“My first experience in Samara with Heart to Heart was absorbing, astonishing, profound. I cannot let it fade from my memory, and I am humbled by the enormity of describing it.” – Rose Glickman

In July 2024, Heart to Heart conducted a highly focused training mission at the National Children’s Hospital (HNN), specifically to re-evaluate the patients on HNN’s cardiac surgical waiting list, which had ballooned to more than 100 children. Optimizing patient selection is the second of our Four Pathways framework for developing HNN’s children’s heart program.

In September 2023, Heart to Heart conducted our first-ever adult cardiac training mission to San Jose, Costa Rica. This momentous occasion came as a result of an initial invitation to San Juan de Dios Hospital (HSJD) in 2019 from chief of cardiac surgery, Klaus Kuhn, MD. HSJD is one of three public cardiac centers which serve Costa Rican adults with heart disease.