Noriyuki Murakami MD, (he/him), is a member of the founding group of volunteers for Friends of Kisoro and worked with the UNHCR leadership and the Office of the Prime Minister to create the Memorandum of Understanding that established the first Psychosocial Support Center based in a UNHCR Transit Center. He served as the executive director of Friends of Kisoro from 2016 until 2019 and currently serves as a board member. He is an internal medicine physician and assistant professor at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn where he helped start an asylum medicine clinic, and has worked as a volunteer physician at the Kisoro District Hospital since 2012.  Previously he lived in Chiang Mai, Thailand, as an NIH Fogarty scholar where he researched human rights abuses in Burma against the people in Karen state, and worked for UNICEF and the US Peace Corps as the district cholera coordinator in Nkhotakota, Malawi.