Tembusu College Fellow’s Tea
Janet Lin & Eric Stewart
3pm, Monday
18th November 2013
Master’s Common Lounge,
Level 3, Residential Block
Refreshments will be served.
Only 30 seats available!
Please sign up at tembusu.nus.edu.sg
Dr. Janet Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Illinois at Chicago and has and Affiliate appointment in the Division of Community Health Sciences in the School of Public Health. She is also the Director of Health Systems Development in the Center of Global Health. Dr Lin heads the International Emergency Medicine fellowship pro gram which trains post graduate physicians to be able to practice and do research in a variety of international settings, including providing access to healthcare in rural settings, teaching medical skills to developing hospitals, providing humanitarian assistance and emergency medicine development within a framework of public health. Her work has led her to pursue activities in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. She conducted formative work in rural Guatemala working with health promoters. Currently, she is working in Haiti to address disaster preparedness through community engagement and in Uganda, working with Engeye Health to improve health access and healthcare delivery through medical care, education and research.
Mr. Eric Stewart is the Director of Operations for Steele International, a San Francisco, California firm that provides security and advisory services to its corporate clients around the world. Major Stewart is a retired United States Army Officer, having spent over twenty years with U.S. Army Special Forces, and also serving as a Foreign Area Officer specializing in Latin American affairs. He served with great distinction in over thirty different countries, having worked within the highest levels of his government’s military and intelligence communities. As a civilian, Mr. Stewart has provided both security and emergency medical services to many of the world’s leading media outlets. He has specialized in providing security operations and consultancy within high-threat areas such as the Middle East, as well as international disaster zones such as Haiti, the Gulf Coast of the United States following the BP Oil Spill, and post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. He has provided similar specialized services to the CBS television reality show, The Amazing Race, as well as countless corporate and private clients around the world.
At the time of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Mr Stewart was working for CNN and was with one of the first international news crews to arrive in Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. As an Emergency Medicine Physician Dr. Janet Lin was tasked with running the remnants of the Hospital of the State University of Haiti (HUEH) directly after the disaster.
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