Dr. Myron Glick Stepping Down as CEO of Jericho Road Community Health Center

Buffalo, N.Y. — Dr. Myron Glick, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jericho Road Community
Health Center (JRCHC), has announced his decision to step down from his role as Chief Executive
Officer, effective later this year, but remain a family doctor and public health advocate with the
organization. A search committee formed by JRCHC’s Board of Directors is conducting a national
search for Glick’s successor. He will remain as CEO until a successor is named.

Dr. Glick and his wife, Joyce, opened Jericho Road Family Practice (JRFP) on Buffalo’s West Side, a
private clinic in 1997. In 2003, they established Jericho Road Ministries, a faith-based organization,
to work alongside JRCHC to address the non-medical, poverty-related needs in the Buffalo
community. In 2013, JRFP and Jericho Road Ministries officially merged to form Jericho Road
Community Health Center, earning designation as a Federally Qualified Health Care center.

What began as a small family practice expanded into a dynamic, $42 million organization that today
addresses the interconnected issues of health and poverty in some of Buffalo’s most underserved
communities. Over the years, Dr. Glick and his team grew the organization to include five health
centers in Buffalo, serving over 24,000 unique patients annually, and numerous community
programs focused on addressing the needs of refugees, homeless asylum seekers, and pregnant
women from under resourced communities.

Under Dr. Glick’s leadership, JRCHC began following refugees it had served here in Buffalo back to
their home countries and expanded JRCHC’s services to include five global health centers three in
Sierra Leone, and one each in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Nepal. At these clinics,
JRCHC sees over 5,300 patients and delivers over 200 babies per month, while providing lifesaving
surgeries, inpatient hospital care and a variety of important community outreach programs.

Phebian Abdulai, a former refugee who was treated at JRCHC and later worked for the center,
returned to Sierra Leone to create the Adama Martha Memorial Community Health Center in 2015,
said, “When I told Dr. Glick that I wanted to bring healthcare to my village in Sierra Leone, he
didn’t just say, ‘That’s a great idea.’ He prayed with me. Then, when the time came, he provided the
resources and support needed to help me fulfill my dream. I can’t imagine anyone else with the faith
to walk into the unknown as he did. He always stayed faithful, trusting in God as we began the work
that would grow into a global mission, reaching not only Sierra Leone but also Congo and Nepal.
Dr. Glick has laid a strong foundation. His vision, his faith, and his love for people have built
something that will last.”

In March 2015, JRCHC assumed the assets and programming of Vive Shelter, which provides
temporary shelter, legal assistance, and emergency services to homeless asylum seekers and their
families. In 2024, JRCHC acquired a new home for Vive at 1500 Main Street after a successful $6
million capital campaign.

“After 28 years as physician, administrator, and public advocate, Joyce and I have decided that it is
time for me to transition into a new role with JRCHC,” said Dr. Glick. “I plan to continue serving
the Buffalo community as a family doctor at JRCHC, maintaining a large patient panel, delivering
babies, and advocating for systemic health equity, both at home and abroad. I look forward to
working with the JRCHC Board and the new chief executive to promote the incredible mission of
JRCHC: to care for our communities and advocate for health equity, in order to demonstrate the
unconditional love of Jesus Christ.”

“This is a bittersweet moment for JRCHC,” said Mark Herskind, chair of the JRCHC Board of
Directors. “From a tiny beginning on the West Side of Buffalo, Myron and Joyce Glick have led the
development of a truly amazing ministry serving some of the most vulnerable people in Buffalo and
beyond. Dr. Glick will leave enormous shoes to fill, so we are grateful that he will continue with
JRCHC in a new role. I speak for the Board, the staff and the patients of JRCHC in expressing our
profound admiration and gratitude for what he has accomplished over the past 28 years.”

Reflecting on the past 28 years, Dr. Glick said, “Medical school and family medicine residency
training prepared me to be a family doctor; working in Buffalo at Jericho Road since 1997 has taught
me what it is like to stare injustice in the eye. It developed in me a commitment to holistic, equitable
healthcare that I have attempted to weave into the DNA of JRCHC.”

He continued, “In the midst of suffering and inequity, I have built lasting relationships with
marginalized people. I have listened to their stories, eaten dinner at their homes, played soccer with
their children, cared for them when they were sick, delivered their babies, visited them in the
hospital and attended their weddings … and their funerals. Because of what I have witnessed, and
because of the amazing people I have had the privilege to meet along the way, I have become a
better person, husband, father, and family doctor. I have given much and received even more.”

During the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Africa, which weakened the fragile healthcare system and
devastated families and communities, Dr. Glick was on the ground in Sierra Leone seeing patients
and helping to meet the enormous health need.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Glick saw that the coronavirus was affecting patients of color
in Buffalo at a higher and more severe rate, which prompted JRCHC to spearhead barrier-free
testing and vaccination efforts.

“Through Dr. Glick’s leadership, JRCHC continues to display the best of humanity,” said Pastor
George Nicholas, CEO of the Buffalo Center for Health Equity. “Their uncompromising
commitment to serving all God’s children is the best example of the expression of the love of Christ
in this region. Buffalo is a better city because of his work, and we look forward to continuing to
work beside him in our shared vision of health equity for all.”

Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and raised in Belize by a missionary Mennonite family, Dr. Glick
was the first in his family to attend college, earning a B.S. in Biology from Houghton College in
1988, and an M.D. from SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine in 1993. He completed his Family
Practice Residency Training at Lancaster General Hospital in 1996 before embarking on a career
that would span both local and global health care.

Dr. Glick’s work has earned him numerous accolades, including, with his wife, an honorary doctor
of humane letters from Canisius College, now Canisius University, in 2022. He has also been deeply
involved in Christian community health initiatives, having served on the board of the Christian
Community Health Fellowship (CCHF) as both a member and Chair.

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