PREVENTION OF HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS - A GLOBAL GRANT VTT PROJECT

Dr. Yrastorza is a member of the Wheat Ridge Rotary Club.  He was born in the Philippines.  After high school, he came to the US and received a Bachelor's Degree at University of Minnesota Duluth; a Dental Medicine doctorate at Washington University, St. Louis, and his specialty training at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.  He is an oral-maxillofacial surgeon, retired from 35 years of practice in Wheat Ridge, and Denver's St. Anthony and Lutheran Hospitals.

In 1989, he founded Uplift Internationale, a nonprofit organization aimed to provide reparative care to children with facial deformity through an annual mission at public-funded hospitals of the Philippines.