As medical director of the Serious Communicable Diseases Unit at Emory University Hospital, Dr. Bruce Ribner ’66 led the treatment of Americans with Ebola in 2014, in large part because Emory had built, at his urging, a state-of-the-art isolation unit for treatment of such diseases ten years earlier — a move many questioned before the Ebola outbreak.
In this interview, he discusses what we should expect in the coming months, applicable lessons learned from Ebola, and how preventive measures such as social distancing protect healthcare workers as well as the public.
Read the full interview here.