Volunteer Spotlight: Michael Bosworth (Medical Assistant)

Michael taking vitals at Guatemala clinic March 2023 on his medical mission.

For June’s Volunteer of the Month, we're spotlighting one of our new Volunteer Medical Assistants, Michael Bosworth.

For Michael, volunteering at Culmore Clinic had been in the workings for a while. He first found out about The Clinic back in 2018 from his sister-in-law, Betty Slanta, who was a volunteer. At the time he was volunteering as an EMT with Fairfax County Fire & Rescue and was about to head off for a medical mission in a rural mountain medical center in Guatemala. But, he didn't forget about us, and a couple of months ago, when he retired from his ambulance work, he reached back out!

Michael joins us for two to three, half-day shifts a month as a Volunteer Medical Assistant. He is a very friendly face for our patients as he helps prepare them to see our medical providers, working alongside our Registered Nurses. This can involve anything from greeting and welcoming the patients, getting them set up in their exam room, taking vitals, arranging the table-based language interpreter, and the like. 

So far, Michael’s favorite part of volunteering at Culmore Clinic is, “helping a segment of our population that is underserved. I love to learn, so moving from my EMT trauma/transport background into the Clinic’s internal medicine focus is interesting, as is the opportunity to practice and improve my Spanish language capability.”

When Michael is not volunteering with us at Culmore Clinic he has a very full schedule of pastimes. Combining his love of music and history, he hosts a Sea Shanty Open Pub Sing at Auld Shebeen Irish Pub in Fairfax and is a member of The Chanteymen, an Irish folk band that performs for American Revolution and War of 1812 historical sites and museums regularly. 

Before volunteering with us, he had a long career in Engineering, and served in the Navy. He puts these skills and experiences to use by mentoring student ship design teams, as well as high school and college STEM-inspired youth through another nonprofit called LET’S GO.

When he’s not busy with all of these things, he and his wife Barbara, of 44 years, are at home in their 100 year old Vienna house, at their church Ss Peter & Paul Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Potomac MD, or spending time with their family including their three grown children and their four grandchildren. They also travel, including a planned trip to Greece soon to watch their goddaughter get married.

We are so lucky to have Michael. He has already brought such positive energy to The Clinic, and hope to hear him singing in the halls as soon as he's ready!