Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Jeremy S: Kamal Mansour

Building bridges between Emory and Egypt: seeing patients, sharing knowledge, and performing difficult surgical procedures…improving the picture of the USA in the Middle East
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6 comments:

  1. Jeremy S.February 3, 2010 at 6:12 PM

    In the process of researching.
    Have contacted him, but he was going to Egypt to perform a house call at the time. He got back on the 30th and I emailed him to find a time to interview him. He has not yet responded.

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  2. Jerry. HFebruary 4, 2010 at 8:27 PM

    Also I think it's a good idea to do some researches on Egypt. I had the same problem which I couldn't get responds from my speaker. Mr Shulman gave me his phone and I just called him instead. It really helps to get contact with someone who seems like disappeared. But since your speaker is going to Egypt.... I don't know if you want to do that :P.

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  3. Jeremy S.February 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    thanks for the tip. I've already researched Egypt, and if he doesn't reply with a good time I might just call him :).

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  4. Nina C.February 7, 2010 at 12:27 PM

    I would also just send him another email first, telling him that you really respect everything he is doing there and would love to hear more, and let him know that you are on a timeline for the article and would really appreciate being able to talk to him as soon as possible. Even instead of asking him what time would work best just look at the time change and try to decide what would be around 5 or so in the evening and ask him if like Sunday at 5 his time or whatever works, this way he will kind of be forced into having to either take that time or pick one that works for him...

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  5. Jeremy S.February 8, 2010 at 4:38 PM

    Thanks Nina, I'll use that advice when he replies. :)


    I called his office and got his secretary, so I left my name number and told her that I was interviewing him for a school project (and that he was aware of this).

    She told me she'd give him the information when she saw him, so I hope he'll reply either via email or phonecall within the week.

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  6. Jeremy S.February 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM

    I just had my first talk with Kamal, and he's a great person. He answered all of my (few) questions in such depth, and I learned of how much he loves to help people through surgery and educate people at Emory. I had a few snitches with finding a time to talk to him since he works at Emory University in Atlanta, but I happened to catch him about a half hour before he scrubbed in for surgery, so I was lucky. I got over 20 minutes of interview in so I'm hoping that will be helpful to my article. I was really astounded by how, from the very start, he chose to be a doctor not as a profession, but as a way to help people. He's really an amazing person.

    Plus I got everything on tape and I can understand it! :D

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