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SUMMARY:Membership Luncheon March 18, 2010
DESCRIPTION:           Membership Luncheon March 18Mini Expo   Networking at 11 a.mLunch and Presentation 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.at Brentwood United Methodist Church 309 Franklin Road, Brentwood
 Speaker: David Vanderpool, M.D.lave  md  Having just recently returned from the Haiti frontlines where he has been providing medicines and other medical equipment to the clinics and hospitals that he builds, David Vanderpool, M.D. will be sharing with us the common factors he sees and responds to in his mission to help devastated regions across the globe from Haiti, Katrina victims along the Mississippi Gulf Coast , Iraq, Israel, Ukraine, China, Peru to Aftrica. Dr. Vanderpool will also be updating us through a pictorial show about his relief efforts in Haiti. In 2005, as a response to Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Vanderpool formed the Medical Mobile Disaster Relief foundation. MMDR provides medicine and medical supplies to indigent clinics on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. As of October 2006 the foundation has supplied over three tractor trailers of supplies to clinics that would otherwise be closed and unable to treat those in needBorn and raised in Texas, Vanderpool earned an undergraduate degree in biology at Abilene Christian University and his medical degree at Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He trained as a vascular surgeon and completed two surgical residences at Baylor University Medical Center, in the ER at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He has been in practice since 2000 at Lav  MD, a treatment and research center in Brentwood that specializes in treating varicose veins, spider veins and sun-damaged skin.
 
 Vanderpool s wife, Laurie and their three children   David, 21, John, 17, and Jacklyn, 14   have all participated in MMDR work. David, a college student, designed a micro-economic stimulus program for widows in Africia. MMDR provides sewing machines for the widows, who use them to make distinctive native purses that MMDR purchases from them to sell in this country.  All profits from the sale of the purses are returned to the widows to buy fabric to make clothes for the more than 800 orphans in their area. 
 
 Vanderpool said one of the most touching parts of this cycle is that African women are dumbfounded that American women would want something that they created. MMDR plans to sell the purses at fair trade stores, adding leather tags that tell the story of the community.  It s amazing how profoundly the lives of these women can be changed by the sale of a purse that required so little effort on our part,  he commented.
 
               Chamber Members $20   Guests $30Deadline to Register is Monday, March 15 at Noon     Reservations received after deadline will incur a late fee.                         
 
                                  Lunch Catered by:                                                              Class Act Events
 
   
LOCATION:Brentwood United Methodist Church309 Franklin RdBrenwood, TN
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