Associate Clinical Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Zaher Sahloul is a critical care physician from Chicago and a leading advocate on the Syrian humanitrian crisis. He is medical volunteer, senior advisor and past president of the Syrian American Medical Society, known as SAMS https://www.sams-usa.net/foundation/ and founder of the American Relief Coalition for Syria http://arcsyria.org/. He leads SAMS Global Response to provide medical relief to refugees and disaster areas. He has volunteered in Aleppo and several other parts of Syria as a volunteer, and testified about the situation there to the UN.
Why ignoring mental health needs of young Syrian refugees could harm us all
Jan 30, 2018 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
When a seven-year-old student in eastern Aleppo was asked at the peak of the bombardment campaign by the Assad regime in 2015 to draw a picture, he did not draw children playing, nor did he draw a blue sky or a smiling...
Inside Aleppo's medical nightmare, and why we must act
Nov 08, 2016 13:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views
There are only 30 remaining doctors in Aleppo, and they have been describing an unimaginable situation, some of which I have seen firsthand. They have to perform amputations on children on the floor of their rudimentary...
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