Why did you start the Mobile Pediatric Orthopaedic Education (MoPOEd) program?
I operated on an orphan from Cambodia in 2007 who lived with us postoperatively over the summer. When she returned to Cambodia, we decided that my family should visit her, and made arrangements to go to Phnom Penh. I also arranged to do some surgery at a charity hospital, the Children’s Surgical Centre (CSC). I learned that of the 14 million people in Cambodia, almost half are under 21 years old, and there are no pediatric orthopaedic surgeons in the country. When we returned, I decided to start MoPOEd in order to return and train surgeons in Cambodia and other developing countries. The program recently received a $75,000 grant from the Ronald McDonald House Charities to fund orthopaedics training for Cambodian physicians and nurses. Will you be participating in the instruction? Over the next year, nine pediatric orthopaedic surgeons and I will visit the CSC to train their doctors and nurses in the techniques and principles of pediatric orthopaedics. We also hope that they will be able
