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You are invited to a webinar featuring Feroze Sidhwa, MD, MPH, FACS, a trauma and critical care surgeon in California who most recently volunteered in Khan Younis, Gaza, with the World Health Organization, and Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, MD, MPA with a specialty in internal medicine, a Palestinian Bedouin physician in Israel, who was a first responder treating incoming victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7.

 

Dr. Sidhwa and Dr. Abu Fraiha will discuss their personal experiences working in healthcare during the current conflict, the future of Gazan healthcare, and ways that audience members can offer support. This webinar will also offer means of connecting viewers/participants to projects and organizations on the ground. Dr. Eman Ansari, M.D., M.P.H, F.A.A.P., Boston Children’s Hospital, will moderate the webinar.

 

Registration is required; attendees can ask questions to the doctors in advance of the webinar via the registration form. 

 

This webinar is hosted and organized by the following MIT faculty and units: Erica James (Anthro/DUSP), Tanalis Padilla (History), Marzyeh Ghassemi (EECS/IMES), Nancy Kanwisher (BCS) and MIT Libraries. 

 

More about the speakers
Feroze Sidhwa, MD, MPH, FACS, is a humanitarian surgeon, having worked most extensively in Palestine, but also in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. He most recently volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza, from March 25-April 8, 2024, with the World Health Organization. Dr. Sidhwa has written and spoken extensively about surgical humanitarian work, the United States’ role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the political consequences of medical relief work. He approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a secular American and as a humanitarian physician.

Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, MD, MPA, specializes in internal medicine and is currently completing both a clinical fellowship in critical care at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and a research fellowship at the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Palestinian Bedouin physician in Israel, she was a first responder treating incoming victims of Hamas’ attacks on October 7. On that day she lost many colleagues, friends and neighbors, and in the subsequent weeks and months she lost friends in Gaza during Israel’s devastating military campaign. Throughout this traumatic period in her life, she refused to surrender her sorrow or concern for all innocent victims of violence.

 

Moderator:
Dr. Eman Ansari is a pediatric pulmonologist and critical care medicine physician and a practicing pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH). She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Since 2021, she has served as chair of the Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (PICU) Committee and as a member of the Palestine Children Relief Fund (PCRF) and HEAL Palestine Medical Advisory Boards (MAB), and is a member of PCRF board of directors.

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