About our Team!
Grace Clinics is a nonprofit community medicine and research clinic serving the city of Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu
Our Mission
The mission of Grace Clinics is to carry out beneficence through medicine. Enjoying strong relationships with the surrounding hospitals of the greater Tirunelveli area, Grace Clinics acts solely for the good of each patient. Additionally, as members of a safety-net organization for the people of Tirunelveli, our healthcare professionals ensure that patients are never limited by finances or circumstance when accessing quality medical care.
Our Values
Beneficence, or the obligation of the physician to act for the benefit of the patient, is one of the four standing pillars of medical care. Beneficence is both a moral imperative as well as a call to action, and it serves as the primary guiding principle behind Grace Clinics’ mission.
Meet Our Board!
Karen Ebenezer, Founder
Karen Ebenezer is an MD Candidate at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, and a native of Tamil Nadu.
Her hometown of Tirunelveli has always been well-served by exceptional physicians. With the founding of Grace Clinics, she joins a significant legacy of free and low-cost medical care, and adds to it the rigor of clinical research and public health education.
Using her experiences as a research scientist at the Yale School of Medicine and later at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Karen’s goal is to make Grace Clinics a fully operational community health-focused research clinic, with particular focus on primary care services, health education and disease prevention.
Kirsten Ebenezer, Executive Director
Kirsten Ebenezer is a JD Candidate at Cardozo School of Law, and a native of Tamil Nadu.
With undergraduate degrees in Political Science and Human Biology, Kirsten is dedicated to understanding the critical intersection between public and fiscal policy, public health, and community development. Kirsten gained invaluable experience in the public health field by working with nonprofits, governmental organizations, and elected officials.
Her role focuses on legal compliance, Tirunelveli’s public health policy, and fundraising. Kirsten is dedicated to creating better health outcomes for her community in Tirunelveli.