SFMS Members Honored for Volunteer Efforts November 11, 2011 CPMC, Local Events, SFMS Member Dr. Elaine Yutan, Dr. Heidi Wittenberg, Dr. Michelle Li, Operation Access, SFMS Member 0 Three SFMS members were recently recognized by Operation Access for their dedication and volunteerism to provide essential surgical and specialty care to Bay Area’s underserved community. Please join SFMS in congratulating our selfless physicians for their contribution to improving access to health care. Michelle Li, MD is a general surgeon at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) who has been volunteering since 2006. She consistently sees one patient per month to provide donated surgeries such as hernia repair and cholecystectomy among an array of other procedures. Heidi Wittenberg, MD, also a CPMC physician, is the only urogynocologist in the Operation Access program. Since she started last year, Heidi has been consistently seeing patients and provides life-changing surgeries to women who had been suffering with these conditions for years. Elaine Yutan, MD is a general surgeon at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco who has been a volunteer with Operation Access for more than 10 years and continues to play a crucial role in every surgery session we organize at the hospital. In her time with the program, she had provided 86 services. Operation Access is a non-profit that mobilizes a network of medical volunteers, hospitals, and referring community clinics to provide low-income, uninsured people access to donated outpatient surgeries and specialty care that improve their health, ability to work and quality of life. Since 1993, the San Francisco-based organization has coordinated $50 million in charity care and arranged outpatient surgical care and specialty procedures for more than 6,000 patients in the Bay Area. For more information regarding Operation Access, please visit http://www.operationaccess.org/. Comments are closed.
