In February, 2015 I had the great pleasure and privilege to lead the surgical team on our annual humanitarian mission to Kigali, Rwanda. The tagline for our Face the Future™ Foundation is, “Providing hope – one child at a time.” By all measures, our mission was a resounding success in meeting this goal.
Missions
Why Humanitarian Work is Good – For Me and You!
Many people, friends and patients alike, often ask me why I do so much humanitarian work. Since 1996, the Face the Future™ Foundation, of which I am President, has sent dozens of surgeons and nurses around the world to treat thousands of children with facial deformities. I myself have been...
Face the Future Foundation Humanitarian Surgical Mission to Ulyanovsk, June 2014
Our Face the Future™ Foundation, of which I am President, mounted its second major humanitarian surgical mission of 2014 to Ulyanovsk, Russia in the first week of June, 2014. 13 surgeons and nurses travelled to this city of 600,000, about 600 miles southeast of Moscow. Here the local surgeons and...
Face the Future™ Mission To Rwanda, February 2014, Part Two
On Friday, February 21, 2014, nine surgeons, an anaesthesiologist, an operating room scrub technician, and an administrative assistant boarded planes in Houston, Baltimore, New York, San Antonio, Munich and Toronto. They were all headed to Kigali, Rwanda as part of the second Face the Future™ surgical mission to Rwanda. As...
Face the Future™ Mission To Rwanda, February 2014
Part One Two years ago, through serendipity and people knowing people, I was able to establish a humanitarian surgical mission to Kigali, Rwanda. In fact, this initial mission to Rwanda, consisting of 10 surgeons and nurses, was the 23rd mission of our Face the Future™ Foundation. Our Foundation began in...
Changing the Face of the Future
There are hundreds of thousands of children around the world, many in under-developed countries or in under-privileged social situations, who suffer from facial deformities. These may be congenital, such as the common cleft lip and palate (about one in 500 births), or more uncommon such as microtia (absent ears) or...
Face the Future™ Follow Up
While the mission to Rwanda took place in February, we just received the final edit of the video that documented the Face the Future™ Foundation’s work. “There was mutual agreement from our Rwandan colleagues, the Ministry of Health and our team that the mission was an outstanding success. Plans are...
Rwanda Face the Future™ Mission Success
In early February 2013, Dr. Adamson led a team of 10, including world-renowned surgeons from Johns Hopkins University, The Cleveland Clinic, and Baylor University in San Antonio, Texas to Kigali, Rwanda. More than 30 extremely complex patients with severe facial deformities were consulted and 17 had restorative operations. These included...
Inaugural Face the Future™ mission to Ulyanovsk, Russia
On June 1 teams of surgeons left from Toronto, Ontario and Houston, Texas for Moscow and on to Ulyanovsk, Russia for the inaugural surgical mission to the Ulyanovsk Regional Paediatric Hospital. Ulyanovsk is a city of 600,000 people 900 km southeast of Moscow on the Volga River. Today it is...
Face the Future Foundation fundraising dinner another success!
On May 14, 2013, 80 friends and supporters of the Face the Future Foundation met for an evening of fine dining and friendship at the new Vita Sociale Ristorante in midtown Toronto. The restaurant, previously known as Centro and a Toronto landmark for fine dining for 25 years, had recently...