Elinor A. Graham, MD
secretary
Dr. Elinor (Ellie) Graham has devoted her career to providing medical care and building community-based support for families living in poverty. A pediatrician for almost 40 years, her work is rooted in a belief that the health of a community is highly related to the socio-economic status of the individual or group. Dr. Graham is associate professor emeritus of pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Dr. Graham and her husband, Steven Gary, live in Seattle and have three children and five grandchildren.
Cor Van Niel, MD
Treasurer
Originally from upstate New York, Dr. Van Niel attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently practices at Sea Mar Community Health Centers in Seattle, Washington. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Washington and the site director for the Sea Mar Seattle satellite training site for the UW/Seattle Children’s Pediatrics Residency program
Nancy Danoff, MD, MPH
Dr. Danoff has been involved with CHIMPS since her first trip in 2006 to Los Abelines, El Salvador. Since then, she has been on ten trips, and group leader six of those times to Los Abelines and El Chaperno, El Salvador, and Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala. A pediatrician for over 30 years, she has served low income, immigrant communities, mostly from Central America, at the Eastgate Public Health Center in King County, Washington. Dr. Danoff is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, lead pediatrician at Eastgate, and clinical preceptor for the UW/Seattle Children’s Hospital Residency Program.