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, University of Tennessee
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