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{{Short description|American medical doctor}}
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'''Richard Michael Hodes''' (born May 30, 1953) is an American medical doctorphysician specializing in [[cancer]], heart disease, and spinal conditions. Since the 1980s he has worked in [[Ethiopia]] and has adopted a number of children from the country.<ref name="npr" >{{cite web|title=Humpbacked Children Have a Hero in Ethiopia|publisher=National Public Radio|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130610321}}</ref><ref name="rd" /> He is medical director of the [[American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee]]. He is the consultant at a Catholic mission working with sick destitutes suffering from heart disease (rheumatic and congenital), spine disease (TB and [[scoliosis]]), and cancer. He has worked with refugees in [[Rwanda]], [[Zaire]], [[Tanzania]], [[Somalia]], and [[Albania]] and was previously responsible for the health of Ethiiopians immigrating to Israel.
 
==Early life and education==
Hodes graduated from [[Middlebury College]] in [[Middlebury, Vermont]] and the [[University of Rochester Medical Center|University of Rochester Medical School]] in [[Rochester, New York]], and trained in internal medicine at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in [[Baltimore]].<ref name="rd" >{{cite web|title=Dr. Rick Hodes Helps the Children of Ethiopia|url=http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/dr-rick-hodes-helps-the-children-of-ethiopia/article104652.html|publisher=ReadersReader's Digest}}</ref> He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He first went to [[Ethiopia]] as a relief worker during the 1984 famine. He returned thereto Ethiopia on a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] to teach internal medicine, and in 1990 was hired by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a humanitarian group, as the medical advisor for the country. His original position was to care for 25,000 potential immigrants to Israel. In 1991, he was an active contributor during [[Operation Solomon]], helping the Ethiopian Jews airlifted to Israel.▼
 
==Career==
In 1990, Hodes was hired by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a humanitarian group, as the medical advisor for the country. His original position was to care for 25,000 potential immigrants to Israel. In 1991, he was an active contributor during [[Operation Solomon]], helping the Ethiopian Jews airlifted to [[Israel]].
 
In 20012002, Hodes adopted two Ethiopian children, so they could receive treatment in the USU.S. for spinal [[tuberculosis]] ([[Pott's disease]]).<ref name="rd" /> He has adopted a total of five children with medical needs from the country.▼
▲Hodes graduated from [[Middlebury College]] and the University of Rochester Medical School, and trained in internal medicine at [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref name="rd" >{{cite web|title=Dr. Rick Hodes Helps the Children of Ethiopia|url=http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/dr-rick-hodes-helps-the-children-of-ethiopia/article104652.html|publisher=Readers Digest}}</ref> He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He first went to Ethiopia as a relief worker during the 1984 famine. He returned there on a [[Fulbright Fellowship]] to teach internal medicine, and in 1990 was hired by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, a humanitarian group, as the medical advisor for the country. His original position was to care for 25,000 potential immigrants to Israel. In 1991, he was an active contributor during [[Operation Solomon]], helping the Ethiopian Jews airlifted to Israel.
 
He opened the JDC Spinal Deformity Clinic in 2006, based at Mother Teresa's Mission. That year, he treated 20 new spine patients, and they performed eleven surgeries in [[Accra]], Ghana. At present, they get around 500 new deformity patients a year. It has been said that he now has the largest collection of the worst spine deformities in the world.
▲In 2001 Hodes adopted two Ethiopian children, so they could receive treatment in the US for spinal [[tuberculosis]] ([[Pott's disease]]).<ref name="rd" /> He has adopted a total of five children with medical needs from the country.
 
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In 2007, Hodes was selected as a "[[CNN Hero]]," a program that highlights ordinary people for their extraordinary achievements.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/dr-rick-hodes-helps-the-children-of-ethiopia/article104652.html |title=Dr. Rick Hodes Helps the Children of Ethiopia {{!}} Heroes {{!}} Reader's Digest |website=www.rd.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081110122446/http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/dr-rick-hodes-helps-the-children-of-ethiopia/article104652.html |archive-date=2008-11-10}}</ref>
Medical care is free. He partners with Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei of FOCOS Hospital in Accra, where ambulatory traction and complex surgeries are performed. They have done over 1000 surgeries on Ethiopian spine patients. They have approximately 100 youths in “growing rods,” either magnetic or standard, possibly the largest growing rod cohort in the world.
 
InThe 2007, Hodes was selected as a "[[CNN Hero]]," a program that highlights ordinary people for their extraordinary achievements.<ref>http://www.rd.com/your-america-inspiring-people-and-stories/dr-rick-hodes-helps-the-children-of-ethiopia/article104652.html</ref> The American College of Physicians]] has awarded him “Mastership"Mastership,”" and the Rosenthal Award for creative practice of medicine. Hodes' work in [[Ethiopia]] was the subject of an HBO documentary, ''Making the Crooked Straight'', and a [[Marilyn Berger]] book, ''This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes''.<ref name="npr" /><ref>{{cite book|title=This Is a Soul: The Mission of Rick Hodes|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061759543/This_Is_a_Soul/index.aspx?AA=index_authorIntro_35327}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Making the Crooked Straight|url=http://www.makingthecrookedstraight.org/}}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
Hodes is a [[baal teshuva]], a secular Jew who has embraced Orthodox Judaism.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/05/04/2394657/jewish-doctor-in-ethiopia-hailed-in-new-book-film|title = Jewish doctor in Ethiopia hailed in new book, film|date = 4 May 2010}}</ref>
 
==Further reading==
*[http://a.abcnews.com/Health/video/28-years-ethiopia-saving-lives-10399272&tab=9482931&section=1206835&playlist=1363742&page=1 ABC's Person of the Week (4/16/2010)]
*[https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Books/soul-mission-rick-hodes-marilyn-berger/story?id=10354565 ABC's Good Morning America]
*[http://www.bewoket.com/ “Bewoket"Bewoket: By the Will of God”God"]; The story of a courageous young boy finding Dr. Rick Hodes and getting a second chance at life.
 
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