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Dr. Isaac Ashkenazi Seminar

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Athens, Ga. — One of the world’s foremost experts in medical preparedness for complex emergencies and disasters, Dr. Isaac Ashkenazi delivered a lecture titled "Preparedness for and Response to High Consequence Urban Terrorism – the International Experience" for the College of Public Health on May 12, 2009.

Dr. Ashkenazi is the Director of the Urban Terrorism Preparedness Project at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also a Professor of Disaster Medicine at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and a consultant to Harvard University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and other national and international agencies. Ashkenazi is the former head of the Medical Services and Supply Center for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and served as the Surgeon General for the IDF Home Front Command.

This lecture was funded by a gift from Harold and Milly Solomon. Dr. Solomon, a physician practicing in Boston, MA, has been on the “Best Doctors in America” list since 1994; is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and has numerous national honors and awards for his contributions to medicine. But when Dr. Solomon is asked to describe himself, he simply says that he is “a product of Georgia Public Schools”—he attended grade school and high school in Savannah, earned his bachelor of science from University of Georgia in 1961 and completed medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. His wife, Milly Pincus Solomon, also attended UGA. Grateful for the education they received in Georgia, The Solomons’ gift has enabled them to give back to their home state and reflects their connection to UGA’s Jewish community.

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