Gary Morsch, MD, MPH

Founder & Executive Chairman

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Dr. Gary Morsch is an emergency medicine physician who has dedicated his life to volunteer service. He founded several mission-focused organizations, including COVID Care Force, Heart to Heart International, and Docs Who Care. Global Care Force evolved from COVID Care Force, which Dr. Morsch began in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

When the pandemic began, Dr. Morsch quickly mobilized a group of health care professionals to deploy to hotspots and areas of critical healthcare staffing shortages. Many of these under-resourced communities begged Dr. Morsch not to forget them after the pandemic. Global Care Force continues to send volunteer health care professionals to underserved locations experiencing critical staffing shortages.

In 1995, Dr. Morsch founded Docs Who Care, a medical staffing company that provides ED and in-patient staffing to 100+ hospitals throughout the Midwest. Docs Who Care gives medical professionals the flexibility to serve in a volunteer capacity to people in need throughout the world.

He also co-founded Heart to Heart International, a nonprofit organization that improves healthcare access in the U.S. and across the world. Since 1992, Heart to Heart has delivered over $2 billion in medicine and aid to 135 countries and maintains a network of thousands of volunteers.

Dr. Morsch enlisted in the U.S. Army at the age of 17, retiring with the rank of Colonel. He served many combat tours during his career as a battalion surgeon and combat hospital commander. He has authored numerous books, including the best-seller, The Power of Serving Others, and his latest, You’ll Never Be the Same.

Gary and his wife, Vickie, reside on a farm outside Kansas City. They have four children and fifteen grandchildren.

Scott Oberkrom, MBA

President & CEO

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Scott joined the Global Care Force team in February 2021 as Chief Operating Officer and was named President and CEO shortly after. An experienced and accomplished leader, Scott oversees all operations and business activities of GCF, building upon the accomplishments of the COVID Care Force team to increase the scale of the organization, and to transform GCF’s service model to address the healthcare needs of communities in need beyond the pandemic.

Roxanne Alexander Jones, RN

Director, Global Programs

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Roxanne Jones’s extensive career in nursing and years spent as a missionary in Eastern Europe gives her the unique combination needed to lead the faith focused primary care volunteer teams in Ukraine. In her role, Roxanne recruits and evaluates volunteers, assembles and travels with teams for two-week rotations at mobile clinics and surgical hospitals in central Ukraine. She joined Global Care Force in August 2022.

Steve Hower

Director of Development

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Steve joined the Global Care Force team in November 2023 as the Director of Development. He leads the organization’s donor relations and fundraising efforts. Before joining Global Care Force, Steve served 21 years with Heart to Heart International in multiple leadership roles, including strategic partnerships, corporate relations, programs and volunteer engagement.

Brenda Poor

Director of Marketing & Communications

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Brenda joined Global Care Force in May 2021 as the Director of Marketing and Communications. She oversees all aspects of marketing, internal and external communications, social media, and public relations to create awareness of GCF and generate engagement with partners, volunteers, and donors. Before joining GCF, Brenda was the Assistant News Director at KCTV, the CBS affiliate in Kansas City.

Dr. Lev Prystupiuk

Ukraine Medical Director

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Dr. Lev Prystupiuk provides guidance and recommendations for Global Care Force mobile clinic operations in Ukraine.

Svetlana Kleshchar

Program Coordinator

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Reverend Svetlana Kleshchar joined Global Care Force in September 2022 as a translator for Global Care Force volunteers in Ukraine. She became the Program Coordinator in June 2023, providing administrative oversight of the Mobile Medical Clinic and Community Trauma Care programs, and the team lead for medical volunteer teams in Ukraine.

Prior to joining Global Care Force, Svetlana served as a Pastor with the Church of the Nazarene in Ukraine.

Elizabeth Vargas

Program Coordinator

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Joining Global Care Force in April 2023, Elizabeth provides administrative support and coordinates placement of Global Care Force medical volunteers with clinics and shelters in El Paso, Texas. Volunteers provide medical care for asylum seekers, immigrants, migrants and homeless.

Raised in El Paso, Elizabeth understands the ongoing crisis at the southern border. As a teenager, she began volunteering with her father, a Pastor, to feed and care for those who make the long journey in search of a better life.

Our History

In 2020, Dr. Gary Morsch founded COVID Care Force in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. He mobilized volunteer medical professionals to areas with critical staffing shortages due to COVID-19 to support frontline workers.

The pandemic put a strain on healthcare systems across the globe and highlighted inequities. Every day, a disproportionate amount of communities struggle to provide adequate care to patients. These communities asked Dr. Morsch not to forget about them once COVID was under control. He vowed not to forget them, and in 2022, COVID Care Force evolved into Global Care Force.

Dr. Morsch envisions Global Care Force as a bridge to providing high-quality medical care in under-resourced communities. Global Care Force continues the mission of COVID Care Force to send skilled and compassionate medical volunteers where they are needed. GCF volunteers are committed to doing whatever it takes to make life better for those in need. In the process, they experience transformation in their own lives through volunteering and service to others.

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