Executive Team & Board of Directors
Cameron R. Gongwer, M.D., MPH
Dr. Cameron Gongwer is the Executive Director of Crosspoint Global Health. He has passions for medical mission, discipleship, and whole person care. He is a primary care physician and medical consultant serving in South Bend, Indiana and in Ghana, Africa with the South Bend Clinic and TMS Global, respectively. He has been working in Ghana since 1995 and lived there full time with his family for 14 years. Working under the Methodist Church Ghana, Dr. Cameron was the first full time physician and Medical Superintendent in charge of the Methodist Faith Healing Hospital-Ankaase.
Specialty
Primary Care/Family Medicine, Tropical and Travel Medicine, Global Public Health
Degrees
Doctor of Medicine, Master in Public Health, Master in Biochemistry, Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s Health
Training
Dr. Cameron Gongwer is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and holds a Doctor of Medicine and Master’s in Biochemistry from Indiana University. He has a Master’s in Public Health degree from the University of Ghana. He earned a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Certificate of Knowledge in Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s Health from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Dr. Cameron is a Fellow in both the American Academy of Family Physicians and Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Curtis L. Gongwer, M.D.
TREASURER
Dr. Curtis Gongwer currently serves as Secretary/ Treasurer of Crosspoint Global Health (CGH). He is board certified in Family Medicine and is certified in clinical tropical medicine and traveler’s health by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In addition to maintaining a private practice in Indiana for over 20 years, he has helped organize short term medical clinics and provide medical services while on outreach programs in Ghana. He is brother to Dr. Cameron Gongwer, President of CGH.
Speciality
Primary Care/Family Medicine, Tropical Medicine, Travel Health
Degrees
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Certificate in Tropical Medicine, Certificate in Travel Health
Training
Dr. Curtis Gongwer serves as the Medical Director of Crosspoint Global Health. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Curtis earned a Certificate in Tropical Medicine from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and a Certificate in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine.
Emmanuel Otsin, RN, MPH
BOARD MEMBER
Emmanuel Otsin (Manny) has been working with Crosspoint Global Health since 2016 and a board member since 2019. He served with Dr. Cameron Gongwer in the first Greenlight medical program in Ankaase-Ghana (West Africa ). Manny spent 18 months in Ankaase volunteering at the Methodist Hospital.
Currently, he practices as an emergency department registered nurse in Philadelphia and lives with his wife and daughter in Drexel Hill, a suburb of Philadelphia.
James Blechl, M.D.
Dr. Blechl graduated from the University of Illinois before obtaining his medical degree from Rush Medical College and completing his residency through Saint Joseph Regional Medical Care Center. He is board certified in family medicine.
He currently serves as the Co-Medical Director of the Volunteer Provider Network. He is a Fellow in the American Academy of Family Medicine and a member of the Christian Medical Dental Association and the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity.
Dr. Blechl and his wife Barbara have two adult children. They are involved in providing medical care to the under served in the local community, as well as overseas. His hobbies include music, reading, woodworking and cycling.
Jack Hofferth
“When we do a bio it seems we are taking credit but in my case I have been blessed by God all my life”.
-Jack Hofferth
Jack Hofferth is the CEO of Alpha Realty and Development Company which he has owned since 1978. Semi-retired now, Jack has been an executive for business, financial, real estate, and information technology companies. He spent 25 years with Associates Financial Services and was in charge of internal consulting.
Jack also formed and led a construction company for home and commercial properties for 25 years. He is past CEO of DMI Mechanical contracting, a local engineering company. For 7 years he was the CFO of Kinetic IT Solutions, Inc. in South Bend, Indiana.
Jack is the Chairman of the Administrative Council of Good Shepherd UMC, his home church, which he built as a general contractor in 1994. In 2012 Jack also built the Alpha English school and church in Chinnerkanum, Tamil Nadu, India. Jack attended Indiana University South Bend. Jack is a native of Osceola, Indiana, where he currently lives. He is married, has 2 adult children, and 8 grandchildren.
John Gongwer - Webmaster
VOLUNTEER
John Gongwer is the Executive Director of the 21Wilberforce Global Freedom Center (21wilberforce.org), an international human rights organization, and the founder of iCatalyst, a strategic advisory practice that partners with select innovators to prototype collaborative solutions for public and private sectors.
He serves on the leadership teams of the International Religious Freedom Roundtable and the Washington, DC-based IRF Summit, on a variety of human rights action teams, and as a UN Representative in Geneva and New York for a 51-million-member worldwide alliance. He currently leads the effort to develop a Global Defenders Network (including a pilot program in Africa) and is the architect of an integrated global online hub and resource center for civil society and parliamentary FoRB groups worldwide.
John holds graduate degrees from the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Randy Brooks
VOLUNTEER
Other Volunteers
- Linda Forbes, Board Member
- Cari Gongwer, Communications & Marketing Director
- Randy Brooks, Board Member
- Alisha Hunt, Volunteer
- Joshua Otsin, MS, Web Content Manager