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Healing for Today, Hope for the Future

Spanning the decades, orthopaedic specialists from the University of Utah Department of Orthopaedics have traveled to remote regions of the globe to provide life-changing and often life-saving orthopaedic surgery. From Nicaragua to a small clinic in Juarez Mexico, orthopaedic specialists have been making a difference in the lives of thousands of children and adults through multiple medical and teaching missions world-wide.

Global Health

GLOBAL OPERATIVE EXPERIENCES

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By the numbers:

  • 4 weeks in a country
  • 5 operating days a week
  • 3-4 ortho cases a day
  • 1-2 “emergent” cases per weekend

Case types:

  • nonunions
  • chronic dislocations
  • chronic osteomyelitis/septic arthritis
  • upper and lower extremity fractures
  • traction for complex acetabulum
  • ex fix for unstable pelvis

ASSOCIATIONS

  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Santiago, Chile
  • Rwanda
  • El Salvador – Operation Walk
  • Blanding, Utah
  • Guatemala – Faith in Practice
  • Uganda
  • Ecuador
  • Nicaragua
  • Mexico – Zacatecas/Guadalupe
  • Beijing
  • Bhutan

Operation Walk  Provides life-changing joint replacement surgeries

Faith In Practice Provides medical care to the poor of Guatemala

Group of Orthopaedics Doctors
Group of Orthopaedics Surgeons
Doctor Perform Surgery
Doctors at airport
Doctors standing in front of international flag