Life-saving wound care training
for developing communities around the world.
Help us in our quest to distribute basic modern surgical training to the rest of the world.
Watch a Message from Founder and CEO Dr. Stanley Jacobs
See one. Do one. Teach one.
The name of our program comes from a phrase commonly used in medical school as the stages of learning as a surgical resident. You observe a surgery performed by an expert surgeon. Then as a surgical resident you perform such a surgery. And in the final stage, you teach another resident how to perform such a surgery, further refining your abilities not just in surgery but in communicating and teaching in the medical field. See one. Do one. Teach one. SODOTO.
This is the foundation of the SODOTO Healing Project, bringing critical, life-saving wound care training to countries that lack the knowledge and infrastructure to bring this knowledge to the people that need it. Instead of providing wound care directly, we’re training villagers in the essential life-saving wound care skills to deliver such care themselves, within remote areas of developing countries where infection, sepsis or even death are very real risks with untreated wounds. It’s a passion project by Dr. Stanley Jacobs, a fellowship-trained surgeon with more than 30 years of experience.
The Need
Many developing countries have no access to basic surgical wound care. Unmanaged, a cut on a foot or other body part can lead to infections, sepsis, amputation or death.
THE PROGRAM
Villagers in these countries will be taught how to clean and sew a wound. Dr. Jacobs is working with local authorities to organize certain individuals that are not doctors to teach them these basic skills. They then would teach others, who would, in turn, teach others etc. Dr. Jacobs will bring necessary supplies (sutures, suture kits, etc). The first country to be visited will be Uganda, with plans is to expand the program to many other countries, such as India, starting with Tamil Nadu.
Dr. Stanley W. Jacobs
Founder
Dr. Stanley Jacobs is a triple-board certified, fellowship-trained facial plastic surgeon, a member of the American and European Academies of Facial Plastic Surgery and a former elected house delegate for the California Medical Association. He has been Chief of Surgery at Sutter Hospital in Santa Rosa and Chief of Facial Plastic Surgery at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. A respected author and published researcher, he is responsible for multiple innovations in surgical and skin care techniques and products, and he is CEO of his own skin care company, World Skin LLC.
SODOTO receives Passion Project award from Allergan
In February of 2020, Dr. Jacobs was one of just four surgeons selected by Allergan to receive a Passion Project award at the Miami Cosmetic Surgery Meeting. Allergan received about 100 submissions for consideration, and chose just four to receive awards as up-and-coming ideas proposed by physicians to change lives around the world.
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With your support, we’ll be able to provide life-saving wound care training in developing communities that desperately need it.
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