• About Us

    Based in New York City, Healing Hands Abroad is a multi-disciplinary group of volunteer medical professionals.  We share a common interest: providing specialized surgical care to the underprivileged communities of the world. Founder and Executive Director Dr. Michael J. Lacqua initially traveled to Central America to provide plastic surgical care to patients of the Cayo Continue Reading

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  • San Jose Succotz, Belize March 2012

    Maverick Albeno is one of the most pleasant 17 year old young men you would ever meet. His father, Adan, brought him to see us because of an enlarging tumor of his parotid gland. No doctors in his home town of Benque Viejo could help him. We were able to successfully remove the tumor and Continue Reading

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  • Benque Viejo, Belize November 2012

              This is Fernando.  He is 18 months old and burned his hand on an iron two months ago. The wound healed with so much scar tissue that he is unable to open his hand fully. We were able to remove the scar and replace it with a skin graft from Continue Reading

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  • Cayo, Belize March 2013

      Trekking back to the Cayo District of Belize, the Healing Hands Abroad team joined with team members from New Mexico, providing care to the underserved villages of this jungle district as well as the city of Belmopan.            Alyson Alfaro is a 20 year old Belizean young man who works as a tour guide here Continue Reading

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    Healing Hands Abroad was established to address the prevalent issue of people in desperate need of specialized surgical care. Jesse is a perfect example of the type of patient we see repeatedly. We met Jesse through the staff of the Good Shepard Clinic about 5 years ago in the small village of Succotz in Western Continue Reading

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Based in New York City, Healing Hands Abroad is a multi-disciplinary group of volunteer medical professionals.  We share a common interest: providing specialized surgical care to the underprivileged communities of the world.

Founder and Executive Director Dr. Michael J. Lacqua initially traveled to Central America to provide plastic surgical care to patients of the Cayo District of Belize. Seeing the vital need for other services, Healing Hands Abroad has expanded to provide a variety of surgical, wound care and radiological services. Volunteer doctors and nurses from Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn and Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island make up the core members of the Healing Hands Abroad family.  More recently, doctors and health care providers from throughout the United States have joined us in our mission.

 

Healing Hands Abroad is proud to have the following members on its Board of Directors:

 

Peter Andrade MD
Resident Surgeon
 Lutheran Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York

Julie Mason RN
Nurse Manager, The Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Therapy
Richmond University Medical Center
Staten Island, New York

Richard J. Salhany
Senior Vice President, Professional Services and Medical Staff Administration
Richmond University Medical Center
Staten Island, New York

Thomas Sipp Esq.
The Sipp Law Firm
Staten Island, New York