Project Pacer International is a Boston-based, non-profit organization, dedicated to the provision of modern cardiac therapy to indigent patients in the developing world. Our group has been active since the mid-1980s and organizes medical missions in response to invitations from our partner physicians in the developing world. Our organization is funded by charitable contributions from individuals and charities such as Rotary International. In addition, our ability to provide high technology treatment such as pacemaker implants and catheter-based therapies (angioplasty, valvuloplasty, ablation of arrhythmia) is dependent on generous donations from key corporate supporters.
In addition to providing cardiac care to the poor, a large part of our mission is to educate our colleagues and to expose US-based students and medical residents to unique educational opportunities. Our trainees interact with, and learn from, physicians and trainees in the developing world and this bi-directional learning has been of great mutual benefit.
Click here to view a video from our last mission to Cochabamba, Bolivia.