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…
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Cyndi Banish’s MBA with expertise in Project Management in Health Care has been invaluable to LEAP through her weekly service in our warehouse. She has done an amazing job helping…
As a longstanding patient of Dr. Hobar’s and all-around impressive young man, Brian Buckenham selected LEAP as his Eagle Scout project at the age of 14. Through a garage sale…
Dallas-based pediatric anesthetist Phuong Luong is a rockstar team lead in the mission field, where she trains and mentors new medical volunteers to help grow our future leaders. She also…
Janet Ortega has an endless capacity to give, and she does so through LEAP in many ways. She has traveled once to Zimbabwe and five times to Haiti on LEAP…
A cleft lip and palate medical team is generally comprised of a craniofacial plastic surgeon, an orthodontist, and a speech therapist, depending upon the child’s specific needs. Many patients with…
For me, the Zimbabwe 2016 trip was a huge accomplishment. It was a testimony of God’s faith and healing powers. Two days after I returned from the Zimbabwe 2015 trip,…
I’ve wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember, but I never knew why until after my first LEAP trip. Through that experience, I realized it…
Speech Pathologist Dianne Altuna has been providing one-on-one feeding care instructions to parents of cleft patients. Today, she begins leading classroom lectures. This is Dianne’s first mission to Zimbabwe. She…
National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 and ends on May 12, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. To all of our amazing nurse volunteers, we celebrate you for your professional…