The October 2010 Ghana team is made up of 21 medical specialists and 6 volunteers who will travel to Kumasi, Ghana to care for children with heart defects.
The trip coordinators and team planners include:
Dr. Francis Fynn-Thompson, Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon
Bev Small, Staff Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Christine Placidi, Staff Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Judy Hurley, Staff Nurse, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Medical Staff
Dr. Judith Becker, Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Vipin Mehta, Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Vamsi Yarlagadda, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Hospital
Dr. Ravi Thiagarajan, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Hospital
Physician Assistant
Brenda Cooney PA-C, Cardiac Surgery Physician Assistant, Photographer, Children's Hospital
Cardiac Intensive Care Unit nurses
Lillian D’Agnese
Mary Eisenhauer
Joshua Bourgeois
Karen Horn
Cat Dowling
Ruth Brediger
Operating Room Nurses
Lisa Klosterboer
Ellen Hiney
Perfusionist
Bob Howe
Echocardiography Technician
Marga Rivera
Respiratory Therapist
Stephanie Larsen
Pharmacist
Roger Dionne
Bio Medical
Frantz Teleau
Volunteers
