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Dr. Edward' Millar, emeritus chief of
staff at Shriners Hospital for
Children-Chicago, founded the
group. Most of the medical profes-
sionals are affiliated with that facili-
ty. Based in Chicago, the group orig-
inally began as a medical mission to
Africa before shifting its focus to
Colombia.
In the years Zaltz has been affili-
ated with the Children's Silver
Service Foundation, they have
missed only one semiannual trip,
and that was due to political unrest
in Colombia.
Zaltz does double-duty with the
group, functioning not just as a sur-
geon, but as their translator.
Although born in Toronto (he still
has a trace of his Canadian accent),
Zaltz is fluent in Spanish. That's
because he was raised in El Paso,
Texas, across the U.S.-Mexican bor-
der from Juarez.
Zaltz received his medical training
at Harvard University and interned
in Boston. He finished his residency
at the Harvard Combined
Orthopedic Program in 1995, and
was chief resident until 1996. He
worked at Hope Children's Hospital
from 1997-2000. He has been at
Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital for a
year and a half.
How successful has the medical
group been in meeting its goals?
"Every time, we see fewer and fewer
patients, though those we see are
likely to have more complicated
problems rather than requiring rou-
tine orthopedic care," Zaltz said.
"The local doctors are now taking
care of more of those routine things.
When we see the patients, their doc-
tors accompany them and observe
the treatment procedures. They learn
how to do it," said the doctor, who
returns to Colombia in October.
Occasionally, the group flies some
of the more severe cases back to the
United States for specialized treat-
ments still unavailable in Colombia.
Zaltz said that in the wake of
Colombia's political problems, many
people with money left the country,
including a large portion of the
country's Jewish population.
Although many Colombian Jewish
families emigrated to Florida's Dade
County, 5,650 Jews still are left in
Colombia, concentrated mainly in
Bogota.
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Zaltz and his wife, the former
Barbara Klein, live in Huntington
Woods. She is the daughter of Emery
and Diane Klein of Southfield.