Guest Speaker Awakin Circle with Two Revolutionary Doctors
You're warmly invited to join us for a special Guest Speaker Awakin Circle at the Museum of Happiness with two revolutionary doctors visiting from San Francisco, Sriram Shamasunder and Phuoc Le!
Sri and Phuoc first collaborated in the humanitarian response to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake which killed more than 200,000 and left hundreds of thousands more injured and homeless. During their time caring for earthquake victims, they came across many expatriate volunteers who had the will and heart to serve, yet lacked many crucial skills to provide high quality care in a resource constrained setting like Haiti. Several years later, as professors at UC San Francisco Medical School, they put their heads, hearts and hands together to design an immersive two year health workforce program that trains and transforms front line health professionals serving underserved communities as a life long choice. Founded in 2014, the HEAL Initiative works in underserved areas in California, Navajo Nation and 7 countries around the world. This moving video provides a snapshot of the spirit behind their work and Sri's TED Talk, "Whose Suffering Matters Less and Why?" offers a glimpse into their shared values.
Join us on April 9th to hear stories from their personal journeys and experiences from serving vulnerable populations around the world, often seeing people die in front of their eyes from treatable diseases.
The plan for the evening is as follows...
Dr. Sriram Shamasunder: The Poetry of Medicine
Sri is a dear friend from the ServiceSpace community since the early years! With fierce conviction and soft compassion, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder is a steady force of hope, beauty, and truth in the world. With striking humility and shattering sincerity, he shares the poetry of his journey through medicine, global health, writing, and beyond. For part of each year, he lives and works in some of the world’s poorest regions. He walks his talk into Tanzania, Burundi, Guatemala, Rwanda, India and Nepal. After the earthquake in Haiti, he was one of first doctors to fly to the devastated nation. And Sri is no stranger to London -- he was one of our first guest speakers at an Awakin Circle in Pimlico back in 2009, where he shared deeply moving stories from the ground in Burundi, where he was just returning home from. You can learn more about his journey through this Awakin Call dialogue and through his recent Ted Talk called "Whose Suffering Matters Less and Why?" Sri was awarded the Young Physician of the Year American College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow by the Asia Foundation. He was a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur.
Dr. Phuoc Le: Traveling the Last Mile to Serve with Love
Phuoc Le, MD, MPH, DTM&H is a refugee from Vietnam, where his family fled in the 1980s as part of the “boat people.” Phuoc grew up in Kansas and California before graduating from Dartmouth College, Stanford Medical School, and UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health Equity at Harvard. During his residency, Phuoc worked to provide equitable health care in Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, post-earthquake Haiti, and most recently, Liberia during the Ebola outbreak. Currently, Phuoc is on the faculty at UCSF and UC Berkeley, where he teaches and mentors students at all levels. Phuoc was named one of the top 10 hospitalists in the US in 2015, was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the Society of Hospital Medicine in 2016, and was an Eisenhower Fellow in 2017.
Sri and Phuoc first collaborated in the humanitarian response to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake which killed more than 200,000 and left hundreds of thousands more injured and homeless. During their time caring for earthquake victims, they came across many expatriate volunteers who had the will and heart to serve, yet lacked many crucial skills to provide high quality care in a resource constrained setting like Haiti. Several years later, as professors at UC San Francisco Medical School, they put their heads, hearts and hands together to design an immersive two year health workforce program that trains and transforms front line health professionals serving underserved communities as a life long choice. Founded in 2014, the HEAL Initiative works in underserved areas in California, Navajo Nation and 7 countries around the world. This moving video provides a snapshot of the spirit behind their work and Sri's TED Talk, "Whose Suffering Matters Less and Why?" offers a glimpse into their shared values.
Join us on April 9th to hear stories from their personal journeys and experiences from serving vulnerable populations around the world, often seeing people die in front of their eyes from treatable diseases.
The plan for the evening is as follows...
- 6:30pm - Sit together in silence for an hour
- 7:30pm - Sri and Phuoc share reflections and stories from their personal service journeys
- 8:15pm - Q&A and circle of sharing with the group
- 8:45pm - Home-cooked vegetarian dinner
Dr. Sriram Shamasunder: The Poetry of Medicine
Sri is a dear friend from the ServiceSpace community since the early years! With fierce conviction and soft compassion, Dr. Sriram Shamasunder is a steady force of hope, beauty, and truth in the world. With striking humility and shattering sincerity, he shares the poetry of his journey through medicine, global health, writing, and beyond. For part of each year, he lives and works in some of the world’s poorest regions. He walks his talk into Tanzania, Burundi, Guatemala, Rwanda, India and Nepal. After the earthquake in Haiti, he was one of first doctors to fly to the devastated nation. And Sri is no stranger to London -- he was one of our first guest speakers at an Awakin Circle in Pimlico back in 2009, where he shared deeply moving stories from the ground in Burundi, where he was just returning home from. You can learn more about his journey through this Awakin Call dialogue and through his recent Ted Talk called "Whose Suffering Matters Less and Why?" Sri was awarded the Young Physician of the Year American College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow by the Asia Foundation. He was a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India, and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Social Entrepreneur.Dr. Phuoc Le: Traveling the Last Mile to Serve with Love
Phuoc Le, MD, MPH, DTM&H is a refugee from Vietnam, where his family fled in the 1980s as part of the “boat people.” Phuoc grew up in Kansas and California before graduating from Dartmouth College, Stanford Medical School, and UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health Equity at Harvard. During his residency, Phuoc worked to provide equitable health care in Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, post-earthquake Haiti, and most recently, Liberia during the Ebola outbreak. Currently, Phuoc is on the faculty at UCSF and UC Berkeley, where he teaches and mentors students at all levels. Phuoc was named one of the top 10 hospitalists in the US in 2015, was awarded the Humanitarian Award by the Society of Hospital Medicine in 2016, and was an Eisenhower Fellow in 2017. Event has concluded. Back to Home