Advisory Board
Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed
Glenn W. Geelhoed, MD, FACS, of Washington, DC, is a founding member of World Altering Medicine’s Advisory Board. He has been Professor of Surgery at George Washington University Medical Center since 1975, and currently serves as Professor Emeritus of Tropical Medicine, Surgery and International Medical Education. Recently inducted into the Medical Mission Hall of Fame and awarded the Surgical Volunteerism Award from the American College of Surgeons for international outreach in recognition of his devotion to delivering surgical care and education throughout the world, Dr. Geelhoed assembles up to eight surgical missions yearly, with teams of medical students, residents, and physicians. Over his illustrious career, Dr. Glenn has led more than 200 such missions to Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, and South America, and has inspired countless others to take up the mantle. In 1996, he established the African Regional Research Program; currently, he is developing an international health center and international medical education program for George Washington University. Dr. Geelhoed is a widely published author, accredited with several books and over 800 published journal articles and book chapters. He has a major interest in medical education in academic, professional and international organizations and holds many degrees to assist in furthering his mission of developing extensive volunteer services in underserved areas of the developing world.
Dr. Ben Brown
Dr. Ben Brown graduated from UCSF medical school in 1992 and from the family medicine residency program in Santa Rosa in 1995. He is currently Director of Global Medicine, Career Development, Resident Wellness and Integrative Medicine for the Santa Rosa Family Residency Consortium Board. While in medical school, he founded and directed an international non-profit (www.ghap.org) to help serve the refugees along the Thai-Burma border and has done more than 20 medical missions to the area. Since, he has combined working with underserved populations in America with his international medical work. Within medicine, his passions are health care for the underserved, global medicine and promoting and maintaining health and wellness. Beyond medicine, he loves the outdoors, laughing with his daughter Shayla, writing, music, and living in the now.
Steve Ginsburg
Steve Ginsburg is Director of Development for the Anti-Defamation League’s Greater Chicago/Upper Midwest Region. Steve has over 15 years of domestic and international experience practicing law in the private and public sectors. Prior, he served as Chief Legal Counsel to the Office of the Governor of the State of Illinois, after serving as General Counsel to the State’s banking and real estate regulatory agency. He has also served as the initial COO of the Sports Museum of America. In the mid-1990s, Steve was Chief of Office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina for the American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative. Steve received his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and an A.B. from Duke University. He is on the board of the James R. Jordan Boys & Girls Club and Chicago Bulls Family Life Center. Steve is thrilled to become a part of WAM because of the thoughtful, creative, and people-focused way that its leadership approaches the mission and treats individuals and communities who support and benefit from WAM’s work.
