Neil Worral, Cardio-thoracic Surgeon

Neil enjoying a Rwandan beer before his flight to return to Spokane

Neil is one of our cardio-thoracic surgeons and has been on each of our five missions to Rwanda. He went to medical school Washington University in St. Louis and did his cardiac surgical training at Harvard Medical School, the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital.  He focuses on pediatric heart surgeries at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane.  After his training, he and his wife, Dawn, moved to Spokane and have lived there for the last 15 years.  They have a son, Peter, who is in his second year at West Point and a daughter, Emily, who is finishing at the University of Washington in her 3rd year.  Emily joined us in Rwanda for a week this trip and hopes to go to medical school.

To Neil, surgery provides technical solutions to the body's anatomic and/or physiological problems.
He enjoys the focused attention to detail during surgery as well as the highly technical nature of cardiac surgery. He also enjoys the intense but finite interactions with patients and their parents.

When Neil is not working, he loves to hike, ski, travel and reading history and current events.

Neil, in his 5 years of returning to Rwanda, has noticed a slow but steady maturation of Rwandan society and a significant increase in the numbers of westerners here.  He has loved each trip.

A little known fact about Neil is that he immigrated to the US in 1974 from the UK, and lived in Chicago.  He figures that because he is an immigrant (legally!), Donald Trump wouldn't want to have him do surgery on him!! We at HHNW are proud and grateful for Neil's work.