While a student at MSU, he founded the primary care-based Peru Medical Elective and helped found the MSU’s chapter of DOCARE, a medical outreach organization dedicated to providing much-needed healthcare to indigent and isolated people in remote areas around the world. He says through the MSU trips, they have treated more than 12,000 patients and trained more than 231 medical students. Read his FACULTY VOICE: Finding a calling in the Amazon Basin, to learn more about his work.