About the Founder
 Michael J. Wawrzewski III, PA-C
Founder/CEO of Hospitals of Hope, Inc. USA & Bolivia
Michael Wawrzewski is a native of Garnett, Kansas. He graduated with an Associates of Arts Degree from Coffeyville Community College in 1991 and then a Bachelor of Science degree from Wichita State University in 1995 after completing the Physician Assistant program. He works as a Physician Assistant part-time at a rural Hospital in Satanta, Kansas and here in Wichita, Kansas at Wesley Hospital with the trauma surgical services.
Mike founded Hospitals of Hope in 1998 after taking multiple short-term mission trips to medically undeveloped countries starting in 1992. The overwhelming needs existing in these impoverished countries moved him to develop a local organization that has acted as a medical clearinghouse for over 32 million dollars in surplus medical supplies to 23 countries.
As a true visionary willing to make his ideas a reality, he has established a clinic and hospital that has served over 100,000 people for free, developed a network of medical aid for local Wichita clinics serving the underprivileged/uninsured patients providing supplies/equipment, and organized thirty thousand dollars in aid for victims of the Greensburg, Kansas tornado. Mike is currently developing a pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service system in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia and is expanding the work of Hospitals of Hope to Africa. He has worked as a full-time volunteer and staff member since 1998, spending two to six months outside the country each year teaching medical students and working with volunteers to develop our current and future medical care facilities.
 Mike was the recipient of the 2005 American Academy of Physician Assistants Humanitarian of the Year award for his work with Hospitals of Hope locally and abroad.
Mike is married to Elizabeth, a Bolivian trained dentist. Mike and Elizabeth both currently work together furthering the ministry of Hospitals of Hope.
Read more about Michael and the work of Hospitals of Hope:
Los Tiempos April 11, 2006
"World Perspective" by Michael J. Wawrzewski III, PA-C
|
