Dr. Michael F Drusano, M.D.
Michael F Drusano, M.D., MSc is a board-certified Family Physician and a graduate of the University of Miami/JMH Family Medicine Residency Program, the first Family Medicine residency program in the United States. Throughout his medical training and career, he has practiced in resource-limited environments, including in complex humanitarian emergencies and among migrant populations in North America and further afield, including refugees, asylum seekers, and torture survivors. His experiences span twenty years starting with work in Botswana as a medical student at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis there and include first response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake (and repeated work there in the years thereafter), work in eastern DR Congo in communities affected by war and sexual violence, a maternity hospital in Somalia, and working in both an Ebola Treatment Unit and Government Hospital in Sierra Leone during the Ebola pandemic there in 2015. Later, he worked with Syrian and Yazidi refugees in Greece in December 2016 and in Bangladesh in the refugee camps housing survivors of the Rohingya genocide. In more recent years, he has worked in Uganda designing Ebola infection prevention and control programs for primary care clinics servicing Congolese refugees, worked at the US-Mexico border treating the diverse migrant community there, and most recently helped establish primary health care programs in Ukraine for internally displaced people shortly after the start of the conflict there in 2022. In March 2023, he was awarded a Masters of Science in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Closer to home, he has quite a bit of experience in community health, having worked with diverse medically underserved communities in both Florida and California, regularly seeing adults, children, the elderly, and patients needing basic OB-GYN care. He is glad to be working at VeraLife and looks forward to providing care to the local community in a safe, ethical, and appropriate fashion according to the latest guidelines all while involving patients in a participative (instead of paternalistic) model of care.
