Founders  
 
  Awori J. Hayanga, MD, MPH (Chair)
  Suzzanne W. Gitata
 
             Board Members  
 
  Andrew L. Owiti  (Executive Director)
  Thomas E. Keane, MD
  Matthew J McGirt, MD
 
             Advisory Panel  
 
  John L Tarpley, MD
  Jon Weingart, MD
  Christine Grogan, MBA
  Rebecca Thornton, PhD
  Akbar Waljee, MD, MSc
  Jennifer Filip Waljee, MD, MPH, MSc
  Clare Muhoro, PhD
  Vincent M. Cimmino, MD
 
             Officer  
 
  Abidah Cheira
    Ted James, MD
 
             Administrator  
 
  Tarja Virtanen
 

Tarja Virtanen, Administrator
hayanga@rjwfoundation.org

Tarja was born and raised in Finland and moved to United States in 2000 to further her education. She currently serves as the Surgical Critical Care fellowship coordinator at the University of Michigan. She joined RJW because she wished to do something more in her life to make the world a better place. It seemed natural to her to lend her business acumen to RJW in the belief that helping the RJW Foundation and its mission would be the next best thing to offering practical medical assistance in Africa..."seeking to give (her) time and expertise to help the people that really needed it."