MedShare Talk & Taste Presented by Halyard Health

ATLANTA - Aug. 24, 2015 - PRLog -- Atlanta (August 19, 2015) – MedShare, an Atlanta-based non-profit organization that improves global healthcare and the environment through the redistribution of surplus medical supplies, invites guests to be inspired at the second annual MedShare Talk & Taste event. The evening will feature delicious cuisine and motivating dialogue from extraordinary individuals who have made a positive impact on the health and quality of life for people around the world; Talk & Taste raises funds in support of MedShare’s global endeavors.

WHAT MedShare’s Southeast Talk & Taste presented by Halyard Health highlights the organization's effective responses to disasters around the world by presenting inspiring speakers who will share their incredible stories. MedShare celebrates the magic spark that turned the speakers’ thoughts into actions and led them to make a difference around the world - from earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The evening begins with a reception including dinner and cocktails. Following dinner, guests will be inspired by a program of motivational talks from speakers including Susan Grant, Chief Nurse Executive, Emory Healthcare; Dr. Carl Kihm, Podiatrist & Medical Mission Surgeon; Tatiana Jean-Louis, UPS Analyst & MedShare Volunteer and A.B. Short, MedShare Founder & Former CEO.

WHEN Thursday, September 24 from 6 to 10 p.m.

WHERE SweetWater Brewing Company

195 Ottley Drive NE

Atlanta, GA 30324

TICKETS $100 if purchased by August 31

$125 beginning September 1

Ticket link: www.talktaste.eventbrite.com

(770) 323-5858

WHO Speakers at the 2015 Southeast Talk & Taste include:

Susan Mitchell Grant, MS, RN, FAAN, NEA-BC

Susan Mitchell Grant serves as the Chief Nurse Executive & Chief Patient Services Officer of Emory Healthcare and as an Associate Dean at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. In August 2014, she served on the leadership team at Emory Healthcare that managed and coordinated the admission of the first two persons with Ebola virus disease in the United States. As a part of this effort, she was appointed to Georgia Governor Deal’s state task force on Ebola preparedness and is involved in state and national efforts around serious communicable disease preparedness. Her work in healthcare during the last several years has been focused on patient safety and patient and family-centered care. She is a member of the national advisory board for the Institute for Patient and Family-Centered Care, the Daisy Foundation Board and the O'Neill Center Advisory Board for Get Well and is currently a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

Dr. Carl Kihm

With the assistance of non-profit groups, Dr. Kihm co-leads an annual mission trip to Kathmandu, Nepal where the team focuses on treating severe congenital deformities in children and neglected deformity in adults.  Through his humanitarian efforts, Dr. Kihm has formed a relationship with MedShare in efforts to utilize supplies to treat patients of need. A native of Pennsylvania, he earned his doctorate at the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine in 2009.  Dr. Kihm then completed a three-year surgical residency program at DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur, Georgia where his training emphasized foot and ankle reconstruction, trauma and elective procedures.  He currently practices with Village Podiatry at offices in Canton and Marietta and is a faculty member and lecturer with The Podiatry Institute, an international teaching foundation for reconstructive surgery of the foot and ankle based in Atlanta.

Tatiana Jean-Louis

Tatiana Jean-Louis grew up in Haiti and moved to the United States, but her family remained in Haiti and was deeply affected by the 2010 earthquake there. Her desire to help those in her home country led her to become a MedShare volunteer. Jean-Louis is a business systems analyst at UPS. Throughout her years with the company, she has held various positions in Operations and IT. A big advocate of STEM education, she holds a Master of Science in IS from Georgia State University and is currently completing her MBA in Global Business at Georgia Institute of Technology. In her spare time, she enjoys restoring old furniture, playing sports, volunteering with MedShare and collaborating with different developers on open source software projects for Robotics.

A.B. Short

A. B. Short has a missionary’s zeal and an entrepreneur’s imagination, but early stints as both a minister and a businessman left him feeling frustrated and out of place. Only while helping Bill Bolling launch the Atlanta Community Food Bank in 1979 did he discover his perfect niche: inventing nonprofits. His first start-up, with longtime coll.orator Bob Freeman, was Cafe 458 in 1988. Short and Freeman were challenged by their friend Dr. William Foege, former director of the Centers for Disease Control with devising a more environmentally efficient solution to redistribute medical supplies to developing countries. The pair met this challenge in 1988 with the founding of MedShare. Since then, the nonprofit has developed inventory-management software that enables healthcare providers around the world to order exactly what they need, from sutures and rubber gloves to autoclaves and anesthesia machines.

About MedShare

MedShare improves the quality of life of people and the planet by collecting perfectly usable surplus medical supplies and equipment that would otherwise wind up in landfills, and delivering it to health providers around the world. Since its inception, MedShare has shipped over 1,150 containers of lifesaving medical supplies and equipment to 96 countries, equipped over 2,500 medical mission teams, supported 110 local safety net clinics and diverted over 2 million cubic feet from landfills. http://www.medshare.org/

MedShare appreciates the generous support of Talk & Taste sponsors including, Emory Healthcare, Angie Fife, King & Spalding and Northside Hospital.