At home
Emergency medicine
Board-certified ER physician on Chicago's South Side, training the next generation of emergency doctors.
Gaza · Since October 2023
From the testimony of frontline physicians, 2024–2026
Dr. Thaer Ahmad has been inside.
Emergency medicine physician from Chicago. For over fifteen years, a volunteer medical voice in the places the world has turned away from. Subject of American Doctor, in select theaters August 14.
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What he treats. What the world has allowed.
A war on a population where half are children.
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Children reported killed in Gaza since October 2023.
UNICEF · February 2026
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Hospitals in Gaza damaged or destroyed.
EU Civil Protection · 2024
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Documented attacks on healthcare in Gaza and the West Bank.
UN News · January 2024 (at least)
The UN Human Rights Office has found a pattern of attacks on hospitals in Gaza that raises grave concerns of violations of international humanitarian law. — OHCHR, December 2024
2024 UN testimony · "Gaza Through a Doctor's Eyes"
The hospital was not just a place of medicine. It was the last place people believed someone still cared.
Dr. Thaer Ahmad · before the UN Palestinian Rights Committee, 2024
His voice
The film that puts him inside the frame.
Featured video
American Doctor — official trailer. Sundance 2026, dir. Poh Si Teng.
Three windows into one vocation
A doctor's hands, a teacher's voice, an advocate's spine.
Abroad
Humanitarian relief
Medical missions to Gaza and Lebanon, capacity-building across the Middle East and beyond.
In public
Advocacy
Bearing witness for medical workers and patients in conflict — at the UN, in the press, on stage.
Bring Dr. Ahmad to speak.
Conferences, universities, newsrooms, and houses of worship. Medical ethics, global health, and bearing witness from the frontline of humanitarian care.