Last updated 3/20/06

VISITING FACULTY

	Gene Bolles MD Neurosurgeon, Assistant Professor Neurosurgery, University Of Colorado in Denver.. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1963, and studying neurosurgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he was in private practice in Boulder for 32 years. In 2001, he was called to active duty by the military and stationed in Landstuhl, Germany. While at Landstuhl, until 2004,  he was chief of neurosurgery, caring for injured soldiers transferred to the base from military zones around the world, including Afghanistan and Iraq.  Bolles is also a member of Doctors Without Borders. During his travels with Doctors Without Borders he has gone to Belize, Mexico, Albania and Indonesia to help those in need.  Dr. Bolles is featured in "The Ground Truth," a documentary film about Iraqi veterans and has been interviewed by numerous nationally recognized radio and print media.  This year he was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
	Joseph Briseno, Sr Mr. Briseno is the father of Joseph "Jay" Briseno, Jr who was grievously wounded in Baghdad in April 2003.  According to the VA  Jay is the most severely wounded soldier from the Iraq War.  Jay is a high cervical quadriplegic, ventilator dependent, and while he cannot speak he is fully conscious.  Joe Sr and Jay's mother Eva Marie provide full-time care for Jay in their home.  Joe, Jay, and Eva Marie were featured on two programs of the PBS Lehrer News Hour, first in April 2005 and then in a follow-up segment December 2005.
	Judith Cook MD General practitioner working with marginalized and excluded groups in London UK.  She volunteered with Médecins du Monde, UK for projects in Afghanistan in 2002 and Liberia in 2003 and is currently volunteering with Médecins du Monde-UK for Project: London, a new initiative to help vulnerable groups access main stream health care services. She is a member of the board of Medact and was involved in Medact’s work on violence, conflict and health including their three reports on the impact on health of war on Iraq.  She has presented this work in the UK and internationally.
	Salam Ismael MD Dr. Ismael is an orthopedic surgeon, Volunteer Field Doctor with Doctors For Iraq. From October 2003- September 2005 he gained extensive experience handling war related trauma cases.  He earned a scholarship from the International Federation of Health and Human Rights for his work inside Iraq, then participated in a training course on human rights and the right to health at the International Academy of Human Rights, Cape Town, South Africa.  Since then he has traveled widely and participated in many international forums describing the medical and humanitarian situation in Iraq.  Working with various international organizations, Iraqi engineers,  water and sanitation professionals, he has helped organize field clinics in the conflict areas, set up health units, humanitarian and medical missions in various internally displaced camps, and helped provide basic non food services and supplies to families in need across Iraq including: Fallujah, Hadeetha, Qiam, Talafar, and Diala   Additional experience includes evaluation of radiologic pollution in Falluja, volunteer medical services during the sieges of Falluja and Hadeetha, work in an amputee clinic in Basra, and arranging for medical relief convoys to Western Iraq: Ramadi, Hadeetha, Heet, Qiam.
	Evan Kanter MD PhD Staff Psychiatrist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System. Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine. Member, Board of Directors, Physicians for Social Responsibility. Dr. Kanter specializes in the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Also a neuroscientist, he has conducted research on the neurobiology of traumatic stress. His social activism has included traveling twice to Iraq with PSR / IPPNW delegations.
	Evan Lyon MD Senior resident in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA.  He splits his time equally between Boston and the rural Central Plateau of Haiti.  In Haiti, Dr. Lyon is a volunteer physician with Partners In Health / Zanmi Lasante - a non-profit, community-based healthcare organization dedicated to caring for Haiti's poor.  His main clinical interests revolve around providing comprehensive HIV / TB treatment and prevention in resource-poor settings.
	John O. Pastore MD Director of Echocardiography at Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.  He is the Immediate Past President of national PSR. Thirty-five years ago he served as a U.S. Public Health Service officer and research internist at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.  As the former Secretary of IPPNW, he has traveled to Iraq and North Korea in the cause of peace through medical assistance and dialogue.
	Jeffrey B. Ritterman MD Chief of the Cardiology Division of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Richmond,California where he has worked as a clinical cardiologist since 1981.  Dr. Ritterman is on the steering committee of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.  Between 12/26/05-1/5/06, Dr. Ritterman and his beloved partner Vivien Feyer represented National PSR on the Families for Peace Delegation which journeyed to the Iraqi border.  In August of 2005 they traveled to Crawford, Texas and represented National PSR at Camp Casey where they presented Cindy Sheehan with a letter of support from PSR CEO, Bob Musil.
	Leonard S. Rubenstein JD Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that promotes health by protecting human rights. Rubenstein has engaged in extensive field work in human rights in Chechnya, South Africa, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, Kosovo, and elsewhere. He has written extensively in the field of human rights and medical ethics and led the international working group that issued the report, Dual Loyalty and Human Rights in the Health Professions:  Proposed Guidelines and Institutional Mechanisms. He has been a leader in the fight against torture by U.S. forces and in ending medical complicity in coercive interrogation.   Len is recipient of the Congressional Minority Caucuses’ 2003 Healthcare Heroes Award, the UN Association of the National Capital Area’s Louis B. Sohn Award, and the National Mental Health Association’s Mission Award.
	Laura Turiano, MS, PA-C   Family practice physician assistant who has worked in a community health center and an addiction treatment program in Oakland, California. Prior to entering the George Washington University Physician Assistant program, she lived in El Salvador where she provided primary care services and supported local health care system development in communities of demobilized FMLN combatants and their families. Currently, she is coordinating the People's Health Movement Right to Health Campaign in the US.