STORM-2: Strengthening Surgical Teams

Your gift trains the surgical teams treating the most catastrophic injuries on earth — and builds skill that stays long after the course ends.

In today's most intense conflict zones, the wounded often reach surgical care hours, even days, after injury. Survival comes down to one thing: a surgical team that knows exactly what to do under pressure.

Global Response Medicine's STORM-2 Surgical Teams Course trains forward surgeons, anesthesiologists, and the full surgical team to deliver damage-control surgery in these conditions — stopping hemorrhage, stabilizing trauma, and saving limbs when there's no time to spare.

But we don't train and leave. STORM-2 develops local master instructors who go on to teach the course themselves, again and again. So your gift doesn't fund one course — it builds a permanent engine for lifesaving care.

Why This Matters

Andrea Leiner explains GRM's mission and provides an inside look at STORM-2 and how the course prepares Ukrainian surgical teams for the realities of modern conflict.

What your gift does:

Puts a surgical team member through hands-on damage-control training
Equips a skills station that stays in country and trains for years
Helps certify a local instructor who will train dozens more

This is how lasting change happens — not by doing the work for people, but by building the capacity for them to do it themselves.

Going where others won't. Doing what others can't.

Give today. Save lives. Period.

About Global Response Medicine

Global Response Medicine is a veteran-founded, women-led U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization delivering medical care and training in conflict and disaster zones around the world.

Since 2017, GRM has operated in 10 countries, helping provide lifesaving healthcare to more than 200,000 people affected by conflict and disaster. By combining military, civilian, and academic expertise, GRM strengthens local healthcare systems through direct patient care, capacity-building, and innovative partnerships.

We believe everyone deserves the best possible care on the worst day of their lives.

Strengthen Frontline Surgicial Teams in Ukraine

Help equip frontline surgical teams with the training they need to save lives.