Pasadena-based Urologist Dr. Andy Chang Joined a Weeklong Medical Mission to Jordan on May 30

Pasadena-based Dr. Andy Chang, an urologist, was a part of a medical team of specialized surgeons from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles that left for Jordan, in the Middle East, May 30 for a weeklong medical mission to treat children with physical deformities at the King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, it was announced today.

The hospital will be working in collaboration with the Children of War Foundation, a non-profit, non-politically affiliated organization that provides medical care to children with physical deformities that would be otherwise untreatable in their home country, according to a news statement.

The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles physicians will also be treating at least three Syrian civil war refugees. Of the 76 total cases reviewed thus far, the doctors expect to perform surgeries on more than 30 children.

“This mission is a testament to this group of highly sub-specialized surgeons at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and it shows that their passion for what they do extends beyond U.S. borders into regions where children that are in desperate need of their expertise and care,” says Henri R. Ford, MD, MHA, the hospital’s vice president and chief of surgery.

The cases are severe and include: hemangiomas, vascular anomalies, hand reconstruction, craniofacial reconstruction, and children with ambiguous genitalia, among other abnormalities, according to a news statement.