Meet the team

The March 2008 Ghana trip will have 21 team members who specialize in taking care of 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. Ravi Thiagarajan, Cardiologist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Dr. Mark Scheurer, Cardiologist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Dr. Vipin Mehta, Cardiac Anesthesiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Judy Becker, Pediatric Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hosp
Dr. George Ofori-Amanfom, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit nurses
Moira Carroll
Mary Eisenhaur
John Flaherty
Karen Hinsley
Karen Horn

Operating Room nurses
Patty Galvin
Susan Jay

Perfusionist (runs the heart by-pass machine)
Bob Howe

Echocardiography Technician
Sherri Trevy   

Pharmacist
Roger Dionne

Respiratory Therapist
Erin Burns

Bio Medical
Frantz Teleau

Volunteers
Monique Lewis, Administer Assistant, CICU
Karen Jeager
Sarah Howe
Jeremy Small
Krystal Small

Photographer/writer
Matt Cyr