ABOUT US

Project Nicaragua is a 501-3 (c) not-for-profit organization that is comprised of Physicians, Medical Students, and Undergraduates. The Board of Advisors includes both physicians in the United States and in Nicaragua.

PROJECT NICARAGUA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Executive Director – Ravi Menghani, MD, MBA (Resident Physician, Ophthalmology, The Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine)

Associate Executive Director – Daniel Choi, MD (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA)

Associate Executive Director – Stanley Park, MS IV (The Ohio State University College of Medicine)

National Finance Director – Samuel Choi, B.S. (UCLA)

National Liaison Officer – Viri Tapia, MS II (UCSD)

National Webmaster and Historian- Daniela Somarriba, B.S. (UCSD)

UCLA Campus Director – Iman Zahedi, BS

UCSD Campus Co-Director – Charlie Park

UCSD Campus Co-Director- Daniel Hernandez

OSU Campus Co-Director – Kathryn Taylor

OSU Campus Co-Director – Seva Khambadkone

Project Nicaragua Founding Members

Jorge Lazareff, MD

Ravi Menghani, MD, MBA

Grant Lee, MD

Daniel Choi

Stanley Park

Willie Siu

Project Nicaragua Board of Advisors

Chairman of the Board and Executive Advisor – Jorge Lazareff, MD, Director – UCLA Pediatric Neurosurgery

UCSD Advisor- George Chiang, MD- Assistant Professor of Surgery

OSU Advisor-Thomas Mauger, MD- Chairman of  the Department of Opthalmology at the Ohio State University Havener Eye Institute

OSU Advisor-Rebecca Kuennen, MD- Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

On-site Project Nicaragua Board of Advisors

Senior Advisor – Luis Ramon Hernandez Jarquin, MD

Senior Advisor – Dagle Aviles, MD

Advisor – Carolina Cantarero, MD