Our first Cheryl Lamon Memorial patient from India is here! We met eight-year-old Nainsi during our India mission last February. She was born with a large encephalocele (brain cyst) protruding…
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In her four years as a volunteer nurse for LEAP, Vicki Wendling has been on nine missions to Zimbabwe, Haiti, Belize, and India. We were very excited for her to…
Dr. Mary Ellen Thurman is an anesthesiologist practicing in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s India trip was her first visit to India but her second trip with LEAP. Mary Ellen…
Dr. Latha Kampalath is a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin. When asked how many trips she has gone on with a LEAP volunteer in the past 15 years,…
LEAP Volunteer and Team Leader Charlie Lin is a Nurse Practitioner currently working in Connecticut. Charlie has helped LEAP in many ways for most of his nursing career and has…
We recently asked some of LEAP’s 2017 Medical Team Leaders, who offer guidance and support to our surgical teams while on mission, to share their hopes and advice for LEAP…
Children are drawn to LEAP Founder Dr. Craig Hobar in really amazing ways. They seem to be both calmed yet in awe in his presence. Perhaps it’s the deep love…
Cleft lip alone is twice as common in males, cleft palate alone is more common in females, and cleft lip and palate together is more common in males. Clefts can also…
A cleft lip contains an opening n the upper lip that may extend into the nose. The opening may be on one side, both sides, or in the middle. A…
Ramvishal and his mother, Radha, were both born with a cleft lip. When Radha was an infant at age one, her parents had her unilateral cleft repaired in Central India….