Team Chicago is a dedicated group of medical professionals headed to Tanzania in April to provide general surgery, plastics, craniofacial and ENT care to patients in need. This will mark our sixth mission with Operation International. Our goal is provide as many life-altering and life-changing surgeries to as many patients as we can in the time we are there.

Want to join me in making a difference? Any donation will help us provide life-changing care to patients who otherwise would not have access to this treatment. Thank you in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to our team. Please note: each team member has a goal of raising $2,500, if your team member has already hit their goal, consider spreading the love to another of our volunteers!

More About Team Chicago:

Team Chicago was launched in 2019 by Dr. Edie Chan. We went on their inaugural trip to Uganda in 2021 where we completed 87 general surgical and plastic surgery operations. The team has continued to go on annual mission trips, including to Ghana, Tanzania, and Kenya. See more of our work in the video and photos below, or click here:

More About Operation International:

Operation International is a secular, non-political, humanitarian organization founded in 1996 by Medhat Allam, MD; Ravi Kothuru, MD; and Robert Mineo, CRNA under the original name of International Surgical Mission Support. The founders aspired to offer free medical care to children and adults suffering from the lack of basic health care in poor countries.

In our quest to advance human rights ideas, Operation International provides free medical care to people in need — regardless of gender, cultural, ethnic, political or religious affiliations. To ensure that our efforts impact underserved communities for years to come, we also offer education and training to local health care workers during each of our medical missions, as well as improve hospitals’ infrastructure through equipment donation.

Team NY, the first Operation International team, made its maiden mission to Haiti in 1997, where the founders of the organization witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of poverty and inadequate medical care.

Since the beginning, our teams of doctors, clinicians, nurses, and aides have expanded to include over 200 medical professionals in multiple Chapters located throughout the United States, the UK, and Hong Kong.

In our many medical missions to date, we have directly impacted the lives of thousands of people by performing life-saving and life-changing surgeries including cancer surgeries, sight restoration surgeries, burn reconstructive surgeries, corrective surgeries for congenital anomalies such as clubfoot and cleft palate, and obstetric and gynecological surgeries.

Help Team Chicago Bring Surgical Care to Tanzania

Operation International's Team Chicago is headed on their sixth mission trip in April 2026

Team Members