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Himal Bajracharya, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and infectious diseases consultant at Kansas University Medical Center. 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. |  |
Bruce Banwart, MD, is an intensivist at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City and a veteran of medical service in Latin America and Thailand with Operation Smile. |
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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 is 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. |
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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. |  |
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. |
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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. |  |
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. |
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Daniel Hinthorn, MD, is the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Kansas University Medical Center, a leading HIV investigator for the National Institutes of Health, and on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Infectious Diseases. |  |
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. |  |
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. |
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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. |  |
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 Director of Neonatology at St. Luke's Health System, in Kansas City, and founder/medical director of the Maison de Naissance in Haiti, a birthing center and community health program where more than 300 babies born each year under vastly improved circumstances. Shaffer is an E. Gray Diamond Professor of International Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. |  |
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. |
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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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