DIRECT FROM THE HOT ZONE

A Personal Interview with Dr. Neil Schluger,

MD, the Chief of Pulmonary Medicine,
Columbia University, New York
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 Dr. Neil Schluger, MD
Neil W. Schluger, M.D. is the Chief of the Division of
Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the
Columbia University Medical Center and Professor of
Medicine, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Science
at the Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons and Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
He is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and took his training in
pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Cornell University Medical Center in New
York. He has served as a visiting fellow and guest investigator at the Rockefeller University
and in the Pulmonary Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of NIH. He
serves as the Chief Scientific Officer for World Lung Foundation (WLF) and is the founder
and director of the East Africa Training Initiative, a WLF-sponsored project to train
pulmonary physicians in Ethiopia. Under this initiative, expert faculty are in residence in
Addis Ababa to train Ethiopian physicians in clinical and public health aspects of lung
health. This program is the first of its kind in East Africa, and will create capacity and
expertise in lung disease in Ethiopia and neighboring countries.

Dr. Rick Hodes

Rick Hodes is medical director of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee in Ethiopia. A native of Long Island,
he graduated from Middlebury College, University of
Rochester Medical School, and trained in internal medicine
at Johns Hopkins Bayview. He has cared for Ethiopian
immigrants to Israel, and worked in with refugees in Albania,
Rwanda, Zaire, and Tanzania. He practices in an Addis Ababa
city hospital, specializing in spinal deformity and rheumatic
heart disease. He consults at Mother Teresa’s Mission. He was a CNN Hero, has been ABC's
Person of the Week, is the subject of an HBO documentary "Making the Crooked Straight,"
and a book by Marilyn Berger: “This is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes,” published by
Harper Collins. He lives in Ethiopia with his Ethiopian family. www.Rickhodes.org