In early 1999, when Peg and Frank Brady sat at their kitchen table to discuss how they would spend their retirement years, neither of them could have imagined the impact they would have on global health. A desire to help catastrophically ill children in underserved countries was the foundation for Medical Missions for Children and its Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network.
Today Medical Missions for Children can provide telemedicine services for children in 108 countries and since 1999 had helped slightly over 25,000 children with both diagnostic and treatment consults. In 2003, the MMC Mission Statement was expanded to include “transferring medical knowledge from those who have it to those who need it”. This resulted in the launching of a FCC licensed Global Television Network, the Medical Broadcasting Channel (MBC), the Global Video Library of Medicine and Giggles Children’s Theater. Additionally, MMC produces four health related television programs for the PBS Network to further patient awareness.
Frank Brady spent most of his professional career with CGE, a French conglomerate. He organized projects and arranged financing for international business consortiums composed of major European, Asian and American companies who partnered on large international contracts.
Today, Frank is a co-founder, along with his wife Peg, of Medical Missions for Children and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees and CEO. In addition, he serves on the Program Committee of Operation Smile and as a Trustee of the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation.
Peg was born and raised in Elberon, New Jersey. She graduated from Red Bank Catholic High School and Elizabeth Seton College. Peg has two daughters, Maureen and Erin. She has been married to her husband, Frank, for 40 years and they live in Montville, New Jersey.
While raising her daughters, Peg was a contributing factor in her husband's business endeavors. In 1999, after helping her husband conceive and found the School of Diplomacy and International Relations for the United Nations at Seton Hall University, Peg co-founded Medical Missions for Children, which is located at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey. Peg serves as Executive Director and CEO.
Medical Missions for children operates the Global Telemedicine and Teaching Network which is comprised of a Telemedicine Diagnostic Service covering over 100 countries and MBC,Broadcast TV network delivering medical education and knowledge transfer to hospitals, medical schools and universities under Peg's direction.
In February 2005, MMC opened Giggles Theater, which MMC built at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital. The theater provides live entertainment to hospitalized children to help cope with their feelings of fear and boredom. The performances are broadcast to other hospitals globally.
Peg has made numerous trips outside the United States to visit underserved hospitals and establish relationships, including inviting the First Lady of each country to serve as chairwoman of MMC in their country.
Peg is a former board member of Play for T.I.M.E. and National Museum of Woman in the Arts, NJ Chapter. She presently serves on the Program Board of Operation Smile and is a Trustee of St. Josephs Childrens Hospital.
Mr. Riehl joined Medical Missions for Children in June 2004. In his role as Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for the management of all aspects of the organization's day-to-day operations, thereby providing leadership and support to all components of the Medical Missions for Children mission.
Mr. Riehl brings to Medical Missions for Children 14 years of prior experience, working both for and with non-profit organizations. Of note is that while in the employ of the international medical relief organization, AmeriCares, he headed up the organization's International Medical Services Division. In this position, Mr. Riehl managed the financial and operational success of more than 50 medical relief programs, encompassing numerous medical disciplines and spanning an equal number of foreign countries.
Prior to his entry into the non-profit sector, Mr. Riehl enjoyed a successful career in the information technology sector, where he headed up the sales and marketing activities for a software development firm, and then was appointed to the position of Information Technology Director and Chief Information Officer for a 250-attorney law firm headquartered in Boston, MA.
Mr. Riehl earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Scranton and graduated with honors from the Business School at the University of Connecticut. In the year 2000, he was awarded the honor of "Most Distinguished Catholic School Graduate" by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and was also inducted into his High School Hall of Fame in 2002. For five years, Mr. Riehl was a guest lecturer at Yale University's Medical School within their Department of Public Health.
Alberto Salamanca serves as president of the Latin American region for Medical Missions for Children. In this role, Mr. Salamanca oversees regional fundraising, relationship development and serves as healthcare programming liaison.
Mr. Salamanca has served as the Bolivian Ambassador to the United Nations, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotenciary of Bolivia to the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Bolivian Ambassador General Director, ceremonial and protocol directorate, Ministry of Foreign Relations and Worship. He has also served as Vice President on the editorial board of the daily newspaper, Opinion, in Cochabamba, Bolivia and lecturer in international relations at the High Military Studies Academy in Cochabamba. He has been Chief Executive Officer of the Shelter Development Group in Coral Gables, Florida.
He is senior advisor to the Municipality of Colcapirhua, Cochabamba and a member of the Bolivian Foundation Against Cancer in La Paz, Bolivia. Mr. Salamanca earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
