Earlier this month, CDH International attended the 2021 meeting of the Global Initiative of Children’s Surgery (GICS). CDHi has been a member of GICS for 4 years, working with pediatric surgeons from around the world to help serve children in Lower and Middle-Income-Countries to access pediatric surgery. CDHi also serves on the Congenital Anomalies committee …
Last week, CDH International virtually attended the 2021 APSA Conference, where we shared our CDH Phone App and CDH Parent Reference Guide with pediatric surgeons from around the world and also got up to date on the latest Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia research.
CDHi is very proud to have joined in the 2021 G4 Alliance meeting virtually. The G4 Alliance is a group of pediatric surgery centers and nonprofits who work together closely to help fight for and create better global surgical care for all children.
We have been very excited to attend the 24 Hours of Rare event this week virtually. There has been lots of great of information from the rare disease sector around the world. Catch our President, Dawn Ireland, as she speaks on “The Importance of Collaboration Among Charity Leaders to More Effectively Raise Awareness and Find …
CDH International is proud to welcome Charles Carapinha, MBBcH (Wits), MRCS (Eng), FC Paed Surg (SA), MMED (Surg), MPH (Liverpool) as a Medical Advisor to our charity. Dr. Carapinha works at the Chris Hani Baragwanath & Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospitals and is a Senior Paediatric Surgical Registrar at University of the Witwatersrand. in Johannesburg, …
We are excited to announce the expansion of our charity into Asia with “CDH International” in Hong Kong! CDH International is now able to work and receive tax-deductible donations in Hong Kong. 我們很高興地宣布，我們的慈善事業將在香港與”CDH國際”一起向亞洲擴展！ CDH國際公司而家能夠喺香港工作同接受免稅捐款。 CDH Internationalc/o Hong Kong Foundation for Charities LimitedRegistration Number 65159428-000 CDH Internationalc/o Hong Kong Foundation for Charities LimitedUnit B, 19/F, Queen’s …
And then came Covid and things could’ve grinded to screeching halt. Many charities folded in 2020… CDH International did not. We held our 2020 CDH Telethon as our President, Dawn Ireland, herself was battling Covid while on camera for 12 hours. This fall, Tracy Meats, head of our Support Department, had a heart attack and …
2017 was the end of the “mom and pop” little support charity with our rebirth into “CDH International”. After waiting over 20 years to know the cause and how to prevent and best treat Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia, we were frustrated. We still didn’t have a Standard of Care or even standard measurements of mortality or …
2016 was the year that ACDHO really grew with the Paris conference. For the first time, several leaders from CDH charities came together to form a deeper bond in our community. It was also our charity’s second family conference in Europe. Our Research Dept. grew as well, awarding several grants, co-authoring a research poster and …
Our 20th Anniversary! We celebrated with a dinner at the President’s home in North Carolina, followed by a night time balloon release featuring the names of 1000’s of cherubs. We raised our first $1 million, won President George Bush’s Point of Light award, presented our research abstract at the CDH Study Group conference in Toronto …
The charity exploded in 2014 as we won the Presidential Point of Light Award, rang the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange, had legislation introduced on Capitol Hill, placed 3rd in a national contest and held our first CDH family conference in Ireland – the first full conference ever planned in Europe for …
2013 was jam packed with events, legislation, interviews, parades, videos and so much more at CHERUBS! We had a large number of active volunteers, ACDHO was formed, we awarded 4 research grants and so much more. It was one of our best years to date. CDH Medical World News for 2013 No big CDH Research news …
