President

Paul M. D'Amore is Founder and Managing Member of D'Amore Personal Injury Law, LLC.

Paul earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business finance and marketing from Boston University’s School of Management in 1992, and a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University’s School of Law in 1997.

Paul began his legal career as an Assistant Prosecutor for the State of New Jersey. Paul left the prosecutor’s office in 1999, and spent the next 10 years successfully defending corporations, doctors, nurses and hospitals in Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington, D.C. against claims of negligence.

In 2009, Paul resigned his partnership at Wharton, Levin Ehrmantraut & Klein and began working as a personal injury lawyer with The Cochran Firm.

In 2015, Paul founded D’Amore Personal Injury Law to pursue his vision of providing top quality, client focused representation to people catastrophically hurt by the negligence of others.  The results Paul has achieved for his injured clients and their families have earned him numerous awards, including recognition as a Maryland and D.C. Super Lawyer, a Top 100 Trial Lawyer, and Life Membership in the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums.

Paul also enjoys giving back to the community through a number of charitable organizations. He is currently a Board Member of Medicine With a Mission, The Zaching Against Cancer Foundation and the Baltimore Hunger Project.

Paul resides in Crownsville, MD with his wife, Nicole, and their three children.

Executive Director

Margo Cook, is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) and Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) with more than a decade of professional nonprofit management and finance experience.

For the past ten years, Cook has served in development director roles for Anne Arundel Medical Center Foundation, United States Naval Academy Foundation, and the University of Miami Health System.

Currently, Margo is an investment advisor with 1 North Wealth, a fee-only financial management and advisory firm providing customized investment management and financial plans for clients.

Margo is dedicated and passionate about helping people, and, having served in various fundraising roles in the healthcare industry, she is especially interested in assuring that all people, regardless of where they live or how much money they have, have access to quality, affordable healthcare and surgical interventions.

​Margo is honored to serve on the board of Medicine With a Mission whose vision she shares wholeheartedly. Margo is a graduate of the University of Miami and St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, MD. She lives on the eastern short with her husband and two children.

We would not be here today without the initial efforts of these four amazing friends, who worked tirelessly to inspire others, spread the love and joy, and hold fundraisers to raise a considerable amount of money to restore the bathrooms of the South Government School of Grenada, prior to our becoming an official US nonprofit. We know they will be incredible doctors and leaders in the future and want to give them sincere love and gratitude for all that they have done and continue to do. Thank you and continue to shine the light to all those you meet!

Vice-President

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recent projects

Eugene F. Deems, Jr. has 40 years of combined experience in the areas of business building, communications, marketing and new media strategies with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Capital Gazette Communications, Inc.

Gene leads the eGov and Digital Services efforts of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, where he championed connecting digitally with customers when the public internet was first starting. In 1995, Mr. Deems developed the policies for website guidelines, copyright issues, privacy, content, external links, e-government/e-commerce and new media partners for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and launched the state of Maryland government's first website. He has built and managed teams of people in diversified environments. The DNR Online Store he built (shopdnr.com) serves over 5,000 customers a year and generated over $1.6 million since it's launch in May 2004 and currently generates $260,000 a year. Strengths include excellent team building skills, time management, planning, and project management skills.

He has ties to the community and is a philanthropist. As co-chair of the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County's Great Give 2015 in Maryland, which raised $907,000 online in 24 hours. He serves on several nonprofit boards and has worked with dozens of nonprofits.

He describes himself as "A lover of life, fun, challenges, opportunities and making a difference one person at a time." You can find him on Twitter at @gdeems.

Gene's real passion for life is #makingadifference in people's lives and to provide hope and healing to those in need.