Drew Starenko
"It's not about how long something takes, it's about how well it gets done..."
About Drew
In 2001, Starenko was the first in the Quad Cities region to perform endoscopic vein harvesting - at the time a relatively new technique used in heart-bypass procedures.
In 2009, he started training doctors and nurses around the world in endoscopic vein harvesting, and he was the first to perform that procedure in Brazil.
And in September of 2014, he began working with CardioStart International, an aid organization performing heart surgeries in medically needy parts of the world.
On painting
"When I'm just looking at and observing the world, I always see it in terms of a painting. I'm always flattening ... how things look. So you do sort of end up reversing that when you're looking at the monitor [in surgery], because now you're trying to understand the two-dimensional space three-dimensionally."
Cardiostart
"While many clinicians express respect and interest for volunteer work, few take action as expeditiously and decisively as Drew," she wrote. "Within a few days, he had officially applied to be a part of the Brazil team for our mission only a few weeks away." ~ Dr. Emily Farkas
LIFE
