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Chile
Apr 28, 2022

Fundación Gantz: Raising the Bar for Cleft Care in Latin America

“Being recognized by Smile Train means Chile is now a regional leader training and educating doctors from all over the world."

Dr. Elizabeth Igaga, an anesthesiologist, is committed to surgical patient safety.
United States
Jun 7, 2021

The Fight to Provide Safe Surgery

Inside and outside the operating room, Dr. Elizabeth Igaga is fighting to make anesthesia and surgery safer for every patient. 

Dr. Luis Cuadros with a cleft lip and palate patient and his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation.
United States
Feb 24, 2021

"It Is Possible": Celebrating Dr. Luis Cuadros

Thanks to Dr. Cuadros — and Smile Train — having a cleft on the Navajo reservations of New Mexico is no longer a sentence to a life of isolation and sickness.

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Chile
Apr 15, 2020

Nurse Lisette Jerez

How Smile Train Partners Are Treating Children with Clefts Through the Pandemic 

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Chile
Mar 5, 2020

Dr. Carmen Gloria Morovic: Trailblazing Cleft Surgeon In Chile

Surgeon. Activist. Teacher. Woman.

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