Dr. Mark Cocalis is a pediatric cardiologist at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco.

On our mission to Kaliningrad, Russia, we are traveling with a team of the top U.S. medical professionals. Heart to Heart medical volunteers are working with the local team to create treatment plans for children with complex heart defects.

Our Going Global site assessments are designed to identify opportunities for Heart to Heart to develop new cardiac teams to save children and adults suffering from heart disease in underserved areas of the world.

Heart to Heart’s medical volunteers have begun their work to help advance both pediatric and adult cardiac care in Chelyabinsk, Russia – a city over 200 years old, located where the European and Asian continents meet.

Heart to Heart works with local medical professionals to develop self-sustaining pediatric cardiac centers in regions that currently lack access to quality heart care.