John is a retired endocrinologist who has served on Konbit Sante’s Board of Directors and made multiple trips to Haiti as a volunteer. Following medical school at Cornell University, residency at Maine Medical Center, fellowship and faculty appointment at the University of Vermont, John returned to Portland to serve as director of MMC’s Diabetes Center. During his Master of Public Health program at the University of Southern Maine, John received grant support from the International Diabetes Foundation to improve diabetes care in Haiti. John recently spent six months in South Sudan with Doctors Without Borders, and continues to serve as a non-communicable disease consultant.