Monday, September 16 at 5PM PDT/8PM EDT: JVP HAC Webinar - Health Care Under Fire in Gaza

Reports from the Ground

with Drs. Seema Jilani and Arham Ali

View the webinar recording here.

About the speakers

Dr. Jilani: Seema Jilani is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital. Her work has taken her to Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, the Balkans, Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank over the past twenty years. She has treated migrants on board refugee rescue ships in the Mediterranean, identified bones from mass graves in Bosnia, and responded on the scene after the 2020 explosion in the Port of Beirut, Lebanon. She has worked for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, the International Rescue Committee, as well as other non-governmental organizations. Dr. Jilani has been featured in The New Yorker, The Guardian, The BBC, The New York Review of Books, GQ: Heroes Edition, and The New York Times, where she has been a contributing writer for over a decade. She recently briefed the United Nations Security Council, The U.S. Department of State, Senior White House Administration officials, including members of the National Security Council and Senate Armed Services Committee. Dr. Jilani is a Senior Fulbright Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow, and a nominee for The Peabody Award.

Dr. Ali: Caring for children in extremis with compassion and medicine has become a personal mantra throughout my education and professional training. My international experiences during medical school in Pakistan exposed me to a wide breadth of pathology and resource-limited management strategies. Formalized research training at a premier burn institution fostered a mindset of inquiry and hypothesis-driven research pertaining to the hypermetabolic and hypercatabolic response to severe burn injury. Thereafter, residency training at a large volume children’s hospital, promoted a culture of autonomy early in my clinical training. Fellowship training at UCLA has provided mentorship from international leaders in various pediatric subspecialties, while bolstering a patient population amongst the highest acuity and complexity in the nation. Henceforth, the amalgamation of my diverse experiences have culminated in my ability to practice evidence based medicine utilizing an educative, cost effective, and family centered approach.