John Kahler
Syrian American Medical Society
John Kahler did his pediatric training at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He spent the last 20 years serving the poor in medical mission work in Africa, Mexico, and Central America. Since 2015, he has been working with the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) caring for refugees. In June 2016, along with two SAMS colleagues, John went to Aleppo to work with besieged medical personnel. Those in his team were the last western physicians to leave Aleppo before the siege was completed. They received humanitarian awards for their work in Aleppo, and he and his colleagues were honored as Chicagoans of the Year 2016 and Bush Foundation Daily Points of Light.
