Spine surgery mission

Dr Isador Lieberman, a spinal surgeon from Texas, leads a visiting surgical team that operates on people in Uganda with serious spine and back problems who could not otherwise afford surgery. The mission has returned to Uganda consistently since about 2005, pausing only during COVID in 2020–21, and the team also visits and works with us at GCGH.

Uganda Spine Surgery Mission website (opens external site) Uganda Spine Mission 2011 – Texas Back Institute (opens external site) Izzy Lieberman’s 15-year-old Ugandan spine surgery mission – Orthopedics This Week (opens external site)

Dr Lieberman's visiting team with GCGH staff outside the hospital

GCGH doctors in theatre scrubs: Without boundaries, we make the difference

Operations the team performs in Uganda

These operations are carried out at partner hospitals in Uganda, not at GCGH.

Spinal fusion

Discectomy and microdiscectomy

Spinal decompression

Artificial disc replacement

Scoliosis surgery

Other back problems