Orthopaedic surgeons perform reconstructive surgery on children in Peru

For the last 19 years around the winter holidays, Daniel P. Mass, MD, Director Emeritus of UChicago Medicine's Orthopaedic Hand, Upper Extremity, and Microsurgery Fellowship Program, has led a trip to Lima, Peru to perform reconstructive surgeries on children in need. "I wanted to give back and I thought it was a good way of doing that," Mass said. Each year for about two weeks, Mass and fellows from UChicago Medicine perform complex procedures during the medical mission trip. This past December, Mass and fellows Christian J. Zaino, MD, and Jason Somogyi, MD, treated rare congenital hand deformities at Lima's National Children's Hospital, called Instituto Nacional De Salud Del Nio - San Borja.