As founder and CEO of Medweb in San Francisco, Peter “Pete” Killcommons guides his company in providing telemedicine and imaging services; his firm is one of the few corporations that include a dedicated philanthropic division. Among the recipients of Peter Killcommons’ charity projects are disaster sites in the United States and abroad.

1. Medweb Provides
Disaster Relief
Internationally and
at Home
PETER KILLCOMMONS

2. Introduction
As founder and CEO of Medweb in San Francisco, Peter “Pete” Killcommons guides
his company in providing telemedicine and imaging services; his firm is one of the
few corporations that include a dedicated philanthropic division. Among the
recipients of Peter Killcommons’ charity projects are disaster sites in the United
States and abroad.
Southwest Asia has been a focal point for several Medweb initiatives. In Afghanistan,
Medweb installed and provided training for a deployable telemedicine clinic. This
clinic enables doctors and patients in separate locations to communicate via voice
and visual links. Medweb also improved satellite communications at a lab in
Jalalabad.
Medweb also served Tristan de Cunha, a remote island west of South Africa that can
only be reached by a weeklong boat trip. The company enhanced telemedicine
capabilities and continues to provide technical support and training there.
In the US, Medweb aided victims of Hurricane Katrina with a mobile medical triage
unit on the ground at Touro Hospital and on board the USNS Comfort.