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Home                             Upcoming Events Donations               Supporters             Staff                               In The Press       India                               Latin America     Morocco      Past Activities   Contact Us				President Thomas Piemonte, MD Co-founder of Project Pacer International with VK.Saini, Dr. Piemonte has traveled extensively in the developing world over the past 15 years and is fluent in Spanish. A graduate of Holy Cross and New York Medical College, Dr. Piemonte has a primary clinical interest in interventional cardiology and currently serves as Director of the Catheterization Laboratory at Lahey Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts.     Chairman VK Saini, MD Co-founder of Project Pacer International with Dr. Piemonte, Dr. Saini is a former Chief of Surgery at the Carney Hospital, Boston. He has devoted much of his time over the last 20 years to caring for indigent patients in India and South America.     Vice Chairman Susan Deturk Susan is the Chief Cardiac Technician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon Hew Hampshire and has been active in Project Pacer International since its inception in the mid-1980s. She has traveled all over the world supporting the implantation of pacemakers and evaluating devices after implant. In addition she has been a tireless advocate for the work of Project Pacer International which has led to substantial donations of medical supplies.     Vice President, South America Affairs David Martin, MD, FRCP Dr Martin has been actively participating in Project Pacer International missions to South America and India since 1991. He has organized and coordinated a number of missions to Bolivia. A medical graduate of the University of London, Dr. Martin currently serves as the Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Lahey Medical Center in Burlington, Massachusetts. His clinical interests are in cardiac pacing, defibrillation and ablation.     Vice President, India Affairs Salil Midha, MD Dr. Midha graduated from Medical College, Rohtak, India in 1972. He finished residency in Internal Medicine in New York and moved to Boston and did a Cardiology fellowship at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, a Harvard affiliated hospital. Dr. Midha is currently Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization laboratory at the Melrose Wakefield Hospital, Melrose, Massachusetts. He has been actively implanting pacemakers since 1979 and has been working with Project Pacer International since 1991. He has implanted over 150 pacemakers in India.     Secretary Roy John, MBBS, PhD, FRCP Trained in India and the UK, Dr. John is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist with a long history of working with Project Pacer International both in India and South America. He has led a number of missions to India. He currently serves as the Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Lahey Medical Center in Burlington Massachusetts.     Assistant Secretary Kathleen Malewicki, RN Kathy serves a the full time logistics coordinator for medical missions to India and South America and is the main contact for donors of medical supplies. In her spare time she works as Assistant Nurse Manager of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory at Lahey Medical Center in Burlington and as the stern-“man” on her husband’s lobster boat out of Beverly Massachusetts.     Staff Physician Oscar Ferrufino, MD Dr. Ferrufino is Professor of Medicine at Seguro Social Universitario in Cochabamba, Boliva where he has an active clinical practice of cardiology and was responsible for the design and construction of their new hospital facility. He was also involved in the planning of the new Viedma Hospital in Cochabamba. Dr. Ferrufino has been supporting and hosting medical missions to Bolivia for almost 20 years during which time hundreds of patients with Chagas’ disease have received pacemakers and many others have benefited from similar life-saving cardiac treatment.     Staff Physician Adrian Ebner, MD A cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Ebner has worked closely with Project Pacer International for 10 years.     Staff Physician Adelqui Peralta, MD Originally from Argentina with medical training in both Argentina and Boston, Dr. Peralta has been active with Project Pacer International since 1998 and has been a key clinician and interpreter for a number of missions to South America. Skilled in catheter ablation, device implantation and extraction, Dr. Peralta is currently Director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the West Roxbury VA Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
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