16 members from UNC will travel on Sept 26, 2009 to Kampala Uganda for the next Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Mission. We will continue our ongoing efforts to train Ugandan Health Care Providers (MD, RN, RT, perfusion, biomedical engineering) in treating children with complex congenital heart defects. Since our last mission in Oct 2008, our partners from
Children's National Medical Center have returned in April 2009 and operated on an additional 10 children while advancing the Uganda Heart Program. The Ugandan team in-country has successfully repaired 3 additional children. We plan to operate on 10 children with increasingly complex heart disease while preparing the Ugandan Team to continue this work after our departure. We are again blessed by the generous support of
Samaritan's Purse and
UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases.Team Leader: Keith Kocis, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon: Michael Mill, MD
Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology: Gene Freid, MD
Pediatric Intensivists: Stacey Peterson Carmichael, MD, Parvin Dorostkar, MD
OR Nurse: Jenn Ditto, RN, PNP
Physician's Assist: Ruben Bocanegra, PA
Perfusionist: Greg Griffin
Cardiac ICU Nurses: Karla Brown, RN, PNP; Katherine Desrocher, RN; Diane Yorke, RN, PhD; Susan VanFleet, RN; John Bryson, RN; Julie Fields, RN; Jeannie Koo, RN, PNP.
Respiratory Therapists: Lupe Haynes, RRT; Sheila White, RRT.
Biomedical Engineering: Elizabeth Smith
