Ukraine
Cross-border Medical
Operations
Consortium
Physician to physician, partner to partner, country
to country bolstering Ukrainian physicians and patients in need by providing just-in-time critical guidance and equipment.
Medical advisory board
CHANDRA HASSAN
Director of Bariatric Surgery
Dr. Hassan is the Director of Bariatric Surgery in both the Department of Surgery, Division of General, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery, Bariatric Surgery Program and at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery. Prior to starting this position in February 2016, he served as the Medical Director in the Center for Bariatric Surgery at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, Adjunct Teaching Faculty at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and as an Assistant Professor at Northeast Ohio Medical University.
ERIC CHRISTOPHER
CIOE-PENA, MD
Emergency Medicine
Founding Director of the Center for Global Health of Northwell Health and the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He is an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Cioè Peña is leading an initiative at Northwell and Hofstra to unify and consolidate Global Health programming to be integrated and horizontally focused. His work is centered currently on breaking down siloes in a large University system and an even larger Health system with over 70,000 employees, 23 hospitals and 12 schools and colleges at the University. He served on the Public Healthand Injury Prevention committee and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
WOJCIECH BODZOŃ
Member of the Board of Institute for Emergency Medicine.
Founding member of Polish Medical Mission, member of scientific council at Medycyna Praktyczna (publishing house). Participated in aid operations in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Romania. Specialty: internal medicine, anesthesiology.
JAROSŁAW GUCWA
President of the Institute for Emergency Medicine.
Many years of experience us head of the Polish Medical Mission. He has helped in Kosovo, Albania, Chad and Iran, Darfur and Afghanistan. Specialty: general surgery, emergency medicine.
Our board
LEWIS SIDA
Director of Operations
Lewis Sida is Director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre (HLC) at IDS and works as a consultant on a range of humanitarian issues including policy and strategy, evaluation and response. He is the author of numerous reviews and evaluations. Clients include all of the major UN agencies involved in humanitarian action – UNOCHA, UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF and UNDP; donors – DFID (now FCDO), EU, USAID, AUSAID (now DFAT), NZAID, SDC; Red Cross Movement (BRCS, IFRC, ARC), NGOs and academia.
ANNA ZAWIŚLAK
Medical Director
• Medical Project Manager at Medycyna Praktyczna (publishing house — most widely recognized brand in the Polish medical community).
• Experienced Medical Coordinator at bigest mass events in Poland.
• Public Health specialist with expertise in analysing and processing health requirements that are leveraged in health project operations to enable the desired solutions creation.
PHILLIP DOLLIF
Phil Dolliff was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and NonProliferation Programs. In this capacity, Mr. Dolliff oversaw foreign assistance programs in the areas of nonproliferation and Cooperative Threat Reduction of $200 million. Mr. Dolliff worked for the U.S. Department of State and helped negotiate more than 44 international agreements worth more than $20 billion.
OLGA BERG
Director of Development
Olga has been working on Ukraine Support since the first days of war and has over 30 years of experience in international cooperation. She is acting as a liaison between Ukrainian Hospitals, NGOs, volunteer groups, Polish NGOs, the Ukrainian Government, and international donors. Previously worked on International Space Station (Mission Control), Plutonium Disposition Negotiation (US DOS), and Chernobyl Sarcophagus (US DOE).
PETER ALEXANDER MEYERS
Development Strategist
His writings include Civiс War (University of Chicago Press), an account of how a culture of war shaped political life in the United States in the late 20th century. Associated with the Centre d'études des normes juridiques Yan Thomas (EHESS-Paris), his recent projects include historical/sociological analysis aimed at reform of Higher Education in the United States (with the American Council of Learned Societies) and development of The Civic Inquirer, an innovative experiment seeking a new balance of expertise and democratic autonomy in everyday pragmatic inquiry by citizens.
Our Partners
What we do
1/ Facilitate effective connections and effective communication for organizations and expert teams.
2/ Vet all calls for specific donations or high-cost medical items through medical professional networks in Poland, as well as longstanding contacts within the Ukrainian government and medical system.
3/ Serve as communications clearinghouse for all types of medical equipment and goods seeking to get into Ukraine, ensuring that it gets to the frontline through real-time communication with doctors, hospitals, and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
4/ Coordinate streams of small and medium donor medical aid to ensure that it both meets the needs of frontline hospitals and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
5/ Build out communication capacity to help coordinate small & medium donor flows within civil society, built on our ability to react quickly to shifting conditions on the ground through informal communication networks such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Facebook.
6/ Serve as clearinghouse for small and medium donors seeking to provide funds for specific forms of medical procurement, vetted by our medical professionals.
Advisory board
NICK SHAFER
Marshall Scholar at the Institute of Development Studies
Nick Shafer is a Marshall Scholar at the Institute of Development Studies where he researches scaling humanitarian innovation within complex crises, with a particular focus on Cash and Voucher Assistance (CVA). Originally from California, Nick has previously worked at the US Agency for International Development, US State Department, Smithsonian, Institution, and various start ups and NGOs in the United States, UK, and Middle East. He currently lives in London but always has is bag packed and ready to go.
AMY CAYNE SCHWARTZ, J.D.
General Counsel
Amy Cayne Schwartz is the President,
Co-Executive Director and General Counsel for Genome Project-write. Since 2016, Amy has assumed various roles on GP-write, and is currently managing the working groups, establishing the corporate governance framework, and building strategic relationships with philanthropic, academic, industrial and governmental partners.
PAVEL GILMAN
Senior Director of the global automotive company
Located in Germany, Pavel spent over 15 years in the industry, where he held different top management positions in Europe and North America. Pavel's connection to the business, proven experience in international relationships and Ukrainian roots help us to formalize
transparent, reliable and long lasting relationship between Ukrainian
organizations and Donors.