Module 1: A Review of Immigration History in the US

Speaker: Rich Kovar, MD

Family Medicine; Clinical Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine

 

Dr. Kovar has done over 450 medical evaluations of asylum seekers since beginning this work in 1998. At that time, there were no other providers in the Northwest, particularly in Northern Oregon, conducting these evaluations. He has worked with Physicians for Human Rights, Center for Victims of Torture, Healthright, International Rescue Committee, Refugees Northwest and now a UW student-run clinic to perform evaluations and train scores of evaluators over the last 17 years. Dr. Kovar has worked in 9 countries and 5 continents in the past providing refugee relief work.