Vice President

Jeff Lewis

Jeff Lewis is a partner in the Indianapolis office of the law firm Ice Miller LLP, whose primary practice concentrations are in tax-exempt finance and municipal securities law, with a focus on transactions for colleges, universities, museums and other educational, cultural or charitable institutions. Jeff is a leader of the Firm’s College and University practice. He also focuses on public private partnerships on behalf of governmental entities. Jeff is a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel and a Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation. He is a member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers, among other professional organizations. Jeff is a past President of the Board of Trustees of the Indianapolis Opera, and is a founding member of the Board of Trustees of University High School of Indiana, where he currently serves as Board Chair. Jeff received his Bachelor of Arts in religion and political science from DePauw University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated, with high distinction, in 1974. He is a 1979 graduate of both the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Illinois College of Law, where he graduated cum laude.

Secretary/Treasurer

Eleanor Hall

Eleanor is retired after a long career in the insurance and real estate industries and has a interest in global health disparities, especially those affecting women and children in low-resource settings.

Dr. Sajel Numamanya

Sajel graduated from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 2012 and a week later left for a two year stay in Uganda where she managed a food program for the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Humanitarianism where she met her husband. In the fall of 2014 she returned to the U.S. to begin medical school at Wayne State University. Sajel recently graduated from medical school and is relocated to work in a FQHC in Alabama.

Dr. Peter Lee

Dr. Peter Lee is the Global Medical Director for the General Electric Company. In this capacity, Peter leads clinical operations, directs occupational health and medicine, develops globally responsive medical policies and drives advancements in travel medicine, crisis management, and disease prevention. He also supports GE HealthAhead (culture of health initiative) to ensure population health and wellness programs are evidence based and globally engaging. He serves as GE’s public health liaison and teaches in the capacity as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Peter is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Vermont College of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. His post graduate training encompasses an internship in general surgery, fellowship in healthcare quality and residency at the Harvard Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency program; where he also served as chief resident. Peter is board certified in Preventive Medicine and a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

Prior to GE, Peter served as Chief Strategy Officer and Corporate Medical Director of a Boston-based healthcare delivery and consulting firm. He loves golfing and spending time with his family, including his 2-year-old twins. He resides in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Yvonne Williams

A life long educator, Yvonne Williams currently serves as Regional Director of Operations for a charter network within the New York tri-state area. She is a 2009 graduate of DePauw University. It was there that she sparked her interest in humanitarian work through the Winter Term-in-Service program. Yvonne is happy to newly join the board of Tumaini and plans to support the organization’s efforts to expand impact to more schools along the east coast.

Kathleen Jagger, Ph.D

Kathleen S. Jagger, a 1975 graduate of DePauw University and former faculty member at her alma mater, is the new president of academic affairs and dean of the college at Thomas More College. Dr. Jagger comes from Transylvania University, where she served for more than seven years in various roles, including interim vice president and dean of the college, associate vice president and associate dean of the college and professor of biology. Kathleen was a professor of microbiology and public health at DePauw from 1983 to 2002, and has also been a visiting professor at the Medical College of Ohio and an assistant professor at the Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton. Professor Jagger majored in zoology (biological sciences) at DePauw, then earned an master’s in global health from Harvard School of Public Health and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  She is the 12th president of Newman University.

Michael Christie M.D., M.P.H.

Michael is an orthopedic surgeon specializing in total joint replacement and is the founding partner of the Southern Joint Replacement Institute in Nashville, Tennessee. He is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Vanderbilt University. An internationally recognized lecturer and author in the field of joint replacement, Michael has a special interest in complex revision surgeries of the hip and knee. He remains active in clinical research, teaching, and orthopedic implant design. Additionally, he is the founder and Chairman of WalkStrong, a nonprofit medical humanitarian organization which provides free knee and hip replacements for patients in developing and underserved countries.

Emeritus

Jeffrey Jones M.D., M.P.H., D.T.M.H.

Jeffrey is a consultant in Travel Medicine and the founding director of the St. Francis Traveler’s Health Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is board certified in Family Medicine, Preventive Health, and Sports Medicine. He also earned a diploma from the Tropical Medicine Institute of Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru and holds a Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s Heath from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He writes and lectures extensively and serves as a medical director for several multinational corporations and missionary organizations.

Thomas Burke M.D., FACEP

Thomas is the Chief of the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Burke has extensive experience in the public health arena as a senior emergency physician, a faculty member and researcher, and as a leader in the nonprofit sector directing overseas health interventions since 1994. His work focuses on alleviating suffering of vulnerable populations – specifically women and children in undeserved communities of the world. Since the division began in 2008, their work has taken them to 12 countries where they have worked to discover, innovate, and implement sustainable solutions focused on intractable challenges in the domains of women and children’s health and human rights all while educating global health fellows, residents, and medical students. Current projects include providing low cost uterine tamponade devices for post-partum hemorrhage and educating providers on the use of ketamine anesthesia for emergency C-sections in low-resource settings.

President

Tom Mote M.D, M.P.H.

Tom has practiced anesthesiology for over 25 years with Anesthesia Consultants of Indianapolis. In 2004, he received his MPH from the Harvard University School of Public Health.  Since then, he has taught an undergraduate introductory course in public and global health at DePauw, Butler, and Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis and a U.S. Healthcare course at Butler.  He has accompanied undergraduates from Davidson, DePauw, and Butler on medical missions to Guatemala, Ecuador, and Ghana and also teaches anesthetists in Kenya.  Additionally, he has served on the board and been chair of a federally qualified community health center.