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 To fully appreciate the history and spirit of MMC, you have to go back to the early 1940s.
A one-year-old child was diagnosed with a terminal infectious disease. The child is confined to isolation and the boy's parents are told the child is weeks away from death. During that period they are told that there is an experimental new drug available that had not previously been used on a pediatric patient. Under the circumstances, they agree to have the drug administered to their child.
The child began to show marked improvement and soon it became apparent that he was in fact cured. The disease that the boy had was spinal meningitis, the experimental drug was penicillin and the child was MMC Founder Frank Brady.
Frank spent the majority of his career in international business traveling to third world countries, seeing first-hand the hardships faced by families in some of the poorest, most underserved communities in the world.
 A few years into retirement, a growing concern for seriously ill children was difficult for Frank and his wife, Peg to ignore. But, could two individuals, from their home in New Jersey, really effect change for dying children half a world away? Each could bring years of corporate and professional experience to bear on a profoundly disturbing situation. So a kernel of an idea began to take shape — one that combined a passion for helping children with a strong interest in information technology. Medical Missions for Children and its Global Telemedicine & Teaching Network was born.
In 1999, through a personally arranged partnership with Hospital del Niño in Panama City, Panama, Medical Missions for Children took flight. This first partnership was an important milestone. It was the moment when Frank and Peg's broader vision became reality. Catastrophically ill children no longer waited endlessly for critical medical care; now the United States' most experienced physicians were merely a teleconference away.
Frank and Peg Brady have taken on a monumental task, that of — caring for the world's sickest children. And their vision — to bring top — flight medical care directly to the children through the use of today's most efficient telecommunications technology — is working. Single-handedly, the couple has nurtured key financial, technological and medical relationships, and, in sharing their vision with others, has created a global network of caring that positively affects the lives of thousands of ill children each month, and transfers medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it.
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