Rosalie S. Wyman        

Founder & CEO

Ro Wyman is the founding partner of Wyman Worldwide Health Partners Inc.  Her business background began with thirteen years at the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton in Chicago and then New York. Her last position with Booz-Allen was Administrative Manager for the Worldwide Financial Industries Practice of 100+ professionals. In 1984, Ro joined Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan/Chase) in New York and spent two years as a middle-market commercial lending officer managing a $20M+ credit portfolio.  While working in New York, Ro completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology at New York University in 1988. Five years ago, Ro opened her own real estate development company, Wyman Ventures LLC.

Ro’s not-for-profit volunteer work over the last fifteen years includes: Trustee, Quechee Lakes Landowners’ Association; Director & COB,  River City Arts (regional theatre company); Co-chair of Vermont Winter Special Olympics; Planning Commissioner, Town of Hartford, VT; and Regional Planning Commissioner, Upper Valley/Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission; and, most recently, a seven year tenure as Overseer, Dartmouth Medical School; and Trustee of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.

William W. Wyman        

Chairman

Mr. Wyman began his career at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, a large international management consulting firm in 1965.  During his nineteen years with the firm, he worked for financial, retail and service industry clients on projects concerning strategy, profit management and management organization.  In 1978 he became President of the Management Consulting Group, a member of the executive committee, and a member of the Board of Directors. 

In 1984, Mr. Wyman left Booz Allen and formed a new consulting firm, Oliver, Wyman & Company.  The firm provides management consulting services to the senior executives at large financial institutions on issues of strategy, profitability and risk management. The firm was acquired by March McLennan in 2003, and now has more than 3000 professionals, with offices across North America, Europe and Asia.

In 1995, Mr. Wyman began working as a counselor to chief executives of technology, financial services and natural resources companies.  Since then, he has served as a director and/or counselor to more than a dozen public and private companies.  He also serves on the Board of Advisors to The Sprout Group, the venture capital arm of CS First Boston, and Legend Capital, the leveraged buyout funds of Castle Harlan, and has worked as a Special Advisor to General Atlantic Partners and Francisco Partners.

Mr. Wyman graduated from Colgate University and from the Harvard Business School, and lives in Hanover, NH.  He served for more than a decade as a trustee of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic and continues as a Trustee of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Brian P. Lombardo MD    

Medical Advisor

A graduate of Yale Medical School,  Dr. Lombardo finished his residency in Family Practice at the University of Minnesota. He began his medical career working in an inner city community clinic in Minneapolis for six years, delivering the full array of family medicine services to that underserved population, while also teaching at the University of Minnesota's family practice clinic and working as a staff physician in an emergency room on the banks of the Mississippi.  After moving to Vermont, he took a position as a family physician at Alice Peck Day Hospital in Lebanon, NH where he has provided inpatient and outpatient care, delivered obstetrical services, assisted in surgeries, served as chair of the Department of Medicine and is Vice-President of the medical staff.

Five years ago, he and his wife uprooted their family to fulfill a lifelong dream of living and working overseas, ending up in Kigali, Rwanda where Dr. Lombardo had been assigned to collaborate with the medical staff and administration of King Faycal Hospital, the premier hospital in the country.  For seven months, while his two children attended school in French at the Ecole Belge de Kigali and his wife did translation work and eventually taught at the national law school in Butare, he worked the hospital wards, ministering to numerous patients with a myriad of afflictions, including HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.  He also spent some time working at the refugee camp in Byumba and collaborated on a quality improvement project in Maternal Health at the district hospital in Gitarama.

Over the last several years, Dr. Lombardo has served as both a member of the WWHPS board as well as the chief medical advisor.  He has helped coordinate medical volunteers who have served as preceptors for the clinic staff, teaching basic principles of patient care.  He also is helping WWHPS develop country-specific, evidence based protocols for the treatment of common afflictions.

Kathleen M. Allden MD      

Kathleen Allden, MD is an expert in psychosocial and neuropsychiatric consequences of war, refugee trauma, torture and human rights abuse in a career bridging the fields of humanitarian assistance, clinical intervention, and human rights. Currently, a faculty member of Dartmouth Medical School and Dartmouth College War and Peace Studies Committee, Dr. Allden was formerly on the Harvard Medical School faculty where she was Medical Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.

Dr. Allden has provided consultation and training for governmental, non-governmental and academic organizations in multiple refugee and post conflict settings in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. She developed and directed two clinical treatment programs in Boston for survivors of torture and human rights abuse (the Indochinese Psychiatry Clinic of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the International Survivors Center of the National Consortium of Torture Treatment Centers). She is co-author of the United Nations protocol on medical-legal investigation of torture and other cruel and degrading treatment known as the Istanbul Protocol and has provided extensive medical-legal expert testimony and reports for US federal courts regarding political asylum and against corporations and individuals that perpetrated human rights abuses abroad, including the landmark human rights case against UNOCAL Corporation. Dr. Allden provided consultation on psychological torture and prisoner abuse for the International Committee of the Red Cross during their evaluation of Guantanamo detainees, and assisted Physicians for Human Rights in the evaluation of political asylum seekers detained in US jails and prisons. 

Mary C. LaBrecque NP   

Mary LaBrecque graduated with a degree in Nursing from Northeastern University. She went onto receive her Family Nurse Practitioner Certification from the University of Vermont and her Masters in Nursing from Rivier College. 

For the last 33 years, Mary has been working as an Adult Nurse Practitioner at the VA Hospital in White River Junction.  She has also held a position for the last 26 years as an instructor in the department of Family and Community Medicine at the Dartmouth Medical School.

In addition to her accomplishments in clinical practice and education, she was a co-editor of The Common Symptom Guide: A Guide to the Evaluation of Common Adult and Pediatric Symptoms.    

R. Peter Mogielnicki MD    

Dr. Peter Mogielnicki attended Harvard Medical School and trained in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  For several years thereafter he was Director of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver.  He came to the Upper Valley in 1977 and since then has spent  a fulfilling career as Chief of Medicine at the Veterans Administration Hospital in White River Junction, Vermont and Professor of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School.  After entering semi-retirement in 2002 he and his wife Nancy who is a Pediatric Physician Assistant began to work in international health.

Since then they have volunteered in rural clinics in Honduras, Belize, Guyana, Thailand and Rwanda.  Their most recent involvement has been with the Wyman Worldwide Health Partners’ CCHIPS initiative in the Northern Province of Rwanda. They have been enormously impressed with the energy and dedication of the project founders and staff and consider it a privilege to have been among the first several clinicians to evaluate the health challenges and opportunities of the health centre and its catchment area.  The multiplier effect of making a small contribution to the health and welfare of a hard-working yet incredibly underserved human population while at the same time helping a critically endangered non-human primate species has been especially rewarding.

Margaret Wiley PhD

Margaret Wiley was born in Manchester, NH and is an English Professor at Colby-Sawyer College.  She has ten years’ experience as an RN, primarily in Cardiac Intensive Care.  She is the editor of Women, Wellness, and the Media (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), a volume examining the impact media has on women’s health.  Margaret is currently taking courses to renew her RN.  She is married and lives in Hanover, NH with her husband Chris and their cat Seymour.