HISTORY

SAFE Surgery and Anesthesia For Everyone, Inc. was formed in 2018 by the three co-founders, Drs. DeLong, Ferrara and Virasoro. They were inspired by their mentors to help those without access to quality surgical care both regionally and internationally. In 2013 they began humanitarian training missions in the Dominican Republic with the non-profit Physicians For Peace, ultimately developing a Fellowship training program in collaboration.

In August of 2018 the co-founders developed SAFE Inc. in order to be able to continue the programming in the Dominican Republic, and to expand these programs into other locales. Since their incorporation they have co-sponsored two training missions to the Dominican Republic for Adult and Pediatric Genitourinary Reconstructive Surgery.