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Mark H. Weinstein, M.D.
Founder and Director, Changing Children’s Lives, Inc. Dr. Weinstein received his medical degree at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York and did a general surgical and plastic surgical residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. He completed his plastic surgery residency in 1977 and is Board Certified in general and plastic surgery. Currently he is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Yale University School of Medicine and is the present Section Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Weinstein has been in practice in New Haven, Connecticut since 1977 and has performed missions abroad for the last 15 years, visiting Brazil, Honduras, Colombia, Viet Nam and Thailand. Ellyn Black
Executive Director Ms. Black graduated from the University of Rochester, New York with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Society where she focused on public health and medical anthropology. During her undergraduate studies she lived in northeastern Brazil and researched social health problems. For the past seven years she has been working full-time as the Assistant Director of Camp Fernwood. She is currently completing her Master’s Degree in General and Special Education at Bank Street College of Education, New York City. Ms. Black has been on a mission trip to Thailand and has traveled to many developing countries. Ingrid Crocco, R.N., BSN, CNIII
Board Member Ms. Crocco graduated from Radford University in Radford, Virginia with a Bachelors of Science Degree in nursing. Since that time, she has been in the operating room at Yale-New Haven Hospital as a staff nurse in 1979, as Assistant Head Nurse of open-heart surgery from 1981 to 1985 and as Charge Nurse from 1985 to present. She has performed 15 missions abroad to operate on children with various anomalies. William S. Colwell
Board Member Mr. Colwell attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in 1973. He then graduated from New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts with a Juris Doctorate Degree in 1976. Mr. Colwell is a principal in the law firm of Parrett, Porto, Parese, and Colwell, P.C. in Hamden, Connecticut and is a member of the New Haven County and Bar Association as well as of the Connecticut State and Tax Planning Council. Mr. Colwell has been involved in multiple charitable organizations in the greater New Haven area.
John Tangredi, R.N., CSC, CNOR
Board Member Mr. Tangredi graduated from Elgin Community College School of Nursing in Illinois in 1975 after leaving the United States Navy where he was a Navy coreman in the operating room for four years. He worked in the operating room at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1981 and took a leave of absence to pursue an interest in the family photo and camera business. Mr. Tangredi returned to the operating room at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1995 and has been the Registered Nurse Clinical Service Coordinator in the main operating room at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Tangredi has participated in missions to developing nations since 1998, doing at least two missions a year and has been the Head Nurse for these missions on numerous occasions. Richard K Raker, MD
Board Member
Dr Raker received his medical degree at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan and did his Pediatric residency at NYU Bellevue in New York City. He completed a Neonatology fellowship at Babies Hospital at Columbia University and an Anesthesiology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and practices at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Dr Raker has traveled extensively in South America, Central American and South East Asia as a member of many surgical missions Sherri Witkins, RN
Board Member
Ms. Witkins graduated from Quinnipiac College in 1983. Since that time she has worked in the operating room at Yale New Haven Hospital as a Registered Nurse. She has held a variety of positions including but not limited to Cardiac Nurse, Laser Nurse, Charge Nurse of both the in-patient operating room as well as the ambulatory operating room. Sherri started her mission work in 2003 and has participated in 1 to 2 trips per year since that time traveling to many underdeveloped nations worldwide.
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