Dr. Tabatha Parker – Executive Director, Medical Director NDI Nicaragua - NDI co-founder and Executive Director, Dr. Parker recieved her naturopathic medicine degree from National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Tabatha lives on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua with her husband, a Nicuraguan farmer, and thier son, Maximo. As medical director, Dr. Parker oversees all staff, interns and volunteers at NDI's site in Nicaragua. A speaker, teacher and naturopathic physician, Dr. Parker has dedicated her life to finding solutions to global health problems thru natural medicine and community development. Her passion inspires people to become active in social justice issues. She very much believes in empowering youth thru art and laughter and hopes to bring youth in low resource countries inspiration thru dance, theather and artistic expression. She is an active member of the American Herbalist Guild, Global Health Council and the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Dr. Parker can be contacted at drparker@ndimed.org
Anthony Trujillo - NDI Executive Assistant & Program Manager - Tony Trujillo was born in Venezuela and has lived in Guatemala, The Republic of Georgia, the U.S. and now Nicaragua. He graduated cum laude from Arizona State University in December 2009 with a degree in Global Studies specializing in Conflict, Violence and Human Rights . In summer 2007 and 2008 he has traveled to Ometepe to work with NDI as a non-medical volunteer. He is helping NDI with anything from administrative duties to translating for brigades and as well as keeping the website up to date. He also completed a video about NDI that won 1st place in the Sustainability Film Contest at his university. Visit our NDI Youtube page to view the video. Tony can be contacted at ttrujillo@ndimed.org
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Nestor Guzman Dinarte - NDI Nicaragua Project Coordinator - Born and raised on the island, Nestor Guzman Dinarte has been a working as a farmer in Nicaragua since he was 5 years old, farming everything from watermelon and ayote, to rice, beans, yucca and other crops. Nestor has helped in both the development and implementation of community outreach projects, including Farmers Outreach and Sponsor a Team. He also assists with various administrative jobs as needed and is the NDI chauffeur during global health courses. Nestor works with volunteers who come to the island, teaching them about planting and harvesting. He is honored to be able to serve the people of Ometepe in the capacity that he does working with NDI and he hopes to motivate young people to take care of the environment of his precious island, Ometepe. His wealth of Nicaraguan knowledge, island culture and farming makes him an asset to Team NDI. Nestor can be contacted at nestor@ndimed.org (spanish only please!)
Dr. Jacqueline McGrath – Medical Director NDI Mexico - Dr. Jacqueline McGrath ND first visited Mexico in 1993 for a semester abroad, as part of her Anthropology and Latin American Studies training at the University of Florida. After several years of informal study of traditional healing methods during travels in Central and South America, Jacqueline moved to Portland, Oregon in 1999 for medical school at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM). As a student, she volunteered as a medical interpreter and later sought out shifts at community clinics serving Portland's Spanish speaking population. Dr. McGrath participated in the Oregon Mexico Health Professionals Exchange as an NCNM host in 2004 and an ambassador to the Mexican state of Jalisco in 2005. Always a proponent of global public healthcare, she applauded NDi's work in Nicaragua and decided to follow suit in Mexico. In May of 2005 Dr. McGrath emigrated with her family to Bacalar, a small town in Mexico's southernmost state of Quintana Roo. While maintaining her medical license in the United States, she volunteered for a year of social service through Mexico's Secretary of Health system and was granted a license as a primary care physician. After participating on a medical brigade in Nicaragua in December of 2007, Dr. McGrath has had the great privilege to create an NDI site in the Yucatan peninsula. Dr. McGrath can be contacted at drmcgrath@ndimed.org
Christi Lane-Barlow, BSc(Hon) Collective Wisdom LLC, Hanoi, Vietnam
Voluneer Database Manager - Christi spent over 20 years working with medical data as a clinical researcher and epidemiologist in Canada, the US and South Africa where she met and married her game ranger husband Crispian. She published her South African research work on the cultural epidemiology of HIV in 2007 and is currently completing a Masters of Science in Epidemiology with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. While travelling in Central America in 2008 in search of conservation work for Crispian, she fell in love with Ometepe and was overjoyed to find it not only was a magical place of tremendous physical beauty, but also was home to an impressive medical team with a large database diligently collected by the interns and physician at NDI. Now living in Hanoi, Vietnam, Christi continues to work with Dr. Parker, and others who are mining the data to study public health problems and solutions. She hopes that someday this database will be used to improve the health of Ometepe’s residents and be extended to other rural communities who are rarely able to be studied.
Dr. Tabatha Parker – Executive Director, Medical Director NDI Nicaragua - NDI co-founder and Executive Director, Dr. Parker recieved her naturopathic medicine degree from National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Tabatha lives on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua with her husband, a Nicuraguan farmer, and thier son, Maximo. As medical director, Dr. Parker oversees all staff, interns and volunteers at NDI's site in Nicaragua. A speaker, teacher and naturopathic physician, Dr. Parker has dedicated her life to finding solutions to global health problems thru natural medicine and community development. Her passion inspires people to become active in social justice issues. She very much believes in empowering youth thru art and laughter and hopes to bring youth in low resource countries inspiration thru dance, theather and artistic expression. She is an active member of the American Herbalist Guild, Global Health Council and the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians. Dr. Parker can be contacted at 
Nestor Guzman Dinarte - NDI Nicaragua Project Coordinator - Born and raised on the island, Nestor Guzman Dinarte has been a working as a farmer in Nicaragua since he was 5 years old, farming everything from watermelon and ayote, to rice, beans, yucca and other crops. Nestor has helped in both the development and implementation of community outreach projects, including Farmers Outreach and Sponsor a Team. He also assists with various administrative jobs as needed and is the NDI chauffeur during global health courses. Nestor works with volunteers who come to the island, teaching them about planting and harvesting. He is honored to be able to serve the people of Ometepe in the capacity that he does working with NDI and he hopes to motivate young people to take care of the environment of his precious island, Ometepe. His wealth of Nicaraguan knowledge, island culture and farming makes him an asset to Team NDI. 
Dr. Jacqueline McGrath – Medical Director NDI Mexico - Dr. Jacqueline McGrath ND first visited Mexico in 1993 for a semester abroad, as part of her Anthropology and Latin American Studies training at the University of Florida. After several years of informal study of traditional healing methods during travels in Central and South America, Jacqueline moved to Portland, Oregon in 1999 for medical school at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM). As a student, she volunteered as a medical interpreter and later sought out shifts at community clinics serving Portland's Spanish speaking population. Dr. McGrath participated in the Oregon Mexico Health Professionals Exchange as an NCNM host in 2004 and an ambassador to the Mexican state of Jalisco in 2005. Always a proponent of global public healthcare, she applauded NDi's work in Nicaragua and decided to follow suit in Mexico. In May of 2005 Dr. McGrath emigrated with her family to Bacalar, a small town in Mexico's southernmost state of Quintana Roo. While maintaining her medical license in the United States, she volunteered for a year of social service through Mexico's Secretary of Health system and was granted a license as a primary care physician. After participating on a medical brigade in Nicaragua in December of 2007, Dr. McGrath has had the great privilege to create an NDI site in the Yucatan peninsula. Dr. McGrath can be contacted at 
Christi Lane-Barlow, BSc(Hon) Collective Wisdom LLC, Hanoi, Vietnam