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TRUSTEES
TRUSTEE MEMBERS.
Dr Ramana Dhannapuneni
Julie Lawson BEM DL
Dave Berry
My name is Dr Ramana Dhannapuneni
Ramana Dhannapuneni is the head of cardiac surgery at Alder Hey children’s hospital and the lead surgeon & trustee for the Healing Little Hearts charity. Ram is passionate about providing free heart surgeries for poorer families all over the world and also training, mentoring and developing children’s heart centres in the developing countries. Ram has performed over 400 free life saving heart surgeries in 6 countries (Africa, India and the Middle East). He and the medical teams mostly use their annual leaves for these missions. Ram is head of cardiac surgery at Alder Hey children's hospital with a vision to further develop the heart centre in to a world leading heart service to provide high standard of care for the children in the UK. Ram was awarded Heart Hero by the British Heart Foundation in 2019 for dedicating his life to children's heart surgery and saving children’s lives in UK and abroad.
My name is Julie Lawson BEM DL
Julie Lawson BEM DL is a well known fundraiser for various local and mainstream charities through Julie Lawson Community Events CIC (Company number and link). Julie works tirelessly in helping out those individuals in distress locally to fundraising for various charities on a weekly basis. Since 2005, she has raised several hundreds of thousands of pounds for local charities as well as for Alzheimers society, Woodlands Hospice, RNLI Liverpool and Healing Little Hearts. Julie has funded a mission to Trinidad with Healing Little Hearts and saved 10 children’s lives with her fundraising. Julie has several years of experience of organising various charitable fundraising events with meticulous planning and attention to detail. Little Hearts Events would adopt and work on Julie’s model of Gala Ball every year and other fundraising events
My name is Dave Berry
David Berry, father of a child born with congenital heart defects and required multiple operations. Eve was born with multiple heart defects and had several heart operations at Alder Hey heart centre. One such major double valve replacement operation was complicated with kidney failure requiring a kidney transplantation. The kidney was donated by her father Dave. Dave and his family experienced first hand; the roller coaster of emotional distress, the struggles, the worries, stresses, the disturbances to work, life and the compromises they have to make as a family. One grace though all these troubles was that Eve and her family had the great NHS and the Alder Hey heart centre to provide what they needed without worrying about funding the operations by themselves. Dave is passionate about fundraising for both Healing Little Hearts and the Alder Hey children’s hospital.
