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David Jacobs has been involved with Cape CARES since 1999. He is married with 3 children and practices and resides in Massachusetts. David's interests, besides his family, dentistry and Cape CARES, include martial arts, alternative energy, gardening and raising chickens. |
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Jennifer Smith has been traveling with Cape CARES teams for 13 years. She recently retired with the rank of Captain from the Eastham Fire Department after 33 years of service. Jennifer's four children have served on Cape CARES' teams and she is eager to have her step-daughter join her next year. In the last two years, Jennifer has supported and initiated Cape CARES' collaboration with other organizations in Honduras. Last year, she served on a Cape CARES team that partnered with World Resource Group to serve the Danli community in a dental care program. Jennifer looks forward to continuing collaborative efforts and, hopefully, finding more which are consonant with the Cape CARES mission. |
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At home, Katharine is a family physician practicing in an urban, underserved clinic in Worcester, MA. She began participating with Cape Cares 10 years ago just as she was finishing her training, and has continued each year since, (just missing the years when her children were born). Katharine says, “I look forward to my annual trips as a time to practice in a different setting than at home: there is a simplicity about practicing where there is no pager, phone, or email, that lets one focus on the essence of each patient that presents, one at a time. It is also a pleasure to practice with the remarkable people who make up Cape CARES teams.” |
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Mike Gaudet has been traveling to Los Encinitos for a decade now, after being recruited by his uncle, Dr. Arthur Babineau, one of the founding members of the original dental team. Mike has been committed to Cape CARES ever since. He has been impressed by how much can be accomplished with so little a contribution. With his colleagues, Mike hopes to continue improving the delivery of medicine to the people of Honduras with point-of-care lab testing, progress in tailoring the pharmacy to local needs, and perhaps one day, imaging studies. Mike works as a full-time emergency medicine physician in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He also trained as an infectious disease specialist and is medical director of one of the states tuberculosis clinics. |
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Randy Baldwin made his first trip with Cape CARES in 1991 to our San Jose site. Since that first experience, he has returned one or two times a year and has been to all of the Cape CARES locations in Honduras. Randy served as Cape CARES' co-president for 5 years and was instrumental in instituting changes in Cape CARES policies which helped the organization grow. Randy continues to work in Ridgefield, CT as a dentist. He has, however, decreased his work hours so that he can devote more time to Cape CARES. |
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Skip Grevatt made his first of ten trips to Honduras in 1991 with his wife, Maggie, a dental assistant. As a mechanical engineer, he has enjoyed working with one of our Cape CARES dentists making custom dental equipment tailored for use in the rural environment in which Cape CARES provides their health care services. Since 2004, Skip has procured, inventoried, and packed the medications that each team transports to its work site. |
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Holly volunteered as a recovery nurse and translator on her first medical trip to Mexico with a Pediatric Medical Surgical Group in 2005. As a bilingual nurse practitioner, she has focused her career on providing care for the Latino Community. Holly joined Cape CARES on her first trip to Los Encinitos in May 2010. She fell in love with the organization and the people of Honduras. She volunteered on two more trips and quickly became a familiar face to the families in Los Encinitos. Holly subsequently recruited her stepfather Loren, a retired dentist, who has joined her on every trip. Holly lives in Cambridge, MA, works as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, and enjoys spending time with her family, especially her 8-year-old nephew Alex and 6-year-old niece Isabella. |
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As a retired human resources executive, Bob joined Cape CARES in 1999. He has made 16 trips to Honduras acting as intake/medical history contact, general interpreter and, occasionally, as team leader. He and his wife, Lori, live in Williamsburg, VA, where they volunteer in a free medical clinic, teach ESL, travel and enjoy the visits of their two sons and their families, which include five grandchildren. Like many other Cape CARES volunteers, Bob feels privileged and fulfilled after each trip - eagerly looking forward to returning to help the fine and grateful patients. |
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Terence Noonan is a criminal defense and labor law attorney. He has done civil rights work, and is a cooperating attorney with the ACLU. Terence has been on numerous Cape CARES trips and has learned a great deal about dentistry along the way. While in-country, Terence functions as a dental assistant and driver. In Los Encinitos, he helped develop and install a water supply. Because of incomparable team members, gratifying work, and the history of the organization, Cape CARES missions are Terence's favorite part of every year. "The volunteers who give of their time, expertise, and resources, are truly inspiring. They give so much and I am humbled to be a part of the team." |
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Mike Palliola is a veteran Cape CARES volunteer, team leader, and board member. Mike graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in Neuroscience and Spanish in 2004, and received an MBA in Healthcare Management from Brandeis University in 2009. Currently, Mike lives in Boston, and works as a sales account manager for a critical care biopharmaceutical company. He has been involved with Cape CARES since 2007, and has served on numerous brigades to San Marcos and Los Encinitos. In his spare time, Mike enjoys running marathons, skiing and adventure travel. |
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Jim Picone served as a team member in Los Encinitos on 16 trips. He set up 5 working mobile dental units with generator and compressors, making the Los Encinitos dental clinic the most sophisticated of our three clinics. From 1995 to 2005, Jim initiated and led the May trips, and he served on the February and November trips. As a member of the Groton-Pepperell Rotary Club, Jim has secured the Club's support for Cape CARES on numerous occasions. Working with Rotary clubs in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch in 1999, he secured grants from Rotary International for water restoration and supply for several villages north of Tegucigalpa. Jim and his wife, Rose, live in Naples, Florida. |
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