Sep

10 2024

Emergency Medicine in Action: Healing the Negev Post-October 7

6:00PM - 8:00PM  

Within hours of the October 7 attacks by Hamas, thousands of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) faculty, staff, and students were called up to serve in IDF reserve duty. Learn about the resiliency of the faculty and student-reservists returning to their work and studies while simultaneously dealing with trauma from the ongoing war.
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
6:30 P.M.
Wine & Cheese Reception featuring Negev wines
7:00 P.M.
Program
Touro University Nevada
874 American Pacific Drive
Henderson, Nevada
In partnership with Jewish Nevada and Touro University Nevada
FEATURED SPEAKER
Dr. Oren Wacht
Head of the Rachel and May Javit
Medical Simulation & Classroom Building and Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine at BGU
Join us to hear from Dr. Oren Wacht as he shares his lessons from the battlefield, how BGU's Field Family Medical Simulation Center became an epicenter for necessary training, and the future of tactical medicine.
Program is free. Registration is required.
Please R.S.V.P. by September 9.
For information about this event visit:
www.jewishnevada.org/emergencymedicine