[IsraelTimes] Mayo Clinic head trauma specialist Dr. Teodoro Dagi brings knowledge gained from global conflict work — including in Kosovo and Northern Ireland — to treating Israel’s war-injured
As soon as world-renowned American neurosurgeon Dr. Teodoro Forcht Dagi learned of Hamas
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’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel, he contacted Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv saying he wanted to come and help in any way he could and stay for as long as needed.
Although Dagi had not previously worked or volunteered at Sheba — Israel’s largest hospital — he was aware of its excellent reputation.
"I have tremendous respect for the hospital and have some acquaintance with how it plans for military-civilian contingencies having to do with my particular work in trauma and mass casualty events," Dagi said.
"I know of the neurosurgery department here and the neurosurgical departments in Israel in general, and I know their quality," he said.
Dagi, who lives in the Boston area, is a professor of neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He was trained at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and Johns Hopkins.
Between 2005 and 2018, Dagi chaired the medical school at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, rebuilding it after the Good Friday Agreement peace treaty that ended the "Troubles." The sectarian violence that lasted between the late 1960s and late 1990s killed more than 3,500 people and injured thousands more. Dagi has also worked in other conflict areas, such as Kosovo.
Dagi, who is Jewish, has a particular interest in head trauma and has consulted internationally on battlefield injury. He is an editor of several journals including the Journal of Special Forces Medicine, and in the past was a flight surgeon and taught flight surgery courses for the IDF.
Physicians at Sheba appreciate his stepping up to assist where needed and contribute his decades’ worth of expertise. The hospital has been treating many of those injured during the war sparked by Hamas’s murder of 1,200 Israelis and taking 239 hostage.
Interview at link. 
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