Dr. Steven Hatch is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, specializing in infectious disease and immunology. His most recent book is Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story. In 2013-2014, Hatch lived and worked in Liberia fighting the Ebola epidemic. His work in Liberia was featured by the New York Times, CBS News, CNN, and others. Hatch is also the author of Snowball in a Blizzard: A Physician’s Notes on Uncertainty in Medicine.
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