 Charles
Carson, RN, CNOR, an honors graduate from Bronson School
of Nursing has had vast experience in the healthcare industry
since 1975. He has specialized in open-heart, plastics, ophthalmology,
and administration working as a Certified Surgical Technologist,
Ophthalmic Technician, Certified First Assistant, Registered Nurse,
and Director of Surgical Services in a hospital before he joined
HealthCare Midwest as Director of Surgical Services in 2000. Charles
has also freelanced privately as a surgical assistant with various
private surgical practices as well as a group of plastic surgeons,
and has more than 10 years experience with a large ophthalmology
practice performing visual fields, fluoroscien angiography, and
fundus photography, as well as assisting in the operating room.
In
the early 1990s, Charles started combining his love of travel
with his passion for medicine and began participating in, and
then organizing, volunteer surgery teams to third-world countries.
Charles has served as Medical Team Director for Healing the
Children of Michigan and has been the prime organizer of numerous
plastics and ophthalmology teams to such destinations as Brazil,
Colombia, Mexico, and Russia. Charles has volunteered with humanitarian
organizations such as Esperanca, Hearts-in-Motion, the American
Red Cross, and Operation Kindness, as well as independent efforts.
Over the years these volunteer teams have performed hundreds
of life changing procedures for children and adults with cleft
lip and palate repair, surgical treatment of problems related
to burn injuries, cataract surgery, as well as many other procedures.
Charles' most recent trip was to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico in January
of 2007 with Operation Kindness. The team consisted of two plastic
surgeons, a pediatrician, anesthesia specialists, and other
medical support staff who performed 90 surgical procedures and
treated many other children and adults. See the regional link
to this effort at www.shuncushibeu.com.mx
View
pictures from past trips to Mexico
In
late 2005 Charles was invited to join Healthy Globe, Inc. Board
of Directors as Director of Equipment and Supplies. This is a
Kalamazoo based project building a 40 bed hospital in Oyugis,
Kenya. Charles has the expertise and vast connections to obtain
supplies and new and used equipment, oftentimes at no cost. Details
of this effort may be found at www.healthyglobe.org.
In the future Charles plans to organize specialty surgical teams
to Oyugis once the operating rooms are completed.
Charles also serves as President of Reach & Teach (an alternative
school for high risk teenagers in Kalamazoo, MI) www.reachandteachpp.com and is Vice-President of the Michigan Ambulatory Surgery Association.
www.masa-asc.com
Charles states
that, “Working at HealthCare Midwest Surgery
Center is a great privilege. Our newly renovated and expanded
facility still has a quiet residential feel to it. We foster
a warm and friendly environment of mutual support for our staff,
which offers primary high quality nursing care to our patients.
We are also fortunate to have many of the finest surgeons in
the entire region as our providers. This combination creates
a healthy blend of idealism and realism unique to this industry.” Charles
and his wife, Annelies, reside in Schoolcraft, Michigan and have
three adult children and four grandchildren.
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