After selling her ophthalmology practice, Cynthia Matossian, MD, FACS, packed her bags for her first-ever mission trip to St. Vincent in the Grenadines, joining dozens of others on a surgery mission entering its third decade of service.
After more than 800 clinical exams and approximately 80 surgeries were completed on the trip, including two Ahmed valves and five corneal transplants, Matossian told Healio she came back with a case of “mission fever.” “It was such an incredible experience,” she said, adding that her time on the Caribbean island was unlike anything else