Global Impact | Overview
The world comes to Boston Children’s for answers, but our cardiac surgery team also travels the world to answer the questions of specialists who want to understand how we treat congenital heart disease (CHD). We also reach children where they are to provide critical care. The world is never too big.
A global network to improve heart surgery
We train surgical teams around the world so they can perform complex surgeries themselves and give children an opportunity to lead healthy lives. We share research findings, demonstrate innovative surgical techniques, and show how teams work together.
We are privileged to help hospitals and clinics that don’t have the resources available. We also bring our hosts’ proven ideas back to Boston because they often find amazing ways to do more with less. This global network of surgeons constantly collaborates — at conferences and seminars and through virtual meetings and telephone calls — so that we can together learn the best modern approaches to treatment.
Making a difference in Boston and beyond
Our surgeons are not only researchers and caregivers but also leaders in humanitarian missions, providing critical care to children in underserved regions. We also welcome patients from around the globe to our hospital in Boston, ensuring that our world-class expertise is accessible to those seeking life-changing cardiac interventions.
Explore the map below to discover the many places where our cardiac surgery team has made a global impact over the last 20 years.
Globetrotting cardiac surgeons share their knowledge
Surgeon’s last-minute trip to Sri Lanka reduces children’s wait for needed heart repair
Dr. Baird and his team helped an understaffed Sri Lankan heart surgery team learn how to perform a complex operation and reduce a long waiting list of children who need heart valve repair.
Bringing Ozaki procedure to the world to repair children’s aortic valves
Originally an adult cardiac surgery, the Ozaki procedure was innovated & adapted for pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital. Trained by Dr. Baird and Dr. Cooney, surgeons in Chile, China, Vietnam, India, the Republic of Georgia, and Spain have begun doing their own pediatric Ozaki procedures.