Adam L. Kushner

Adam L. Kushner, MD, MPH, FACS is a general surgeon who practices exclusively in developing countries. He is an Associate in the Department of International Health and faculty of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Lecturer in Surgery, Department of Surgery at Columbia University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Surgery at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences; and founder of the non-governmental organization Surgeons OverSeas (SOS).

Dr. Kushner has worked as a general surgeon and educator in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Iraq, Kiribati, Lebanon, Liberia, Malawi, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Syria, and Tanzania; conducted landmine, cluster munition, and human rights assessments in Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Kosovo for Physicians for Human Rights; taught trauma care and emergency management of landmine injuries to medical personnel working in landmine affected regions of Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Colombia; and worked as a health specialist with the International Rescue Committee during the Indonesia tsunami response. Since 2003 he has participated in US military training exercises where he functions as a subject matter expert for human rights and humanitarian assistance issues.

Dr. Kushner has authored over 150 peer-reviewed papers on global surgery, humanitarian assistance, disaster response, landmines, and human rights. He is also editor of the Johns Hopkins University Press global surgery series: Operation Health. The series includes: “Operation Health: Surgical care in the developing world,” “Operation Ebola: Surgical care during the West African outbreak,” and “Operation Crisis: Surgical care in the developing world during conflict and disaster.”

Dr. Kushner completed his general surgery residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center - San Antonio, has an M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins, and a B.A. in History and International Relations from Cornell University. He is currently based in Anchorage, Alaska.