Our Mission is to educate and assist local medical teams in providing heart surgery and cardiac services to adults and children in underserved regions of the world.
Our Vision is a world where access to cardiac care can be realized by everyone.
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Introducing New CardioStart Board Members
Nicola Entwistle, MBA
Nicola holds an MBA from IE Business School and a Cyber Security for Business Leaders certification from Oxford University. She is passionate about equality having co-chaired the LGBT Latin America Network for Mastercard and is also an Ambassador for the UK’s Women of the Future programme.
Donato (Dan) Sisto, M.D. FACS, FACCP
Dan is an active cardiothoracic surgeon, living in New Hampshire, working part time in Connecticut and Vermont. He directed the Open Heart Surgery program at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, which he started in 1998, until the end of 2019.
Upcoming Missions
Adult Cardiac Surgery and Critical Care Mission to Accre, Ghana
May 19–25, 2024
The CardioStart International Board & International Missions Committee is pleased to announce an upcoming collaborative effort with our UK partners, Arrhythmia Alliance Hearts of Ghana, at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in Accra, Ghana.
POSTPONED
Mission to Macapa, Brazil
Program development in pediatric cardiology and surgery
CardioStart’s primary role will be to develop a pediatric cardiac surgery program and pediatric cardiac intervention. This mission will work to reduce the large existing volume of pediatric case, while providing pediatric training to the local team. Priority will be given to cases with late-presenting congenital heart disease and cases that require valve repair.
Celebrating 30 Years of Global Volunteer Heart Care!
1987-2017
World Tour
- 999 Corrective Surgeries
- 57 Containers of medical supplies
- 3757 Field Patients
- 1500+ Volunteers
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Memories Living On
As we begin a new year, it’s a time to reflect on how the past year has shaped us in our missions. Thanks to the help of our volunteers, throughout 2016 we accomplished 7 missions and over 60 successful surgeries! This year took us back to the Dominican Republic, [...]
Yves Durandy
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of a dear friend. Yves secured his PhD in medicine at the famous Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 1979. Following this he had medical and perfusion-related experience in many prestigious French hospitals. He conducted pioneering technical advances [...]
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Guayaquil, Ecuador Mission Report: March 17-29th, 2018
On this occasion, CardioStart’s International mission team made a return visit to the Hospital del Nino Dr. Francisco de Icaza Bustamante in Guayaquil, Ecuador on invitation by the Fundacion El Cielo Para Los Ninos del Ecuador. This was designated as a two-week mission, but administrative hold-ups with documentation and Ministry approval it was only able for the patients to be assessed during the second week. Accordingly, only a few cases could be undertaken. Three of the cases were emergency presentations and it was felt by both teams that these patients would shortly die without an attempt to resolve their presentation surgically.
