About Us
U.S. Board
Matthew Spitzer, MD
President
Dr. Matthew Spitzer joined MSF in 1999, establishing primary care services and training medical providers in Khampa Tibet, southwestern China. He has worked as field coordinator with MSF in Sierra Leone, with MSF-USA to explore the medical needs of asylum seekers in detention in the New York area, and most recently in Cambodia, where he coordinated MSF’s response to epidemic dengue. Dr. Spitzer worked for ten years at the St. Anthony Free Clinic in San Francisco and its affiliated rehabilitation program. This past year, he has been working in San Quentin State Prison’s primary care services and trauma/treatment area, and he teaches in the case-based curriculum of UC-Berkeley’s Joint Medical Program.
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