Rick Allen, President

Rick brings an extensive background in business and ministry to his role as MedSend's president. With a degree in finance and marketing from Temple University, he spent 25 years as a corporate executive, where he was instrumental in the rapid growth and turn-around of several high-tech businesses. In addition, Rick serves as Campus Pastor of a multi-site church in Stamford, Connecticut.

Sheldon “Shelly” Wermes, Chief Development Officer

Shelly is a business development specialist who has started two successful companies and has more than 25 years of experience in working with business and ministry leaders. A Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, Shelly served as a U.S. Army Infantry Lieutenant in Vietnam. Shelly is active in his church and chairs the board of Christian Mission for the United Nations Community. He is licensed as an Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor.

Randy Carey, Development Officer

Randy is a retired military officer who resides in Wheaton, IL. He is passionate about missions and helping those called of God get to where he or she needs to be to answer that call. Contact him if you are interested in learning more about medical missions, biblical principals on money management, or kingdom work.

Diane Bowerman, Office Manager

Gail Bruckmann, Applicant and Recipient Liaison 

Alexis Casey, Communications Manager 

Darnell Parker, Donor Relations/Database Coordinator 

Jacqui Williams, Accounting Supervisor 

David Topazian, DDS, MSc, MBA, President Emeritus

Dr. Topazian is a retired Oral & Maxillofacial surgeon and a co-founder of MedSend. Dr. Topazian has extensive experience in missions, having served on more than 40 short-term mission projects around the world. In 1988, he joined TEAM as a full-time missionary and pastored a church in Venezuela for six years, after which TEAM seconded him to MedSend. Dr. Topazian served as MedSend's President and CEO until he retired in 2007.

Daniel Fountain, MD, Executive Vice President 

Dr. Fountain is a general surgeon who served as a medical missionary in Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) from 1961- 1996. Dr. Fountain is a recognized expert in Health Development and he has authored books that focus on the subject from a Christian perspective. A co-founder of MedSend, he has been a fellow at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, IL, and is director of the Center for Global Health at King College's Peek School of Mission.

Douglas A. Drevets, MD, DTM&H, Chairman

Dr. Drevets is Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is involved in biomedical research, education, and clinical care of patients including those with HIV/AIDS. He is active locally in Young Life and has participated in several short-term mission trips.

Robert Reich, PA-C, MSPAS, Secretary

Rob is a former MedSend grant recipient and Physician Assistant specializing in HIV medicine. He and his wife Esther live alongside of the urban poor whom he serves at Esperanza Health Center in Philadelphia, PA. He is actively involved in promoting lay health education in his community. As the son of missionaries, he has spent significant time living outside the U.S.

Lawrence Hutchins, Treasurer

Mr. Hutchins was a senior vice president of investments with A.G. Edwards and Sons, Inc., where he ran one of the firm’s largest branch offices. While at A.G. Edwards, he built a substantial investment practice that serves individuals and corporations, as well as many Christian organizations. Mr. Hutchins has served on the board of an international mission and on several church and local mission boards.

Daniel Fountain, MD, Executive Vice President

Dr. Fountain is a MedSend co-founder and a general surgeon who served as a medical missionary in Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) from 1961- 1996. Dr. Fountain is a recognized expert in Health Development and he has authored books that focus on the subject from a Christian perspective. A co-founder of MedSend, he has been a fellow at the Billy Graham Center in Wheaton, IL, and is director of the Center for Global Health at King College's Peek School of Mission.

Karen Borgman

Mrs. Borgman, a former public school teacher and Christian educator and administrator, has served on mission boards and on short term mission trips to Panama, Central Asia, Western Asia and the Ukraine.

Kenneth Chrisman

Mr. Chrisman, an active Christian layman, is a Vice President at Sealed Air Corporation where he specializes in leadership development and business optimization.

Janet Crow, MD

Dr. Crow is Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego. She has worked extensively among poor and undeserved patients in the U.S. and along the U.S.-Mexico border and has mentored medical students and residents who have an interest in both short- and long-term missions.

Calvin J. Johnson, MD

Dr. Johnson is a retired orthopedic surgeon who served for ten years in DRC (formerly Zaire), first in a mission hospital and later training African physicians in a post-graduate hospital-based program for the Zaire government. After returning to the U.S. and entering private practice, he continued to serve overseas on short-term missions and to advocate for missions in various churches. Since retiring, he has served part-time at three clinics in the Nashville area, providing non-surgical professional care to uninsured and low-income patients.

Jun Hee Kang, MD

Dr. Kang is a neonatologist with Fairfax Neonatal Associates in Virginia and is currently the chairman of the Korean-American Mission Health Council. He attends McLean Bible Church in Virginia. He is also active in short-term medical missions.

Patricia Kissell, RN, PhD

Dr. Kissell is Dean, School of Nursing and Health Sciences, at Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho. She has authored a number of publications and has served on the boards of Nurses Christian Fellowship and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, as well as the National Board of Overseas Missions of the Evangelical Free Church of America.

Robin Nichols, CPA

Mrs. Nichols is CFO for Eagle Hospital Physicians in Atlanta GA. She has over 15 years experience managing healthcare systems, including seven years of public accounting.

Diana Amaya Rodriguez, PhD, CNS, RN

Dr. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing, University of Kentucky and Nurse Researcher at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. She has an extensive background in pediatric nursing, spanning 28 years, and in various capacities including teaching and conducting nursing research with children. Another area of expertise is cultural competency in healthcare and healthcare research. She has been active at the local and national level in the National Association of Hispanic Nurses, at the local and district level in Nazarene Missions International, and in cross-cultural ministries in the Church of the Nazarene in California and Kentucky.