Mark Wise

Timmy Global Health pursues two noble goals: to provide health care to the poorest of the poor and to encourage a future health care workforce to think globally.

Mark Wise was recruited to Timmy’s board 10 years ago and was hooked. “It took one meeting to realize that the work the organization was doing was profound,” he said.

Mr. Wise, a wealth management adviser in Indianapolis with Northwestern Mutual Investment Services LLC, is now chairman of the nonprofit, which has served 60,000 people abroad and locally since 1997.

Every year, Timmy deploys about 350 college students (mostly pre-med and allied medical majors) from 26 student chapters on a one-week medical brigade to communities in Ecuador, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Nigeria.

The students bring medications and supplies, learn triage and transport rural patients to scarce pharmacies. Back in the U.S., they raise funds and secure medications for their adopted foreign clinics.

In Indianapolis, Timmy volunteers collect medications to donate to international and local free clinics.

Mr. Wise sees a “huge parallel” between his financial advising work and his philanthropic work.

“I love helping others,” he said. “I’m a good steward for my clients and for the people Timmy serves.”