Plastic Surgeons Critical to Surgical Care and Rehabilitation of Patients with Neglected Tropical Diseases

• Eric L. Wan, MPH, MBA,
• Scott McGrew, PT, DPT, WMCS, CWS,
• Jerry Joshua, MBBS, MS, MCh,
• Andrés F. Rivadeneira, MD,
• Indra Napit, MBBS, MS,
• Willem Theuvenet, MD, PhD,
• José Antonio Garbino, MD, PhD,
• Yegeremu Eado, MD,
• James Wilton, DPM,
• A. Lee Dellon, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Eric L. Wan, MPH, MBA

From the * Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.

Scott McGrew, PT, DPT, WMCS, CWS

† National Hansen’s Disease Program, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, Baton Rouge, La.

Jerry Joshua, MBBS, MS, MCh

‡ Department of Surgery, Schiefflin Institute of Health Research and Leprosy Centre, Karigiri, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Andrés F. Rivadeneira, MD

§ Cirugía Plástica y Reconstructiva, Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Indra Napit, MBBS, MS

¶ Past Medical Director, The Leprosy Mission Nepal, Anandaban Hospital, Lalitpur, Nepal

Willem Theuvenet, MD, PhD

‖ Consultant, Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery and Consultant for the Leprosy Mission Netherlands, Apeldoorn, Netherlands

José Antonio Garbino, MD, PhD

** Section Head of Assessment and Diagnosis, Instituto Lauro de Souza Lima, Bauru, Brazil

Yegeremu Eado, MD

†† Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, Addis Ababa University and ALERT Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

James Wilton, DPM

‡‡ Department of Podiatry, Cottage Hospital and Valley Regional Hospital, Claremont, N.H

A. Lee Dellon, MD, PhD

¶¶ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.