Description

The Touching Hands Project (THP) was founded by Scott H. Kozin, MD, in 2013. Dr. Kozin, an ASSH member and orthopaedic hand surgeon, began a pilot program in 2014, completing THP’s first mission in July of that year in Haiti. THP is an ASSH program and is funded by the American Foundation for Surgery of the Hand.

WHAT WE DO

Each THP medical team is comprised of hand surgeons, nurses, anesthesiologists, and hand therapists. The teams travel around the world to poor countries such as Haiti, Ethiopia and Honduras to treat and evaluate patients for hand and/or arm conditions, deformities and injuries. During each 1- or 2-week mission, the THP team will see and treat around 100 patients!

Many of the patients treated are victims of horrific violence that takes place in these struggling countries. The people in the communities we visit have limited access to healthcare and sometimes have no hand surgeons in the entire country. Our teams are giving children an opportunity to grow up and function as a normal child and are giving adults the opportunity to use their hands again, which can be a matter of survival in countries where manual labor dominates the work force.

Click here for a list of upcoming missions and to partner with us.

For all domestic in-kind inquiries, please email Anne at apappas@assh.org . 

For all international in-kind inquiries, please email Sue at sshapiro@assh.org .