Eaman al-Gobory
Eaman al-Gobory (Arabic language:إيمان الجبوري ) is a doctor from Iraq. In 2008, she received the International Women of Courage Award. [1]
Life
changeA-Gobory graduated from Baghdad Medical School. Then she went to work in Yemen, because she did not want to be in Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party in Iraq. She returned to Iraq in 2003, after the war started. She wanted to help the Iraqi people. [2]
Work
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Al-Gobory is the National Medical Officer for the International Organization of Migration, an international organization that helps people. She helps Iraqi children get medical care in the U.S. and around the world. The children receive plastic surgery, prosthetic limbs and heart surgery. [1] The International Organization of Migration helped 300 men, women and children to go to hospitals in 19 countries. [2]
Al-Gobory also helped build the Iraqi health care system with education. She worked with Project Hope, Operation Smile, the National Spinal Cord Injury Association, and Operation Give. [3] She was also a senior advisor to Taha group, a member of the UNDC (Uniited Nations Global Compact), that helps with health and staff development. [4]
In 2011, al-Gobory became the Iraqi Director of Wamar Medical Services, a part of Wamar International, LLC. Wamar Medical Services works with NATO, the United States Department of State, and the International Office for Migration to bring medical care to Iraq and Afghanistan. [5]
Publications
change- "Maintaining Baseline, Corrective Surgical Care during Asymmetrical Warfare: A Case Study of a Humanitarian Mission in the Safe Zone of a Neighboring Country", Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, February 2007, K.A. Kelly McQueen, Frederick M. Burkle, Eaman T. Al-Gobory and Christopher C. Anderson. [6]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "International Women of Courage Award Ceremony: 2008". 10 March 2008.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Woman Puts Her Head Before Her Heart to Help Children in Iraq". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-05-04.
- ↑ "US Secretary of State Award Honours Two IOM Staff Members". International Organization for Migration.
- ↑ "Promoting responsible practices in business". United Nations Development Programme in the Arab States.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-eaman-al-gobory-989b5320[permanent dead link]
- ↑ McQueen, K. A. Kelly; Burkle, Frederick M.; Al-Gobory, Eaman T.; Anderson, Christopher C. (1 February 2007). "Maintaining Baseline, Corrective Surgical Care during Asymmetrical Warfare: A Case Study of a Humanitarian Mission in the Safe Zone of a Neighboring Country". Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. 22 (1): 3–7. doi:10.1017/S1049023X00004258. PMID 17484356. S2CID 11468055 – via Cambridge Core.