Healthcare Where It’s Most Needed!
Empowering Surgeons & Transforming Lives with MatchAPro!
Welcome to MatchAPro, where dedicated surgeons connect with underserved communities, creating meaningful impact. Our platform utilizes advanced matching algorithms to forge surgeon-patient connections. But there’s more.
At MatchAPro, we revolutionize medical mission planning, increasing access to surgeries in underserved areas. Surgeons gain a reliable platform to experience diverse surgical engagements, all at no cost. We save valuable planning time, ensuring more patients receive the care they need.
MatchAPro is efficiently globalising surgical intervention in medical deserts and lowering surgical backlogs, whilst up-skilling local aspiring specialists.
Founder’s Story
Tuduetso Masire is a Botswana-born entrepreneur who holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and International Business from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA, USA and a Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the University of Southern California (USC). During her time at USC, she developed MatchAPro, with the vision to connect underserved patients with medical professionals around the world in their local setting.
Tudu’s motivation for developing MatchAPro came from her personal struggle with severe cluster headaches in her early 20s, which required her to seek medical treatment outside of Botswana due to a shortage of specialists. After experiencing the challenges of accessing healthcare, she conducted research on patients who struggle with chronic illness and discovered that many were on long waiting lists to receive necessary medical procedures.
Tudu’s achievements with MatchAPro include making it to the top six of the New Venture Seed Competition (NVSC) and receiving a Bronze and Social Impact Cash Awards, being selected as one of Blackstone’s New Venture Fellows, and being competitively selected as top 5 candidate’s for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering MIN Family Challenge for social innovation and UN SDG’s. She also made it to the semi-finals of the Athena Woman In Entrepreneurship Competition at USC.
Meet Our Team
Tuduetso Masire, Founder
MSc. Entrepreneurship & Innovation, University of Southern California
Sandra Lara Galindo, Partner
Biomedical Engineering Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
Dr. Phatsimo Masire, Head – Medical Research
MPH, Health and Policy Systems Management – Thomas Jefferson University College of Population Health
Florence Phelenyane, Director – Data Mining
Health Data Science | Epidemiology | PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Advisors & Mentors
Dr. Uchenna Nwosu, Medical Advisor
Medical Doctor (MD) – The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Speciality Trained: Interventional Radiologist – ChristianaCare
Dr. Benjamin La Brot, MatchAPro NGO Partner
Founder of Floating Doctors, & Professor at Keck Medicine of USC
Member of World Extreme Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, & Wilderness Medical Society
Albert Napoli
BS, business economics and finance, MBA and PhD in education from the University of Southern California (USC)
Albert Napoli is an award-winning instructor at the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC. He partners with CEOs, family members, and non-family member executives to create smooth leadership and business transition plans from one generation to the next.
Paul Orfalea
BS Finance, University of Southern California
Kinko’s founder Paul Orfalea grew a single copy shop into the industry leader with 1200 branches worldwide and over 23000 co-workers. Now Fed-Ex Office.