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Dr. Randy Bergen
Walnut Creek, California
Randy Bergen has spent most of his professional life as an infectious disease expert traveling in the developing world and contemplating problems of infection in impoverished patients. He has worked extensively with malaria control in remote corners of the Asian world and has contributed significantly to public health planning and infection control around the globe. He works as a pediatric Infectious Disease specialist at Kaiser, Walnut Creek.
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Dr. Tam Chung
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Dr. Tam Chung is a recently-retired, Vietnam-born, Vietnamese-American physician. Trained as a family practitioner in California, she practiced at Kaiser in southern California for 20 years before returning to Vietnam and sharing her medical knowledge with Vietnamese colleagues. Dr. Tam is trilingual in English, Vietnamese, and French, and served as a tireless interpreter, energetic colleague and astute cultural liaison during the Vietnam 2010 mission. She continues to be a source of endless wisdom and moral mentoring on the ground for our Vietnam interns, and she supports the KidsCareEverywhere team in the US by providing invaluable insight into medical and cultural components of Vietnam.
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David Hytha
Oakland, CA
David A. Hytha is a wireless executive and entrepreneur advising leading - edge firms in wireless communications as a General Partner at New Wave Partners. He serves as Executive-in-Residence at Sofinnova Ventures, a major venture capital firm in information technology and life sciences, and as a member of the Board of Directors of several private and public companies. He served in senior management roles in T Mobile, Motorola, AT&T and new ventures. He holds a MBA from Columbia University in New York and a BA from the College of the Holy Cross. He is active in community development and education in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Asia.
Dr. Robert Pitt
Brisbane, Australia
Dr. Rob Pitt has been developing worldclass medical software for 20 years. Not deterred by his daytime job as Director of Paediatric Emergency Medicine for 25 years at Mater Childrens Hospital in Brisbane, Australia, Rob developed medical software for most of his adult life first as the creator of an informatics software used worldwide for emergency department information management, next as the originator of PaEDPac, an early model of medical decision support software, and for the last decade as developer and editor-in-chief with Dr. Ron Dieckmann of PEMSoft. Rob loves sailing, exploring and traveling in the developing world and lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland where he continues to practice as a Pediatrician while developing and publishing medical software.
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Dr. Tu Nguyen
Hanoi, Vietnam
Dr. Tu Van Nguyen was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, as the son of two nurses who met during the French-Vietnamese conflict. He grew up during the American conflict and served in the Vietnamese Air Force as a helicopter attendant. Inspired to become a physician by the needless deaths he witnessed during the war, in 1980 he began medical school in Ho Chi Minh City. Tu returned to Hanoi, in 1986, finished his specialist studies at Hanoi Medical School, then began his long career in pediatric intensive care. He is now the Vice Director of the pediatric intensive care unit in the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi, the major referral center for pediatrics in Southeast Asia. Tu has two daughters, Mai and Linh and his wife Ngoc works as a ENT nurse. He has been a principal advocate and teacher for PEMSoft for over two years and is striving to greatly expand distribution of the software in Vietnam.
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