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LMA On Mission


Dr. Jay Traynham and Dr. Scott Stadalsky


It is remarkable to see how Lowcountry Medical Associates (LMA) physicians touch lives in the Lowcountry but also around the world. As a primary care group of physicians in Internal Medicine, Family Practice and Pediatrics, our physicians answer a call beyond the low country. Through church and campus ministries, LMA physicians have provided basic medical care to medically underserved areas.


LMA physicians - Dr. Pagan, Dr. Traynham, Dr. Stelter, Dr. Stadalsky - Northern Africa
The physicians of Plantation Pediatrics are physician leaders with Medical Campus Outreach at the Medical University of South Carolina. The program is a faith-based mission to expose students in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy to provide medical care in underserved areas.


Dr. Noemi Pagan and sleeping infant
Preparing for this mission each year is an amazing task. Collection of donated medical supplies, vaccines, vitamins, and dental supplies, along with the details of logistics, passports, and personal commitment are all part of the equation. The biggest part of the equation is providing these needs with Christian nurture. Meet the veterans, Drs. Todd Vasko, Philip McGaha, Jay Traynham, AnneMarie Good, Scott Stadalsky, Taryn Stelter, and practice newcomer, Matthew Kornegay. Each has been to far reaches ranging from Venezuela, Honduras, Romania, Ecuador, South Africa and North Africa. "These yearly trips for students in health care are about compassion and Christian outreach," says Dr. Todd Vasko. "Providing encouragement, nutrition counseling, disease prevention, and the common bond of helping one another is our mission". Dr. Noemi Pagan, who joined Lowcountry Medical Associates in October 2008, has been on more than 12 medical mission trips and five (5) of these trips were with Medical Campus Outreach. "These medical mission trips create unforgettable bonds, " says Dr. Pagan, " many of us return every June to participate". "The planning and resource gathering begins way before that." "We are a team with like hearts and minds, and every trip brings back a special experience", concludes Dr. Jay Trayhham.

Dr. Taryn Stelter and Dr. Noemi Pagan on site
Dr. Charles Geer, a physician at Island Internal Medicine on James Island, has spent his personal vacation annually, for the past 10 years in the Dominican Republic. "It is a purer form of medicine," Geer says. "No insurance companies, just medical personnel and people who need them". "Citizens are waiting for us when we get there, lined up around the block." For some, we're the only doctors they ever see". The clinic site is typically in a school or church building. Dr. Geer and his team of clinicians arrive with bags of donated medicines, medical supplies and instruments. Geer is thankful to the churches and individual donors whose contributions pay for the medicine and equipment the medical team - and their patients- depend upon. With this generosity, Geer and his colleagues are proving, patient by patient, that this work is important for those who do not have access to medical care.

LMA has at least a dozen physician medical mission participants. In April 2008, Dr. Strait Fairey, president of LMA, and Dr. Paul Linker, a pediatrician with Cooper River Pediatrics, went on a combined medical and construction mission trip to Honduras through their respective churches. In July 2008, Dr. Chris McLain spent 10 days in Amman, Jordan to serve Christian Iraq refugees in medical mission. In March 2009, Mr. Greg Robinson, LMA's chief executive officer, will go to Honduras as a part of a construction team for a school. "I'm on the hammer and cinder block team", says Robinson. "I am inspired by LMA physicians who provide clinical care in distant countries where medical care and access is scarce. Just give me the paint brush."


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