Education
• Bachelor of Arts, History and International Relations concentration, Cornell University, 1983
• Post- baccalaureate, Columbia University, 1991
• Doctor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1995
• Master of Public Health, International Health with Humanitarian Assistance certificate, Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1999
Postgraduate Education
• Resident in Surgery, MCP-Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1998
• Resident in Surgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center-San Antonio, January 1, 2000 - June 30,
2002
Certification
• Diplomate, American Board of Surgery: October 2003
Licensure
• New York, 2002
• New Jersey, 2007
• Advanced Trauma Life Support, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2008
Academic Appointments
• Lecturer in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, NY, NY: April 2009 - present
Hospital Appointments
• Consultant, Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, December 2002 –
present
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Malamulo SDA Hospital, Makwasa, Malawi, December 2004 –
January 2005
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Emergency Surgical Center, Goderich, Sierra Leone, August –
November 2005
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Upper Nile Teaching Hospital, Malakal, Sudan, February –
April 2006
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Deschapelles, Haiti, July –
August 2006
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital, Axum, Ethiopia, September – November
2006
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Duncan Hospital, Raxaul, India, February – March 2008
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Phebe Hospital and Nursing School, Phebe, Liberia, May – June
2008
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Lady Willington Hospital, Manali, India, November 2008.
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone, July – August
2008, January - February 2009.
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Masisi General Referral Hospital, Masisi, DRC, February - April
2010
Other Professional Experience
• Director/Founder, Society of International Humanitarian Surgeons/Surgeons OverSeas (SOS), April
2007 - present
• President, A.L. Kushner & Associates, Alpine, NJ, consulting on humanitarian assistance, human rights,
trauma and landmine injury care, international humanitarian surgery, and public health, December 1987 –
present
• Member/Owner, Boulevard Health Center, Bronx, NY, multi-specialty health center, July 2002 –
December 2004
Professional Organizations
• Director/Founder, Society of International Humanitarian Surgeons, 2007 - present
• Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 2002 - present
• Member, International Society of Surgery 2002 - present
• Member, International Association of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care 2002 - present
• Member, J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society, 2002 – present
Civic and Humanitarian Organizations
• Board Member, Amend.org, 2006 - present
• Advisory Council Member, Physicians for Human Rights, 2003-present
• Member, Explorers Club, 2007 - present
• Member, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999 - present
• Member, National Eagle Scout Association, 2006 - present
Honors
• Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Scholarship, 1998
• Eagle Scout, 1980
Foreign Languages
• Spanish-basic
• German-basic
• French-basic
Non-surgical Humanitarian Experience
• Medical advisor, landmine injury andtrauma training, Organization of American States, Colombia, August
2007
• Medical Advisor, landmine injury and trauma training, Organization of American States, Ecuador, November
2006
• Health Manager, tsunami relief, International Rescue Committee, Aceh, Indonesia, March – May 2005
• Team Leader, earthquake relief, International Rescue Committee, Singkil, Indonesia, March - April 2005
• Medical Advisor, landmine injury and trauma training, Organization of American States, Nicaragua, March –
May 2004
• Human Rights Mission, Physicians for Human Rights, Iraq, April – June 2003
• Young Investigator Program, Trauma and reconciliation in Bosnia, National Academy of Sciences, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, September – October 2000
• Team Leader, Landmine and cluster bomb mission, Physicians for Human Rights, Kosovo, August 1999
• Team Leader, landmine victim survey piloting, Physicians for Human Rights, Azerbaijan, May – July 1999
• Exchange Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile, July
– August 1992
Congressional Lobbying Experience
• Maternal Health Initiative, Global Health Council, May 2002
• Accession to Ottawa Treaty, U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, July 2000
Assessment Missions
• Landmine Assessment, United States Humanitarian Demining Delegation, Azerbaijan, July 11-14, 1999
• Landmine and Cluster Bomb Assessment, Physicians for Human Rights, Kosovo, July 29 – August 10, 1999
• Trauma and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Young Investigator Program, National Academy of
Science/National Research Council, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 16-30, 2000
• Human Rights Violations in Iraq, Physicians for Human Rights, Basra and Nasiriya, Iraq, May 1 – June 3, 2003
• Trauma and Essential Surgery in Landmine Affected Regions, Organization of American States, Nicaragua,
April 14 - May 8, 2004.
• March 2005 Indonesian Earthquake, International Rescue Committee, Singkil, Indonesia, March 30 – April 9,
2005
• Emergency Medical Care and Evacuation in Landmine Affected Regions, Organization of American States,
Ecuador, November 13-17, 2006
• Emergency Medical Care for Landmine Victims in Colombia, Organization of American States, Colombia,
August 5 - 30, 2007
Funded Grants
• Pilot Testing of Landmine Victim Surveys in Azerbaijan, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999, US$ 43,000
• An Assessment of Landmine Victims in Kosovo, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999, US$ 20,000
• Trauma and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Young Investigator Program, National Academy of
Science/National Research Council, 2000, US$ 3,000
• Trauma Surgery in South Africa: An Exchange Program for Surgery Residents and Military Surgeons,
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, November 2000, US$ 10,000
• Emergency Medical Support and Training in Landmine Affected Regions of Central America, Organization of
American States and US Department of State, April-May 2004, US$ 21,000
• Landmine Victim Emergency Surgical Supply Stockpile, United Nations Mine Action Service, March 2006,
US$ 13,000
Reports
• Costa Rica: Country Report, Landmine Monitor 1999, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999, 239-
43
• Tools for Measuring the Magnitude of Landmine Victim Assistance, Landmine Monitor 1999, International
Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999, 1017-8
• An Assessment of Landmine Victims and Medical Assistance in Azerbaijan, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999
• The Effect of Cluster Bombs on the Civilian Population of Kosovo, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999
• Report from Kosovo: The Effect of Landmines on the Civilian Population, Physicians for Human Rights,
1999
• Measuring Landmine Incidents & Injuries and the Capacity to Provide Care: A guide to assist governments and
non-governmental organizations in collecting data about landmine victims, hospitals and orthopaedic centers,
Physicians for Human Rights, 2000
• Trauma and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Young Investigator Program, National Academy of
Science, November 2000
Articles
• Helping Victims of Landmines: A Public Health Approach, Kushner A, Cobey J, Minnesota Medicine, 1999: 82:
30-31
• Health Care Hobbled: Ambulatory Care Treatment of Cambodian Landmine Survivors, Kushner A, Raymond
N, J Ambulatory Care Mgmt, 2000: 23(3) 88-9
• Doctors with “Dirty Hands, Elahi M, Kushner A, Washington Post, June 8, 2003. B7
• Physician Participation in Human Rights Abuses in Iraq: A study in two cities, Reis C, Ahmed A, Amowitz L,
Kushner A, Elahi M, Iacopino V, JAMA, 2004: 291(12) 1505-6
• A Secondary Crisis in African Health Care, Kushner A, Mannion S, Muyco A, , Lancet, 2004: 363(9419) 1478
• Medical Challenges in Sudan, Kushner A, J Mine Action, 2006: 10.1, http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/10.
1/personal/kushner/kushner.htm
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, Kushner A, J Mine Action, 2007: 11.1, http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/11.
1/notes/kushner/kushner.htm
• Topics in Global Public Health, Spiegel D, Gosselin R, Coughlin R, Kushner A, Bickler S, Clin Orthop Relat
Res, 2008 Oct;466(10):2377-84
• Quantifying Surgical Capacity in Sierra Leone: A Guide for Improving Surgical Care, Kingham TP, Kamara TB,
Cherian MN, Simkins M, Meissner C, Foray-Rahall L, Daoh KS, Kabia S, Kushner AL, Arch Surg. 2009;144(2):122-
127
• Surgery and Refugee Populations, Kushner AL, Groen RS, Kingham TP, Scan J Surg, 98: 18-24, 2009 http:
//www.fimnet.fi/sjs/articles/SJS12009-18.pdf
• Universal Precautions and Surgery in Sierra Leone: The unprotected workforce, Kingham TP, Kamara TB,
Daoh DS, Kabbia S, Kushner AL, World J Surg 2009 Jun; 33(6): 1194-6
• Surgical Elective in a Developing Country: ethics and utility, Kingham TP, Muyco A, Kushner A, J Surg Educ.
2009 Mar-Apr;66(2): 59-62.
• Addressing the Millennium Development Goals from a Surgical Perspective: Deficiencies in the Capacity to
Deliver Safe Surgery and Anesthesia in Eight Low and Middle Income Countries, Kushner A, Cherian M, Noel L,
Spiegel D, Groth S, Arch Surg 2010 Feb; 145(2): 154-9.
• Implementing Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: An Assessment of Emergency and Essential Surgical
Care, Sherman L, Clement PT, Cherian MN, Ndayimirije N, Noel L, Dahn B, Gwenigale WT, Kushner AL, Arch Surg,
(In press).
• Global Surgery: Thoughts on an emerging surgical sub-seciality for students and residents, Leow J,
Kingham TP, Casey K, Kushner AL, J Surg Ed, (In press).
Abstracts
• Coronary Thrombus: Clinical and Angiographic Findings Correlated in 185 lesions undergoing Directional
Coronary Atherectomy. Sharma S, Israel D, Fyfe B, Lotvin A, Torre S, Kushner A, McMurtry K, Marmur J, Cocke T,
Almeida O, Ambrose J, Circulation, 88: 208, 1993
• Incidence of Coronary Thrombus in 226 Lesions Undergoing Directional Coronary Atherectomy, Sharma S,
Fyfe B, Kushner A, McMurtry K, Israel D, Kumar S, Marmur J, Torre S, Ambrose J, Indian Heart J, 45: 355, 1993
• Directional Coronary Atherectomy, Short and Long Term Results at a High Volume Center Sharma S,
Lotvin A, Israel D, McMurtry K, Kushner A, Kumar S, Marmur J, Torre S, Cocke T, Ambrose J, Indian Heart J, 45:
357, 1993
• Mechanism of Post Procedure Luminal Enlargement after Directional Coronary Atherectomy, Sharma S,
Kushner A, Lotvin A, Marmur J, McMurtry K, Cocke T, Almeida O, Ambrose J, Cath Cardiovasc Diag, 32: 83, 1994
• Early Changes in Minimal Luminal Diameter after Directional Coronary Atherectomy versus Balloon
Angioplasty, Cocke T, Sharma S, McMurtry K, Kushner A, Lotvin A, Almeida O, Ambrose J, Cath Cardiovasc Diag,
32: 84, 1994
Posters
• Relationship between Chest Pain following successful Directional Coronary Atherectomy and Removal
of Vascular Deep Wall Components, Kushner A, Sharma S, Israel D, Cocke T, Fyfe B, McMurtry K, Marmur J,
Torre S, Ambrose J: The Eleventh Annual Research Day, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, October 5,
1993
• Ischemic Injury causes Bradycardia Post Cardiac Transplantation, Kushner A, Fyfe B, McMurtry K,
Courtney M, Lasman S, Sadeghi A, Gass A, The Twelfth Annual Research Day, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, October 11, 1994
• Measuring the magnitude of landmine injuries: Results of field testing standardized survey tools in
Azerbaijan, Kushner A, Cobey J, Nam M, International Society of Surgery/International Association of Trauma
Surgery and Intensive Care, Brussels, Belgium, August 27-30, 2001
• Trauma at Lilongwe Central Hospital: Malawi, Africa, Mvula C, Kushner A, Muyco A, American College of
Surgeons Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL, October 19-23, 2003
• Trauma Management in a Developing Country in Africa, Mvula C, Kushner A, Muyco A, 7th World Congress
on Injury Prevention, Vienna, Austria, June 2004
• Management of Sigmoid Volvulus at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Africa,Muyco A, Kushner A, Mvula C,
International Society of Surgeons, August 2005
• An Approach to Managing Mass Casualties in a Developing World District Hospital, Kushner A, Allemann A,
Exe C, Chattopadhyay C, International Society of Surgeons, August 2007
• Increasing Teaching Assistance and Short-term Surgical Manpower for Health Facilities in Developing
Countries, Kingham TP, Guerrero A, Kushner A, International Society of Surgeons, August 2007
• Quantifying Surgical Capacity in Sierra Leone, Kushner AL, Kingham TP, Kamara TB, Cherian MN, Foray-
Rahall L, Daoh KS, Kabia S, Bellagio Essential Surgery Group, Kampala, Uganda, July 2008
Presentations
• Reversal of Oxalate Cardiomyopathy, Twelfth Annual Research Day, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New
York, October 1994
• Penetrating Cardiac Injuries, Surgical Grand Rounds, Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Pennsylvania,
August 1997
• Atrocities, Landmines and Cluster Bombs in Kosovo: A Physician’s Perspective, Tropical Medicine
Association, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 22, 1999
• The Aftermath of War: Landmines in Kosovo, University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des
Moines, Iowa, October 3, 1999
• The Aftermath of War: Landmines in Kosovo, Des Moines, Drake University, Iowa, October 4, 1999
• The Aftermath of War: Landmines in Kosovo, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
Iowa, October 5, 1999
• Global Politics: Landmines and the Ottawa Process, Des Moines Area Community College, Des Moines,
Iowa, October 5, 1999
• Science in the Service of Human Rights: Physicians for Human Rights in Kosovo, 1999 Annual Meeting,
Human Rights Briefing, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., October 5, 1999
• Landmines in Kosovo, Liverpool Hospital Trauma Evening, Humanitarian Aspects of Trauma, Liverpool
Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, December 7, 1999
• The Medical Impact of Landmines, United States Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) Congressional Action
Conference, Washington, D.C., July 9, 2000
• Renal Transplantation in Developing Countries, Department of Transplant Surgery Grand Rounds,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, September 8, 2000
• Landmines and Cluster Bombs in Kosovo, Department of Transplant Surgery Grand Rounds, University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, September 8, 2000
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Traumatic Injury during and after Conflict, Department of Surgery Grand Rounds,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, December 11, 2000
• Surgery for Tropical Diseases, Department of Surgery Conference, Wilford Hall Medical Center,
Lackland Air Force Base, TX, May 2001
• The ICRC Approach to War Wounds, Department of Surgery Conference, Wilford Hall Medical Center,
Lackland Air Force Base, TX, January 14, 2002
• Update on Abdominal Trauma, Nasiriya General Hospital, Nasiriya, Iraq, May 29, 2003
• Human Rights Issues: The Importance of Data, H.E.L.P. Course, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and
the International Committee of the Red Cross, Baltimore, MD, July 23, 2003
• Human Rights Violations in Iraq,” Annual Meeting, International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies,
Chicago, IL, October 31, 2003
• Emergency Management of Landmine Injuries,” Regional Seminar on Landmine Victim Assistance,
Observatorio des Minas, Bogotá, Colombia, November 12, 2003
• Health and Human Rights: Physician Participation in Human Rights Abuses in Iraq,” Medical Meeting, British
High Commission in Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi, February 24, 2004
• Management of Abdominal Trauma,” Department of General Surgery, Lilongwe Central Hospital, Lilongwe,
Malawi, February 26, 2004
• Emergency Management of Landmine Injuries, Staff Grand Rounds, Military Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua,
May 7, 2004
• Damage Control Surgery,” Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Military Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua,
May 7, 2004
• Human Rights Issues: An Overview for Military Personnel,” Leader Development and Education for
Sustained Peace course, Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, August
15, 2004
• Emergency Trauma Care,” Surgery for Clinical Officers course, Malamulo College of Health Sciences,
Makwasa, Malawi, January 18 and 21, 2005
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, AICMA-Organization of American States, Quito, Ecuador, November 2006
• Emergency Management of Landmine and UXO Injuries, Hospital Universitario Fundacion Santa Fe, Bogota,
Colombia, August 9, 2007
• Emergency Management of Landmine and UXO Injuries, Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul, Medellin,
Colombia, August 10, 2007
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, Tolemaida Army Base, Melgar, Colombia, August 19 - 20, 2007
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, Escuela des Inginiers Militar, Bogota, Colombia, August 24, 2007
• Damage Control Surgery, Grand Rounds, St. Francis Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania, October 4, 2007
• Trauma Basics, Assistant Medical Officer Course, Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health,
Ifakara, Tanzania, October 5, 2007
• International Humanitarian Surgery Visiting Professor Lecture, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY,
December 3, 2007
• Basic Principles of Trauma, Medical Staff Meeting, Herbertpur Christian Hospital, Herbertpur, India,
January 29, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma, Medical Staff Meeting, Duncan Hospital, Raxaul, India, February 22, 2008
• Emergency Management of Burns, Medical Staff Meeting, Duncan Hospital, Raxaul, India, March 12, 2008
• Disaster and Trauma Management, Rural Surgery CME, Herbertpur Christian Hospital, Herbertpur, India,
March 22, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma, Rural Surgery CME, Herbertpur Christian Hospital, Herbertpur, India, March
22, 2008
• Emergency Management of Landmine and Blast Injuries, Rural Surgery CME, Herbertpur Christian Hospital,
Herbertpur, India, March 22, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma Management, Medical Staff Meeting, Phebe Hospital and School of Nursing,
Phebe, Liberia, May 27, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma Management, Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association, Freetown, Sierra
Leone, August 14, 2008
• Emergency Management of Burns, Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association, Freetown, Sierra Leone,
August 21, 2008
• Humanitarian Assistance: NGOs and IOs, South-Eastern European Simulation (SEESIM) workshop, Zagreb,
Croatia, September 23, 2008
• Connecting with Surgeons in Developing Countries, 94th Clinical Congress, American College of
Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, October 13, 2008
• International Humanitarian Surgery, General Surgery Grand Rounds, New York Presbyterian Hospital –
Columbia University, New York, December 18, 2008
• International Humanitarian Surgery: Surgery for the Rest of the World, Rural Surgery conference,
Cooperstown, NY, May 2009.
Television and Radio Interviews
• Studio B with Shepard Smith, Fox News Channel, June 12, 2003
• Radio Sawa, Voice of America, June 27, 2003
• Public Health Radio, December 2005
• Bachelor of Arts, History and International Relations concentration, Cornell University, 1983
• Post- baccalaureate, Columbia University, 1991
• Doctor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1995
• Master of Public Health, International Health with Humanitarian Assistance certificate, Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1999
Postgraduate Education
• Resident in Surgery, MCP-Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1998
• Resident in Surgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center-San Antonio, January 1, 2000 - June 30,
2002
Certification
• Diplomate, American Board of Surgery: October 2003
Licensure
• New York, 2002
• New Jersey, 2007
• Advanced Trauma Life Support, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2008
Academic Appointments
• Lecturer in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, NY, NY: April 2009 - present
Hospital Appointments
• Consultant, Department of Surgery, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi, December 2002 –
present
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Malamulo SDA Hospital, Makwasa, Malawi, December 2004 –
January 2005
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Emergency Surgical Center, Goderich, Sierra Leone, August –
November 2005
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Upper Nile Teaching Hospital, Malakal, Sudan, February –
April 2006
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Hospital Albert Schweitzer, Deschapelles, Haiti, July –
August 2006
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital, Axum, Ethiopia, September – November
2006
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Duncan Hospital, Raxaul, India, February – March 2008
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Phebe Hospital and Nursing School, Phebe, Liberia, May – June
2008
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Lady Willington Hospital, Manali, India, November 2008.
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone, July – August
2008, January - February 2009.
• Visiting Consultant, Department of Surgery, Masisi General Referral Hospital, Masisi, DRC, February - April
2010
Other Professional Experience
• Director/Founder, Society of International Humanitarian Surgeons/Surgeons OverSeas (SOS), April
2007 - present
• President, A.L. Kushner & Associates, Alpine, NJ, consulting on humanitarian assistance, human rights,
trauma and landmine injury care, international humanitarian surgery, and public health, December 1987 –
present
• Member/Owner, Boulevard Health Center, Bronx, NY, multi-specialty health center, July 2002 –
December 2004
Professional Organizations
• Director/Founder, Society of International Humanitarian Surgeons, 2007 - present
• Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons, 2002 - present
• Member, International Society of Surgery 2002 - present
• Member, International Association of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care 2002 - present
• Member, J. Bradley Aust Surgical Society, 2002 – present
Civic and Humanitarian Organizations
• Board Member, Amend.org, 2006 - present
• Advisory Council Member, Physicians for Human Rights, 2003-present
• Member, Explorers Club, 2007 - present
• Member, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999 - present
• Member, National Eagle Scout Association, 2006 - present
Honors
• Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Scholarship, 1998
• Eagle Scout, 1980
Foreign Languages
• Spanish-basic
• German-basic
• French-basic
Non-surgical Humanitarian Experience
• Medical advisor, landmine injury andtrauma training, Organization of American States, Colombia, August
2007
• Medical Advisor, landmine injury and trauma training, Organization of American States, Ecuador, November
2006
• Health Manager, tsunami relief, International Rescue Committee, Aceh, Indonesia, March – May 2005
• Team Leader, earthquake relief, International Rescue Committee, Singkil, Indonesia, March - April 2005
• Medical Advisor, landmine injury and trauma training, Organization of American States, Nicaragua, March –
May 2004
• Human Rights Mission, Physicians for Human Rights, Iraq, April – June 2003
• Young Investigator Program, Trauma and reconciliation in Bosnia, National Academy of Sciences, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, September – October 2000
• Team Leader, Landmine and cluster bomb mission, Physicians for Human Rights, Kosovo, August 1999
• Team Leader, landmine victim survey piloting, Physicians for Human Rights, Azerbaijan, May – July 1999
• Exchange Fellow, Department of Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Santiago, Chile, July
– August 1992
Congressional Lobbying Experience
• Maternal Health Initiative, Global Health Council, May 2002
• Accession to Ottawa Treaty, U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, July 2000
Assessment Missions
• Landmine Assessment, United States Humanitarian Demining Delegation, Azerbaijan, July 11-14, 1999
• Landmine and Cluster Bomb Assessment, Physicians for Human Rights, Kosovo, July 29 – August 10, 1999
• Trauma and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Young Investigator Program, National Academy of
Science/National Research Council, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 16-30, 2000
• Human Rights Violations in Iraq, Physicians for Human Rights, Basra and Nasiriya, Iraq, May 1 – June 3, 2003
• Trauma and Essential Surgery in Landmine Affected Regions, Organization of American States, Nicaragua,
April 14 - May 8, 2004.
• March 2005 Indonesian Earthquake, International Rescue Committee, Singkil, Indonesia, March 30 – April 9,
2005
• Emergency Medical Care and Evacuation in Landmine Affected Regions, Organization of American States,
Ecuador, November 13-17, 2006
• Emergency Medical Care for Landmine Victims in Colombia, Organization of American States, Colombia,
August 5 - 30, 2007
Funded Grants
• Pilot Testing of Landmine Victim Surveys in Azerbaijan, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999, US$ 43,000
• An Assessment of Landmine Victims in Kosovo, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999, US$ 20,000
• Trauma and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Young Investigator Program, National Academy of
Science/National Research Council, 2000, US$ 3,000
• Trauma Surgery in South Africa: An Exchange Program for Surgery Residents and Military Surgeons,
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, November 2000, US$ 10,000
• Emergency Medical Support and Training in Landmine Affected Regions of Central America, Organization of
American States and US Department of State, April-May 2004, US$ 21,000
• Landmine Victim Emergency Surgical Supply Stockpile, United Nations Mine Action Service, March 2006,
US$ 13,000
Reports
• Costa Rica: Country Report, Landmine Monitor 1999, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999, 239-
43
• Tools for Measuring the Magnitude of Landmine Victim Assistance, Landmine Monitor 1999, International
Campaign to Ban Landmines, 1999, 1017-8
• An Assessment of Landmine Victims and Medical Assistance in Azerbaijan, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999
• The Effect of Cluster Bombs on the Civilian Population of Kosovo, Physicians for Human Rights, 1999
• Report from Kosovo: The Effect of Landmines on the Civilian Population, Physicians for Human Rights,
1999
• Measuring Landmine Incidents & Injuries and the Capacity to Provide Care: A guide to assist governments and
non-governmental organizations in collecting data about landmine victims, hospitals and orthopaedic centers,
Physicians for Human Rights, 2000
• Trauma and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Young Investigator Program, National Academy of
Science, November 2000
Articles
• Helping Victims of Landmines: A Public Health Approach, Kushner A, Cobey J, Minnesota Medicine, 1999: 82:
30-31
• Health Care Hobbled: Ambulatory Care Treatment of Cambodian Landmine Survivors, Kushner A, Raymond
N, J Ambulatory Care Mgmt, 2000: 23(3) 88-9
• Doctors with “Dirty Hands, Elahi M, Kushner A, Washington Post, June 8, 2003. B7
• Physician Participation in Human Rights Abuses in Iraq: A study in two cities, Reis C, Ahmed A, Amowitz L,
Kushner A, Elahi M, Iacopino V, JAMA, 2004: 291(12) 1505-6
• A Secondary Crisis in African Health Care, Kushner A, Mannion S, Muyco A, , Lancet, 2004: 363(9419) 1478
• Medical Challenges in Sudan, Kushner A, J Mine Action, 2006: 10.1, http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/10.
1/personal/kushner/kushner.htm
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, Kushner A, J Mine Action, 2007: 11.1, http://maic.jmu.edu/journal/11.
1/notes/kushner/kushner.htm
• Topics in Global Public Health, Spiegel D, Gosselin R, Coughlin R, Kushner A, Bickler S, Clin Orthop Relat
Res, 2008 Oct;466(10):2377-84
• Quantifying Surgical Capacity in Sierra Leone: A Guide for Improving Surgical Care, Kingham TP, Kamara TB,
Cherian MN, Simkins M, Meissner C, Foray-Rahall L, Daoh KS, Kabia S, Kushner AL, Arch Surg. 2009;144(2):122-
127
• Surgery and Refugee Populations, Kushner AL, Groen RS, Kingham TP, Scan J Surg, 98: 18-24, 2009 http:
//www.fimnet.fi/sjs/articles/SJS12009-18.pdf
• Universal Precautions and Surgery in Sierra Leone: The unprotected workforce, Kingham TP, Kamara TB,
Daoh DS, Kabbia S, Kushner AL, World J Surg 2009 Jun; 33(6): 1194-6
• Surgical Elective in a Developing Country: ethics and utility, Kingham TP, Muyco A, Kushner A, J Surg Educ.
2009 Mar-Apr;66(2): 59-62.
• Addressing the Millennium Development Goals from a Surgical Perspective: Deficiencies in the Capacity to
Deliver Safe Surgery and Anesthesia in Eight Low and Middle Income Countries, Kushner A, Cherian M, Noel L,
Spiegel D, Groth S, Arch Surg 2010 Feb; 145(2): 154-9.
• Implementing Liberia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy: An Assessment of Emergency and Essential Surgical
Care, Sherman L, Clement PT, Cherian MN, Ndayimirije N, Noel L, Dahn B, Gwenigale WT, Kushner AL, Arch Surg,
(In press).
• Global Surgery: Thoughts on an emerging surgical sub-seciality for students and residents, Leow J,
Kingham TP, Casey K, Kushner AL, J Surg Ed, (In press).
Abstracts
• Coronary Thrombus: Clinical and Angiographic Findings Correlated in 185 lesions undergoing Directional
Coronary Atherectomy. Sharma S, Israel D, Fyfe B, Lotvin A, Torre S, Kushner A, McMurtry K, Marmur J, Cocke T,
Almeida O, Ambrose J, Circulation, 88: 208, 1993
• Incidence of Coronary Thrombus in 226 Lesions Undergoing Directional Coronary Atherectomy, Sharma S,
Fyfe B, Kushner A, McMurtry K, Israel D, Kumar S, Marmur J, Torre S, Ambrose J, Indian Heart J, 45: 355, 1993
• Directional Coronary Atherectomy, Short and Long Term Results at a High Volume Center Sharma S,
Lotvin A, Israel D, McMurtry K, Kushner A, Kumar S, Marmur J, Torre S, Cocke T, Ambrose J, Indian Heart J, 45:
357, 1993
• Mechanism of Post Procedure Luminal Enlargement after Directional Coronary Atherectomy, Sharma S,
Kushner A, Lotvin A, Marmur J, McMurtry K, Cocke T, Almeida O, Ambrose J, Cath Cardiovasc Diag, 32: 83, 1994
• Early Changes in Minimal Luminal Diameter after Directional Coronary Atherectomy versus Balloon
Angioplasty, Cocke T, Sharma S, McMurtry K, Kushner A, Lotvin A, Almeida O, Ambrose J, Cath Cardiovasc Diag,
32: 84, 1994
Posters
• Relationship between Chest Pain following successful Directional Coronary Atherectomy and Removal
of Vascular Deep Wall Components, Kushner A, Sharma S, Israel D, Cocke T, Fyfe B, McMurtry K, Marmur J,
Torre S, Ambrose J: The Eleventh Annual Research Day, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, October 5,
1993
• Ischemic Injury causes Bradycardia Post Cardiac Transplantation, Kushner A, Fyfe B, McMurtry K,
Courtney M, Lasman S, Sadeghi A, Gass A, The Twelfth Annual Research Day, Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
New York, October 11, 1994
• Measuring the magnitude of landmine injuries: Results of field testing standardized survey tools in
Azerbaijan, Kushner A, Cobey J, Nam M, International Society of Surgery/International Association of Trauma
Surgery and Intensive Care, Brussels, Belgium, August 27-30, 2001
• Trauma at Lilongwe Central Hospital: Malawi, Africa, Mvula C, Kushner A, Muyco A, American College of
Surgeons Clinical Congress, Chicago, IL, October 19-23, 2003
• Trauma Management in a Developing Country in Africa, Mvula C, Kushner A, Muyco A, 7th World Congress
on Injury Prevention, Vienna, Austria, June 2004
• Management of Sigmoid Volvulus at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Africa,Muyco A, Kushner A, Mvula C,
International Society of Surgeons, August 2005
• An Approach to Managing Mass Casualties in a Developing World District Hospital, Kushner A, Allemann A,
Exe C, Chattopadhyay C, International Society of Surgeons, August 2007
• Increasing Teaching Assistance and Short-term Surgical Manpower for Health Facilities in Developing
Countries, Kingham TP, Guerrero A, Kushner A, International Society of Surgeons, August 2007
• Quantifying Surgical Capacity in Sierra Leone, Kushner AL, Kingham TP, Kamara TB, Cherian MN, Foray-
Rahall L, Daoh KS, Kabia S, Bellagio Essential Surgery Group, Kampala, Uganda, July 2008
Presentations
• Reversal of Oxalate Cardiomyopathy, Twelfth Annual Research Day, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New
York, October 1994
• Penetrating Cardiac Injuries, Surgical Grand Rounds, Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Pennsylvania,
August 1997
• Atrocities, Landmines and Cluster Bombs in Kosovo: A Physician’s Perspective, Tropical Medicine
Association, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, September 22, 1999
• The Aftermath of War: Landmines in Kosovo, University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, Des
Moines, Iowa, October 3, 1999
• The Aftermath of War: Landmines in Kosovo, Des Moines, Drake University, Iowa, October 4, 1999
• The Aftermath of War: Landmines in Kosovo, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
Iowa, October 5, 1999
• Global Politics: Landmines and the Ottawa Process, Des Moines Area Community College, Des Moines,
Iowa, October 5, 1999
• Science in the Service of Human Rights: Physicians for Human Rights in Kosovo, 1999 Annual Meeting,
Human Rights Briefing, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., October 5, 1999
• Landmines in Kosovo, Liverpool Hospital Trauma Evening, Humanitarian Aspects of Trauma, Liverpool
Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia, December 7, 1999
• The Medical Impact of Landmines, United States Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) Congressional Action
Conference, Washington, D.C., July 9, 2000
• Renal Transplantation in Developing Countries, Department of Transplant Surgery Grand Rounds,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, September 8, 2000
• Landmines and Cluster Bombs in Kosovo, Department of Transplant Surgery Grand Rounds, University of
Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, September 8, 2000
• Bosnia and Herzegovina: Traumatic Injury during and after Conflict, Department of Surgery Grand Rounds,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, December 11, 2000
• Surgery for Tropical Diseases, Department of Surgery Conference, Wilford Hall Medical Center,
Lackland Air Force Base, TX, May 2001
• The ICRC Approach to War Wounds, Department of Surgery Conference, Wilford Hall Medical Center,
Lackland Air Force Base, TX, January 14, 2002
• Update on Abdominal Trauma, Nasiriya General Hospital, Nasiriya, Iraq, May 29, 2003
• Human Rights Issues: The Importance of Data, H.E.L.P. Course, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and
the International Committee of the Red Cross, Baltimore, MD, July 23, 2003
• Human Rights Violations in Iraq,” Annual Meeting, International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies,
Chicago, IL, October 31, 2003
• Emergency Management of Landmine Injuries,” Regional Seminar on Landmine Victim Assistance,
Observatorio des Minas, Bogotá, Colombia, November 12, 2003
• Health and Human Rights: Physician Participation in Human Rights Abuses in Iraq,” Medical Meeting, British
High Commission in Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi, February 24, 2004
• Management of Abdominal Trauma,” Department of General Surgery, Lilongwe Central Hospital, Lilongwe,
Malawi, February 26, 2004
• Emergency Management of Landmine Injuries, Staff Grand Rounds, Military Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua,
May 7, 2004
• Damage Control Surgery,” Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Military Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua,
May 7, 2004
• Human Rights Issues: An Overview for Military Personnel,” Leader Development and Education for
Sustained Peace course, Center for Civil-Military Relations, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, August
15, 2004
• Emergency Trauma Care,” Surgery for Clinical Officers course, Malamulo College of Health Sciences,
Makwasa, Malawi, January 18 and 21, 2005
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, AICMA-Organization of American States, Quito, Ecuador, November 2006
• Emergency Management of Landmine and UXO Injuries, Hospital Universitario Fundacion Santa Fe, Bogota,
Colombia, August 9, 2007
• Emergency Management of Landmine and UXO Injuries, Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paul, Medellin,
Colombia, August 10, 2007
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, Tolemaida Army Base, Melgar, Colombia, August 19 - 20, 2007
• Mine Injury and Trauma Seminar, Escuela des Inginiers Militar, Bogota, Colombia, August 24, 2007
• Damage Control Surgery, Grand Rounds, St. Francis Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania, October 4, 2007
• Trauma Basics, Assistant Medical Officer Course, Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health,
Ifakara, Tanzania, October 5, 2007
• International Humanitarian Surgery Visiting Professor Lecture, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, NY,
December 3, 2007
• Basic Principles of Trauma, Medical Staff Meeting, Herbertpur Christian Hospital, Herbertpur, India,
January 29, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma, Medical Staff Meeting, Duncan Hospital, Raxaul, India, February 22, 2008
• Emergency Management of Burns, Medical Staff Meeting, Duncan Hospital, Raxaul, India, March 12, 2008
• Disaster and Trauma Management, Rural Surgery CME, Herbertpur Christian Hospital, Herbertpur, India,
March 22, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma, Rural Surgery CME, Herbertpur Christian Hospital, Herbertpur, India, March
22, 2008
• Emergency Management of Landmine and Blast Injuries, Rural Surgery CME, Herbertpur Christian Hospital,
Herbertpur, India, March 22, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma Management, Medical Staff Meeting, Phebe Hospital and School of Nursing,
Phebe, Liberia, May 27, 2008
• Basic Principles of Trauma Management, Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association, Freetown, Sierra
Leone, August 14, 2008
• Emergency Management of Burns, Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association, Freetown, Sierra Leone,
August 21, 2008
• Humanitarian Assistance: NGOs and IOs, South-Eastern European Simulation (SEESIM) workshop, Zagreb,
Croatia, September 23, 2008
• Connecting with Surgeons in Developing Countries, 94th Clinical Congress, American College of
Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, October 13, 2008
• International Humanitarian Surgery, General Surgery Grand Rounds, New York Presbyterian Hospital –
Columbia University, New York, December 18, 2008
• International Humanitarian Surgery: Surgery for the Rest of the World, Rural Surgery conference,
Cooperstown, NY, May 2009.
Television and Radio Interviews
• Studio B with Shepard Smith, Fox News Channel, June 12, 2003
• Radio Sawa, Voice of America, June 27, 2003
• Public Health Radio, December 2005
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