Dr. Jorge Palacios and his Former Student

Dr. Jorge Palacios, director of our Surgical Outreach Program in Ecuador, poses in front of his bus with his former resident, Pablo, who is now a surgeon. 

For more than 30 years, Dr. Palacios has helped impoverished people who have clefts, disabling burns and hand injuries receive the life-changing medical care they need. He started Ecuador’s first plastic surgery residency program in an effort to increase the number of local plastic surgeons in the country devoted to helping the poor in their own communities.

Now these young men and women are joining him to care for those in critical need of reconstructive surgery in Ecuador—providing new hope, today and for the future.