Nogales, Arizona

Board of Directors

Board of Directors - Officers

Jaime Chamberlain, President

 Ted Estrada, Executive Director
Karen Sykes, Secretary

 James Hayes, M. D.,
Medical Director
Lynne Albright

Lourdes Montijo
Richard DeLong
 Dr. Maria Eugenia Piña
Barbara Blake,
President Emeritus
 Mark Frankel, M. D., Medical Director Emeritus


Contributions by Board

Each of these Board Members is also a regular
volunteer at the Children's Clinic. They each contribute
financially, to their own ability.

Executive Director

Ted Estrada 

On May 1, 2008, Ted Estrada was appointed Executive Director of St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic by the Board of Directors.

Ted, a native Californian and lifelong career healthcare worker, was a hospital administrator in Los Angeles for 25 years, and for the past eight and one-half years, was CEO of Hospital Cima Hermosillo, in Hermosillo, Son. Three years ago, Ted got to know the Clinic’s work with impoverished Mexican children, when the first group of 30 children was taken to Hospital Cima Hermosillo for cleft palate and harelip surgery, performed by a team of surgeons from Children’s Surgery International at the request of St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic. He was very supportive of the Clinic’s work, and offered the hospital setting that allowed the surgery program to be repeated during the subsequent two years. Hospital Cima Hermosillo’s CEO, Omar Garza, recently informed Ted that they would welcome the cleft palate and harelip surgery to take place next October.

An avid writer, Ted wrote a chapter for the book “Healing Latinos” (recently reissued by the University of California Press), and has written several articles about children who have been helped by St. Andrew’s Children’s Clinic.

“I’ve retired three times,” Ted said. “But when I saw the caring love and empathy shown by everyone involved with the Clinic—doctors, nurses, volunteers, directors—for these poor Mexican children, I knew I wanted to be part of the team that brings hope and a quality of life to these unfortunate youngsters. Which means, I guess, I’ll just have to wait a while longer to really retire.”

Ted hopes to meet all the volunteers and professional and ancillary staff on Clinic days, to listen to their recommendations and suggestions, because, he said, “…they are the heartbeat of the wonderful work done today, as it has been since the Clinic’s inception more than thirty years ago.” Ted said, “I thank the Board of Directors for its confidence in me, and look forward to continuing the work begun three decades ago when a small group of volunteers decided that God’s work on earth must be our own, by helping Mexican children, many of whom cry themselves to sleep at night because of pain or hunger.

When a youngster now walks, where he couldn’t before, or a baby can now take a bottle thanks to reconstructive surgery for cleft palate and harelip, and a little girl now smiles because she can hear with the help of a hearing aid, we can all share in the pride that we are helping those who cannot help themselves.”