Professor Thomas Stephen Potokar OBE[1] (born January 1964) is chair of the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research at Swansea University. He is the founder and director of the charity Interburns.[2][3]
Potokar has been the chief surgeon of the ICRC since 2021.[4] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Potokar shared his experiences while he was working in the European Hospital in southern Gaza, describing an over-capacity hospital with Palestinian civilians who had suffered shrapnel wounds.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "NHS Wales - Consultant surgeon honoured for work with global burns patients". Wales.nhs.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Professor Tom Potokar". Swansea.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "University gets £2m to research burns". Bbc.co.uk. 18 July 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Tom Potokar – LinkedIn profile". LinkedIn. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
- ^ "Surgeon Dr. Tom Potokar shares on the situation from European Hospital, Gaza". X (Twitter). International Committee of the Red Cross. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "ICRC – Surgeon Dr. Tom Potokar shares on the situation from European Hospital, Gaza". www.instagram.com. International Committee of the Red Cross. 13 November 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
External links
edit- "Tom Potokar - MBChB, FRCS (Ed), FRCS (Plast), DA (UK), DTM&H - College of Human and health Sciences". ResearchGate. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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