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Dr. “Dick” Richard Bransford

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Dr. Bransford continues to look for a pathway for teaching 8-10 surgical procedures that would likely meet 80% of the surgical needs of disabled children. This would hopefully be accomplished in a 9-12 month period of time and would be directed toward medical workers for the developing world.

  • In 1998 he co-founded the Bethany Crippled Children’s Centre in Kijabe, Kenya
  • In 2001 he co-founded Bethany Relief and Rehabilitation International
  • He has served as a consultant at hospitals in Kenya, the southern Sudan, and north Africa and directed programs in pediatric rehabilitation and general surgery.

Education

  • Undergraduate degree in Physics from UCLA
  • Doctor of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University
  • 5 months in focused study of tropical medicine.

Awards and Recognition

  • In 2009, awarded the Comninellis Award for Compassionate Service to Humanity from the Inmed Conference
  • In 2009, awarded the IF Award from the International Federation of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
  • Received the American Medical Association’s “Dr. Nathan Davis International Award in Medicine”
  • The American College of Surgeons Surgical Humanitarianism Award

Background on Dr. Bransford, his wife Millie, and their work:

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