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We are very excited to announce Dr. Norman Silverman’s return to Vietnam to teach a class in Pathological correlations with echocardiography in congenital heart disease at National Pediatric Hospital (NHP) in Hanoi, and University Hospital (DHYD) in HCM City. Dr. Silverman is a Professor of Pediatrics (Emeritus), Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Stanford University, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and Honorary Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cape Town.... We’re also much obliged to NHP and DHYD for hosting this class. Furthermore, we would not be able to send this legendary professor to Vietnam without the sponsorships from Philips Health Systems and Viet Thai. We are very grateful for your supports in making this endeavor possible. The Fetal Lectures: * Understanding the physiology of fetal transposition with regard to recognizing the newborn with restricted atrial septum. * Totally anomalous pulmonary venous return in the fetus. * Left and right isomerism in the fetus. * Recent experiences in Fetal Echo. * Ebstein’s Malformation and tricuspid dysplasia the fetus After Birth Lectures: * Normal Echocardiographic anatomy * Atrial Septal Defects * Atrioventricular septal defects. * Ventricular Septal Defects * Patent ductus and arteriosus and other aortopulmonary shunts * Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections * Right ventricular and Left ventricular diseases. * Tetralogy of Fallot &Truncus arteriosus * Transposition * Corrected Transposition * Double outlet right ventricle * Univentricular atrioventricular connections * Cardiac Tumors. * When is the right ventricle too small for a 2 ventricle repair? * Spongy Myocardium - My approach

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Gala Dinner for Mission 2016

This device can bring dead hearts back to life.

Operation: "GIFT of LIFE". A total patient care with the American's Center of Excellence standard. Santa will deliver the gift of life to the impoverished children that inflicted with children heart disease (CHD) in Vietnam. Santa has shipped 46 boxes of equipment, disposal and medicine to Hanoi Heart Hospital. He will make an appearance in 2 weeks with a group of 23 doctors and nurses to give 40-50 kids a gift of life.... Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to thanks Philip Dao from Philips to be part of this operation. Furthermore, this is a good learning experiences for the local physicians, and I'd like to welcome the selected cardiologists in the south to join this great mission. 'Winfred J. Wells, M.D. Professor of Clinical Surgery University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine' 'Brian Reemtsen, M.D. Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery University California of Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine Director heart and heart-lung Transplant Program' 'Daniel Levi, M.D. Professor, Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology. University California of Los Angeles Director, Diagnostic and Interventional Catheterization Program' 'Pierre Wong, M.D. Professor of Clinical Pediatrics University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine Director of Echocardiology' Casey Culbertson, M.D. Medical Director at MD1World

The Master Class of Pediatric Echocardiographic & Pathology Correlations in CHD at Hue by Dr. Norman Silverman. The good doctor went extra miles to teach in the CATH lab and clinical at bed side as well.

Day 1 of the Master Class, Pediatric CVICU issues by Dr Casey Culbertson.

We are pleased to announce an exciting update to our MD1World website simply called, the RESOURCE CENTER. The RESOURCE CENTER is the go-to area for the pediatric cardiologist to download and watch video books or talks on a variety of pediatric cardiology and surgery topics by your colleagues and other world renowned experts in the field. Whether your interest includes echo, fetal echo, 3D and other imaging modalities, cath, surgery, ICU, pathology, we are confident you will... find resources to learn from and enjoy. Leading experts like Norm Silverman from Stanford and UCSF and Pierre Wong from Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and many other colleagues are the inaugural group of speakers who have created this unique forum and resources to enhance your practice and the world of pediatric cardiology. The majority of the talks are free and are exclusively available for you at MD1World.com. Please join us frequently at the RESOURCE CENTER as we add more resources for you weekly. Thank you for your ongoing commitment and support of MD1World.com as we seek to enhance the lives and care of children with cardiac disease throughout the world.

About Making a Difference Beyond the Practice After a few years in practice, we as doctors hit our stride. The steepest part of our learning curve slows. Hospital rounds become routine. The 1,000th outpatient consult for chest pain is no different than the first. And then a 7 year old girl from the Philippines gets admitted to the floor with unoperated Tetralogy of Fallot. She's more cyanotic than any kid you've ever seen. Her O2 sat is 72%. Her fingers and toes are profoundl...y clubbed. Her hematocrit is 65%. Sadly, her family has known about her diagnosis since she was born but they could not afford to come to the U.S. And now here she is, right out of a textbook. It is like Helen Taussig is describing one of her patients directly to you. The excitement of the unique and bizarre cases from our training rushes back. But these fascinomas come far and few between. Inspiration from 8,000 Miles Away Enter Baby My, a precious 2 month old girl with a newly diagnosed double inlet left ventricle, transposition, and hypoplastic aortic valve and arch. A single ventricle in need of 3 stage palliation seemed the right direction to head. We had to consider the possibilities of pulmonary hypertension and sift through the reported diagnosis of pneumonia, none of which seemed too difficult to tease out. That is, if she were in the United States. But she was 8,000 miles away...in Vietnam. Although the obstacles were many, we embarked on this journey to provide the highest quality medical care and decision making, all by e-mail. A Telemedicine Platform Created For Doctors, By Doctors At the end of the tumultuous but incredible 3 month journey, Vietnam had completed its first Norwood and Baby My was its first survivor! The countless e-mails and hours spent on the case caused us to consider whether a more refined system of communication was available to care for such patients. This forum could help, provide care for, and save vast numbers of patients around the world. With this in mind, MD1World was founded. We built MD1 to serve as a unique forum, an online platform of telemedicine, that allows and encourages physicians at the forefront of medicine to engage and support physicians and patients both locally and worldwide. We believe you will impact even more lives through your involvement with the MD1World community, as you journey with fellow colleagues and patients to lend your expertise across the nation and the world. Dr. John-Charles Loo

We are proud to announce that Tran Main Anh was released from the Vinmec International Hospital after a successful surgery to repair her congenital heart condition. Thank you to everyone who helped contribute toward last month's life-saving treatment.