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Jeff Colyer, MD, MPH, is a plastic surgeon and currently serves as a Kansas State Representative. Dr. Colyer has extensive experience in both domestic and international disaster medical response, including war zones, bioterrorism, and mass casualty events. Dr. Colyer has collaborated with the World Health Organization on developing strategies for mass casualty response. |  |
Rick Donlon, MD, is an internal medicine and pediatrics physician originally from New Orleans. In 1995 he and three classmates opened Christ Community Health Services, a primary-care health center in Memphis' most under-served neighborhood. Since then, CCHS has grown to five locations, providing over 95,000 patient visits and delivering 800 babies annually. |
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Patrick Railey, MD, is Director of Operation Mobilization Medical Ministries an international Christian mission agency providing medical, dental, public health, relief, and development work in more than 100 countries. Dr. Railey is a leader in HIV prevention and protection of newborns, advocating de-stigmatization and compassion for those who are afflicted. |  |
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. |
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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. |  |
Betty Drees, MD, is Dean and Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC). UMKC houses the E. Grey Dimond Office of International Medicine and enjoys affiliations with medical schools in China, Austria and Mexico. |
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Maggie Higgins, BA, is a post-baccalaureate pre-medical student at Loyola University Chicago and a graduate of Middlebury College. In December 2009, Maggie was volunteering at Haiti's Christianville Medical Clinic just outside Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck. She remained on site and provided in disaster response and medical care to trauma victims. |  |
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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Thad May, MS, PE, is a professional engineer with a specialty in water and sanitation. His work experience includes development projects in Zambia, Africa, and in China. Thad earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas. Thad serves on the INMED Board of Directors. |  |
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, and as consultant to burn care programs in numerous developing nations. |
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Mini Miller, RN, BSN, supervised health and feeding stations for displaced persons in Somalia as a delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). During the first Gulf War she also served at the Hospital for the Handicapped in Kuwait through the Federation. Stateside, Mini Miller has instructed trans-cultural nursing in the context of home healthcare. |  |
Skylar Rolf, MA, is INMED Chief Operating Officer since joining the staff in 2007. Skylar's educational background includes at B.S. in Business Management and Marketing from Northwest Missouri State University, and a M.A. in Youth and Family Ministry from John Brown University. Skylar coordinates the INMED International Medicine Certificate program. |
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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. |  |
Thor Swanson, MD, MDiv, is a HIV specialist at Siouxland Community Health Center in Sioux City, Iowa, and frequently called on to instruct in the field of low-resource HIV care. Dr. Swanson served at Kijabe Hospital in Kenya during 2006-2007, and has also provided volunteer care in Nepal, Tanzania, and Honduras. |
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John Wilson, a native Kenyan, is on the business faculty of Park University and is founder of Hope Kenya - a not-for-profit organization assisting East African families to break the cycle of poverty through providing preschool education, micro-finance of livestock and water projects, and basic outpatient medical care. |  |
Micah Flint, MPA, is the Chief Programs Officer of INMED and a graduate of the Disaster Management and Health Leadership programs at Park University. Micah served two years on the board of directors for SEMSAR, has written the course Overview of Disaster Medicine Management, and currently oversees INMED's educational programs. |
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Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, is President of INMED, and an assistant clinical professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. Dr. Comninellis is board certified in both public health and family medicine, and trained in tropical medicine at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He then served four years in Shanghai and Angola, and six years in the Kansas City public hospital system before launching INMED in 2003. | ||
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