November 25-27, 2024 Guadalajara Mexico Medical Center IMSS Centro Medico Naciona De Occidente (public hospital) Hernia Help: Wolfgang Reinpold, David Lourie, David Chen, and Hector Valenzuela (local Cooordinator) 10 teaching cases, 2 days of lectures, over 100 surgeons participating via observation, training, and teleconference.
November 2024 Santiago Dominican Republic ILAC Trip On November 3 – 7 at the Institute of Latin American Concerns (ILAC) in the Dominican Republic our hernia team operated upon 67 hernia patients. Two new surgeons, Dr. Nick Carter and Dr. Andy Yang, along with veterans to ILAC Dr. Michael Sarr and Dr. Bob Cusick operated. […]
September 24-28, 2024 Coron District Hospital Palawan, Philippines Adult and Pediatric Hernia Surgeries including Training and Teaching in collaboration with Sui Generis Missions, the Philippine Hernia Society and Cebu Doctor Hospital. Led By Dr. Henry Chua from Cebu Doctors Hospital, Wayne Huang from IRCAD Taiwan and David Chen from Hernia Repair for the Underserved.
Mission in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (June 13-14, 2024) Carlos Chagas State Hospital and Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital 51 men and 4 women 36 unilateral inguinal hernias and 16 bilateral inguinal hernias 67 Lichtenstein and 1 Shouldice with neurectomy 02 umbilical hernias 03 incisional hernias: 2 open Rives Stoppa techniques and 1 MILOS technique Hospital […]
Hernia Mission to Paraguay November 20-24, 2023 The hernia mission was planned and organized by: Prof. Dr. Osmar Cuenca Torres, Director of the Department of Abdominal Wall Surgery del Hospital Universitario and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Asunción. Prof. Cuenca is Paraguay´s leading expert for complex abdominal wall […]
November 2023 Santiago Dominican Republic ILAC Trip Our first set back was encountered before the trip when it became apparent that the container would not clear customs in time. However, Mary Lou Collins, our equipment coordinator came to our rescue by reminding us that all sent in this year’s container was for next year. This […]
We are proud to announce that in October 2023, HRFU’s Founder and long-standing President, Charles J. Filipi, MD, FACS, received the American College of Surgeons/Pfizer Surgical Humanitarian Award. Dr. Filipi was recognized for his 20 years of humanitarian service: providing hernia repair services and encouraging others to volunteer their services in underdeveloped nations. Dr. Filipi […]
We carried out a mission at the Carlos Chagas State Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on May 12th and 13th, 2023. We operated on 23 adult patients with 30 hernias. We had no intra-operative complications nor in the follow-up until the postoperative thirtieth. We had six trainers and trained 6 local surgeons. The meshes […]
November 2022 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Trip This was our first trip to Santo Domingo. It was conducted with the Foundation for Peace, a well-established large non-profit based in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. They are focused primarily on health care, education and community partnerships. A small US team arrived but there were some authorization […]
November 2022 Santiago Dominican Republic ILAC Trip This was our first trip back to ILAC since 2019. An entire team was recruited and all three operating rooms were used. One for pediatric hernia surgery, another for the more complicated adult patients requiring a general anesthetic and the third for hernia patients requiring only local anesthesia […]