Dr. Antonio “Tony” Dajer will speak about “Covid-19 and Darwin: Why Does it Keep Surprising Us?” Dr. Dajer, who has been a New York City emergency room physician for 30 years, will relate the strain on emergency department staff as Covid outbreaks peaked, what physicians have learned to reduce death among those hospitalized and, as Darwin would have predicted, how we still face uncertainties about controlling Covid mutations and other viruses that may yet appear.
Dr. Dajer has treated patients at the height of the Covid crisis — both at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York and at Stamford Hospital. At the time of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, he was the assistant Emergency Department director at New York Presbyterian – Lower Manhattan Hospital and the attending physician on shift, leading the team that treated hundreds of individuals who were injured. Dr. Dajer was born in New York City, raised in Puerto Rico, and received his BA degree at Harvard. He received his medical degree from NYU and was Medical Director of New York Presbyterian Hospital from 2005-2018. Dr. Dajer was interviewed in the March 26, 2020 issue of The New Yorker about the lessons of 9/11 while treating patients as the height of the pandemic. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-manhattan-er-doctor-recalls-the-lessons-of-911-while-treating-coronavirus-patients
Arranged by Charles Salmans