Nonprofit Started by UA Doc Provides Low-Cost Medical Devices

2014

Burris "Duke" Duncan
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520-907-7865

"The central philosophy of the agency called ARSOBO, short for Arizona, Sonora and border is to hire people who need or use a medical device. Those people then build them and are charged only the cost, or what they can afford. Families who need the devices but have limited means are aided by subsidies from private donations or grants, says Dr. Burris "Duke" Duncan, a UA Professor Emeritus in the College of Public Health and the College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics. The jobs component plays as much a role as restoring a person's mobility, he says. The concept for ARSOBO arose in 2008 when the Sonoran University of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, known as Sonoran UCEDD, asked Duncan to organize a Border Conference on Disabilities that would be held in Nogales, Sonora. He did, with one provision: that the conference lead into something that would have a continued impact."

Medical Devices, Low-cost

Press communications

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Students

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http://uanews.org/story/nonprofit-started-by-ua-doc-provides-low-cost-medical-devices

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