William A. Johnson, M.D.
Founder & Chairman of the Board

Dr. Johnson was engaged in the practice of general surgery for more than 40 years in California. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical School and completed his internship and surgical residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

He has served his country both as a member of the United States Navy in WWII and Army as MASH surgeon in Korea. He has also served as the National President of the Christian Medical Society. In addition to his surgical practice, he has participated in multiple short-term medical missions -- including missions to Bolivia, Ecuador, Thailand, Zimbabwe, and the Comoro Islands off the Coast of Africa.

Rudolph Oehm, M.D.
President

Dr. Oehm is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine and is a Fellow at the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Oehm has been a Staff MD for several years for Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. He was the prior President of Contra Costa Country Chapter of the American Heart Association. In addition, Dr. Oehm was the prior President of Staff of Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, CA. He has served as an international cardiology lecturer and on short term overseas medical missions.

John W. Gillan, D.D.S., M.S.
Vice President

Dr. Gillan is a graduate of Loyola University School of Dentistry. He holds a specialty certificate in Endodontics. He served for two years in the U.S. Air Force Dental Corps. Dr. Gillan currently is in private practice limited to endodontics in Mesa, Arizona. He was past president of the Arizona Endodontic Association. John has served on medical/dental missions to Romania, as well as many to Albania.

David L. Krueger
Treasurer

Mr. Krueger is President of KDL Corporation, a management consulting firm. He has also served as President and Chief Operating Officer of two other companies, a steel recycling company and an information technology/market research services company. In addition, he previously held executive positions with the IBM Corporation during his 33 year tenure at that company. He has made two trips to Albania with medical doctors of the Albanian Health Fund. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and has an MBA degree in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Phillip G. Svalya, Esq.
Secretary

Mr. Svalya is a trial attorney in active practice in the Santa Clara Valley of California. He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, has served as a Navy SEAL and is a retired Captain from the Navy reserves. He is also a graduate of Santa Clara University Law School. With his wife and two children, he has made a trip to Albania accompanying medical doctors of the Albanian Health Fund.

Roberta J. Johnson, RN

Mrs. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Indiana. She taught at Wheaton Academy. Later, she received an R.N. degree from San Jose City College. Mrs. Johnson has served in multiple overseas missions.

Chris Jenkins, M.D.

Dr. Jenkins is a family medicine physician who graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. He did his residency training at the "In His Image" Family Medicine Residency Program in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He
currently serves as an Attending Physician at "In His Image." He is in the private practice of medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He serves as Conference Director of Family Medicine Education International, and leads 8-12 teams a
year to various places such as Afghanistan, China, and the Central Asian Republics plus other countries.  He sits on the Christian Medical and Dental Association's Medical Education International Advisory committee. He has also served as a board member of Literacy and Evangelism International for the past nine years. Dr. Jenkins is a member of the missions committee of his church. He has studied theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and holds M.Div. and Th.M degrees from the seminary.

Edward M. Blight, Jr., M.D.

A graduate of The Citadel and the University of California School of Medicine, Dr. Blight spent 21 years in the U.S. Army, during which time he took his specialty training in Urology. He also completed a year of fellowship at M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. A Diplomate of the American Board of Urology, he has been on the faculties of the schools of medicine at Oral Roberts University and Loma Linda University since retirement from the Army. He has visited Albania with AHF multiple times since 1995.

B.A. from Augustana College (IL), Phi Beta Kappa, 1959M.D. from University of California, San Francisco, 1963Medical training at Tripler Army Medical Center, HawaiiShe worked in the area of outpatient/urgent care in several places, including Beaver Medical Clinic, Redlands, California until her retirement in August 2000. She has made several trips to Albania, and she served on the Advisory Committee for Women in Medicine for the CMDA. She and her husband have two married sons and two grandchildren.