Our Team

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.