A founding board member of the CHC, Lori is a nurse practitioner, with more than 20 years experience in Cambodia as a health program manager and advisor. In 1989, Lori was the medical coordinator for the American Refugee Committee on the Thai-Cambodian border, where she worked with CHC co-founders Sok Thim and Anne Goldfeld. After that, Lori joined the Catholic Relief Services in Battambang province, where she supervised the rebuilding of medical services in an area devastated by the Khmer Rouge genocide and years of war. Lori eventually became the regional advisor for CRS covering Southeast Asia. In that capacity, she has worked in crisis areas including Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami and has done assessments all over the region including North Korea.  

Lori brings to the CHC years of management, technical and programming experience, and a commitment to helping Cambodians build local, sustainable health programs and organizations that address illness and its root causes of poverty and ignorance. She will use her skills to advise and coordinate the CHC’s rapidly expanding children’s programs at the Maddox Chivan Children’s Center and the newly renovated Pediatric Ward at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh, as well as provide advice and support to all the CHC HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis programs.