Keith Dahlberg, MD is a graduate of the State University of New York Medical Center at Syracuse, and holds a BA in chemistry from Syracuse University.
Lois Coleman Dahlberg, RN is a graduate of the former Syracuse General Hospital School of Nursing, and holds a BS in management technology from Lewis & Clark State College, Lewiston, Idaho.
During 1957 to 1962, we re-opened the American Baptist hospital at Kengtung, East Shan States, Burma, which had closed during World War II. From 1963 to 1967, we established a new hospital at Mae Sariang, Thailand, and worked there again from 1977 to 1981, including service as first responders in the Cambodian refugee crisis in 1979, at Sa Kaew camp.
Keith has worked as a family physician in Kellogg, Idaho, USA from 1967 until 1993. Since then he has done volunteer work at Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea, at Kwai River Christian Hospital, Sangklaburi, Thailand, and in Burma's Kachin State helping train village health workers.
He has also been a "Rent-a-Doc" (locum tenens) in nine states in USA in the period from 1994 to 2004. For twelve years he served on the American Baptist Churches/USA General Board and is now retired in Kellogg, Idaho, where he spends his time writing. The web pages "Our Books" and "Articles" contain some excerpts, which are renewed from time to time.
Lois has accompanied him and worked on many of these projects, as a nurse and as a community volunteer. She has spent many years serving in American Baptist Women, and as a school nurse in North Idaho.
We have lived in or near Burma during much of its 60-year-long civil strife, and have done what we can to encourage peace in that nation. We believe that peace is more than merely the absence of war. Although political, religious, or ideologic agendas may have value, peace is not likely until holders of conflicting points of view make a serious effort to understand why their opponents have a different viewpoint.
We are proud of our four adult children and nine grandchildren.
