Airway: Doctor's Tales From Inside the Hospital
Participants
Dr. Mert Erogul is an emergency doctor at Maimonides Medical Center and co-founder of Airway Stories. He has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Threepenny Review among others.
Dr. Nakesha King graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College and completed her general surgery training at The Ohio State University. She completed her Masters of Science during her research sabbatical concentrating on tissue engineered vascular grafts at the Center of Regenerative Medicine of Nationwide Children's Hospital. She returns to New York as a General and Trauma Surgeon as well as an Intensivist in the Department of Surgery at the Maimonides Medical Center. In addition to her clinical duties, she enjoys participating in residency education and community outreach.
Dr. Joshua Schiller is currently an Attending Physician, Director of International Programming, and Director of Social EM for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He holds a Master of International Affairs with a Certificate of Expertise in Middle East studies from Columbia University and trained in Emergency Medicine at Stony Brook University Hospital. He is also a co-founder International Medical Response, a charitable nonprofit, which sends teams of doctors to areas of most need to support education in Emergency Medicine, and just recently returned from an on-going project in Ukraine. He is a big believer in the power of stories and encourages residents (as well as anyone else who listens) to read as many books as possible outside the profession to gain perspective and context to the work that we do.
