News - Houston Shoulder to Shoulder Foundation

A Message from the President

Dear Friends, Amidst these challenging times, we wish you peace, good health and safety. The COVID 19 pandemic and its consequences for our families, social interactions, economies, and health have been profound and difficult. Despite all of this, here you are on our website, still interested in supporting and helping our brothers and sisters in […]

2020 Annual Newsletter

COVID-19 is a global reality! The isolated inhabitants of Santa Ana and our neighboring communities can attest to this fact. Although measures were taken to prevent the entry of the virus, such as international / domestic travel bans, quarantining, community educational work-shops and social distancing, the virus still made its way to our community. Currently […]

2019 Annual Newsletter

Thanksgiving. What a wonderful holiday! A special holiday that allows us to reflect on all of the blessings that we receive during the course of the year. With this in mind, we want to thank all of you who have been part of our special mission in Santa Ana!

2018 Annual Newsletter

Facing Tragedy and Finding Hope. The loss of three patients to the first known incidence of gun violence in Santa Ana has revealed inadequacies in the clinic's ability to treat patients in an emergency. Emergency Center Priorities: Trauma Management Training, Supplies and Medications, Hospital Transportation. If another tragedy occurs before these changes are made, unstable […]

2017 Annual Newsletter

Click to view the 10th annual newsletter and learn about the progress we've made in the past year, including a recent optometry brigade with students from the University of Houston School of Optometry and the addition of a dentist to our clinic team.

2016 Annual Newsletter

Click to read the 9th annual newsletter. Inside, you'll find updates from the past year including the clinic's role in groundbreaking medical research and how undergraduate students worked to prevent Zika.

Training Global Health Leaders

Rohit Kuruvilla and Laila Yazdani will be leading their first brigade this spring. They recently took the time to explain how their first brigade transformed their outlook in global health. My experience at the Santa Ana clinic helped me return to the reason I initially chose to pursue a career in medicine. Whether it was the […]

Profile: Dr. Gregorio Yañez

Dr. Gregorio Yañez was born and raised in Santa Ana, Honduras. After exhibiting a deep interest in medicine, the Houston Shoulder to Shoulder Foundation funded his medical education. Beatriz Thames of the University of Houston recounts her experience working with Dr. Yañez as he cares for patients in his community. While working in the Shoulder to […]

New Confidence

Through out the two-week mission trip in May 2014, the dental clinic was one of the most popular services, with lines going out the door on multiple occasions. Medical students from Baylor rotated through the clinic and worked one on one with Dr Jolly Johnson to assist him and to learn basic dental procedures. Medical […]

Santa Ana in May

It’s tough to put in a few sentences one’s experience in Santa Ana. This past May, I had the pleasure of joining the BCM student brigade during their trip. This was my fourth time being part of a brigade to Santa Ana, and it was certainly a unique experience in its own right just as […]