Treating Global Health At Your Doorstep Starts with a Good Patient History

Ed Zuroweste, MD es el director médico fundador de la Red de Proveedores de Servicios de Salud para Migrantes (MCN por sus siglas en inglés). Estuvo presente en la primera reunión oficial de MCN en 1985 y ha estado constantemente involucrado con la organización desde entonces. El Dr. Zuroweste comenzó su trabajo con inmigrantes como socio de un consultorio clínico privado en Chambersburg, Pensilvania. Más tarde se convirtió en el director médico de Keystone Health Center, un gran centro de salud para migrantes y la comunidad en Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Mientras atendía sus responsabilidades administrativas, el Dr. Zuroweste también mantenía un consultorio clínico a tiempo completo de medicina familiar y obstetricia que incluía privilegios hospitalarios completos en pediatría, medicina para adultos y obstetricia. Además de su trabajo en MCN, el Dr. Zuroweste es profesor asistente de medicina en la Facultad de Medicina Johns Hopkins, en la que enseña una clase electiva sobre salud rural internacional en Honduras. El Dr. Zuroweste también es médico de siete clínicas de tuberculosis del departamento de salud de diferentes condados del Departamento de Salud de Pensilvania y, en la actualidad, es asesor médico sobre tuberculosis del Departamento de Salud de Pensilvania. Adicionalmente, el Dr. Zuroweste es asesor clínico de tres empresas de consultoría y, trabaja como médico de familia suplente para múltiples centros. El Dr. Zuroweste ha trabajado para la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) en dos misiones de corta duración; la primera en el 2009-2010 como consultor médico especial durante la pandemia de la gripe H1N1 y, en el 2014, como consultor médico especial con el equipo de respuesta contra el ébola en Guinea y Sierra Leona, África Occidental. El Dr. Zuroweste también ha participado en tres programas de detección de TB / Lepra / DM patrocinados por los CDC / OMS dos veces en las Islas Marshall (Ebeye 2017 y Majuro 2018) y más recientemente en la Micronesia en la isla de Chuuk en el 2023. Ha viajado mucho por Centroamérica, especialmente Honduras y Guatemala tanto por razones docentes como por placer. También ha viajado a Europa, Sudamérica y el Caribe. El Dr. Zuroweste está casado y tiene tres hijos. Cuando no está trabajando, al Dr. Zuroweste le gusta correr largas distancias, escuchar buena música, buenas películas y conciertos, trabajar al aire libre y viajar con su familia y amigos a lugares lejanos.

As the Chief Medical Officer for Migrant Clinicians Network, Dr. Madaras is responsible for the oversight of MCN clinical activities. He also serves as a subject matter expert for various topics in migrant and immigrant health including COVID-19 clinical education. Since the first weeks of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Dr. Madaras treated thousands of patients sick enough to need hospitalization and sometimes intensive care.  Over the last 30 years, in parts of Africa, Latin America, South America, the Pacific Islands, and the United States, Dr. Madaras has worked served thousands for wide ranging ailments, including newly emerging diseases such as Zika and most recently COVID-19. This interest began for him in the mid-1980s while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Congo where he learned to recognize schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, filariasis, strongyloidiasis, and other tropical diseases, and witnessed the start of a newly detected virus soon to be named HIV. 

Dr. Madaras spent his early childhood in Hungary and Sweden, arriving in the United States as refugee in 1968 at the age of seven and eventually became a US citizen. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in biochemistry in 1983. He served three years in the Peace Corps in Congo (Zaire) as a regional fisheries coordinator, and then as a PC Country Desk Assistant for Ghana/Liberia/Sierra Leone in Washington, DC. He also worked as a pesticide review manager in the EPA in Washington, with several publications in the Federal Register regarding the removal of chemicals harmful to human health. Dr. Madaras received his MD and Masters in Public Health from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1993, and worked in Gabon, West Africa as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in pediatrics. Later he worked with the American Refugee Committee on the Congo/Rwandan border during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He also worked on the Hungarian border with the former Yugoslavia in 1995. Since 1996, Dr. Madaras has worked as a board-certified family physician in both inpatient and outpatient medicine in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine and Obstetrics.  He served as a frontline clinician at the Keystone Health Center, a community health center, where he cared for farmworkers and their families and became Assistant Medical Director from 2001 to 2005. In 2005, he became a hospitalist in Chambersburg and Waynesboro Hospitals in south central Pennsylvania, where he continues to work part time. In 2016 he became a Senior Fellow of Hospital Medicine. In 2020, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP). 

In addition, Dr. Madaras has worked as a staff physician in Tuberculosis control at the Pennsylvania State Health Department since 2012, and regularly teaches US-based medical students on an international health rotation in Honduras. Dr. Madaras also teaches hospital medicine to Penn State nurse practitioner and physician assistant students and medical residents at Summit Health. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Penn State College of Medicine as well as the Medical Director of Educational Affairs at WellSpan Summit Health. Dr. Madaras is married with two grown children. He enjoys language, travel, scuba diving, and hiking. He has been a nationally ranked age-group triathlete and completed several marathons and a dozen 50-mile ultra marathons.