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About Us
Founder's Message
A message from the Founder and Executive Director, Ronald Dieckmann, MD, MPH
Dear friends and colleagues,
When I founded this organization in 2006, I never imagined how gratifying our work would be, or how much it would change my own life. I also never anticipated how much need there would be among impoverished children for better health care, or how badly our medical colleagues in resource-limited environments need and want up-to-date medical information. Very few of our site providers have any medical textbooks or medical references at all to help make critical medical decisions. Ironically, almost all of them have a smart phone and access to computers.
To bridge this blatant gap in access to current knowledge, every contribution to KidsCareEverywhere is used to support our donations of medical software and training of doctors, nurses and medical providers in resource-poor environments. We help doctors help kids everywhere, and our mission is never ending. I appreciate your attention and your help, I am humbled by the task before us, but I am inspired by the transformations that we have witnessed already with the work that we do to bring remote colleagues into 21st-century medicine.
Warmly,
Ronald Dieckmann, MD, MPH
Founder and Executive Director, KidsCareEverywhere
Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine University of California, San Francisco
Our Core Values
Child/Family Focus
We were founded on passion and commitment to improve health outcomes for children and families. We focus on providing tools that support clinicians who promote the unique needs of children and families.
Cultural Sensitivity
We believe that cultural sensitivity is not just about awareness of cultural differences, but also about valuing and nurturing them. We strive to build trust and mutual respect with our partners, and to promote health equity by minimizing cultural barriers to access to evidence-based medicine.
We strive to foster a sense of confidence, pride and self-efficacy among the clinicians we partner with, and to support their efforts to practice evidence-based medicine.
Empowerment
Impact
We build projects that attain lasting improvements for entire health care systems. We are dedicated to measuring and evaluating the impact of our work in order to endlessly refine our approaches for optimal efficacy.
Kindness
We approach our partnerships with kindness and compassion, with a generosity of spirit and universal concern for the physical and mental welfare of all of our colleagues and friends worldwide.
Sustainability
We are committed to creating long-term, community-driven projects to improve clinicians’ access to evidence-based medicine. By investing in education and training, we create targeted projects that are tailored to unique needs, resources and cultures, and can be maintained after our initial site visits.