LEAH ABRAHAM, MD is a family physician that studied at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN., She attended residdency in Ventura County, CA, and completed a fellowship in Maternal and Child Health. She has researdhed TB in the Phillipines and worked with Direct Relief International in Bolivia. She is one of the full time staff physicians at Hospitalito Atitlán.
BYRON ARANA, MD, PhD is Co-Director of the Center for Health Studies Research Institure at Universidad del Valle de Guatemala. He is a noted researcher and expert on many of the tropical diseases found in Guatemala, particularly Onchoceriasis, Leishmania and Chagas' disease.
PETER BUCK, DMV, MSc trained at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. His specialty is Zoonotic Infectins where he manages disease surveillance, field epidemiology and outbreak investigations for the Canadian Public Health Agency.
SCOTT CARROLL, PhD is a tropical evolutionary biologist at teh University of California-Davis. Having spent twenty years in the world's tropics as a consulting ecologist, he is an accomplished naturalist whose presentations comlement practical CME training by focusing on the tropical context of disease biology. A recent Fulbright Senior Scholar to Australia, Dr. Carroll's other areas of expertise include the dynamics of host-parasite relationships and the evolution of virulence.
ALEX CLERFOND, MPh, PA-C practices at the Department of internal Medicine in Sutter West Medical Group in Davis, California. She has served in Haiti and Jamaica as a Peace Corps volunteer and as Human Rights Monitor with the OAS / UN Civilian Mission. She has worked in the Department of Community Health at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Haiti.
LOUIS DE PEÑA received his degree from San Carlos University in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. He has been Chief of Staff for the Medical Program of Vivamos Mejor and, as Circuit Physician for Guatemala's Ministry of Health, has created programs that serve serveral rural areas in the Western Highlands.
T.S. HARVEY, PhD is both a linguistic and medical anthropologist, currently serving as as Assistant Profeessor of Linguistic Anthropology at Case Western Reserve University. One of his diverse areas of research has focused on the Mayan culture and how its use of language has affected its interactions with modern day medicine. He is a Fulbright Scholar, a Ford Foundation Fellow and a NSEP scholar.
JENELLA LOYE, PhD is a consulting professional and a medical entomologist at the University of California-Davis. As a medically savvy traveler of the world's tropics, she has done work in the areas of ethnobotany and cultural adaptation. She has conducted numerous NIH / NSP-sponsored research projects on the co-adapted relations of insects and hosts.
SUSAN MacDONALD, MD is a family practice physician that received formal training in tropical medicine at the Gorgas Institute in Peru. She has worked in Nepal and Kenya, and is currently Director of GeoSentinel in Beijing, China.
GODWIN ORKEH, MD is a Fellow of the International Human Right Consortium (FIHRC), and has extensive experience working in health and development projects in Africa and Latin America. He is currently coordinating an international medical mission in war-torn Dafur, Sudan.
JACK R. PAGE, MD, FACEP, MBA is a charter member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is a past examiner for ABEM and is five-time recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award. Jack and his wife, Bernadette, are full time staff physicians at Hospitalito Atitlán.
EDUARDO HUMBERTO RETES, MD, PMG is Regional Medical Director of the Catholic Medical Mission Board for Latin America. he has coordinated medical teams and established health care networks in many under-served areas of Guatemala.
JUDY ROYER, MD, FACEP received the Clinical Excellence Award from the Wright State Emergency Medicine Residency Program where she is an Assistanct Clinical Professor. She has been the medical director for the level two trauma center at Good Samaritan Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where she is an attending. She persues her passions through memberships in the Wilderness Medicine Society and the International Society of Travel Medicine.
JAMES SEJVAR, MD is a Neuroepiemiologist with the Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases in the National Center for Infectious Diseases of the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia. he is well known for his research and presentations dealing with infections of the CNS and global trends.
CRAIG SINKINSON, MD" is the founder of Mayan Medical Relief, providing medical care to the isolated Lake Atitlán village of Santa Cruz. His "outcomes driven" approach to medical delivery in developing countries serves as a model to many organizations. A "Medical Spanish" school is affiliated with his project.
CELIA AND WILL VAN WISSE, MDs, a remarkable husband and wife team, have lived in and practiced general surgery in and nearby Sololá for decades. The two are known throughout the county's Western Highlands for their work.
GIL MOBLEY, MD, FACEP is a Diplomate of The American Board of Emergency Medicine and a Fellow in the American College of Emergency Physicians. In 2001, he was voted Springfield, MO's "Best Doctor." Since 1998, he has led both medical and non-medical service trips to Guatemala under the auspices of Travel and International Medicine/Lake Atitlán Medical Project, of which he is the founder and director. He is a lifetime member of the Wilderness Medical Society.