Members of the Board

Members of the MMFC Board of Directors serve in a volunteer capacity, with a 100% rate of participation in regards to both fundraising and personal donations.

Scroll through the members of our Board.

  • Gil Arie, JD

    Partner, Foley Hoag, LLP

  • Charles Badaoui, DMD, RPh

    MMFC Treasurer
    Copley Dental Associates
    Clinical Professor,
    Tufts University School of Dentistry

  • Rafael Barrera, MD

    SICU Medical Director,
    Northwell Health

  • Shelagh Cofer, MD

    Chair, Pediatric Otolaryngology, Head/Neck Surgery, Mayo Clinic

  • Shadi Daher, DMD, FAAOMS

    MMFC President
    Clinical Professor, Boston University
    School of Dental Medicine

  • Jagdish Dhingra, MD, FRCS

    Clinical Professor, Tufts University
    School of Medicine

  • Marc B. Ehrenpreis, MD

    Director of Pediatric Anesthesia,
    New York Presbyterian Hospital
    Assistant Professor, Weill Medical College,
    Cornell University

  • Claudia Gilman, JD

    Founder, Novara Global Consulting

  • Frank Alfred Nyoni, MD

    Department of Anesthesia/ Critical Care,
    CCBRT Medical Center, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  • Andrew Patterson, MD, PhD

    Chair, Department of Anesthesiology/ Lisco Professor of Anesthesia,
    University of Nebraska Medical Center

  • H. Dennis Snyder, MD FACS

    MMFC Chairman
    Clinical Professor,
    Harvard Medical School,
    and Tufts University School of Medicine

  • Ben Talei, MD

    Director, Beverly Hills Center for Plastic Surgery
    Advisory Chair,
    Los Angeles County Medical Association

  • Zahrah Taufique, MD

    Department of Otolaryngology/ Pediatric Otolaryngology,
    New York University Langone Health

  • Pacifico Tuason, MD

    Instructor in Anesthesia,
    Harvard Medical School
    Critical Care/Pain Medicine,
    Massachusetts General Hospital

  • Robert F. Ward, MD

    Professor of Otolaryngology,
    New York University Medical College

Executive Staff & Professional Services

It is only through the endless commitment of Medical Missions for Children’s staff that we, together, can provide care to thousands of impoverished children every year.