With the 2016 L'Chaim Prize, Fader intends to build a new ward in the hospital, expand its current laboratories, and buy orthopedic equipment.
[5] Fader got his MD from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in 2003 and did his general surgery residency at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
[6] At Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital, the general surgery residency program director, Seth Wolk, worked to provide Fader with the extra training he would need to serve as a medical missionary in Africa.
[6] The Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital allowed its students to spend a month of their general surgery residency in a rural United States location.
[6] While studying in Michigan, Fader and his wife met two other families at the Knox Presbyterian Church and together they formed a medical missionary team.
[8] In Burundi, Fader works as a clinical faculty member at the Hope Africa University's Medical School.
[9] Each missionary with Fader is tasked with raising individual financial support and is required to speak both French and Kirundi.