Ready to embrace every single experience, Stephen Preiss became a go to person from day one. A sonographer at The Miriam Hospital in Providence Rhode Island: this is his first global sonography experience.
He loved the kids from the first and interacted with them earlier than others. He made them smile with his games and toys. At one particular difficult rural site, the bus was incredibly late picking us up as darkness descended. Stephen was calm and even returning to site to look for another team members’ missing and perhaps dropped camera endearing himself to the team forever. Looking forward to each day, he was always the first to interact with the children in large groups. He could be found on the soccer field the moment we are finished to engage groups in soccer or whiffle ball in between long sessions of scanning hearts. Very tender and compassionate with the younger kids, they are fascinated by his beard as they peer intently at his face since he had more hair on his face than most of the children have seen before on a head. Always calm—we never saw Stephen loose his cool and is always the first to soothe ruffled feathers of the team with a no-non-sense comment with just the right tone. Definitely a team player, we are happy to have him on our team.
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