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Louise Myers is currently ORI Project Director for the development of the Bokamoso Private Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, a 200-bed private, not-for-profit acute facility. Hospital commissioning target is November 2009.
Louise worked for twenty years at The George Washington University Medical Center in a series of executive management positions including Associate Administrator for Facilities Development and Associate Administrator for Operations. She has done health care and hospital development consulting work in less-developed countries including Argentina, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Cambodia and South Africa.
Louise holds graduate degrees in Health Care Administration (George Washington University) and Social Work Administration and Policy (University of Michigan). For over five years she served as the Executive Director of IONA Senior Services, a model community and home-based senior services program in Washington, DC. In 2002 Louise was an official U.S. Delegate to the United Nations World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid, Spain.
Currently she serves as a Director of the Better Way Foundation and has been actively involved in grantee site visits, research, monitoring and evaluation of Most-Vulnerable Children Projects funded by the foundation in Uganda (northern war region), Zambia and Tanzania.
. is a graduate of the University of Hawaii law school and a lawyer with almost thirty years’ experience, specializing in land rights and environmental issues.
After twenty years in private practice in the United States, George moved to Cambodia in 1998, where he is currently senior legal advisor to the GTZ (the international development agency of the German federal government) Cambodia Land Management Project.
From 1998 to 2002, George was a legal advisor to Legal Aid of Cambodia, an NGO providing free legal services to the poor – primarily in land ownership disputes.
Dr. Caroline Dueger is program director for
Pediatrics Overseas in Cambodia.
A clinical pediatrician with over 42 years’ experience (31 of those as a staff physician at
Concord Hospital, Concord, NH), and a former adjunct professor of clinical medicine at
Dartmouth Medical School, Caroline retired from full-time practice in 1993. Since then, she has devoted her time to improving primary healthcare provision for underserved children in developing countries all over the world.
Since 1991, Caroline has taught or practiced in fifteen countries, including Belize, Guatemala, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, South Africa and Cambodia, where she served until February of 2007 as a board member of
Friends Without A Border – the fundraising arm of
Angkor Hospital for Children, in Siem Reap.
From 2000 to 2005, Caroline also served as a member of the pediatric advisory board of Health Volunteers Overseas and as a board member of
Himalayan HealthCare in Nepal for seven years. She is currently an executive committee member of the
American Academy of Pediatrics Section on International Child Health and is a diplomate of the
Royal Society for Tropical Medicine.
Professor Varun Kumar, M.D. is a clinical pediatrician and an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at
Brown University Medical School, in Providence, RI.
A native of Washington D.C., Varun was raised in Maryland and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from
Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, a Medical Degree from
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO and was a resident pediatrician at Brown University from 2002 until 2005.
Varun has been living and working in Cambodia for two years, where he is serving as the Medical Advisor at
Angkor Hospital for Children.
Hal Kussick is a general dentist and a member of both the American and Singapore Dental Associations. After 12 years of general dental practice in Seattle, Washington, Hal moved to Singapore in 2005, where he has spent the last two years practising dentistry.
Raised in New Jersey, Hal received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After four years in construction management, he attended the University of Washington School of Dentistry, graduating in 1993.
Since moving to Southeast Asia, Hal has been able to work more frequently at Angkor Hospital for Children, where he first volunteered as a dentist in 2004. Hal has also pledged his services as a volunteer to the Lake Clinic.
In November 2007, Hal made a 2,500 mile journey across Australia - on a bicycle!
Click here to read about it.
Michael Owen is a principal and co-founder of
Baystrategy, LLC a management consulting firm based in Los Angeles.
Specializing in the provision of interim management services, strategic planning and debt and equity fundraising in the U.S.A. and the European Union, Baystrategy also provides general and technical project management services.
Michael currently serves as a non-executive director of
Premier Mission Group Ltd, a London based brand development company, where he advises on strategy and alliances; and
Bayskills Inc, a Los Angeles based executive search and IT contract staffing company. Michael is a member of the advisory boards of several companies in Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.A., and a co-founder of
WHS Fund, a not-for-profit venture capital fund based in Cambodia.
Professor Walter Patrick, M.D., PhD has worked as a primary care physician in several Asian Countries. He is a distinguished medical and public health educator, having served as Visiting Professor in ten universities in Asia, and now heads the Global Health and Medicine Program at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, where he served as mentor-advisor to Jon Morgan, TLC's founder and executive director.
Professor Patrick serves as the Secretary General of the prestigious Asia Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health – a 60 member university consortium from 20 countries extending across the Asia Pacific region, from Kazakhstan to USA and Japan to Australia.
Having served as advisor to WHO, UNICEF and many NGOs in primary healthcare, child survival and issues such as improving gender equity in health in Asia, he has contributed to health development in many disadvantaged community settings.
Ralf Regitz is managing director of
ewerk in Berlin, Germany.
In the 1990s, fueled by youthful idealism, Ralf and his team founded the "E-Werk" techno club, which they parlayed into a worldwide techno brand. Five years ago, Ralf began the transformation of ewerk into one of Berlin's most popular event venues.
Ralf is a very experienced yachtsman and a regular visitor to the Tonle Sap, where his advice has been instrumental in the ongoing development of the TLC1.
Kaoru Sato is an IT logistics specialist with over fifteen years’ experience of financial and operational management in the banking, software and entertainment sectors. From March 2007 until April 2009 she was working as a full-time volunteer at the
Angkor Hospital for Children in Siem Reap, where she assisted in streamlining budgeting and administrative procedures.
Prior to this, Kaoru worked for
Morgan Stanley in Tokyo for nine years, where she worked in risk management, equity options trading support and latterly as IT logistics manager. From 1997 to 1998, Kaoru was finance and operations manager of the Japanese subsidiary of web imaging solutions provider,
Live Picture Corp.
After gaining a degree in Sociology at the
State University of NY, Kaoru worked in New York City for five years – initially in financial operations for
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank (1991-1993), and subsequently as coordinator of international operations for
MTV Networks (1993-1995).
Louise Myers is currently ORI Project Director for the development of the Bokamoso Private Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana, a 200-bed private, not-for-profit acute facility. Hospital commissioning target is November 2009.
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