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REAL MEDICINE TEAM AFRICA - Kenya

• Omar Amir is from Karachi, Pakistan. He studied at Dartmouth College on scholarship where he was a national Beckman scholar for research in Organometallic Chemistry. In Pakistan, he worked with War Against Rape, an NGO based in Karachi, documenting cases of rape and violence against women. He is a basic EMT, speaks Urdu, Hindi and Arabic and is a graduate of the Master of Science program at the Harvard School of Public Health studying social epidemiology. He was awarded the Student Recognition Award from Harvard University for his work done in northern Pakistan over the winter of 2005-6.
  
  
• Ian Swan is currently a student completing his Bachelor's degree in biology with a focus on the neurosciences. As a member of the Bowker Creek Initiative, a local municipal environmental committee, he has been active in trying to preserve and enhance the social and ecological benefits of an existing urban watershed in his home town of Victoria, BC, Canada. A desire to help strengthen the global community by supporting the revitalization of small communities has led Ian to join RMF.
   

REAL MEDICINE TEAM AFRICA - Mozambique

• Helen Ouyang, MD, MPH finished her third year of medical school at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and is a graduate of the Master's degree in Public Health in International Health at Harvard School of Public Health. She did her undergraduate studies at Brown University, in Development Studies. Her interests are broad, including sustainable development post humanitarian crises, human rights, and infectious diseases. Internationally, she has worked in Kenya, Peru, South Africa, and most recently Pakistan and India. She plans on doing a residency in Emergency Medicine.
   
• Steve Henrichon, MS is currently studying pre-medicine in a post-bacculareate program through UCLA. Steve works for CoreMedical Group as a headhunter in the healthcare sector specializing in allied health modalities. In his spare time, he volunteers with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) as well as with the Emergency Department at the Children’s Hospital of LA. Steve is also involved in medical research at UCLA Medical Center focusing on cardiothoracic surgery. Steve holds a BS in Business Administration and an MS in Telecommunications. He is a yoga enthusiast, avid scuba diver, world traveler, and an Eagle Scout.
   

REAL MEDICINE TEAM AFRICA - Nigeria

• Sope Ogunyemi was born in Lagos, Nigeria and relocated with her family to the United States, when she was five. Since then, she has lived between Nigeria and various cities in the United States. She received her B.A. in Liberal Arts from Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire. Her professional background is in Entertainment Marketing, having worked at CBS, Nickelodeon and the Oxygen Network. The project management skills she gained in the fast-paced media world have been extremely helpful in developing the Real Medicine Nigeria project. She is very happy to be a part of the Real Medicine team.
   
• Ayodeji (Deji) Shedu MD, MPH worked for several years as a clinician in his native Nigeria at the primary, secondary and tertiary care levels after graduating from medical school. He has a passion for providing total rehabilitation to chronically ill patients and reintegrating them back into society. He also has deep interests in management of healthcare delivery organizations especially clinics and hospitals for under-served rural and urban populations. In June 2006, he graduates from the Master's in Public Health program in health policy and management from Harvard School of Public Health. Deji plays ping pong in his spare time.
   
• Dr. Nkem Ndionuka studied Medicine in Kharkov, Ukraine, graduated in 1994, and attended post-graduate studies in Switzerland. In 1996 he began practicing medicine in Nigeria, working in both the private and public sectors. He specializes in mental health with a special interest in substance abuse and rehablitation. By the end of 2006, he expects to complete a Master's Degree program in Refugees and Humanitarian Studies at the University of Lagos.
  He has a burning passion for the provision of total healthcare for all, especially the under-privileged and vulnerable members of society like slum dwellers, displaced persons, refugees, chidren and the aged.
  His hobbies include reading, gardening and learning foreign languages. He is fluent in Russian and English and has some ability in German and French. He loves new challenges and would like to participate in the formulation of healthcare policy in international medical organizations.
   
• Pei-Hsuan Tsai, MA, RN finished High School in Austria before coming to the States to obtain her nursing degree. While working as a nurse on a general internal medicine floor, she attended Graduate School part time to obtain her Masters in Nursing Informatics. As a RN, she gained experience in gerontology, as well as college health nursing. Now, working in the field of healthcare informatics, she still has strong interest in clinical nursing and moonlights periodically. She believes that her clinical experience as well as strong interest will be very useful in various projects with RMF. In college, she participated in fund raising events to benefit the victims of El Nino in Peru as well as the impoverished homeless and orphans. Besides being an avid advocate for a cleaner environment, she enjoys traveling and learning about other cultures.
   
• Ufuoma Christopher Okoro M.Sc Pharm, MPSN after graduation from the Ukrainian Academy of Pharmacy, Kharkov, has worked for several years both in the primary and secondary levels of health care delivery. He has also worked in regulatory affairs at the Pharmacists Council Of Nigeria. His interests include caring for the less privileged, community service and rehabilitation work. He is currently the senior pharmacist in charge at the Joint venture pharmacy, General Hospital Lagos.
   
• Dotun Adeboye Ogunyemi, M.D. is Associate Director OB/GYN Residency Program, Cedars Sinai Medical center in Los Angeles, California. He is also Chief of Inpatient Obstetrics, Clerkship Director for the third year medical students clerkship, and an Associate Professor with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
  He has received numerous awards for medical education and clinical research throughout his career, is an active author and editor for many medical journals and is a leader of several medical professional societies.
  He graduated from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at LA County King Drew Medical Center and fulfilled a maternal fetal medicine fellowship at David Geffen school of Medicine at UCLA.