Dr. Russell Cross is an attending in the divisions of Cardiology, Telemedicine, Cardiac Imaging, the Fetal Medicine Institute, and Children’s National Heart Institute. He currently serves as the Director of Cardiac MRI, and has been at Children’s National for over twenty years. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Dr. Cross travelled to Milot, in the north of Haiti to provide clinical care and work with local physicians and the Haiti Cardiac Alliance to improve accessibility and quality of pediatric cardiac care. His consultation work, mostly through telemedicine, has helped to save the lives of over 20 children with congenital heart disease. Dr. Cross remains connected with the hospital in Milot, providing cardiac consultation, and is looking at how to make the project more sustainable and involve Haitian pediatric cardiologists who could eventually take over the initiative.
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