Brian Mullaney, former Smile Train CEO, at MIT
At a recent MIT lecture, Brian Mullaney spoke about his work with Smile Train (where he was formerly the CEO), and about Surgery for the Poor, an organization he recently co-founded. Smile Train’s accomplishments are hard to deny. The organization performs over 100,000 cleft surgeries a year in 80 countries and will complete its one millionth surgery in 2013.
They’re raised nearly a billion dollars to provide cleft surgeries to children in need and their public awareness campaigns have reached as many people around the world, raising awareness about cleft and the ease with which it can be cured.
Smile Train attributes some of this success to their decision to invest heavily in information technology as a means to scale-up while keeping costs down.
Joaquin Blaya, PhD, co-founder and CIO of eHealth Systems, a Chilean company that offers eHealth strategies and open source solutions to companies, and a
