Our Board of Advisors.

  • CHRISTOPHER J. CHEN, M.D.

    CHEN MEDICAL CENTERS

    Dr. Chen began participating in Nicaragua mission trips while still in high school. He met his wife, Stephanie, in Nicaragua during those years and made the Nicaraguan people part of his medical training at each step of the way. He now serves as CEO for Chen Medical Centers, which has clinics in seven markets across the U.S. Each year, Dr. Chen takes his children so they can follow in his mission footsteps.

  • JESSSICA CHEN, MD

    CHEN MEDICAL CENTERS

    Dr. Jessica Chen serves as chief quality officer for Chen Medical Centers. In her first year of the prestigious Honor Program at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, she traveled to Nicaragua for a medical mission project and met her future husband, Dr. Gordon Chen. Together, they subsequently codified the official structure of Nicaragua Miedcal Missions. She and her husband have three boys and a girl whom they love to take with them on their Nicaragua trips.

  • STEPHANIE CHEN, ESQ.

    CHEN MEDICAL CENTERS

    As general counsel for Chen Medical Centers, Stephanie balances raising four kids with the increasing demands of the expanding reach of the Chen medical enterprise. In addition, she's specializing in maximizing the nonprofit opportunities presented by places like Nicaragua and urban America.

  • ROB FURNO

    CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES

    Rob is Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health and Human Services' CMS Region 5 and holds an MBA from Kellogg, and MD from Medical College of Wisconsin and an MPH from University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. He's also a practicing emergency medicine physician and one of the founding participants on NMM projects. He and his wife Nicole live in Chicago. Rob also serves on the Nicaragua Medical corporate board.