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Health Teams International Leaders
Dick is the president of HTI. Born and raised in Michigan, he attended Michigan State University for 3 years and University of Michigan for 7 years and received a D.D.S. and M.S. in Restorative Dentistry. He taught 1/2 time at U of M Dental School for 30 years while having a private practice 1/2 time in Brighton, Michigan. Dick accepted Christ as a young child and has been active and growing since. He started leading dental mission trips in the early 1980's and joined HTI in the early 90's becoming president in 2000. He has led over 30 health mission trips seeing several thousands of unreached people come to Christ. He enjoys serving in all areas of the world opening up new areas among the over 2 billion people who have never heard of Jesus. Dr. Richard Charlick, DDS, MS Gayle has been instrumental on many HTI missions in leading the pharmacy and treatment teams. She obtained her BS in Biology from U of Minnesota in 1974, BS in Nursing from U of Michigan in 1992 along with graduate work in Holistic Health at Western Michigan University. She got her AND in 1989 from Northwestern Michigan College. She has worked for Munson Medical Center, a top 100 Hospital, since 1989 in the cardiac care unit as well as the ICU. She is generally in charge of the unit when on duty, including working on the Medical Response Team and the Code Blue Team. In the absence of a physician, she is the team leader. She has been an ICU nurse in Michigan for more than a decade and has been on HTI teams to Africa, India and Sri Lanka. Ms. Gayle Dawson, RN Obtained his BSc (1976), DDS (1980), Specialty training in Prosthetic Dentistry (1989) and a Masters degree (1990). He taught at the University of Toronto Dental Faculty, served at Toronto's Princess Margaret Cancer Hospital and worked with the Canadian Forces Health Services Branch as a clinical Prosthodontist. In addition to operating a full-time referral-based specialty dental practice he and his wife run a weekly inner city “no-cost” denture clinic for the poor and homeless in Ottawa, Ontario. He has been President of HTI (Canada) since 2001 having participated in or led several HTI mission teams to South East Asia – including Nepal, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka, India, Burma, China and North Korea. Dr. Tom Harle, B.Sc., DDS, D(Pros) Mark is the Vice President of HTI and has a private dentistry practice in Oklahoma. He attended the Michael Cardone, Sr. School of Dentistry at Oral Roberts University and received his Doctor of Dental Medicine degree in 1985. Graduation honors included: American Academy of Periodontology Clinician Award, Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, and Recognition Awards for Professionalism and Ethics. In addition to his dental degree, Dr. Hodge earned a Masters in Theology from the seminary at Oral Roberts University. Dr. Hodge has been on the faculty of Oral Roberts University and Loma Linda University dental schools. In addition, Dr. Hodge and his wife, Kathy, have four children and they are all active in their local church. Prior to beginning private practice, Dr. Hodge and his family served as dental missionaries for five years in Africa. Currently, they continue to take regular short-term mission trips. Dr. Mark Hodge, DMD, M.Th. David lives in Sterling, Northern Virginia, on the outskirts of Washington D.C. He is an Ophthalmic Surgeon (ophthalmologist) with over 39 years of anterior & posterior segment eye surgery experience, having trained in U.K, India, & USA. David has been a missionary medical worker all his life and loves to serve on HTI missions to the unreached, specially missions to Asia, Far East and the Middle East. Dr. David Inderjeet, MD, FACS Bill is a family doctor from North Carolina that has been on many HTI teams to Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Cameroon as well as missions for his church, Global Health Outreach and for Samaritan’s purse. Bill graduated valedictorian from his high school and went on to obtain his bachelor’s degree from Princeton in New Jersey. His medical degree was from Vanderbilt University. Bill is involved with many ministries within his church and community particularly with the disadvantaged including prison ministry, community pregnancy center and rescue missions. Bill is one of the most tireless workers on medical teams and is often the first to lead us in prayer, song and worship. Dr. William Johanson Don obtained his A.B. in Zoology and a B.S. in Medicine at the Univ. of Missouri in 1949 and 1951. He received his medical degree at the Univ. of Kansas in 1953. He has been on the Board of Directors for Health Teams International for many years and has been on Medical-Dental Mission trips to West Papua, Indonesia; Nepal, Sumatra, Myanmar, and three times to Cameroon, Africa. Don retired from Family Practice (Board Certified in 1991) recently and is currently engaged in Veteran's Administration work in Kansas City, MO doing Compensation-Pension exams. Don has been a mentor to many board physicians by his quiet leadership and strong faith. Dr. Donald Keunzi, BA, BS, MD Bill describes himself as a child of God who’s been blessed with a wonderful, believing wife of 46 years. He has two grown sons and eight grandchildren and has lived in Washington for 38 years. His training was at USC School of Dentistry between 1958-1962 and was in the U.S. Air Force between 1962-1966. He did a General Practice internship at Madigan Army Hospital between 1962-1963 and was stationed overseas at Toul Rosiere Air Base, France 1963-1966. He is a fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry. Missions: 2 weeks to 2 months last 20 years (China, Tibet, India, Guatemala, Cameroon, Nigeria). He has a special interest in unreached people groups. The last six years we has concentrated on Mongolia. Dr. William Pratt, DDS, FAGD Dr. David McDonald, DDS Bob was the founder of HTI and was the Chairman of the Board in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had visited 138 countries in his life, many of them searching for unreached people groups. As a professor and department chairman at the ORU School of Dentistry, he developed and taught the missions program at the school for eight years. During those years he built an inventory of portable dental equipment used by teams of volunteer dental students in 30 countries. Bob has been a team leader on dental missions to Belize, Brazil, China, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Inner Mongolia, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, Mozambique, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa and Swaziland. He had also been the editor and publisher of two medical mission newsletters for 20 years as well as staffing a HTI booth on the average of three times yearly for 15 years. He is survived by his wife, Jan, who had been instrumental in all of Bob’s work and had been the secretary/treasuer of HTI from its inception. Although Bob will be greatly missed by the mission field, he lives on through this organization as well as the thousands of lives he has touched both here and in the developing world. Gerald became involved with Health Teams International in the summer of 2000 through Dr. Tom Harle, President of the Canadian office of Health Teams International. Formerly a life-long educator at the secondary, community college, and university levels, he gained an interest in missions work through World Hope International, the missions branch of the Wesleyan Church. Working with a team to Bogota, Columbia he helped the local administration increase their computer expertise through the building, installation, and training in computer application. In Petit Guave, Haiti, he worked with World Hope in an assessment of a computer school that was set up under their auspices. As he became more involved in Health Teams International, he developed an expertise in doing eye refractions on the mission field. His training at the School of Optometry at the University of Houston not only provided him with the professional skills he needed to become a more valuable team member, but it also piqued his interest in the field of optometry. Since that time, he has helped team leaders provide optometric services in Sri Lanka, India, Benin, and Myanmar. In the summer of 2006, he will accompany a team to China and North Korea to serve as the Vision Station leader. Gerry has assumed the position of Executive Director of both the Canadian and American operations of Health Teams International. Psalms 137:4: How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land? Gerald L. Roussie Dave's interest in things medical began with the Boy Scout first aid training as he reached his Eagle rank and developed through his career steps as a sheriff's deputy/diver, psychiatric aide, EMT and PA. He finished medical school at the University of Oklahoma and a residency in emergency medicine in Detroit. After experience as a staff doctor, instructor, flight physician and supervisor, God's plans became clear from a phone call "out of the blue" about a medical mission trip to Nepal. Since that first trip he's been to Africa 5 times, in addition to Guatemala, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Home base is Traverse City, Michigan, with his wife Mikki, (an ICU nurse and now a missionary also), stepchildren (future missionaries), 14-lb tomcat (not a missionary), 225 gallon reef aquarium and the congregation of New Hope Community Church. Dr. David Shull, BS, MD Lee is a general dentist in Carmichael, California who has been involved with short term foreign missions for 20 years now. He trained at the University of California in San Francisco and did a General Practice residency at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi. He has been in practice for 27 years and has been on missions to the Philippines, Mexico, Columbia, Ghana, China, India, and Cambodia during the last 13 years. He has concentrated most of his efforts recently in Cambodia. Dr. Lee Wiggins, BA, BS, DDS Dan lives in the Puget Sound area of the Northwest and is board certified in Internal Medicine and Dermatology and has a diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (London). He has received awards as Teacher of the Year (Univ. of Washington Medical School) and Alumnus of the Year (Pacific Lutheran University). He has been on multiple mission outreaches with HTI and currently is leading teams into West Africa. He has also been on missions to Tibet, China, Mongolia, Philippines and India. Dan currently is in private practice in Puyallup, WA. and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington Medical School. Dr. Wiklund believes that the Great Commission is a command and sharing our love and skills with a world in hurt is a personal obligation. Dr. Dan Wiklund, MD Gary has been happily married for the past 27 years and is a father of three children. He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University with a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree. He also has enjoyed a full time private general practice for the past 23 years as well as being a Sunday school teacher and a Director of HTI since about 1996. Short term missions have included Afghanistan, Belize, Brazil, India, Israel and Mexico. Gary finds that it has been a great blessing serving our Lord through short term missions and having the opportunity to fellowship with such a dedicated group of believers. Dr. Gary Wood, BS, DMD Dr. Roger Youmans, MD, FACS Dale Louis is a 1966 dental graduate of the University of Minnesota, Vietnam Veteran 1966-67, and was in private practice for 30 years in Boulder, CO. Since retirement Dale has been on over 50 dental overseas mission trips. Mary Ann is a retired high school German teacher and now serves as Dale's all purpose dental assistant. She is currently enrolled in a Distance Learning study course through Fuller Seminary in Pascadena, CA. Dale and Mary Ann have worked with 8 different Christian mission groups. Dale and Mary Ann split their time between homes in Berthoud and Breckenridge, CO and dental missions.  |
