Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from working with others- or, in a word, partnership.

Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent.