Virginia R. Wiltse, Ph.D., Director of CRMF Operations & Vice-Chairperson: Ginny has served as volunteer Director of CRMF since its inception. She brings to that position her experiences as a grant writer, grants evaluator, and high school development director. In 2010, the Archdiocese of Toamasina honored her with the “Bene Merenti” award for service to God, Church and Madagascar’s poor.
David E. Wiltse, M.S., Chairman of the Board: David founded CRMF after he spent the Summer 2000 in Madagascar working with Brother Edwin Joseph among the poor of Toamasina. He has chaired the Board from CRMF’s beginning. Following his graduation from the University of Notre Dame, David spent a year of volunteer service with Maryknoll Missioners in Jiangmen, China. David completed his M.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He currently serves as a strategist in U.S. Department of Defense.
John A. McKiernan, J.D., Treasurer: Following his graduation from the University of Notre Dame, John received a Post-Graduate Diploma from Oxford University in England and a law degree from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently on the administrative staff of Wilmington College. John was delighted to visit Madagascar with Caring Response in Fall 2017 and assist the medical mission by taking blood pressures and weighing patients prior to their visits with medical staff.
Ariel W. Miller, M.HS, Secretary: Ariel Miller, MHS earned master’s degrees in international relations from Tufts and health planning from Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School. She currently serves as public policy reporter for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio and editor of a global environmental newsletter for Rotary International. She has won two Rotary global grants for Model Healthy Village projects.
Darwin James, Medical Outreach Coordinator: Darwin has traveled to Madagascar many times, and leads CRMF medical outreach programs. He developed CRMF’s Medical Mentoring program and pioneered the use of teleconferencing to establish monthly meetings between the midwives at Ankirihiry CSB II and the CRMF obstetrics team. He owns his own small business and teaches at the university level in the United States and internationally.
Carol Egner, M.D.: Carol has recently retired from private practice in obstetrics and gynecology in Cincinnati. She has led the CRMF Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies program since it began in 2011. She won the Daniel Drake Award for Humanitarian Service from the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati for her work training midwives in Madagascar.
E. Huxley Miller, M.D.: Huxley is a semi-retired TriHealth internist and infectious disease specialist whose love of Madagascar began in the 1970’s when he served as Catholic Relief Service volunteer there. He serves as part of the CRMF medical education team and in Cincinnati Rotary’s international projects team.
David W. Wiltse, M.D.: David is a specialist in private practice in pulmonary and critical care medicine in Cincinnati. He is passionate about improving education for local doctors in Madagascar. He heads the Pulmonary Division of Cincinnati’s Good Samaritan Hospital. David has won the Daniel Drake Award for Humanitarian Service from the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati for his medical work in Madagascar.
Leadership in Madagascar
Brother Edwin Joseph, F.S.G., M.Ed.: Brother Edwin Joseph administers all Caring Response Madagascar programs in Madagascar. A member of the Montfort missionary Brothers of Saint Gabriel, Brother Edwin is an accomplished educator and leader in the arena of project innovation and implementation in the developing world. Before coming to Madagascar, he led extensive work among the poor in India. Brother Edwin Joseph is assisted by a team of local leaders, ONG St. Gabriel, who work with him to monitor and direct the projects of Caring Response Madagascar Foundation, UNICEF, and other international agencies.
Jeanette Nirina: Project Director, Model Healthy Village
Board
Leadership in the United States
Virginia R. Wiltse, Ph.D., Director of CRMF Operations & Vice-Chairperson: Ginny has served as volunteer Director of CRMF since its inception. She brings to that position her experiences as a grant writer, grants evaluator, and high school development director. In 2010, the Archdiocese of Toamasina honored her with the “Bene Merenti” award for service to God, Church and Madagascar’s poor.
David E. Wiltse, M.S., Chairman of the Board: David founded CRMF after he spent the Summer 2000 in Madagascar working with Brother Edwin Joseph among the poor of Toamasina. He has chaired the Board from CRMF’s beginning. Following his graduation from the University of Notre Dame, David spent a year of volunteer service with Maryknoll Missioners in Jiangmen, China. David completed his M.S. in Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He currently serves as a strategist in U.S. Department of Defense.
John A. McKiernan, J.D., Treasurer: Following his graduation from the University of Notre Dame, John received a Post-Graduate Diploma from Oxford University in England and a law degree from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently on the administrative staff of Wilmington College. John was delighted to visit Madagascar with Caring Response in Fall 2017 and assist the medical mission by taking blood pressures and weighing patients prior to their visits with medical staff.
Ariel W. Miller, M.HS, Secretary: Ariel Miller, MHS earned master’s degrees in international relations from Tufts and health planning from Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School. She currently serves as public policy reporter for the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio and editor of a global environmental newsletter for Rotary International. She has won two Rotary global grants for Model Healthy Village projects.
Darwin James, Medical Outreach Coordinator: Darwin has traveled to Madagascar many times, and leads CRMF medical outreach programs. He developed CRMF’s Medical Mentoring program and pioneered the use of teleconferencing to establish monthly meetings between the midwives at Ankirihiry CSB II and the CRMF obstetrics team. He owns his own small business and teaches at the university level in the United States and internationally.
Carol Egner, M.D.: Carol has recently retired from private practice in obstetrics and gynecology in Cincinnati. She has led the CRMF Saving the Lives of Mothers and Babies program since it began in 2011. She won the Daniel Drake Award for Humanitarian Service from the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati for her work training midwives in Madagascar.
E. Huxley Miller, M.D.: Huxley is a semi-retired TriHealth internist and infectious disease specialist whose love of Madagascar began in the 1970’s when he served as Catholic Relief Service volunteer there. He serves as part of the CRMF medical education team and in Cincinnati Rotary’s international projects team.
David W. Wiltse, M.D.: David is a specialist in private practice in pulmonary and critical care medicine in Cincinnati. He is passionate about improving education for local doctors in Madagascar. He heads the Pulmonary Division of Cincinnati’s Good Samaritan Hospital. David has won the Daniel Drake Award for Humanitarian Service from the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati for his medical work in Madagascar.
Leadership in Madagascar
Brother Edwin Joseph, F.S.G., M.Ed.: Brother Edwin Joseph administers all Caring Response Madagascar programs in Madagascar. A member of the Montfort missionary Brothers of Saint Gabriel, Brother Edwin is an accomplished educator and leader in the arena of project innovation and implementation in the developing world. Before coming to Madagascar, he led extensive work among the poor in India. Brother Edwin Joseph is assisted by a team of local leaders, ONG St. Gabriel, who work with him to monitor and direct the projects of Caring Response Madagascar Foundation, UNICEF, and other international agencies.
Jeanette Nirina: Project Director, Model Healthy Village
Dordinette Veromanjaka: Project Director, Literacy Initiative