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Operation Smile doctor to speak at UD Nov. 4

3:45 p.m., Nov. 3, 2003--Dr. Ben Gitterman is coming to campus to talk about his participation in Operation Smile, a private, nonprofit medical services organization that provides free reconstructive surgery, related health care and education to children and young adults who are born with facial deformities.

The free presentation is slated for 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Trabant University Center Multipurpose Room A. It is sponsored by Operation Smile at UD, a registered student organization.

Gitterman is co-director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment and chair of general and community pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center. He has been on two separate missions with Operation Smile. The first was in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the spring of 2000. The second was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in the spring of 2002. It was Operation Smile’s first mission in Cambodia. Being the primary pediatrician on both missions meant that Gitterman was part of the screening process as well as post-op care.

For more information about Operation Smile at UD, visit [www.OpSmileUD.org].

Article by Dean Geddes, AS ‘05.

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