BGU’s Dr. Oren Wacht to Speak in Baltimore
BGU’s Dr. Oren Wacht to Speak in Baltimore
September 5, 2024
Current events, Medical Research
Featured Speaker Dr. Oren Wacht
Jmore Baltimore Jewish Living – On Wednesday evening, September 18, 2024, Chizuk Amuno Congregation and the local chapter of Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU) will present “Emergency Medicine in Action: Healing the Negev Post-October 7.”
The guest speaker will be Dr. Oren Wacht, Head of the Rachel and Max Javit Medical Simulation & Classroom Building and the Department of Emergency Medicine at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).
At the Chizuk Amuno event, Dr. Wacht will share his insights on the future of tactical medicine. Attendees will also learn about student-reservists returning to their work and studies while simultaneously dealing with the trauma of the ongoing war.
The BGU community was disproportionately impacted by the October 7 attacks compared to other universities in Israel, in regard to the number of its community members who were killed, wounded, kidnapped, evacuated or called to reserve duty.
Eighty percent of Israelis killed in the attacks were from the Negev. Nearly 3,000 people were treated at BGU’s Soroka University Medical Center and Barzilai Medical Center, and 200,000 Negev residents were displaced from their homes.
Register here to join A4BGU at “Emergency Medicine in Action: Healing the Negev Post-October 7.”
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