Dr Thaer Ahmad IV (The Gaza Ceasefire, Innovations in Medicine and Immigration) - Episode 1156
Behind The Shield
James Geering
4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Thaer Ahmad, MD is a board-certified emergency medicine physician working at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago. Dr. Ahmad is the assistant program director for the emergency medicine residency program. He serves as both the global health director and medical ethics director for the emergency department at Advocate Christ. Dr. Ahmad is also a clinical assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a board member of PAMA. The Palestinian American medical association.
He has served in Gaza at Nasser and Al-Aqsa Hospital, as well as in Lebanon during the ongoing conflict. Prior, Dr. Ahmad has spent time in Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Kenya, and Greece working on local healthcare capacity building projects.
In this fourth conversation, we discuss the National Guard deployment in Chicago, immigration, the obesity crisis, advances in medicine, the ceasefire in Gaza, what needs to happen to secure peace and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Pioneer Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute |
| 0:04.4 | honor to welcome back onto the show for the fourth time now, Chicago ER physician and humanitarian, |
| 0:12.3 | Dr. Thea Ahmad. Now, in this conversation, we discuss a host of topics from what he's seeing |
| 0:18.7 | in his own city as far as the deployment of ice and the |
| 0:21.9 | National Guard, obesity and the healthcare crisis, innovation in healthcare, the Gaza ceasefire, |
| 0:30.6 | what needs to happen to see continued peace in Gaza, and so much more. |
| 0:36.1 | Now before we get to this incredible conversation, as I say every week, |
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| 1:15.2 | So with that being said, I welcome back onto the show, Dr. Thayer Ahmad. Enjoy. |
| 1:26.5 | Music. Well, Thayer, I want to start by saying welcome back. |
| 1:44.5 | This is our fourth, excuse me, conversation in less than two years. |
| 1:49.3 | You have definitely become, not just on this show, but I think nationally or internationally, |
| 1:54.3 | become one of the most kind of centrist voices on the whole issue as far as, you know, |
| 1:59.8 | what's going on in Gaza at the moment. So, |
| 2:01.8 | firstly, I just want to welcome you back. Thank you so much. Yeah, I appreciate. Of course, |
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