At home
Emergency medicine
Board-certified ER physician on Chicago's South Side, training the next generation of emergency doctors.
Dr. Thaer Ahmad, MD — emergency medicine physician, humanitarian, and advocate for medical care in conflict zones.
Gaza · Since October 2023
From the testimony of frontline physicians, 2024–2026
Dr. Ahmad, in his own voice. From American Doctor, dir. Poh Si Teng — in select theaters from August 14.
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 from August 14.
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What he treats. What the world has allowed.
A war on a population where half are children.
21,289
Children reported killed in Gaza since October 2023.
UNICEF · February 2026
31of 36
Hospitals in Gaza damaged or destroyed.
EU Civil Protection · 2024
600+
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
His voice
The film that puts him inside the frame.
Featured video
American Doctor — official trailer. Sundance 2026, dir. Poh Si Teng.
In select theaters from August 14 · see him in person
Showing in select theaters nationwide. Screenings, Q&As and the full trailer →
Happening now
5
times Dr. Ahmad has been denied entry into Gaza by Israeli authorities since October 2024 — despite planned humanitarian medical missions.
Most recent denial: July 29, 2026 — his own account.
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
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.
Help carry the witness forward.
Dr. Ahmad speaks where the work is served by it — universities, newsrooms, congregations, and convenings on medical ethics, global health, and the protection of care in conflict. If your audience is one of them, the door is open.