The School of Medicine is entering into a partnership with an Indian enterprise to help the country bring a sweeping 911-type emergency response system to life.

Dean Philip Pizzo signed an agreement May 9 with a nonprofit group called the Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI), based in Hyderabad, India, to train the country’s new corps of paramedics.

See related article in the March Medical Staff Update, online at

http://med.stanford.edu/shs/update/archives/MAR2007/paramedics.htm

For further details on the new India connection, led at Stanford by emergency medicine faculty member S.V. Mahedevan, see:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/may16/med-india-051607.html