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In recognition of his outstanding humanitarian efforts, Michael VanRooyen, MD, MPH, chief of the Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs in BWH Emergency Medicine, is featured among 65 physicians from 55 countries in the book “Caring Physicians of the World,” published by the World Medical Association in October.
VanRooyen and other physicians were chosen by their peers based on “attributes demonstrating humanity and the core values of medicine at its finest,” according to the World Medical Association.
Driven by a passion for improving humanitarian assistance, VanRooyen has journeyed into some of the most desperate and dangerous situations in the world to help those in need. The book recounts VanRooyen’s beginnings in medicine and his interest in international humanitarian aid, and details a handful of his accomplishments and the hardships—braving mortar and sniper fire in Bosnia and imprisonment in Zaire—he endured to help others.