Asian Tropical Medicine in the Emergency Department

Dr. Hamm earned an MD at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He completed an Emergency Medicine residency and an International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. As part of the fellowship, he completed the Gorgas Diploma Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine in Lima, Peru, earning the Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. He has also studied tropical medicine in Thailand and Cambodia and worked in varying capacities in low resource settings in Kenya, Jordan, El Salvador, Ecuador and Gambia. He completed an MPH at Western Kentucky University.

At UK, Dr. Hamm attends in the Emergency Department, leads the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship, serves in the Global Health Initiatives Office and directs the Global Health Scholarly Concentration in the College of Medicine.