Dr. Patrick Loehrer received the 2023 ASCO Humanitarian Award for his work to expand cancer care globally, including co-founding an oncology program in Kenya that now treats thousands annually.
Dr. Sommer Aldulaimi, an associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, received the MedGlobal Humanitarian Award for establishing an obstetrics training program in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Volunteering can remind doctors why they chose this profession: to heal others, according to Dr. Robert Pearl.
For Direct Relief, which delivers donated medicine and medical supplies for people in Yemen and Sudan – two of the world’s most troubled and impoverished countries – avoiding the Red Sea is not an option.
Los Angeles County is using occupational therapists to help formerly homeless residents with disabilities transition to permanent supportive housing and develop skills to live indoors, preventing evictions and returns to homelessness.
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