Posted 11:49 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21, 2015
A Mayo Clinic doctor will detail his experience as a visiting surgeon in Palestine during a UW-La Crosse presentation.
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Dr. Ahmad Nassr, associate professor of orthopedics at Mayo in Rochester[/caption]
Dr. Ahmad Nassr, an associate professor of orthopedics at Mayo in Rochester, will speak on “Mission to Gaza: A Surgeon’s Journey” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the Ward Room, Cartwright Center. Admission is free.
Nassr, a spinal surgeon, completed his undergraduate training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, residency at Rush University Medical Center and a spinal surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His practice involves the care of spinal conditions from the skull base to the sacrum, for patients with deformity, degenerative conditions, trauma and tumors.
Nassr has been involved as a visiting surgeon working with the Palestinian Children’s relief fund (PCRF) since 2011. He has been on six surgical mission trips to care for under-served children in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the Palestinian occupied territories. He will discuss the details of these trips and the current medical situation in Gaza.
The presentation is sponsored by these UWL departments: History, Economics, Communication Studies, Geography, Psychology, Educational Studies, Archaeology & Anthropology, Sociology, Exercise & Sports Science; along with the La Crosse Area Synod Middle East Subcommittee and the Islamic Community of Greater La Crosse.
If you go—
What: “Mission to Gaza: A Surgeon’s Journey”
Who: Dr. Ahmad Nassr, Mayo Clinic
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29
Where: Ward Room, Cartwright Center
Admission: Free
Dr. Ahmad Nassr, associate professor of orthopedics at Mayo in Rochester[/caption]
Dr. Ahmad Nassr, an associate professor of orthopedics at Mayo in Rochester, will speak on “Mission to Gaza: A Surgeon’s Journey” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the Ward Room, Cartwright Center. Admission is free.
Nassr, a spinal surgeon, completed his undergraduate training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, residency at Rush University Medical Center and a spinal surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His practice involves the care of spinal conditions from the skull base to the sacrum, for patients with deformity, degenerative conditions, trauma and tumors.
Nassr has been involved as a visiting surgeon working with the Palestinian Children’s relief fund (PCRF) since 2011. He has been on six surgical mission trips to care for under-served children in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the Palestinian occupied territories. He will discuss the details of these trips and the current medical situation in Gaza.
The presentation is sponsored by these UWL departments: History, Economics, Communication Studies, Geography, Psychology, Educational Studies, Archaeology & Anthropology, Sociology, Exercise & Sports Science; along with the La Crosse Area Synod Middle East Subcommittee and the Islamic Community of Greater La Crosse.
If you go—
What: “Mission to Gaza: A Surgeon’s Journey”
Who: Dr. Ahmad Nassr, Mayo Clinic
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29
Where: Ward Room, Cartwright Center
Admission: Free