Eric K. NOJI, M.D.

Medical doctor noted author scientist gifted teacher legendary traveler and iconic figure in the humanitarian community whose visionary technical innovations have revolutionized medical interventions in disasters and serve as the basis for standards of care  for emergency fieldworkers   The story of this remarkable physician's life is epic in sweep with a mythic grandeur that has become the stuff of legend. His research has taken him to the most dangerous of places under the most hazardous of circumstances in the most austere of environments - from the blazing deserts of the Arabian Peninsula to navigating the ancient Silk Road as it wound its way through passes at 18,000 feet, to combating childhood communicable diseases in African villages rarely visited since the days of Stanley and Livingstone to the perpetual isolation, darkness and and icy winds of Antarctica. "I live and work on the edge-the views are breathtaking, the experiences deep and satisfying and the learning limitless"