Dr. Mick Alkan is Professor Emeritus, Infectious Diseases, Center for Emerging Diseases, Tropical Diseases and AIDS (CEMTA).  He served as Medical Director of a free clinic for unregistered and uninsured people, most of them asylum seekers in Israel, with Physicians for Human Rights. Dr. Alkan is known to be the first on the scene to provide medical relief to victims of disasters worldwide. His passion for medical missions abroad began in 1979 at a field hospital in Thailand run by the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Some of the medical rescue teams he has led have been to help victims of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, the 2004 tsunami in the Far East, and the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. He has also taught medicine in rural Kenya, Ecuador, Nepal, Ethiopia, and Kyrgyzstan. Dr. Alkan also played a significant role in planning the curriculum for MSIH.

Research Interests

• HIV
• Tuberculosis
• Hospital infections control
• Medical education
• International health and health care in the developing world

Education and Training

• M.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Infectious Disease Specialty, University of Tennessee – Health Science Center College of Medicine