Board of Directors

	Craig W. Czarsty, M.D., DABFM. \| Chair cczarsty@hhidr.org Craig W. Czarsty, M.D., DABFM, is the Incorporator of Health Horizons and is its first President. He has been in the private practice of family medicine in Oakville, Connecticut, since 1983. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University. He has been very involved in organized medicine and is a Past-President of the Connecticut State Medical Society and the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians. He is a former Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine, the organization which board certifies family physicians nationwide. His first medical service trip to the Dominican Republic was in 2004 and he has traveled there yearly since then. He and his wife live in Watertown, Connecticut, and have two daughters.
	Brad Wilkinson, M.D., DABFM \| Vice Chair bwilkinson@hhidr.org Dr. Wilkinson is a family physician working in his home town of Durham, CT. His interests center on volunteer medicine. He devotes a half day each week in Hartford at a mobile clinic delivering health care to the working poor in addition to his involvement with HHI. Dr. Wilkinson and his wife Mary keep busy trying to micro-manage the lives of their five adult children and one grandchild.
	Ayaz Madraswalla, M.D., DABFM \| Treasurer amadraswalla@hhidr.org Dr. Madraswalla joined Mansfield Family Practice in 1995. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1986. He then studied medicine at Albany Medical College and graduated in 1990 and went on to complete his Residency in Family Practice at the University of Colorado in Denver in 1993. He takes an active role in his profession by serving on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians since 1999, as well as past Councilor to the Connecticut State Medical Society. He has served as President of both the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians and the Windham County Medical Association. He also enjoys teaching medical students and holds a position as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut Medical School. Dr. Madraswalla is married with two children and enjoys many activities including reading, cooking, tennis, skiing, traveling, bicycling and spending time with his family.
	Angi Kang \| Director akang@hhidr.org Angi is one of HHI’s co-founders and served as an International Programs Director from 2009-2010, establishing HHI’s on-the-ground presence in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from Tufts University in 2008 with a Bachelors Degree in International Relations and Community Health. Her coursework and interests span a variety of fields, from global poverty to performance. While at Tufts, she was a member of the Sigma Iota Rho International Relations Honors Society, and the International Relations Directors Leadership Council. Angi was born in South Korea, raised in New Jersey, and has traveled to and lived in several different cities and countries. She is currently an MD/MPH student at Tufts University School of Medicine.
	Laura McNulty \| Director lmcnulty@hhidr.org Laura is a co-founder of Health Horizons International, former International Programs Director, and current Executive Director. From 2004 to 2008, she participated on short-term medical service trips to the Dominican Republic, where she recognized the need for more effective, sustainable solutions to the health challenges of impoverished communities. With co-founder and current Board of Directors member Angi Kang, she moved to the Dominican Republic in October 2009 to build and establish HHI’s on-the-ground presence. Laura served an AmeriCorps term from 2008-2009 as Site Coordinator of LIFT-Somerville, a non-profit that engages college students in direct service and advocacy to combat poverty and expand opportunity for individuals around the US. She has worked and volunteered for health and social service organizations including the Family Van, the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department, and the Timmy Foundation. Her interests include global health, social work and advocacy, community development, and the roles of policy and the non-profit sector in creating social justice. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Community Health and Spanish from Tufts University.
	Cristina Freitas, J.D., MPH \| Director cfreitas@hhidr.org Cristina Freitas, Esq. is a partner at Freitas & Freitas, LLP, a small law firm in the Merrimack Valley area of Massachusetts where she practices with her twin sister Debbie. The firm specializes in a variety of health law and child welfare matters. Attorney Freitas is also a Staff Attorney/Guardian ad Litem at the Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and on the Trial Panel of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University in 2004, her Master of Public Health degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2010, and her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 2010. She completed a Post-Graduate Legal Fellowship at Northeastern University School of Law working with the School’s Social Justice Program. She is member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, and Essex County Bar Association. She has been on two medical services trips to the Dominican Republic in the past.
	Debbie Freitas, J.D., MPH \| Director dfreitas@hhidr.org Debbie Freitas, Esq. is a partner at Freitas & Freitas, LLP, and her practice focuses on health law and child welfare law. She is also a staff attorney/GAL at Tufts Medical Center’s Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center in Boston as well as a Child and Family Law trial panel member of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. Debbie graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a Bachelors Degree in Biology and Psychology. She then attended Tufts University School of Medicine and Northeastern University School of Law and graduated in 2010 with a Juris Doctor and a Master of Public Health. Debbie served as a Graduate Legal Fellow at Northeastern Law School’s Social Justice Program after graduating. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mass Bar Association, and the Essex County Bar Association. She has participated in two medical services trips to the Dominican Republic.
	Michael Good, M.D., DABFM \| Director Dr. Good is a family physician currently practicing in Middletown, CT. He grew up in West Covina, California, and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles where he majored in Political Science. He then earned a medical degree at the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine, completed training in Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT, and has practiced family medicine for over 25 years. He is a founding member and director of ProHealth Physicians and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is the author of The Search for Major Plagge, published by Fordham University Press. This work of nonfiction tells the story of a remarkable German officer who saved Dr. Good’s mother, grandparents and 250 other Jews during the Holocaust in Poland during WWII. He and his wife Susan live in Durham, CT.

	Craig W. Czarsty, M.D., DABFM. \| Chair cczarsty@hhidr.org Craig W. Czarsty, M.D., DABFM, is the Incorporator of Health Horizons and is its first President. He has been in the private practice of family medicine in Oakville, Connecticut, since 1983. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from Georgetown University. He has been very involved in organized medicine and is a Past-President of the Connecticut State Medical Society and the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians. He is a former Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine, the organization which board certifies family physicians nationwide. His first medical service trip to the Dominican Republic was in 2004 and he has traveled there yearly since then. He and his wife live in Watertown, Connecticut, and have two daughters.
	Brad Wilkinson, M.D., DABFM \| Vice Chair bwilkinson@hhidr.org Dr. Wilkinson is a family physician working in his home town of Durham, CT. His interests center on volunteer medicine. He devotes a half day each week in Hartford at a mobile clinic delivering health care to the working poor in addition to his involvement with HHI. Dr. Wilkinson and his wife Mary keep busy trying to micro-manage the lives of their five adult children and one grandchild.
	Ayaz Madraswalla, M.D., DABFM \| Treasurer amadraswalla@hhidr.org Dr. Madraswalla joined Mansfield Family Practice in 1995. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston University in 1986. He then studied medicine at Albany Medical College and graduated in 1990 and went on to complete his Residency in Family Practice at the University of Colorado in Denver in 1993. He takes an active role in his profession by serving on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians since 1999, as well as past Councilor to the Connecticut State Medical Society. He has served as President of both the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians and the Windham County Medical Association. He also enjoys teaching medical students and holds a position as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Connecticut Medical School. Dr. Madraswalla is married with two children and enjoys many activities including reading, cooking, tennis, skiing, traveling, bicycling and spending time with his family.
	Angi Kang \| Director akang@hhidr.org Angi is one of HHI’s co-founders and served as an International Programs Director from 2009-2010, establishing HHI’s on-the-ground presence in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from Tufts University in 2008 with a Bachelors Degree in International Relations and Community Health. Her coursework and interests span a variety of fields, from global poverty to performance. While at Tufts, she was a member of the Sigma Iota Rho International Relations Honors Society, and the International Relations Directors Leadership Council. Angi was born in South Korea, raised in New Jersey, and has traveled to and lived in several different cities and countries. She is currently an MD/MPH student at Tufts University School of Medicine.
	Laura McNulty \| Director lmcnulty@hhidr.org Laura is a co-founder of Health Horizons International, former International Programs Director, and current Executive Director. From 2004 to 2008, she participated on short-term medical service trips to the Dominican Republic, where she recognized the need for more effective, sustainable solutions to the health challenges of impoverished communities. With co-founder and current Board of Directors member Angi Kang, she moved to the Dominican Republic in October 2009 to build and establish HHI’s on-the-ground presence. Laura served an AmeriCorps term from 2008-2009 as Site Coordinator of LIFT-Somerville, a non-profit that engages college students in direct service and advocacy to combat poverty and expand opportunity for individuals around the US. She has worked and volunteered for health and social service organizations including the Family Van, the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department, and the Timmy Foundation. Her interests include global health, social work and advocacy, community development, and the roles of policy and the non-profit sector in creating social justice. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Community Health and Spanish from Tufts University.
	Cristina Freitas, J.D., MPH \| Director cfreitas@hhidr.org Cristina Freitas, Esq. is a partner at Freitas & Freitas, LLP, a small law firm in the Merrimack Valley area of Massachusetts where she practices with her twin sister Debbie. The firm specializes in a variety of health law and child welfare matters. Attorney Freitas is also a Staff Attorney/Guardian ad Litem at the Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and on the Trial Panel of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. She received her undergraduate degree from Boston University in 2004, her Master of Public Health degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in 2010, and her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 2010. She completed a Post-Graduate Legal Fellowship at Northeastern University School of Law working with the School’s Social Justice Program. She is member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, and Essex County Bar Association. She has been on two medical services trips to the Dominican Republic in the past.
	Debbie Freitas, J.D., MPH \| Director dfreitas@hhidr.org Debbie Freitas, Esq. is a partner at Freitas & Freitas, LLP, and her practice focuses on health law and child welfare law. She is also a staff attorney/GAL at Tufts Medical Center’s Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center in Boston as well as a Child and Family Law trial panel member of the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. Debbie graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a Bachelors Degree in Biology and Psychology. She then attended Tufts University School of Medicine and Northeastern University School of Law and graduated in 2010 with a Juris Doctor and a Master of Public Health. Debbie served as a Graduate Legal Fellow at Northeastern Law School’s Social Justice Program after graduating. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Mass Bar Association, and the Essex County Bar Association. She has participated in two medical services trips to the Dominican Republic.
	Michael Good, M.D., DABFM \| Director Dr. Good is a family physician currently practicing in Middletown, CT. He grew up in West Covina, California, and attended Occidental College in Los Angeles where he majored in Political Science. He then earned a medical degree at the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine, completed training in Family Medicine at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, CT, and has practiced family medicine for over 25 years. He is a founding member and director of ProHealth Physicians and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is the author of The Search for Major Plagge, published by Fordham University Press. This work of nonfiction tells the story of a remarkable German officer who saved Dr. Good’s mother, grandparents and 250 other Jews during the Holocaust in Poland during WWII. He and his wife Susan live in Durham, CT.

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