IMR was founded in 2002 by Shauna Vollmer King, who holds a masters in public administration as well as a masters in health care management. Prior to IMR, she served in an executive management position for Centura Health, overseeing statewide charitable community health and outreach activities with a budget over 74 million dollars annually. She also serves on two major Colorado health care boards.
The IMR has provided medical relief all over the globe, including Bolivia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya,Laos, Kosovo, Romania, India, Myanmar, China, Mozambique, Senegal, Cuba, Peru, and Haiti.
The IMR has also set up disaster relief clinics in the wake of many recent tragedies, including the Haiti and Chilean Earthquakes, Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian Tsunami and the 2009 flooding in the Phillipines.
The clinics provide different levels of care, for a wide variety of medical conditions, from minor fevers to AIDS. Medical issues such as infections, gingival and dental problems, diseases that are as a result of lack of clean water and sanitation such as viral and parasitic infections, dermatological infections and minor surgical procedures. A large part of the outreach work provided by the clinics is healthcare education - thereby leaving the communities with the knowledge to keep themselves well long after the teams have departed. Improving the overall community health is a major imperative of IMR.