(English) Robert Shelly, MD, FAAP is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics physician and Clinical Quality Lead at Union Community Care, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania that serves a large population of refugees and immigrants. Raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) to two American doctors, Dr. Shelly spent much of his early career serving small rural communities internationally, including in El Salvador and Nicaragua, where he served as a clinician and also trained local health workers using popular education methods. Upon returning to the US in 2002, Dr. Shelly joined Quincy Community Health in Washington, serving migrant and immigrant agricultural workers, before moving to upstate New York to work in a rural migrant health center from 2010 – 2021.