January 19,2006 NORWALK HOSPITAL'S STEPHEN WINTER, MD, WILL TALK TO THE Y's MEN ABOUT MODERN REFUGEE MEDICINE IN DARFUR, AFRICA Stephen M. Winter, MD. the Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Norwalk Hospital, will speak to the Y's Men of Westport/Weston on Thursday, January 19 th . His topic is “Modern Refugee Medicine: Looking for Camels in South Darfur.” His talk will be a depiction of the conditions in Darfur and the process of providing modern medical care in one of the most remote and inhospitable regions in the world. Doctor Winter has had twenty-five years of experience doing volunteer
international medical relief around the world. Recently, he spent
three weeks on a medical relief mission to Sudan as a volunteer for
AmeriCares. During that trip, he spent two weeks in South Darfur working
in a clinic run by the International Relief Committee in the Kalma
Refugee Camp which provided a temporary home for over 100,000 refugees
from the ongoing armed conflict in Darfur. He was the Medical
Director of a large clinic employing approximately 30 Sudanese nationals
providing acute medical care to about 350 patients per day from the
camp population for a variety of conditions including malaria, dysentery,
pneumonia and complications of pregnancy. Doctor Winter has served as a trustee on the Norwalk Hospital Board of Directors for six years until 2005. He is also Clinical Professor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine and board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care. During his seventeen years at Norwalk Hospital, he has been instrumental in the planning and development of the new medical intensive care unit, the Sleep Disorders Center, the Norwalk Hospital Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine and a program to provide specialized respiratory care to patients in their homes and in local nursing homes. He is also deeply involved in the academic programs at Norwalk hospital, spending much of his time teaching in the hospital residency programs and with the six postgraduate fellows training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Winter attended medical school at the University of Michigan and Cornell University. His post-graduate training was at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Yale-New Haven Hospital. He began his long career in international relief medicine while still a medical student at Cornell volunteering with the International Rescue Committee at the Kao I Dang Cambodian Refugee Holding Center near Aranyapratet, Thailand. Since 1980, he has volunteered at the HÔpital Albert Schweitzer in Haiti, been appointed as a Critical Care Team Leader by the American Red Cross for Operation Desert Storm, and been sent on missions with the relief organization AmeriCares, to the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, North Korea, Liberia, Afghanistan, Sudan and Rwanda. He helicoptered into lower Manhattan hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers to assist in the emergency response. He lectures extensively on the medical aspects of international relief efforts by non-government organizations. In addition to international work, Dr. Winter also donates his time regularly to community services such as the Norwalk high school smoking cessation program, student mentoring programs and the AmeriCares Free Clinic of Norwalk. He has also been active in the American Thoracic Society and the Connecticut Thoracic Society, serving on various committees and as secretary, vice- president and president of the Connecticut Thoracic Society. Dr. Winter lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut with his wife, Eva, and their two children, Meredith and James. The entire family serves on a permanent rescue mission to preserve their 1883 historic shingle-style home.
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Stephen M. Winter, MD