Heroic American Surgeon Dr. Tom Catena Earns Top Medical Missionary Award for Saving Lives in Africa's Forgotten War Zone
"We are so grateful to Tom for providing us with the opportunity to fulfill this Jewish obligation so effectively."
- "We are so grateful to Tom for providing us with the opportunity to fulfill this Jewish obligation so effectively."
- Dr. Tom Catena, a 55-year-old Catholic medical missionary from upstate New York, has served in Africa for20 years.He is the only surgeon for 1.3 million people in a region nearly twice the size of Massachusetts.
- Since 2008, Catena, a graduate of Duke University Medical School and former U.S. Navy doctor, has been the Medical Director at Gidel Mother of Mercy Hospital.
- AMH was co-founded in 2010 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Mark Gerson and medical missionary Dr. Jon Fielder, who were college roommates.