Biografia del Prof. KEVIN M. CAHILL

Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. is University Professor and Director of The Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University, Director of the Tropical Disease Center at Lenox Hill Hospital, Clinical Professor of Tropical Medicine and Molecular Parasitology at New York University School of Medicine, Chief Medical Advisor for Counterterrorism, NYPD, Professor and Chairman of the Department of International Health at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Senior Consultant to the United Nations Health Service and President-General of the American-Irish Historical Society.

Dr. Cahill received degrees from Fordham University, Cornell University School of Medicine, The Royal College of Surgeons in England and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He holds numerous fellowships, distinguished awards, and twenty-five honorary doctorates.

Upon completing his medical degree in 1961, Dr. Cahill was awarded a grant to work in Calcutta where he worked alongside Mother Theresa. He served as Director of Clinical Tropical Medicine in Egypt and Sudan while in the U.S. Navy and continued active medical research for the next forty years in Africa, Latin America, the Near and Far East, with long-term programs in Somalia, Sudan, India and Nicaragua.

From 1975-81, Dr. Cahill served concurrently as the Special Assistant to the Governor for Health Affairs, Chairman of the Health Planning Commission, and Chairman of the Health Research Council of New York State. From 1981-93 he was a Senior Member of the New York City Board of Health.

He has written and edited twenty-nine books and more than two hundred articles on subjects ranging from tropical disease to humanitarian and foreign affairs, Irish literature and public health.