Duane Lawrence, President -   Duane worked as a community pharmacist and business owner for many years.  In 1987, he took a medical trip to an orphan home in Mexico and saw needs he had not seen before.  He determined at that time to devote more time to serving the needs of the less fortunate. Since that first trip, Duane has worked as a medical mission leader, has worked in several inner city clinics and has worked with international relief teams in areas such as Indonesia after the 2004 Tsunami. He has also worked in Ecuador, Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Myanmar and in other countries.  He has led medical student groups, foundation groups and church groups to do work in South America and elsewhere for the past two decades.

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Vernon Ralph Willcox, Vice-President/Treasurer-  Ralph is a dentist in Edmond, Oklahoma. For the past 20 years, he has joined short term medical teams that traveled to developing countries.  Most of  these trips have been to  Ecuador, where he has had the privilege of providing dental services to many of the indigenous people of that country.  He has seen Ecuadorian teenagers who translated for him grow to become responsible parents and has some graduate from professional schools. He traveled to Haiti shortly after the earthquake struck to help provide clean water with special filtration devices and teach hygiene techniques to help stop the spread of disease. Ralph is committed to providing knowledge and experience from his past to the future experience with hands on approach to this endeavor.  

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Carol Holland, Secretary/Director - Carol is a retired Clinical Laboratory Scientist. Responsibilities have ranged from simple lab testing to managing a laboratory that consisted of 250 employees, 7 locations, and numerous difficult testing platforms.  She went on her first medical trip in 1994 to Ecuador and fell in love with people in that country.  She has a heart for serving people in less fortunate areas, providing medical care where there is none, providing encouragement, and any assistance that can be given. Since that first trip, she has been on or led more than 40 trips to Ecuador, Mexico, and Nicaragua.

Frank Davis, M.D,  Medical Director - Frank Davis MD is the Medical Director for One World. He was born and raised in Prague. That is the Oklahoma version, though the town was settled by Czech immigrants and holds an annual Kolache festival. Dr. Davis received a biology degree from Oklahoma City University in 1974, graduated from medical school at the University of Oklahoma in 1978, and completed his residency at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City in 1981. He is board certified in Family medicine and in Geriatrics and recently retired from his practice at Mercy Westbrook Clinic in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Dr. Davis has made some medical trips to Guatemala, has done 10 weeks in Africa and made many trips to Ecuador. He especially loves working with the team in Ecuador!