501(c)(3) Nonprofit  ·  EIN 99-2604475  ·  Incorporated in Connecticut, 2024 [email protected]

Board of Directors

Our directors provide strategic governance and clinical oversight, serving voluntarily under the Foundation’s bylaws.

Leadership

Governance and clinical direction.

CaribHealth Foundation is governed by a volunteer board of directors who set strategy, approve budgets, and oversee program performance.

Dr. Gyanprakash Ketwaroo, MD

Dr. Gyanprakash Ketwaroo, MD

Founder, President & Chair
Gastroenterology · Academic Medicine

Dr. Gyanprakash Ketwaroo is a Founder and President of CaribHealth Foundation, Inc. A practicing gastroenterologist, he is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Digestive Diseases at Yale School of Medicine, where he also serves as Vice Chief for Faculty Development and as Chief of Endoscopy at the West Haven VA. His clinical and research work focuses on advanced endoscopy, including the detection and management of Barrett's esophagus and pancreatic disorders.

He founded the Foundation in 2024 after years of clinical work in the Caribbean, where he saw firsthand how conditions routinely diagnosed and managed in higher-resource settings often go untreated or undertreated for years for lack of access to specialists, equipment, and training. That gap became the Foundation's reason for being.

A Rhodes Scholar, he holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, master's degrees in medical imaging and theoretical chemistry from Oxford University, and a BS in chemical physics from Brown University. He helps lead CaribHealth with the same conviction that shaped its founding.

“Closing that gap is not charity — it is the right thing to do.”

Wellington Phillips

Vice President

Supports the Foundation through strategy, partnership development, and oversight of program operations across the Caribbean.

Dr. Pamela Ketwaroo, MD

Dr. Pamela Ketwaroo, MD

Board Member
Radiology · Pediatric & Fetal Imaging

Associate Professor of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine and a Staff Radiologist at Texas Children's Hospital, specializing in fetal imaging, congenital heart disease, and cardiac MRI techniques. She earned her medical degree at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, completed her residency at Harvard Medical School / Brigham & Women's Hospital, and fellowships at Boston Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.

“It is a privilege to be part of a multi-disciplinary team caring for children and their families. In that capacity, I strive to have a positive impact and improve patient outcomes in both the pre-natal and post-natal settings.”

Fahim Chowdhury

Fahim Chowdhury

Board Member
Corporate Governance · Technology & Operations Strategy

Fahim Chowdhury is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, with 25 years of technology and program delivery leadership across global financial services, including senior roles at Accenture and Argano. At CaribHealth Foundation, he brings that expertise to corporate governance and board structuring, and coordinates the international logistics behind the Foundation's medical equipment deployments across the Caribbean. He holds a dual Bachelor of Arts from Brown University.

“I'm glad to bring the same rigor I use to run large-scale technology programs to how we govern and scale the Foundation's reach.”

Dr. Balichand Permashwar, MD

Dr. Balichand Permashwar, MD

Board Member
Family Medicine · Geriatrics

Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine in North Carolina. He earned his medical degree from the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica, completed his residency in Family Medicine at Kings County Hospital in New York, and a geriatric fellowship at East Carolina University. Board certified in Family Medicine and Geriatrics, he practices as a hospitalist physician. A veteran of many medical missions to the Caribbean — spanning grassroots outreach to institutional collaboration — he founded and serves as Medical Director of the Internal Medicine Learning Collaborative, an online lecture series created for Caribbean physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic to sustain Continuing Medical Education when in-person gatherings were disrupted. He continually analyzes the impact of the Foundation's outreach with a focus on being more efficient, cost-effective, and a contributor to capacity building in the local healthcare sector.

Dr. Ronald Dixon, MD

Board Member

Serves on the board with responsibility for governance and financial stewardship, helping ensure the Foundation operates in accordance with its 501(c)(3) obligations.

Dahlia Phillips

Board Member

Supports the Foundation's governance and community engagement initiatives.

How We Govern

Officers

The board elects a President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer to lead day-to-day governance.

Meetings

Directors convene at least three times per year, with a quorum of two required to act.

Committees

An Executive Committee and advisory committees support specific programs and initiatives.

Oversight

The Treasurer maintains financial records and reports regularly to the board for review.

Board Membership

Interested in serving on the board?

As we grow, we welcome qualified candidates with backgrounds in medicine, public health, finance, law, or community development. Inquiries are reviewed by the board.

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