Stories of Doctors Without Borders
Winner of the Special Jury Mention for Cinematic Courage and Dedication to Humanitarian Ideals by the Cinequest Film Festival.
The Doctors
DR. CHRIS BRASHER is an Austalian anaesthetist who joined MSF in 1995 and worked with MSF for 9 years mostly in war zones. He also spent 5 years developing MSF's famous HIV treatment program in Malawi, which proved that Anti-retroviral drugs could be administered to large numbers of patients in poor rural communities. He currently works at a pediatric hospital in Paris, France.
DR. CHIARA LEPORA is an Italian toxicologist from Alice Castello, who has been working with MSF for several years. Her most recent MSF missions were to Sudan and Somalia. She left MSF in 2008 and is currently doing a post-doctoral fellowship at the National Institute of Health, the world's largest research hospital.
DR. TOM KRUEGER is an American surgeon from Tennessee, who sold his surgical practice in 2005 in order to volunteer with MSF. His mission to Liberia was his first with MSF and he has since been on several missions.
DR. DAVINDER GILL is an Australian doctor from Adelaide, who is currently completing his studies in pediatrics in Australia. His mission to Liberia was his first with MSF, and he has not been on any more missions since.