About the Author

Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed, FACEP

Dr. Donaldson is Global Head of Emergency & Disaster Care at International Medical Corps, an international humanitarian aid organization, where he has received and managed over $15 million dollars of grants for emergency health care system strengthening projects, including in Iraq and Haiti. He is also the Director of the Emergency Medicine Global Health Program at Harbor-UCLA and holds appointments at UCLA as an Assistant Clinical Professor of (Emergency) Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology.

Featured on CNN, BBC, NPR, and other media outlets, Dr. Donaldson is an internationally recognized expert on global health and the provision of emergency and disaster care. He is the Chief Editor of the Tarascon Medical Translation Handbook, an aid helping healthcare workers communicate with their foreign speaking patients in 17 different languages, and creator of WikEM: The Global Emergency Medicine Wiki, which is used by over 15,000 medical professionals worldwide and was ranked as one of the best hand-held emergency medicine applications in 2011.

Dr. Donaldson has worked around the globe, in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. He has been the lead architect of national emergency care plans in several countries and has spearheaded the training of thousands of EMTs, nurses, and doctors, as well as the establishment of emergency pre-hospital and hospital-based systems of care. Among other honors, he received the Humanitarian Award from the California chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians in 2010.