Niall P MacAllister His Irish parents having emigrated from Belfast, Northern Ireland, Niall Patrick Mac Allister was born in Somerset, England. He was schooled in England and Ireland, graduating from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. Pursuing a career in acute health care in the United States, Dr. Mac Allister won some National and International awards, also a United States patent in patient revival equipment. Dr. Mac Allister was Professor at New York University in Buffalo and at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia – later, Director of Surgical Intensive Care at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Mac Allister has published or presented more than one hundred articles and papers and participated in televised teaching courses. Moved by the impact of the prevalent social and economic disparities, moral apathy, the rise in crime, unemployment and disillusion among the young, Dr. Mac Allister founded a nonprofit program, Friendships Without Borders, Inc. www.fwbinc.org engaged in promoting conciliation in areas of conflict and discrimination. Its members have been awarded consultant roles with NATO in the Balkans and other areas of crises.