Doctors Needed for our Next

Friendship-Building Trip To Damascus!

Doctors are needed for our next delegation which will travel to Damascus in a peacemaking trip in the first week of November, 2009, to give two or three lectures in their field of expertise.  We are traveling in response to a return invitation from the Syrian American Medical Association.  In addition to lecturing we will also be seeking to find ways to respond to the influx of 1.5 Iraqi refugees to Syria. 

Participating doctors will both offer their professional skills and at the same time help to build a bridge of friendship to a country which is not well understood in the United States.  In addition to offering their humanitarian assistance the doctors will also enjoy a remarkable visit to a beautiful, historic country which few Americans ever see.  Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited capital in the world, is the city in which St. Paul had his change of heart and where Islam first became one of the great religions of the world.

Participants will be expected to provide two or three lectures on recent developments in their field of specialty and be available for several hours of consultation with colleagues.  Instruction will be in English.  Specific dates will be established soon with a week in Damascus and a total of ten days of travel.  For a glimpse of the exciting travel possibilities in Syria, see this recent article in the New York Times:   http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/travel/24Syria.html

Participants will cover their own travel costs.  The major cost will be air fare; expenses in Damascus are quite modest.  Safety is not an issue.  To read more about Mel Lehman's experience in Damascus, see the following recent op-ed piece in the Newark Star-Ledger:  http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/news/ledger/stories/lehman08172006.html

 

You can also read more about his work in an article in his college alumni magazine at:

http://www.emu.edu/crossroads/winter06-07/peace.html

 

If you have medical expertise, please consider sharing it with colleague Syrian doctors.  For more information contact:

Mel Lehman
ML9612921@aol.com