Our Collaborators
Meet the educators and mentors who help make our work possible.
Alexandra Molnar, MD
Internal Medicine; Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Molnar cares for refugees at Harborview’s International Medicine Clinic and teaches physicians-in-training about general patient care as well as primary care of immigrants, refugees and the homeless as a faculty member at the University of Washington. Dr. Molnar regularly works with asylum seekers as a volunteer evaluator. She has spoken locally, nationally and internationally on her areas of special interest, including care for women with female genital cutting, special needs of asylum seekers, wound care for homeless individuals and treatment of latent tuberculosis in primary care.
Rich Kovar, MD
Family Medicine; Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine
Dr. Kovar has done over 450 medical evaluations of asylum seekers since beginning this work in 1998. At that time, there were no other providers in the Northwest north of Oregon doing these evaluations.
He has worked with PHR, Center for Victims of Torture, Healthright, IRC, Refugees Northwest and now a UW student run clinic to perform evaluations and train scores of evaluators over the last 17 years. Dr. Kovar has worked in 9 countries and 5 continents in the past providing refugee relief work.