Holly S...