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TEF/Vater® International
is a nonprofit organization founded by Greg and Terri Burke after their daughter, Jaclyn, was born with esophageal atresia in 1990.  To those children, born and unborn, with esophageal atresia, tracheo-esophageal fistula, and/or the VATER/VACTERL Association, and to the very special parents and medical staff who love and care for them, this organization is dedicated



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