Tim Laux was a rotating fellow at Tséhootsooí Medical Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona and at Jan Swasthya Sahyog in India (2015-2017). He grew up in New York (the suburbs of the City) and completed medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and subsequently Internal Medicine residency at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He has previous experience working with Chronic Kidney Disease of Non-Traditional Causes (CKDnT) in Nicaragua and Guatemala, one of a number of recently described regional nephropathies affecting rural agricultural communities worldwide. He has done previous clinical work at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi but is not proud of this one month of voluntourism. His clinical interests include Critical Care in lower resource settings and tuberculosis and his ethical interests include the maturation of global health from a fad to an established, respected specialty. He can adamantly argue that tuberculosis is the most evil (yes, evil) of all the diseases. His interest in the HEAL Initiative stems from a desire to gain clinical experience in low-and-middle-income countries to better perform clinical research in the same setting(s). He speaks Spanish at near fluency and enjoys learning Hindi. The soccer / football team he supports is Fulham FC.

Field of work: Internal Medicine

Areas of interest: Critical Care