Category: Recent Trips

Recently, United2Cure, a non-profit started by physicians at MD Anderson Cancer Center, funded and coordinated all logistics for the first partial heart auto-transplantation in Latin America to remove a rare tumor around the heart. Laura Caicedo is a 22 year-old Colombian girl who presented to a prominent cardiovascular institute in Colombia, Fundacion Cardioinfantil, with elevated...

By Shanley Chien | February 07, 2018 Three Texas Medical Center doctors traveled to Colombia to save a young woman’s life. Gabriel Mena, M.D., was busy in the operating room last May when a message popped up on his cell phone. The text came from a fellow doctor and friend in Houston who had heard…