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Thursday, Feb 3, 7:30 pm – Wayland’s own Dr. Michael VanRooyen will present “The World’s Emergency Room: Saving Lives a Million at a Time.” Register for the Zoom link.
Michael VanRooyen is the Director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University. He is the Chairman of Emergency Medicine at both Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Enterprise Chief of Emergency Services for the Mass General Brigham Health System, where he oversees emergency services for over 500,000 patients. He founded and directs the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) at Harvard and has worked in over thirty countries affected by war and disaster, including Somalia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq, North Korea, and Darfur-Sudan. He also served with the American Red Cross after the World Trade Center attack in New York on September 11th and with US Secret Service, NASA the Navajo and Apache tribes in Arizona and New Mexico. He has authored the textbook “Emergent Field Medicine” and “The World’s Emergency Room” describing the evolution of modern humanitarian aid and the threats to healthcare workers in conflict.Dr. VanRooyen has worked in humanitarian relief settings for over 30 years, in most of the world’s active war zones. He will discuss the radical changes in the way the global community provides emergency humanitarian aid for the world’s most vulnerable populations, and highlight major innovations in the field of humanitarian relief.