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Stories from Cambodia Missions
Photos and reports from recently returned medical teams.
Report from Pediatric Cardiac Mission to Cambodia, July/August 2022
Rady Children’s Hospital / UCSDMission: Cambodia 22 July- 3 August, 2022Susan Grossfeld, MPH and Paul Grossfeld, MD At a Glance This was the Grossfeld's and CLI's first collaboration with Chenla Children's Healthcare in CambodiaThe region has a well-established need for…
Cambodia / Dr. Paul Grosssfeld
This year the focus was to provide clinical and bedside training to inpatient cardiac patients, outpatient cardiac patients, lectures to medical students, staff physicians and support staff. In addition, we were able to follow up with eight past surgical patients.…
Heal and Teach
Children’s Lifeline believes at its core that, It is not enough just to heal…but to train and enable the host hospitals to continue the life saving work of the missions. Recently, an 8 month old child (S.K.) from Phnom Penh,…
January – Cambodia: Children’s Lifeline / Cambodia: Rady Children’s Hospital / University of California San Diego
Angkor Hospital for Children, Angkor, Cambodia Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) serves approximately 120,000 children a year. Through its missions, Lifeline’s cardiac team from San Diego has been treating and teaching at AHC since 2007. When the hospital opened in…
October – Cambodia: Children’s Lifeline / Plasticos Foundation
In October of 2011, Lifeline’s cranial facial team revisited Angkor Children’s Hospital. Lifeline and the Plasticos Foundation cosponsored the mission. Doctor Larry Nichter, mission leader and his medical team of seven traveled from Orange County, California to Cambodia. Upon arrival…
January – Cambodia: Children’s Lifeline / Cambodia: Rady Children’s Hospital / University of California San Diego
The Cambodia Story Dr. Paul Grossfeld and his wife, Susan, were going on vacation to Thailand in 2005. Susan had always wanted to see the temples in Cambodia and wanted to surprise her husband with the side trip. She started…
December – Cambodia: Children’s Lifeline / Cambodia: Rady Children’s Hospital / University of California San Diego
In December, Dr. Paul Grossfeld of Rady’s Children’s Hospital/UCSD led his 4th pediatric cardiac mission to Cambodia. 35 children were evaluated for procedures and of those 26 were scheduled for surgery. This mission has also been a teaching mission and…