Abigail Hankin-Wei (emergency medicine) will receive the 2018 Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad for exceptional service to the US Embassy Mozambique and the Mozambican Central Public hospital. Hankin-Wei volunteers as the only trained emergency medicine physician in Mozambique. In addition to providing much-needed specialty care, she has partnered with a local medical school to start the country’s first emergency medicine residency program, and has also focused on improving infrastructure, co-writing a grant with local ICU physicians to fund hospital repairs and enhancements. Hankin-Wei will receive the award Nov. 15 in Washington D.C.
Emory University School of Medicine
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