Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics, also spelled orthopaedics, is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system.  PCRF has sponsored dozens of volunteer orthopedic surgery missions since our founding, mostly in pediatrics but also in joint replacement, spine surgery, and arthroscopic surgery.  In the area of pediatric orthopedic surgery, PCRF has been building a program through our Pediatric Orthopedic and Education Training program (POET), which includes training for local young residents in areas where there are gaps in the Palestinian health sector.  The head of our POET program and the medical advisory team for PCRF in orthopedics is Dr. Anna Vergun, an assistant professor of pediatric orthopedics at the University of North Carolina.

Cardiology is a branch of medicine that deals with the disorders of the heart as well as some parts of the circulatory system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease, and electrophysiology.   Since 1998, PCRF has been the main NGO in the world sending volunteer pediatric cardiac surgery and cardiology teams to Palestine to provide life-saving open-heart surgery and invasive cardiology procedures for thousands of children.  In 1993 we founded a core group of volunteer consultants called the International Palestinian Cardiac Relief Organization (IPRCO) to direct our missions and training for local doctors and nurses, starting in Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem, where we set up what is now a working independent program, as well as at the European Gaza Hospital, Shifa Hospital and currently at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.  IPCRO is currently headed by Dr. Adil Husain,  the chief of pediatric cardiac surgery at the University of Utah.

Neurosurgery, or neurological surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.  PCRF sponsors volunteer surgery teams from all over the world in this specialty, both in pediatric neurosurgery as well as general neurosurgery, working mainly at Rafidiah Hospital in Nablus, the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, and the European Gaza Hospital in Khan Younis.  The head of our neurosurgery medical advisory team is Prof. Alex Zorous, the chief of pediatric neurosurgery at St. Luke's Children's Hospital in Boise, ID.