Shreveport Times, March 6, 2007 SHREVEPORT, La. -- After a year in the United States, West African physician Ghislain Noumsi is headed home to Mali where he can make a difference. Noumsi, who grew up in a country where dirt roads, rolling blackouts and a 150-mile journey to a doctor are still common, spent the last year in Shreveport conducting research and doing clinical care at the LifeShare Blood Centers, one of his requirements before earning a certification as a specialist in blood bank technology. Noumsi will visit his family in Cameroon before heading back to the blood center -- Centre Nacional de Transfusion Sanguine -- in Bamako, Mali. "Now I have vision of a different world. It's much clearer." Noumsi participated in the specialist in blood bank technology distance learning program through the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He conducted his research and clinical rotations at LifeShare Blood Centers under the mentorship of internationally renowned researchers Drs. JoAnn and John Moulds.