This award recognizes an individual who has made an important impact in training future international healthcare personnel.
The 2018 INMED International Healthcare Preceptor Award Recipient is James, a Kansas City native who began his career as a youth pastor in El Salvador. James later qualified as a registered nurse, serving at Saint Luke’s Hospital and North Kansas City Hospital. At the 2012 Humanitarian Health Conference James met representatives from a healthcare organization working in a remote location in Asia. In 2015 James and his wife moved to that nation with their pre-school children. James main responsibility in Asia continues to be instructing and mentoring national nursing students to give quality care to their own people. James, who was a volunteer at the very first INMED Humanitarian Health Conference in 2006, is also today an INMED International Medicine Fellow.