MedCAD CEO Helps Restore Lives of Ukraine War Victims Through Custom Implant Technology
MGA Staff • February 17, 2026
Nancy Hairston, CEO of MedCAD, is utilizing her 3-D animation, sculpting and computer-aided design skillset, which was once used to help Mattel make Bratz Dolls, to create reconstructed skulls and faces disfigured by major accidents.
Recently, Hairston returned from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and Lviv, to join a surgical team restore vision for victims of Russian missiles and drones. Within three missions, MedCAD has donated devices for 16 patients which would have cost a total of nearly $200,000. Hairston has plans on going back to Ukraine in an effort to give Ukrainian soldiers and civilians back their dignity and humanity by focusing on making them look similar to how they used to.
MedCAD, a medical technology company that designs and manufactures patient-matched medical devices, harnesses precise imaging, surgical experience, and proprietary biomedical engineering technologies to create personalized implants and surgical plans for cranial defects, oral surgery, CMF trauma and reconstruction procedures. By minimizing surgical complexity and procedure time, its technology enables superior patient outcomes throughout intervention, rehabilitation, and recovery.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission received reports of 13,000 people being treated in the Emergency room for firework related injuries, last year. Firework injuries are fully preventable, according to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, 90% of fireworks injuries are caused by legal fireworks. Fireworks of all kinds are dangerous and it is advised to attend a professional fireworks shows instead of buying your own. Dr. Michael Jimenez, trauma medical director for Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, spoke to local media on firework safety. View the coverage below: ABC 7 KTLA NBC KNX-AM Los Angeles Daily News
Retired 55-year-old firefighter and Chino Hills resident George Rojas is looking forward to celebrating another Father’s Day with his family after surviving a stroke last November. George Rojas, an avid cyclist, biked more than 100 miles per week and thought he was in good shape until he woke up to a numb left arm that caused him to collapse on the bathroom floor. George was experiencing a stroke, but he was fortunate that his wife and daughter were home and immediately came to his aide and called 911 where he was then transported to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center. View the coverage below: ABC 7 NBC 4 Daily Bulletin
AltaMed Health Services White Coats for Change doctors canvassed Santa Ana to speak to residents about the importance of participating in the upcoming elections in a nonpartisan effort focusing on civic engagement. That’s the idea behind White Coats for Change (WC4C), an innovative initiative from AltaMed Health Services, one of the nation's largest federally qualified community health centers that has more than 60 clinics in Los Angeles and Orange counties, that is training physicians, nurses, and healthcare providers to become advocates for structural change in healthcare policy and improving civic participation in underserved communities. View the coverage below: Orange County Register Activista Media
According to the American Red Cross, children under five years old drown most often in pools owned by family and friends. With summer approaching, Dr. Kevin Goldman, emergency medicine at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center, spoke with ABC7 on pool safety tips. Parents are urged to keep watch of their children when they are in the pool at all times as it can only take seconds before a drowning can occur. Dr. Goldman also recommends thinking twice about certain swimwear color choices, since some are harder to spot in the water than others. View the coverage below. ABC 7 La Nueva Voz KNX
Los Angeles Students Present Civic Action Projects at California Endowment hosted by Teach Democracy
More than 150 Los Angeles high school and middle school students shared their Civic Action Project (CAP) that addressed pressing social issues in their community at the California Endowment. The Civic Action was hosted by Teach Democracy, a non-partisan non-profit that develops civic learning materials for K-12 students. The Expo is the culminating event for its CAP participants who presented on topics such as immigrant rights amid ICE raids, preventing gang violence, urban development, affordable housing and improving youth mental health. View the coverage below: ABC7 CBS Santa Monica Daily Press San Fernando Valley Sun Activista Media
CalOptima Health has partnered with AltaMed Health Services and the City of Santa Ana to launch a Street Medicine Program to serve people experiencing homelessness. The program delivers comprehensive health care through a mobile health unit and provides services to create a path to permanent housing. Santa Ana is the fourth city in Orange County to participate in the CalOptima Health Street Medicine Program. View the coverage below: Orange County Register City of Santa Ana Excelsior California (Spanish) NBC4 Los Angeles Telemundo Los Angeles ABC7 Los Angeles KNX Radio
Across the United States there have been many mass shootings in public places. Mt. SAC and Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center hosted a mass casualty incident simulation to give health careers students and emergency department staff an opportunity to prepare on how to respond to a crisis. The training event focuses on coordination, triage, communication, and patient care in a high-pressure environment. Watch the coverage from ABC7 here .
March is Sleep Awareness Month, and with nearly 70% of U.S. adults reporting getting insufficient sleep or rest, Project Sleep, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to raising awareness about sleep health, sleep equity and sleep disorders. View the coverage below: Spectrum News 1 SoCal CBS Philadelphia
Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange is utilizing artificial intelligence software to support radiologists in detecting tumors in their early stages. Dr. Kenneth Meng, MD, with St. Joseph Hospital Orange uses the ICAD AI algorithm which helped flag a lesion in a patient's mammogram that could have been overlooked. The artificial intelligence software developed by ICAD is able to find cancer two to three years earlier than without using the program. "It does take the AI and the radiologist together to get the best, most accurate reading," Dr. Meng said. View our coverage below: ABC 7 Yahoo! News Becker's Hospital Review
Firm has received more than 60 industry awards LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Miller Geer & Associates, Inc., a boutique public relations firm serving national clients, celebrates its 50 th anniversary this November 2025. The agency serves a variety of local, regional and national clients in health care, higher education, county and city government, logistics and transportation as well as animal welfare. Jay Geer, president of the eight-person agency, joined the agency in 1982 as an intern and subsequently purchased the firm from its founder, Nann Miller, in 1991. Nann Miller, APR, Fellow, started the agency in 1975 and created one of the first public relations agencies owned and operated by a woman in Los Angeles. In the agency’s early years, clients included real estate development, animal welfare and hospitality. The agency would become known as the creator of many special events, including spectaculars that lead to acknowledgment in the Guiness Book of Records. Those events included the “Big Picture,” the downtown Los Angeles celebration of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, the world’s largest ribbon cutting for Shoreline Village in Long Beach and the world’s largest Ice Cream Float for Knudson Ice Cream. “Our founder, Nann, knew that a great, larger than life idea that perfectly underscored the brand and carried news value would generate buzz,” says Geer. “Her ideation, creativity and execution of earned media public relations campaigns remain in the DNA of the firm today.” Agency vice-presidents James Chisum and Sandy Rodriguez started their careers as college interns with Miller Geer & Associates and now more than 15 years later serve in leadership roles. Founded in downtown Los Angeles, the firm relocated to Orange County in 1995 and is based in Los Alamitos. The firm has won more than 60 industry awards for campaigns and is noted for its media relations and crisis communications expertise. For more information about Miller Geer, please visit www.millergeer.com