Dr. McClure has served as teacher, team leader, mentor and volunteer surgeon for ReSurge for more than thirty years. Dr. McClure has practiced plastic surgery in the Napa Valley since 1984. He completed plastic and general surgery training at the Stanford University Medical Center, and was a graduate of the medical school at the University of California at San Diego. Dr. McClure exudes service above self, dedicating six weeks every year to give back to patients in need. ReSurge is proud to honor Dr. McClure, a true hero to the thousands of patients he has treated.

Barco's Nightingales Foundation was established in 2008 by Michael and Frida Donner to recognize the integral role of nursing and to help children in need. Since it's inception, Barco's Nightingales Foundation has worked with ReSurge to provide 1,600 much-needed surgeries for children around the world in just four years! ReSurge would like to recognize the foundation, as well as Michael and Frida Donner, for their ongoing partnership and commitment to provide life-changing reconstructive surgeries.

For more information about Barco's Nightingales Foundation and its mission to promote nursing and help children, please visit www.barcosnightingales.org.

As founding director of the ReSurge Surgical Outreach Program in Guayaquil, Ecuador Dr. Palacios and his team treat patients in the city and also travel regularly by bus to more rural areas of Ecuador to care for those in need. Dr. Palacios is the chief surgeon of the plastic surgery department in Guayaquil's Leon Becerra Children's Hospital and of Luis Vernaza Hospital's burn unit, which he founded. Moreover, he started Ecuador's first plastic surgery residency program to increase the pool of local plastic surgeons devoted to helping the poor in their own communities. Dr. Palacios exemplifies the spirit of giving back and has dedicated more than thirty years of his life in partnership with ReSurge to increase medical care in Ecuador.