Since 1990, the Latvian Medical Foundation has provided medical supplies, enhanced medical education, developed information technology, and improved pediatric, cardiovascular, and orthopaedic services in Latvia.
In 1987 Dr. Bertram Zarins visited the Soviet-occupied Latvia for the first time to speak at an All-Soviet Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Riga.
In 1989, the First World Congress of Latvian Physicians was held and attended by physicians from the U.S.A., who saw the tragic state of health facilities in Latvia.
The Zarins-Knight Traveling Fellowship promotes the advancement of care in Latvia by enabling doctors to travel abroad and study the latest in medicine.
