Hedy Chambers

co-founder and President of The Chambers Fund for Children

Hedy Chambers is the co-founder and President of The Chambers Fund for Children. Hedy, along with her husband, started a business, RC Health Services Inc., as a home office in 2009 and turned it into a profitable entity within 12 months. Currently, RCHS is one of the world’s largest CPR training companies as well as the largest EMT career schools in the country. Hedy is a highly respected member of the healthcare community having worked hands-on with RCHS since its inception. Hedy is fluent in English, Romanian, and Hungarian to go along with her excellent business management and organizational skills. She earned her Associates Degree from Lone Star Community College in 2006.

 


Robert Chambers

Co-owner and CEO of RC Health Services and the RC family of companies

Robert Chambers is the co-owner and CEO of RC Health Services and the RC family of companies.  His experience and ability to maintain successful and profitable operations for over10 years as well as his reputation as a trusted Registered Nurse is an important element of the company.

Robert is a well-known and highly respected member of the nursing community earning his Associates of Applied Science of Nursing in 2008.  In addition to his duties at RC Health Services, Robert enjoys a career as a professional trumpeter as Principal Trumpet of the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra and regularly performs with symphony orchestras worldwide.

Hedy and Robert are the proud parents of two boys, Robert IV, 14 years old and Branden, 1 year old.

 

Together, the wife and husband team established the Chambers Fund for Children to embrace a new challenge in life: to focus all efforts in helping children in need of medical treatment. With the help of dedicated board members and volunteers the mission toward success began in January 2020.

 


Dr. Lars Thestrup, MD

Managing Partner

Dr. Lars Thestrup was born and raised in Northern Virginia where he attended Mary Washington College earning his B.S. in Biology. He received his M.D. at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his emergency medicine residency at Johns Hopkins. Lars then completed his fellowship in North Carolina focusing on emergency medical services and disaster preparedness at the Carolinas Medical Center. Shortly after the completion of his fellowship, Lars accepted a position with the City of Houston as an Assistant Medical Director to the Houston Fire Department. His current role involves providing medical care and consultation to the Houston Fire and Police Department as well as assisting in the coordination of disaster preparedness for the City. He is also active with research focusing on cardiac arrest management and dispatch protocols. He has practiced clinically at St. Joseph’s and St. Luke’s Medical Center.  Currently he practices at Ben Taub, Texas Children’s Hospital, and St. Luke’s CHI Patient’s Hospital. He resides in Houston with his wife Heather and two kids.

 


Dr. Lenora Noroski

Managing Partner

Dr. Lenora Noroski has interests, experience and expertise in clinical research and the diagnoses and treatment of patients with primary immunodeficiencies, including rare forms of these diseases in infants, children and adults, as well as secondary immunodeficiencies, particularly HIV and malnutrition, and complex allergic diseases and asthma. In addition to caring for patients of all ages as a clinical immunologist, Dr. Noroski holds a masters in Health Education, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences and is a Fulbright & Jaworski faculty scholar in Educational Leadership and Teaching & Evaluation.

She serves as Associate Program Director for the Allergy and Immunology fellowship program and Director of Immunology, Allergy & Rheumatology/Retrovirology Educational Programming where she oversees the educational curriculum for trainees and rotators, teaches immunology to all levels of national and international professionals and has mentored trainees and patients in creating and publishing innovative and sustainable educational and clinical programs.  She earned the 2013 ACGME David Leach Award for designing and implementing a uniquely effective allergy course for her fellowship program and has received recognition for her roles as Medical Director for the first recreational/educational camps in Texas for HIV-infected children and their families, for her copyrighted interactive educational game on HIV facts, in serving as co-founder and Director of Kids Council, a patient-youth advocacy program, and currently as principal investigator and clinician-educator for the “Global Immunodeficiency Rounds” project, a collaboration of international immunologists to solve diagnostic dilemmas in real-time on patients with fatal immune disorders from resource limited populations.

Dr. Noroski is dedicated to underserved communities, the study of diversity in immunity and human populations, the understanding of the attitudes and beliefs of her patients as they deal with their chronic illnesses, to the success of her trainees in Allergy and Immunology and to making a caring difference for all children and their families, here and across the globe.

Dr. Lenora Noroski has interests, experience and expertise in clinical research and the diagnoses and treatment of patients with primary immunodeficiencies, including rare forms of these diseases in infants, children and adults, as well as secondary immunodeficiencies, particularly HIV and malnutrition, and complex allergic diseases and asthma. In addition to caring for patients of all ages as a clinical immunologist, Dr. Noroski holds a masters in Health Education, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences and is a Fulbright & Jaworski faculty scholar in Educational Leadership and Teaching & Evaluation.

She serves as Associate Program Director for the Allergy and Immunology fellowship program and Director of Immunology, Allergy & Rheumatology/Retrovirology Educational Programming where she oversees the educational curriculum for trainees and rotators, teaches immunology to all levels of national and international professionals and has mentored trainees and patients in creating and publishing innovative and sustainable educational and clinical programs.  She earned the 2013 ACGME David Leach Award for designing and implementing a uniquely effective allergy course for her fellowship program and has received recognition for her roles as Medical Director for the first recreational/educational camps in Texas for HIV-infected children and their families, for her copyrighted interactive educational game on HIV facts, in serving as co-founder and Director of Kids Council, a patient-youth advocacy program, and currently as principal investigator and clinician-educator for the “Global Immunodeficiency Rounds” project, a collaboration of international immunologists to solve diagnostic dilemmas in real-time on patients with fatal immune disorders from resource limited populations.

Dr. Noroski is dedicated to underserved communities, the study of diversity in immunity and human populations, the understanding of the attitudes and beliefs of her patients as they deal with their chronic illnesses, to the success of her trainees in Allergy and Immunology and to making a caring difference for all children and their families, here and across the globe. She was also honored as the 2017 Distinguished Alumni and the Commencement Speaker of the School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of California State University, one of the most diverse and the largest state university in California.