Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, during Great Depression, 1937. Library of Congress: LC-USF34- 016269-C. Photographer: Dorothea Lange.

 

REMOTE MEDICINE
The Field Course for Remote Medical Service


Board of Directors

 

James Li, MD is a practicing emergency physician and former assistant professor for the emergency medicine residency at Harvard Medical School. In 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003, the resident physicians of this program named him “Outstanding Attending.” He has served as a research investigator for the National Institutes of Health and for the Harvard Division of Emergency Medicine. He has also served as a medical officer at Kikuyu Hospital in Kenya, Masanga Hospital in Sierra Leone, Aira Hospital in Ethiopia, and San Cristobal Hospital in Nicaragua. His work has been published in the Lancet, Chest, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and in numerous other publications. He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and the emergency medicine residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

 

Daniel Nadig, MD is a practicing surgeon in Seattle, Washington. He is a former member of the national leprosy control program in Sierra Leone, and served as the medical director of Masanga Hospital, in Sierra Leone, where he practiced medicine and surgery prior to residency. His work has been published in the Journal of Surgical Research, the Archives of Surgery, and Hepatology. He is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and the general surgery residency at St. Louis University.

 

Charles Thompson, MD is a practicing surgeon in Orlando, Florida. He has served as a surgical and tropical medicine officer for the Hospital at Diakonessenhuis, the Medische Zending Field Service, and the Dienst Dermatologie Clinic in Paramaribo, Suriname. He has also served as a staff surgeon for the Jesus Kumate Rodriguez Hospital in Benito Juarez, Mexico. He is a former regional course director for the American College of Surgeons’ Advanced Trauma Life Support course. His work has been published in American Surgeon, Digestion, and Contemporary Surgery. He is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Medicine and the general surgery residency at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

 

Hilarie Cranmer, MD is an assistant professor and acting director for the International Medicine and Health fellowship program at Harvard Medical School. She has served as a medical officer at Embangweni Hospital in Malawi and as a field officer with Physicians for Human Rights in post-war Kosovo where she taught ultrasonography and trauma management. Initially trained in biomedical engineering, she is a graduate of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and completed an emergency medicine residency at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

 

Adeyinka Adedipe, MD is a clinical instructor of emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center and associate director of the Emergency Ultrasound Section. He has served as a medical officer at Dil Chora Hospital and Bilal Hospital, both in Ethiopia. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, and completed an emergency medicine residency at Boston Medical Center.

 

Faith Pettis is a partner in the Seattle law firm of Preston, Gates & Ellis LLP. She practices municipal finance and concentrates her practice in the areas of low-income housing, education, and nonprofit finance. She is a graduate with honors from Harvard Law School.