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REAL MEDICINE
TEAM ASIA - Sri Lanka
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - India
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - Pakistan
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - Indonesia
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - Armenia
REAL MEDICINE
TEAM ASIA - Sri Lanka
- Michael Lear is Real Medicine Foundation’s Country Director for Sri Lanka and a member of Real Medicine’s Team Whole Health. For the past four years under the aegis of Bodyworkers Without Borders, Michael has visited Sri Lanka to train physical therapists in progressive alternative treatment protocols for chronic muscle pain, Post Traumatic Stress and neuromuscular disorders. His work in Sri Lanka introducing The Trager® Approach at Navajeevana Rehabilitation Center was featured as the cover story in the American Massage Therapy Association's Massage Therapy Journal 2007 Winter Quarterly.
For over 20 years Michael has explored mind body medicine, Ashtanga yoga, and Vipassana meditation. He has been a long time Trager® Practitioner, holds a 500 Yoga Alliance Teacher Certification and has taught bodywork extensively throughout Japan. At the core of his personal practice and teachings is whole, living food nutrition as an essential foundation for wellness, vitality and disease prevention. Michael also holds a BS in Finance and International Management and worked in the International Manufacturing Industry for 13 yrs.
- Jennifer Stickel is a Fashion Model with VNY in New York and a Certified Raw Living Foods Chef. She is also an advanced Ashtanga yoga practitioner and Vipassana meditator. Over the past three years Jennifer has accompanied Michael to Sri Lanka to assist with trainings and initiative direction. She has also conducted drawing classes for children displaced by the tsunami and maintains a well developed understanding of the cultural dynamics of rural Sri Lankan communities.
- Stephney
Minerva Fernando oversees our projects from our office in southern Sri Lanka. She has vast experience as a teacher, and has also assisted her husband in his medical practice. Minerva has worked in business and education, as a translator for the GTZ and other international organizations, as an English tutor in Tangalle, Walasmulla and Ranna, and as an image tracer on the River Valleys Development Board for the Sri Lankan government. She headed the "Self Employment Project Of Tsunami Affected Single Headed House-Holders" in Hambantota, and has been very active in the tsunami relief efforts in Sri Lanka.
- Dilan
Jayawardane is in his final year towards a bachelor's degree in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. He was schooled in Sri Lanka, where he did very well
in the Advanced Level examination in Mathematics and received a scholarship
to MIT in 2002. Since then he has taken part in research work related
to audio engineering, astronomy and computational neuroscience. He expects
to attend graduate school in neuroscience. As for leadership and community
service work, he has held many positions in various clubs and activities
in his hometown and currently, is the president of Sri Lankan students
association at MIT.
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - India
- Fabian Toegel,
MD earned his medical degree from Munich University, Germany and was trained
in the Program for Medical Education offered at Harvard Medical School in
2004. He has completed his MPH in International Health from the Harvard School
of Public Health. He was awarded the Student Recognition Award from Harvard
University for the work done in Kashmir. He also earned the prestigious Albert
Schweitzer Award from Harvard for his groundbreaking work in the field of
education and healthcare in India's tribal district of Jhabua, where he lived
for one year in 1998 and founded Bhil Health Initiative and Literacy Society.
His interests include mass education and vocational training of the tribal
population, HIV/AIDS awareness and care, as well as reproductive and child
health. Fabian is an alumni of the German National Academic Foundation and
a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Physicians. He speaks Hindi and Urdu.
Fabian is the honorary country Director of RMF in India
- Dheepa
Rajan, MD is from Houston, Texas. She earned her medical degree as well as a degree in alternative medicine at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Dheepa currently works as a Technical Officer for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Her current projects include revising clinical practice guidelines for perinatal health in the Ukraine, implementing the Health Ministry's Health Systems Strengthening Strategy in the DRC, and resource planning for the ARV rollout in Limpopo province in South Africa. She has previously worked in India in HIV care and prevention as well as at the Swiss Tropical Institute in TB care. Dheepa speaks Tamil, German and French and is a professional classical Indian dancer.
- Lars
Meyer holds a J.D. from the University of Hamburg, Germany and an
LL.M. (American and Comparative Law) degree from University of Denver
Sturm College of Law. He currently works for a Hamburg-based law firm.
Lars has been visiting and working in India since 1998 and supported
various development projects in the Jhabua area. In addition, he worked
on a temporary assignment at the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce in
New Delhi in 2004.
- Adam
Heilemann lives in Boston, Massachusetts and is a Vice President
at State Street Global Markets, LLC. Adam graduated Phi Beta Kappa from
St. Lawrence University in 1998 with a B.S. in political science and
biology and is currently enrolled in an executive MBA program with Duke's
Fuqua School of Business. His interest include alpine skiing, fly fishing,
marathoning and engaging in a healthy debates on politics and public
policy.
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - Pakistan
- Rubina Mumtaz
was born in Nairobi, Kenya to immigrant Pakistani parents (her mother is from
Kashmir). She moved to Pakistan after high school, graduated with honors cum
lauda from Khyber College of Dentistry, Peshawar. She has been in private
dental practice for 11 years and simultaneously held a teaching position in
a dental school in Islamabad. Professionally, she has held leadership roles
in the Pakistan Dental Association. On a humanitarian side, she has been actively
involved in community work by volunteering with organizations that deal with
handicapped children, women and minor prisoners to name a few. Rubina is very
passionate about women's rights and has done her masters thesis on oral health
of homeless women in Boston. She completed her MPH in Family & Community Health
from the Harvard School of Public Health with an interdisciplinary concentration
in Women, Gender and Health. She was awarded the Student Recognition Award
from Harvard University for the work done in Kashmir over the winter of 2005-6.
Rubina is the Country Director of RMF in Pakistan.
- 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.
- Giorgio Pietramaggiori,
MD is from Modena, Italy. He studied at Italy's most prestigious medical
school, the University of Padua, where he earned his medical degree cum laude.
Giorgio is a post-doctoral fellow in the Division of Plastic Surgery at the
Brigham and Women's Hospital affiliated to Harvard Medical School in Boston.
He is a famous tattooist, runs marathons for charity and participated in medical
missions in Central America.
- Zubia Mumtaz,
MD was born in Pakistan and spent her early years in Kenya. She did her
MD in Aga Khan University, Karachi, after which she worked briefly for the
family planning program in Pakistan. She completed her MPH at Harvard on a
scholarship from GTZ after which she served in the Ministry of Health in Islamabad,
teaching in the only public health academy in Islamabad for a few years. During
this time she dedicated herself to research on women's health in Pakistan.
She then went on to do her PHD at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
on the Commonwealth scholarship. She presently works in Canada as an epidemiologist
and also as a freelance consultant on public health projects in Pakistan.
- Amin ur Rahman
was born in Pakistan and did his BDS at Khyber College of Dentistry,
Peshawar. He did his post graduate studies at Harvard University, with an
MPH from Harvard School of Public Health and worked as a fellow in periodontology
at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and as a fellow in Anesthesiology
at Children's Hospital Boston. There he set up a private dental practice called
Rahman and Rahman Dental Associates, which now has branches in all major cities
of Pakistan (Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Rahimyar Khan, Faislabad, Jhelum,
Peshawar and also in Chapel Hill, USA). He is an Associate Professor in periodontology
in dentisty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also
the Executive Director of the Institute of Implant Dentistry in Lahore which
is affiliated with the Strauman Institute of Implants, Switzerland. He is
based between Lahore and Chapel Hill.
- Jochen Hahne,
MD is from Munich. He studied at the universities of Münster and Munich
in Germany and also at the university of Padova in Italy. He is a research
fellow in Orthopedic Surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital affiliated
with Harvard Medical School. For his dissertation he worked with kids with
cerebral palsy and hemiplegia. He is planning a project in Pakistan with a
team of rehabilitation doctors to help the victims of the earthquake. During
a 4 month rotation at Tulane University in New Orleans he had to flee from
Hurricane Katrina. Jochen is an ex professional basketball player and is also
a member of the doctors team of the basketball department of FC Bayern Munich.
- Salman Ali
is a graphic designer with HOAP, a non-profit organization in Pakistan.
He is currently working on a Master's Degree through the Virtual University
of Pakistan. He has worked with many other NGO's, including the Aga Khan Rural
Support Program Pakistan, Awrat Foundation Pakistan, and Alkarim Welfare Society
in Booni Chitral Pakistan. He speaks English, Urdu, Pashto, Chitrali and Persian-Dari.
His mission is to work for the well-being of humanity without discrimination
of material worth, color, religion or any other difference with special focus
on enhancing the quality of life of disabled persons in society.
- Jalal Rajabali
MSc, BSc, is a licensed Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and a Software Engineer professional.
He has been an active volunteer with Webcor Alto Velo in the San Francisco Bay area. He is fluent in English and Urdu.
He hopes to provide education and training on BLS (Basic Life Support) within and outside the United States.
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - Indonesia
- Nick Taranto was born in New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2006 as a Senior Fellow. As part of his Fellowship, Nick spent four months in Phanga, Thailand and Aceh, Indonesia photographing and researching the role of NGOs in developing civil society in disaster zones. Nick continued his research on a Fulbright grant to East Java following graduation. He is currently pursuing concurrent MPA and MBA degrees at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As a volunteer, Nick works with KOMPIP, a Central Java-based NGO to develop a more sustainable model of public finance. He is a rugby player, surfer, and erstwhile ultramarathoner.
REAL MEDICINE TEAM ASIA - Armenia
- Nairy Ghazourian is the Chief Executive Officer at Wellness Matters, Inc., a medical equipment and health education company primarily servicing the Medicare population in greater Los Angeles. Nairy’s past experience in healthcare ranges from academia to non-profit, managed care and pharmaceuticals. Her work includes research in breast and pancreatic cancers, HIV/AIDS education, public health education and program design and implementation. Nairy received her undergraduate degrees in French Literature and Biological Sciences from UC Irvine, a Masters degree in Public Health from USC’s Keck School of Medicine and completed her graduate studies in physiological sciences at UCLA.
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