Doctor to Doctor is a nonprofit organization founded in Berkeley, California USA in 1994. We seek to provide assistance to medical professionals in underserved places around the world.

Doctor to Doctor volunteers are medical professionals - physicians, psychologists, nurses, and others who travel abroad to meet with their colleagues in other countries. They carry with them medications and books which are donated to the facilities they visit.

Most of the sites visited have been in Southeast Asia with Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar receiving most of the Doctor to Doctor visits. However volunteers have also traveled to Ukraine, Peru, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Mexico.

Most of our activity has been in psychiatry because the Founder of Doctor to Doctor, Robert Dolgoff MD, is a psychiatrist. However there have also been some visits by medical professionals with other specialties including oncology, speech pathology, endocrinology, and ophthalmology.

Doctor to Doctor engages in the following activities:

• We assist American health professionals who wish to travel as individuals or in a small group to countries which desire professional collaboration.

• On a few occasions Doctor to Doctor has provided opportunities for physicians in other parts of the world to travel to America to attend professional meetings.

• Doctor to Doctor sends books and medications to medical facilities in countries where such items are in short supply.

• We put on an educational conference every year or two. The First Vietnamese-American Conference on Psychiatry and Medical Psychology was held in January 1997 in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. A second conference was held in November 1999, a third in July 2001, and a fourth was held in March 2004. The first four conferences were held in Vietnam. In January 2005 there was a conference in Yangon, Myanmar which was part of the Second Mental Health Conference of the Myanmar Medical Association. Also in January 2005 we put on a conference at the West Visaya Medical Center in Iloilo City, Philippines. Three of us will return there in late October 2005 for a brief visit.

• Doctor to Doctor is small. We receive no foundation support and rely entirely on our volunteers for financial backing. We do receive donations of drugs (and sometimes books) from pharmaceutical companies. Once in a while we pay an employee for special projects but almost all of the work is done by volunteers. The volunteers who do most of the work are Bob Dolgoff, Margarita Nicol, Gregg Wheatland, and Tran Ngoc Cam. The best way to get more information about Doctor to Doctor is to send e-mail or to call Bob Dolgoff at the Doctor to Doctor telephone number, (510) 548-5200 or at his office (510) 841-8484 x 104.

If you are interested in going abroad on a D2D trip please let us know and we can discuss this.