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Julius Garvey, BSc’57, MDCM’61, was one of the first physicians to land in Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake of 2010. The violent tremors that shook the Caribbean nation had demolished homes, crippled infrastructure, and left behind a horrific human toll—killing hundreds of thousands of people and displacing close to a million more.

As part of a group of around a dozen health workers, Dr.

Garvey, a cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon, worked around the clock to provide medical treatment to survivors, and to help rebuild a medical system left crippled by the disaster. “He went to Haiti several times as a volunteer to help out with the situation,” says Dr.

Louis Auguste, a general surgeon in Manhasset, New York. “That was very generous, because it’s not easy to be working in a country that has been devastated by a major earthquake.”

This trip to Haiti—and many other such medical missions to countries in the Caribbean, Africa and elsewhere—was one of the w