Lecturer Lessenberry authors feature about Med. School Prof. Keidan...
The Toledo Blade
"Michigan doctor's efforts in Nepal a model for health care"
by Jack Lessenberry
For nine months of each year, Dr. Richard Keidan, professor of surgery at the medical schools of Wayne State University and Oakland University, is an elite physician in an upscale Detroit suburb who specializes in treating cancer. But every three months or so, he flies to Nepal, lands in Kathmandu, and trudges into the interior. He climbs mountains, endures high altitudes and stiff winds, and pitches a tent among the primitive huts of villagers. For the next month, he will try to do what he can to improve public health, medicine, and hygiene in rural Nepal through the organization he began three years ago, the Miles Levin Nepal Foundation for Health and Education.