MEDLIFE currently functions in the USA solely through the support of volunteer workers, including the members of our Executive Board. Dedicated students and professionals are truly essential to our operations in the USA. In Latin America, MEDLIFE employs a number of full-time staff to coordinate our Mobile Clinics and MEDLIFE Fund projects, and to provide year-round follow up care to patients we encounter during our Mobile Clinics.
MEDVIDA Peru
MEDVIDA Ecuador
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The mission of the Executive Board is to help families achieve greater freedom from the constraints of poverty, empowering them to live healthier lives. The Executive Board oversees MEDLIFE’s operations domestically and abroad and is fiscally and operationally responsible for MEDLIFE’s Mobile Clinics and MEDLIFE Fund projects. The Executive Board also works with student groups to organize Mobile Clinics, fundraise, build greater support for MEDLIFE, and foster student leadership. The most committed, hard- working, and experienced individuals are invited to sit on the Executive Board. The Executive Board currently consists of six members:
Nick Ellis, MD, MEDLIFE Founder and CEO
Education: International Development Studies (BA) at McGill University
Pre-Medical post-baccalaureate, University of Maine
Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
Colin Pile, MEDLIFE CFO
Education: Latin American Studies (B.A.) at Columbia University
Global Affairs (M.S.) at New York University
Juan Camilo Vanegas
Education: Microbiology (B.A.) University of Maine
Jerry Ellis
Education: Counseling (M.S.) Oregon University
MDiv Boston University
Martha Chicaiza
Director of MEDLIFE Latin America
Director of MEDLIFE Ecuador
Carlos Benavides
Director of MEDLIFE Peru
