Cloaca. Robin Williams' favorite word and a condition in a baby girl that requires a very complex pediatric colorectal surgery. In short, normally a baby girl is born with three holes - an anus, a vagina and a urethra. However, when a baby girl is born with one hole th...

The word "infectious" is normally not something positive in a hospital environment. However, the good will and deep respect CTO members feel for one another and for our mission has spread...and no one is immune. After several missions all over the world together they k...

The waiting room was a mix of excitement and nerves. Some of these 24 families have been waiting anxiously for more than a year for us to arrive. And some have been blessed with excellent timing - there are three newborns who will be operated on, one born just yesterda...

In three days, CTO members from all over the world will convene at Hospital Nacional de Niños in San Jose, Costa Rica. The pediatric surgical mission will be led by Dr. Marc Levitt and his team from

Nationwide Children's Hospital along with Mending Kids and CTO. Ch...