January 26, 2024
TCNJ student, Joshua Lerman, joined us on the October 2023 Ophthalmology mission at the Centro Medico Central Romana in La Romana serving as our translator. The […]
October 26, 2023
Healing the Children New Jersey sent thirty volunteers to the Centro Medico Central Romana in La Romana in October. The team, led by Dr. Mark Engel, […]
January 12, 2023
Healing the Children New Jersey sent a team of twenty-seven volunteers to Guayaquil, Ecuador in December 2022 to perform pro-bono corrective pediatric surgeries. Led by surgeons […]
October 5, 2022
Thirty volunteers traveled to the Roberto Gilbert Children’s Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador from September 10-17 to provide complex urologic surgeries on children pro-bono. The talented team, […]
April 5, 2022
It is no surprise that Carlos’s joyful reaction to his new adult-sized prostheses brought tears to his Host parent’s eyes. Nick and Jackie Alectoridis have hosted […]
January 14, 2020
Nineteen volunteers travelled to the Dominican Republic from October 26 to November 2, 2019 on the annual ENT medical trip to help disadvantaged children. The team, […]
October 11, 2019
The International Inbound Program brought Mariana Lira to New Jersey for the fourth time this summer for additional reconstructive surgery on her face. A patient of Dr. Hakan Kutlu […]
July 2, 2019
During a six-month stay in New Jersey, Eulalia Estaban Pedro, a thirteen-year-old from Guatemala, underwent two surgeries for a frontal encephalocele performed by Dr. Richard Anderson, […]
March 25, 2019
Healing the Children New Jersey and Berkeley College’s team of students, faculty, and alumna participated on a week-long medical mission at the Roberto Gilbert Children’s Hospital […]
March 18, 2019
A team of twenty volunteers, led by Dr. Bruce Schnall, provided medical care to children with strabismus and ptosis. The team screened over three hundred children […]
March 17, 2019
Healing the Children New Jersey sent twenty-three volunteers to Guayaquil, Ecuador on an orthopedic mission in January to provide free surgical care to impoverished children. The […]
December 12, 2018
Healing the Children New Jersey’s volunteer medical team screened 248 children and performed ninety-one procedures on sixty-seven children at the Centro Medico Romana in the Dominican […]
December 12, 2018
After a three-year hiatus, HTCNJ returned to the Dominican Republic with an ophthalmology team in November to help children suffering from congenital eye misalignment. The trip […]
August 13, 2018
In June 2018 HTCNJ sent twenty-seven volunteers to Guayaquil to provide free surgical care to children born with eye misalignment. At the Leon Becerra Hospital the […]
June 4, 2018
In April a volunteer medical team traveled to Peru to perform surgeries on children with congenital eye misalignment. “The eleven-person ophthalmology team examined over 120 children […]
June 4, 2018
For the third straight year, a volunteer medical team traveled to Peru in April to treat children born with facial and oral malformations. Dr. Lloyd B. […]
December 4, 2017
In November 2017 HTCNJ sent a pediatric urology medical mission to Ecuador to help children born with congenital abnormalities. The team which was led by Dr. […]