Woodbury resident Kathy Clinch, a pediatric anesthesiologist with Midwest Surgery Center in Woodbury, and her colleague Rosemount resident Christopher Tolan, travelled to Kaifeng, China to assist with cleft lip and palate surgeries.
“It’s the opportunity to utilize a skill that you have that might not be available to kids in other countries,” Tolan said. “These orphans otherwise wouldn’t have the luxury of having surgery.”