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Pam Arlund, PhD, is the Director of Training at All Nations Family, Inc. During ten years living in western China she assessed the literacy needs of Sarikol Tajik speakers (25,000), and created a writing system for that language. She also developed a system to assist Uighurs (10 million speakers) learn English. |  |
Himal Bajracharya, MD, is an infectious diseases physician with the Infectious Disease Associates of Kansas City. Prior to this position, he served as Lecturer in Community Medicine at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, and as a clinician at Gandhi Memorial and Associated Hospitals, Lucknow, India. |
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Alan Barber, DDS, is adjunct faculty at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine and Director of International Healthcare for AT Still University. Dr. Barber is also Founder/Chairman of True North Missions, a humanitarian organization providing healthcare to indigenous people of Central America, and recipient of the 2006 Rotary Healthcare Professional of the Year. |  |
Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, is president of INMED and board certified in both public health and family medicine. Nicholas trained in tropical medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and served four years in Shanghai, China, and Angola, Africa. Today he teaches public health at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |
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Nancy Crigger, PhD, ARNP, is an associate professor of nursing at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri. For two decades she has lead volunteer medical teams to Central America, and has been published extensively regarding her insights into cultural, ethical and best practices issues related to international service. Dr. Crigger is also a member of the INMED Board of Directors. |  |
April Davies, MPH, is International Programs Manager at Water.org. April served in the Peace Corps as a water, sanitation, and rural health volunteer in El Salvador. As a public health student at Emory University's Center for Global Safe Water she conducted research in water, sanitation and hygiene in western Kenya. |
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Micah Flint, MPA, is Chief Programs Officer of INMED and a graduate of the Disaster Management program at Park University. Micah serves on the board of directors for Samaritan Emergency Medical Search and Rescue. |  |
John Gibson, MD, is Program Director of the International Medicine Fellowship at the University of Texas Southwestern Health Sciences Center/John Peter Smith Hospital. He lived in Thailand from 1984-2004 training medical personnel and providing care for marginalized people throughout the nation. Dr. Gibson is an Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) certified instructor. |
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Ted Higgins, MD, is a general and vascular surgeon at Research Medical Center. He has provided surgical care in the Dominica Republic each year since 1995. |  |
Joe LeMaster, MD, MPH (London), is an Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Joe and his wife Judy lived in Nepal from 1990-2000, serving at Okhaldhunga Hospital, the only medical care facility for 300,000 people, promoting maternal-child health, and conducting leprosy research. |
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Mani Mani, MD, is a graduate of the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, and trained in plastic surgery at the University of Kansas. From 1974-1995 he served at Medical Director of the Gene and Barbara Burnett Burn Center, University of Kansas Medical Center. |  |
Kyle McPhee, is a specialist and independent consultant in biosecurity and disaster preparedness. Previously, he worked with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), served as leader of Global Crisis Response at Heart to Heart International, and as Coordinator for Safety and Emergency Preparedness at Kansas City's Saint Luke's Hospital. |
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Scott A. Murphy, MD, is a board certified ophthalmologist and fellowship trained ocular plastics surgeon trained at the University of Oklahoma Dean McGee Eye Institute. He volunteers at the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission, providing eye care in the region of St. Louis du Nord. |  |
Cindy Obenhaus, RN, is a neonatal nurse and former director of the Maison de Naissance birthing center in Haiti, located in a community where infant mortality was before as high was 30 percent. Cindy is actively engaged in teaching neonatal resuscitation and management of obstetrical complications. |
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Laura Ralston, MPH, is International Programs Manager at Water.org. Fluent in Haitian Creole, Laura began her career living for two years in Haiti with the Maternal and Child Survival project of the Haitian Health Foundation. Today she applies her skills in developing water sources and treatment systems in eight developing nations. |  |
Michael Searcy is a Certified Financial Planner and President of Searcy Financial Services - a firm specializing in money management needs of medical professionals. He is an adjunct faculty member at the College for Financial Planning and the University of Missouri-Kansas City. For the last decade, Michael has traveled with medical mission teams to Guatemala. |
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Stan Shaffer, MD, is a neonatologist at St. Luke's Health System, in Kansas City, and a founder of the Maison de Naissance in Haiti - a modern birthing center and community health program. Dr. Shaffer is E. Gray Diamond Professor of International Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |  |
Anne Sly, MD, is Associate Program Director for the Research Family Medicine Residency and formerly of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) Thailand medical relief project in association with Cornell University. |
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Todd Stephens, MD, DTM&H, is Director of the Post-Residency International Family Medicine Fellowship at Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Stephens served six years in Kenya and Rwanda. The Fellowship he leads today is designed to equip physicians with the unique knowledge and clinical skills necessary to serve effectively in developing countries. |  |
Spencer Stith, MDiv, MA, is Director of Faculty Recruiting for International Institute for Christian Studies. Prior to this he served three years at director of international activities of the American Academy of Family Physicians, seven years leading an NGO in Bulgaria, and several month coordinating relief for war refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia. |
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John Wilson, MBA, PMP, a native Kenyan, is on the business faculty of Park University and is founder of Hope Kenya International - a not-for-profit organization that collaborates with American institutions to assist families break the pervasive cycle of poverty by providing access to education, health and micro-financial. | ||
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