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Email Contact: Peter@LFRInternational.org

Peter G. Delaney, M.D.

Peter is an Orthopaedic Surgery resident surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and Board Chairman of LFR International, where he was previously Executive Director. As a former emergency medical technician, his research is focused on emergency medical services development and prehospital trauma care for injury in low- and middle-income countries, with particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa, having worked in Uganda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Nigeria. His work in post-crash response with LFR International received the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award in 2020. He is an invited advisor to the United Nations Road Safety Fund’s Platform on Health and Road Safety.

As an Honorary Florence Moog Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, Peter studied Global Health and Healthcare Management and graduated cum laude. He attended the University of Michigan Medical School, where he was a researcher at the University of Michigan Center for Global Surgery and graduated AOA with Distinction in Research Honors, the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence, and the University of Michigan Department of Surgery’s Student Research Award. He was also one of 43 medical students nationally to be awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship. He is a certified Red Cross First Aid/CPR Instructor and has certifications in FEMA Incident Command and Management Systems. Peter speaks Spanish, French, and Portuguese.