Lachlan Forrow, MD, served as a 1982 Lambaréné Schweitzer Fellow and has been actively involved with The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) ever since. In addition to serving as ASF's President and the President of La Fondation Internationale de l’Hôpital du Docteur Albert Schweitzer à Lambaréné (the governing body of the Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Africa), Forrow is also Director of Ethics Programs and Director of Palliative Care Programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and in 2007 received the HMS Lifetime Achievement Award for Community Service. For over 25 years he has been actively involved with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (www.ippnw.org) and its U.S. affiliate Physicians for Social Responsibility (www.psr.org), which carry on Dr. Schweitzer’s work for the abolition of nuclear weapons and, for PSR, protection of the environment.

"My three months as a Schweitzer Fellow in Lambaréné included some of the most difficult times of my life, but also some of the most meaningful," says Forrow. "While sometimes world events can be depressing, meeting new groups of Schweitzer Fellows every year gives me almost limitless hope for the future."

"Coming to ASF fulfills my commitment to 'giving back' and preparing the next generation of leaders to put service back into health," says Stevens-Edouard. "I'm honored and humbled to join an organization with such tremendous and transformative impact."

Marilyn K. Kuhar joined ASF in 2011 as Chief Development Officer. Kuhar previously directed development for the Children’s Defense Fund, the New England Division of the American Cancer Society, the Museum of Science in Boston, and Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. As ASF's Chief Development Officer, Kuhar is working to enhance opportunities for corporations, foundations, and individuals to participate in ASF’s mission through major philanthropy.

“Over nearly two decades, ASF has supported over 2,000 Schweitzer Fellows—exceptional graduate and professional school students who have delivered more than 400,000 hours of health-focused community service to underserved people,” says Kuhar. “These lifelong Leaders in Service are at the forefront of today’s movement to address health disparities. I am thrilled to join the organization that’s behind them.”

Meghan Johnson (Kalinich), MS, joined the ASF staff in 2003 and serves as National Program Director for the U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Program. Johnson brings her experience as a 2000-2001 Boston Fellow where she assisted with the creation and implementation of the first school-based health clinic in a Boston public elementary school. She holds a BA from Boston College and an MS in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.   

“My experience as a Schweitzer Fellow truly shaped the person I am today by affirming my commitment to service," says Johnson. "Albert Schweitzer once said, ‘Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.’ The work of our Fellows influences and inspires me every day and I hope that my work at the Fellowship will be an equally inspiring example to others.”

Ivana Pavlisin joined ASF at the beginning of 2009 as a Financial Analyst. She received her BA from Northeastern University with a concentration in Accounting and Marketing, where she was also a member of the NU Varsity Volleyball team. Before joining the Fellowship, Pavlisin gained accounting experience in firms such as Wellington Management and Vitale, Caturano & Co.

Ian Stevenson, MA, CA, CPA, became ASF's Chief Financial Officer in 2003. He brings over 25 years of experience in a variety of settings, both not-for-profit and for-profit, to the position. In addition to Big Four accounting experience in both the United Kingdom and United States, Stevenson has served as a Medicare Auditor, CFO of a research-based institution, CFO of a venture capital-backed national for-profit enterprise, and has held leadership positions in finance at both Harvard teaching and other non-teaching hospitals in New England. He holds a BA and MA (interdisciplinary management studies with distinction) from De Paul University in Chicago and holds CA and CPA certificates in the United Kingdom and United States respectively.

As well as  having the privilege of serving as the Fellowship's Chief Financial Officer, Stevenson enjoys a broadening role in cultivating potential individual donors whose passion for Schweitzer's ideals, and excitement in learning about the Fellowship's growth, matches his own family- rooted joy of service.

Patrice Taddonio joined the Fellowship in March 2009 after spending several years as a book publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, where she specialized in promoting narrative non-fiction titles. She is the Fellowship's Communications Manager. She completed her BA at Tufts University in English and Mass Communications and Media Studies, and attended Columbia University's Publishing Course. While at Tufts, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the university's independent, student-run daily newspaper. She was also a part of the university's Web Communications team.

“The work of the Schweitzer Fellows is both inspiring and deeply impactful -- it's an honor to publicize both their individual projects and the Fellowship's mission as a whole," says Taddonio.

Jan Walker, RN, MBA, began her career as a nurse manager at the Boston City Hospital and since has accrued 20 years of experience in management of not for profit companies and in researching healthcare delivery from the patient's point of view. She is the Director of Evaluation for ASF. Her interests include healthcare disparities, patient-centered care, and computers in care.  She grew up listening to Albert Schweitzer's recordings of Bach works for organ.

"Teaching young people to work effectively in underserved communities is so important in today's world," says Walker. "I feel fortunate to be part of the Schweitzer Fellowship, which makes that its mission."

Bob Kirk, LCSW-C, has been a University of Maryland School of Social Work faculty member since 1995.  Kirk provides field instruction, consultation for non-profits and support for organizational capacity building in Southwest and West Baltimore while also working as the Program Coordinator for the Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program with the University of Maryland, Baltimore President’s Office.  Prior to this position, Kirk worked in the area of Human Services and Homeless Services delivery, where he  was responsible for programs serving over 2,400 Baltimore City homeless individuals and families. Kirk continues to work on Baltimore’s lack of affordable housing issues in partnership with local non-profit and community organizations and serves on several Board’s  of Director’s and Advisory Committee’s in Baltimore City. 

Kirk continues to be amazed at the on-going creativity and endless energy expressed by the students he works with through his role in the Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program.

Before joining the Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows program, Ray Wang worked for the Chicago/Cook County Community Health Council, a private/public partnership dedicated to improving public health and access to health care for underserved and low income residents throughout the city and suburbs. At the Council, Wang planned and organized health fairs, community outreach events and advocacy efforts. Wang also directed the operations of the Common Pantry, a volunteer-based emergency food program in a Chicago neighborhood serving 600-650 people per month. Wang holds a master of fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has produced and exhibited films and videos. He taught video art in the Intermedia Arts Department at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

Janna Stansell, MPH graduated with her Master of Public Health degree in Community Health Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health in May of 2008.  Prior, Stansell received her BA in Psychology at California State University, Long Beach in 2006.  A Schweitzer Fellow herself in 2007-08, Stansell was inspired to continue a life of service and joined the Schweitzer Program in Chicago as staff with Health and Medicine Policy Research Group (HMPRG).  Stansell also works as a Policy Analyst for HMPRG on a Healthcare Safety Net project and has passions in increasing access to healthcare for underserved populations, fighting the obesity epidemic, and ensuring the health of adolescents. 

Nicole C. Moore, M.A. is the Program Director for the Greater Philadelphia Schweitzer Fellows Program and a Project Manager for the research division of Public Health and Education in the Department of Health Policy at Thomas Jefferson University's Medical College. For over 7 years she has been responsible for the development, evaluation, coordination, and administrative aspects of managing the complex details of specific research activities, which encompass developing outcome measures and intervention materials used in outcomes research; monitoring human subjects issues and developing data management policies, procedures and protocols.  She has a strong interest in community health and a desire to increase community awareness of health disparities.

"Expanding the Schweitzer Fellowship program to the Greater Philadelphia area is beneficial to the area's graduate students, universities and the community at large," Moore says.

      Lachlan Forrow, MD, MPH, directs the Lambaréné Schweitzer Fellows Program.

Becky Torrey joined the Fellowship as Coordinator for the NH/VT Program in 2000. She holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and a M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

"I love working with the Fellows and have learned much from them over the years," Torrey says. "Their commitment to helping others and the energy and insight they bring to all of their work is inspiring."

Christina Roux, MSW is the New Orleans Schweitzer Fellows Program Director.