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Join Dr. Adam Striker and Dr. Gunisha Kaur, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Co-Medical Director, Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, for an in-depth discussion of the difference between global and international health and why it matters, how COVID-19 has impacted refugee and immigrant communities, the role of culture in medicine, and how providers can build trust. Recorded January 2020.
Dr. Gunisha Kaur, MD, MA, is an anesthesiologist and human rights researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine. Herself a refugee to the United States, Dr. Kaur has dedicated her career to advancing the care of traumatized populations. She has published three books and several landmark studies on human rights violations and rehabilitation, founded and directed a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and presented at national and international settings. She is the Founding Director of the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Fellowship in the Weill Cornell Department of Anesthesiology, and is the Co-Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights.
Dr. Kaur has used her extensive training in neuroscience as an analytical framework to pioneer the study of human rights through scientific methodology. Her work has involved clinical research and clinical trials with refugees on issues such as chronic pain in torture survivors, mental health of children who are detained, and trafficking of young women and girls in refugee camps. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. She holds degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University.
Adam Striker, MD, FASA, is currently Chair of the ASA Committee on Communications, and is the series editor for ASA’s Central Line podcast series. He is an Associate Professor and serves as staff anesthesiologist in the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and in the Division of Pediatric Anesthesia at Kentucky Children’s Hospital as part of the Joint Congenital Heart Care Program. He received his undergraduate degree in engineering from Purdue University and his medical degree from Indiana University. He completed his pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Northwestern University.
