Burma Children Medical Fund - medical fund for children in Burma

PHOTO	NAME AND POSITION DESCRIPTION
	Kanchana Thornton – BCMF Program Manager: Kanchana graduated from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) with a Bachelor of Nursing, Post-Graduate Diploma in Maternal and Child Health and has been an Australian volunteer at the Mao Tao Clinic on the Thai-Burma border since 2001. Initially supported by Australian Volunteers International (AVI), Kanchana’s position is now funded by a private donor. Kanchana has been working as a Thai Government Liaison Coordinator, Child Health Program Coordinator and BCMF Program Manager liaising between Mae Tao Clinic, Mae Sot Hospital and hospitals in Chiang Mai and, where needed, other parts of Thailand including Bangkok.
	May Soe – Mae Tao Clinic Child Out-Patient Department: Education:1989-Basic Medical Training; 1994-Maternal and Child Health Training; One-year rotations into different departments at Mae Tao Clinic; 1998-1999 Manager of a boarding school in a refugee camp Involvements in BCMF: I refer patients who are unable to be treated at the clinic or at Mae Sot Hospital to BCMF and monitor the children’s health while waiting for surgery
	Mu Ni – Mae Tao Clinic Inpatient Department: Age: 32 At MTC: 13 years Current position at MTC: Manager of Adult In-patient Department since 2004 Education: 1997-199 Primary health care training, then eighteen months rotations into difference departments at Mae Tao clinic. My last rotation was at adult In-patient Department where I stay and work up to today. Involvements in BCMF: I refer patients that are unable to be treated at the clinic or at Mae Sot Hospital to BCMF.
	Tin Shwe – Mae Tao Clinic Referrals Team: Age: 32 At MTC: 9 years Current position at MTC: Manage of hospital referral since 2004 Education: Eighteen months Health assistance training, then six rotations into different departments at Mae Tao clinic. One month in Reproductive Health. Dr. Cynthia asked me to work with the referrals team because I can speak four languages (Karen, Burmese, Thai and English). Involvement in BCMF: I take BCMF patients to Mae Sot Hospital (MSH) to get referral form to Chiang Mai hospital. If there is a patient at Mae Sot hospital who needs treatment in Chiang Mai, I inform Kanchana (BCMF Program Manager) to come and assess the case. I also help taking patients for post-op follow-up in Mae sot and I communicate with patients regarding traveling and medical appointment dates.
	Paw Pri – Mae Tao Clinic Child Outpatient Department: Paw Pri has been a medic at the Mae Tao Clinic for many years. She conducts medical consultations of children under 12 who present at the child outpatient department. She works closely with BCMF when she identifies a child with a health problem that requires treatment in Chiang Mai. She also assists BCMF as an interpreter during patient intake interviews.
	Dixie – Mae Tao Clinic Child Outpatient Department:

Katie Camarena: BCMF volunteer

Jacqui Whelan: BCMF volunteer

Naw Ri: Mananger Reproductive Health Outpatient Department – Mae Tao Clinic

Ler Kwa: Manager Trauma Department – Mae Tao Clinic

Mr. Andrew: remote website and design manager

Daniel Galuppo: videographer

Dr Cynthia Maung: Medical Advisor:

Dr Cynthia Maung provides medical counsel for BCMF day-to-day operations. Dr. Cynthia is an ethnic Karen who fled Burma in 1988 and founded the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai-Burma border. Since then, the clinic has flourished into a multi-purpose enterprise and Dr. Cynthia has been recognized internationally for this much-needed humanitarian work.

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