Brendan is Consultant Paediatrician Anaesthetist and Intensivist at Crumlin Hospital, Dublin and is also a clinical lecturer in the Dept of Paediatrics in Trinity College Dublin medical school. Brendan was an integral component in the initial development of the programme and thus far has been involved in the care of over 200 children in Vietnam and Tanzania. Having been approached by the Christina Noble Foundation, he contacted Professor Martin Corbally with a view to pursuing a joint surgical/anaesthetic trip. Brendan took his first trip to Vietnam in 2004 where he and the team introduced new surgical and anaesthetic techniques for infants — they had not had exposure to invasive haemodynamic monitoring or infant epidurals pthoperatively before his visit, anaesthetic techniques that would be deemed essential for safe surgery.