Plastic Surgeons Critical to Surgical Care and Rehabilitation of Patients with Neglected Tropical Diseases

Affiliations

• ¹ From the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
• ² National Hansen's Disease Program, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, Baton Rouge, La.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Schiefflin Institute of Health Research and Leprosy Centre, Karigiri, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India.
• ⁴ Cirugía Plástica y Reconstructiva, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• ⁵ Past Medical Director, The Leprosy Mission Nepal, Anandaban Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal.
• ⁶ Consultant, Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery and Consultant for the Leprosy Mission Netherlands, Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
• ⁷ Section Head of Assessment and Diagnosis, Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima, Bauru, Brazil.
• ⁸ Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, Addis Ababa University and ALERT Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁹ Department of Podiatry, Cottage Hospital and Valley Regional Hospital, Claremont, N.H.
• ¹⁰ Fundación Padre Damien Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• ¹¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.