EVANSTON, Ill. --- Dr. Samer Attar, a Northwestern University assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery, gets about 100 messages a day from Ghouta, Syria, where shelling, air strikes and violence have reportedly killed more than 1,000 people in two weeks, most of them civilians.
Attar volunteers with the Syrian American Medical Society, and he’s traveled to Aleppo, Syria, several times to bring medical care to gravely injured people in makeshift hospitals. Now, back in Chicago, he’s linked in a WhatsApp group to doctors who are trying to save lives in Ghouta.
Attar, of Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, is available to talk about his experiences in Syria and offer his insight on the dire situation in Ghouta. He can be reached at [email protected].
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