The Bigger Picture Aarti Thakkar, 2017-18 NC Albert Schweitzer Fellow for Life The following paints a picture of Aarti's work as a 2018-19 Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow. Here’s…
One of the most important things the Schweitzer Fellowship does is to allow Fellows to continue, expand, or fine-tune existing Fellowship projects so that they may have an even greater,…
Last October, results from a Schweitzer Fellowship project launched in Durham, North Carolina to improve the health outcomes of patients with complicated, chronic medical needs were shared with a global…
Editor’s note: We’re proud to highlight this health literacy project by Schweitzer Fellows Mustafa Abid and Ziyad Knio during the month of October, which is Health Literacy Month. It is one…
For their Fellowship project, 2016-17 North Carolina Fellows Catherine Harris and Mas Sato ran a literacy program for families at a temporary homeless shelter and two literacy and GED programs…
Dr. Jim Jones, who helped launch ASF’s North Carolina chapter back in 1994, received the 2017 Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award from Wake Forest University (WFU) on April 21.…
Growing up surrounded by crop fields in Ayden, NC, the sights of tractor combines lumbering down country roads and farm workers topping tobacco in the heat of summer were commonplace…
As a refugee from the war torn country of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ljiljana Karan and her family had very little access to health care and were often on the receiving…
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship announces that Dr. Beat Steiner, the Program Director for Medical Student programs in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of…
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship (ASF) today announced the selection of its 2017-18 class of North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows. Twenty-three graduate students from Duke School of Medicine, Wake Forest School…