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Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without BordersLIVE with Elizabeth VargasDocumentary and Panel Discussion A One-Night Event Time: Event DescriptionDoctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and NCM Fathom present an exclusive, one-night LIVE event hosted by Elizabeth Vargas, Anchor of ABC News’ 20/20, featuring the critically acclaimed documentary “Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders” and a LIVE panel discussion with MSF frontline aid workers and award-winning journalists. Documentary: “Living in Emergency”For the first time ever, MSF gave a documentary crew uncensored access to its field operations. Set in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia, “Living in Emergency” interweaves the stories of four doctors as they struggle to provide emergency medical care under extreme conditions. Two volunteers are new recruits: a 26-year-old Australian doctor stranded in a remote bush clinic and an American surgeon from Tennessee trying to cope under the load of emergency cases in a shattered capital city. Two others are experienced field hands: a dynamic Head of Mission, valiantly trying to keep morale high and tensions under control, and an exhausted veteran, who has seen too much horror and wants out. Amid the chaos, each doctor must find their own way to face the challenges of the work, the tough choices, and the limits of their idealism. 2010 Oscar Consideration: Note: The documentary is unrated and contains some war and graphic surgery scenes. Panel Discussion LIVE with Elizabeth Vargas
Following the documentary, Elizabeth Vargas will moderate a LIVE town hall discussion in an effort to go beyond the headlines of today’s humanitarian crises and explore the hard choices, dilemmas, and sometimes bitter realities that MSF medical teams grapple with every day in more than 60 countries around the world. Elizabeth Vargas is anchor of ABC News 20/20. As an Emmy-winning anchor and correspondent, She has traveled the world covering breaking news stories, reporting in-depth investigations and conducting newsmaker interviews. During the historic Iraqi elections in December 2005, she reported extensively for "World News Tonight" from Baghdad on both civilian life in Iraq and American military involvement there. Her international coverage has also sent her to Russia, the Middle East and Cambodia. Panelists
Dr. Christopher Brasher worked for nine consecutive years from 1996 to 2005 with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He served as: an anesthetist in war-torn Burundi; Head of Mission for four projects in Angola; Emergency Coordinator during conflicts and epidemics in Sierra Leone, Mozambique, and Eritrea; and then as Program Manager responsible for activities in Armenia, Congo, Colombia, Georgia, Niger, Malawi, Sri Lanka, and the country of his first assignment, Burundi. Taking a break after nine years of field work with MSF, Dr. Brasher currently holds a fellowship in pediatric and obstetric anesthesia at the Hôpital Robert Debré in Paris. Along with his training in surgery and anesthesiology, Dr. Brasher also earned a diploma in tropical medicine from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. He has contributed to multiple articles in The Lancet, Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, and Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 
Dr. Tom Krueger is an American surgeon who closed his private practice of 20 years in Springfield, Tennessee in order to work in humanitarian crises with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He was sent to post-conflict Liberia where he performed more surgeries in two months than he ever had in six months in a U.S. hospital. His field experience was captured in the documentary “Living in Emergency.” Since that first assignment, Dr. Krueger has worked in three other crisis zones. In Nigeria, he set up a trauma hospital. In Darfur, Sudan, he was Chief of Surgery in a hospital serving 120,000 displaced people. When the conflict in Sri Lanka reignited in 2007, Dr. Krueger left on a moment’s notice to treat the war injured. In the U.S., Dr. Krueger has returned to private practice at the Southern Hills Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. 
Sebastian Junger is the author of three New York Times bestselling books: The Perfect Storm, Fire, and A Death In Belmont. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has been awarded the National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism. He has also written for such magazines as Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside and Men's Journal. His war coverage included reports from Liberia, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Sierra. 
Sophie Delaunay is Executive Director of the U.S. branch of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Prior to this position, she worked for the organization in various capacities, including senior program advocacy officer in the U.S., country administrator in Thailand and Rwanda, and head of mission in China and for MSF’s North Korea program. She was also financial director of Epicentre, MSF’s epidemiological research center. During the past year, she returned to the field to conduct program evaluations in Liberia, Sudan, and Pakistan. Delaunay has contributed to multiple publications, including a book about North Korean asylum seekers. 
Dr. Walter T. Gwenigale, Minister of Health & Social Welfare, Republic of Liberia Panelists subject to change. 
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