An interview with Dr Carl Kihm and Maggee Sagebiel, RN

He’s active in training residents and students at the Norton podiatric residency program. He’s a board-certified fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons and diplomat of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery. He specializes in foot and ankle reconstructive surgeries in pediatric and adult patients. He’s a faculty member of the Podiatry Institute, an international teaching foundation for reconstructive surgery. He has authored surgery textbook chapters and many journal articles. He teaches, lectures and operates across the country and third world. He has completed seven surgery mission trips in Nepal and Guatemala. With limited resources, he volunteers his time, heart and expertise to treat pediatric patients with severe congenital conditions and the adult patients with neglected congenital deformity. Maggee Sagebiel, RN, works at Norton Audubon Hospital. She recently left the Intensive Care Unit and now works in Interventional Radiology. She studied pre-med biology at Indiana university but then switched to nursing and finished at Ivy Tech in Indiana. She’s been a nurse for seven years. December 2019, in front of the Eiffel Tower, Carl proposed to Maggee. The interview was conducted in San Lucas Toliman, Guatemala where Karen and Mark were part of a Rotary volunteer medical team performing orthopedic surgeries on 51 local children. The desire to serve the poor with donated medical skills supported by volunteers from other walks of life takes a combination of commitment, generosity and compassion along with the patience to work with other skilled people on the same team. This video is about a medical mission team of over 35 self-sponsored volunteers going on their eighth trip to a poor area of Guatemala (San Lucas Mission). It is is organized and supported as a collaboration between Opal House, the Fidalgo Island Rotary Club and Gillette Children’s Specialty Care. Although the team concentrates on treating clubfoot (Ponseti International) and other lower extremity deformities (Podiatry Institute), it also focuses on most pediatric orthopedic conditions needing attention in a third world setting. The results of these surgeries are nothing short of life-changing.