Jon Fielder grew up in Spring, Texas and attended
Williams College in Massachusetts, graduating summa cum
laude with highest honors in chemistry. He earned his
Doctor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, where he was elected Alpha Omega Alpha and
graduated with honor. During medical school, Jon took a
one year leave of absence to go to India, working for
Calcutta Rescue and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of
Charity.
He completed his
internal medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, Maryland. He was named “Most Oslerian,” the
highest award given to a Hopkins medical intern. His
writing has appeared in The International Journal
Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Praxis Post, The
New England Journal of Medicine, First Things and
Medscape, as a series of case studies from East Africa.
He has also served as a reviewer for AIDSReviews.
After finishing his
training, Dr. Fielder went to Kenya under the auspices of
Samaritan’s Purse and now works at Kijabe Hospital, a Christian
institution on the edge of the Great Rift Valley. Jon remains a
member of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Houston. He is
accompanied in Kenya by his wife, Amanda Martzluf Fielder, a
psychiatric social worker, and their son Matthew, born at Kijabe
Hospital. The Fielders now serve with Africa Inland Mission
(AIM), a non-denominational Protestant mission which has been
working in Kenya since 1895.
Dr. Fielder’s efforts in Kenya have focused on the provision of
antiretroviral therapy to adults and children with HIV
infection. His other work includes directing the intensive care
unit, caring for general medical patients, providing infectious
disease consultative services, overseeing the lab and pharmacy,
and training Kenyan national healthcare workers.
Dr. Fielder and his family
are currently on home assignment until 2008. He will be working
at the HIV clinic and teaching at the University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Now serving at Kijabe as
director of the HIV care program and consultant to other mission
hospitals is Dr. Nate Smith, also a missionary with AIM.
Please feel free to contact Dr. Fielder at fielderjon@hotmail.com.
