Team Biographies

Dr. George Mulcaire-Jones
President and Medical Director -- Maternal Life International

Dr. Mulcaire-Jones is a native of and attended high school in East Helena, Montana, where he was a member of the varsity football team, American Legion baseball team and a volunteer for Big Brothers and Sisters. He worked summers at the ASARCO Smelter as a yard and zinc furnace laborer.

He attended Carroll College, Helena, Montana, on an Elsie Corrette Memorial Scholarship, majoring in premed biology. After three years of college, he entered the University of Washington Medical School, graduating with an MD degree in 1981. While attending the university, he was a volunteer at Seattle’s Catholic Worker Kitchen, a downtown Seattle Free Clinic.

His medical internship and residency was at Deaconess Hospital, Spokane; a Family Practice Residency at the University of Minnesota; a surgery internship at St. Peter’s Hospital, Helena; and an obstetric fellowship at Sacred Heart and Deaconess hospitals, Spokane. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Family Practice.

Mulcaire-Jones began his family medical practice in 1984 in Long Beach and Anaheim, California with the Mission Doctors Association, transferring to Cameroon, West Africa later that year. He returned to America in 1987 and continued his practice in the Seattle area before moving to Butte, Montana, in 1992. He is active in the medical and civic community of Butte, having served on the board of the YMCA, as co-chair of the St. James Hospital Ethics Committee, and as co-coordinator for the Butte-Silver Bow Suicide Prevention Task Force

In 1997, he formed what eventually became Maternal Life International, a nonprofit organization providing training and resource support for AIDS prevention and care, and maternal health services to developing countries, mainly in Africa. Dr. Jones is an
acknowledged expert and has spoken at numerous national conferences on these issues, including a US-sponsored United Nations panel on the causes of maternal mortality; the Authentic Women’s Health Care Conference at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and the United States National Aids Conference.

Dr. Jones was awarded the Charles Borromeo Humanitarian Award from his Alma Mater in 2001, the highest award Carroll College bestows.

While living in Butte, Dr. Mulcaire-Jones has been a little league baseball coach and a youth soccer league coach. George and his wife, Mary, have six children.

Dr. Robert F Scanlon Jr.
Director of Maternal Health Services and Board Member
Maternal Life International

Dr. Robert Scanlon Jr. is a native of Huntington, New York, where he presently is in private practice at the North Shore Medical Group, attending physician at Huntington Hospital. He is a Clinical Instructor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, and Director of Maternal Health Services and Board Member of Maternal Life International, Butte, Montana.

Dr. Scanlon earned a BS in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1978, an MBA from Duke University in 1981 and an MD from the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. His post-graduate studies include a Family Medicine Rotating Internship and an Obstetrics/Gynecology Specialty residency, both at the University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York. He is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with the most recent recertification in 2006.

Dr. Scanlon’s international work includes fistula surgical repair at the Baptist Medical Center in Ghana and emergency obstetrical care instruction and training in Nigeria with a Maternal Life International team of specialists.

He coaches basketball, baseball and softball in his spare time. He and his wife, Cathleen, live in Huntington, New York with their three children; Robert, Timmy and Elizabeth.

Raymond F. (Ray) Rogers
CEO National Center for Health Care Informatics

Raymond F. (Ray) Rogers is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Center for Health Care Informatics (NCHCI) in Butte, Montana, and a faculty member at Montana Tech of the University of Montana. Rogers has more than 20 years experience in higher education, administration, management, fundraising, marketing, and business development. He holds an undergraduate degree in Engineering and a MS in Technical Communications.

In 2001, he led the effort on behalf of the Montana University System to create the nation’s first undergraduate degree in Health Care Informatics. He now serves as CEO of the NCHCI, a non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the management of health care data, information and knowledge. Through the NCHCI, he has built awareness and encouraged the board adoption of electronic health records, personal health records, and health information exchange. He was instrumental in developing a $250,000 multi-way, interactive, Internet II communication laboratory operated by the NCHCI.

Rogers is leading a number of significant educational, business development, and research and development efforts through the NCHCI. He is the national co-chair of the educational committee for the Healthcare IT Access Network for Rural & Underserved Populations and is a founding steering committee member for the Montana HIT Taskforce. Rogers is actively involved in several efforts to define and develop the national’s Health IT workforce. He is also working with Hewlett Packard Company and Crossflo Systems to develop a Health Information Exchange Pilot Project in Montana. He is a member of Maternal Life International’s Board of Directors.

Rogers also is active in his community, is a youth soccer coach and an outdoor enthusiast. He has three children.