PERSON: Thaer Ahmad

Advocate Christ Medical Center

Global Health Director

Dr. Thaer Ahmad is a board-certified emergency medicine physician with a medical degree from Rush in 2014 and specialty training completed at St. John Hospital in Detroit in 2017. He currently serves as an attending physician at Advocate Christ Medical Center and holds roles as the Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the Global Health Director for the emergency department at Advocate Christ. Dr. Ahmad also works as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago and has pursued additional training in health emergencies and humanitarian response through programs at Johns Hopkins and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Joining MedGlobal in 2021, he has a particular focus on point-of-care ultrasound in resource-limited settings and local healthcare capacity building.

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