Dr. Stephen Winter joined the AmeriCares board in 2003. He is currently chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Norwalk Hospital and an associate clinical professor of medicine at Yale University, both in Connecticut. Dr. Winter was the recipient of the 2002 Humanitarian Award of the Connecticut Thoracic Society and the 1999 Community Service Award of the American College of Chest Physician Governors. His volunteer work with AmeriCares has taken him to Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Serbia, Albania, North Korea and Ground Zero in New York on 9/11. He has also been a member of medical missions to Rwanda, Haiti, Thailand and Cambodia. Dr. Winter received a M.D. from Cornell University Medical College, graduated from University of Michigan Medical College, received an M.S. in Systems Analysis and Synthesis from Stanford University and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois. He completed a residency in internal medicine at The New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering and a fellowship at Yale-New Haven Hospital and West Haven Veterans Administration Hospital. |