Ted Cruz's brother-in-law Dr. Scott Nelson is a pediatric orthopedic surgeon based in the Dominican Republic who works in Haiti.
January 14, 2010
LOMA LINDA – Scott Nelson, an orthopedic surgeon and graduate of Loma Linda University, flew Wednesday from his base in the Dominican Republic to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with a surgical team to provide orthopedic services to the quake victims at the Adventist hospital there.
Adventiste d’Haiti in Port-au-Prince, a 70-bed facility built in 1978, is functional after the earthquake and already serving as a clinical center for the country, a hospital spokesman said in a prepared release.
The institution joined Adventist Health International in 2003 and was “adopted” three years ago by the Loma Linda University School of Medicine Class of 2010 as its mission project, the release said.
https://www.dailynews.com/2010/01/14/orthopedic-surgeon-a-loma-linda-university-graduate-flies-to-haiti-to-help-injured/
Heidi Nelson Cruz comes from a long line of medical missionaries.
https://atoday.org/first-adventist-in-the-white-house-might-be-a-woman/
Mrs. Cruz’s brother is Dr. Scott Nelson, chief of pediatric orthopedic surgery at Loma Linda University. He spent five years as a missionary doctor in the Dominican Republic with CURE International, a nondenominational agency that focuses on childhood bone deformities. In January 2010 when an earthquake devastated Haiti, he immediately organized a team, chartered a plane and “sweet talked” the airport tower into letting them land. In the first week he did about 90 surgeries, his father told the San Luis Obispo Tribune-News.