User:Stuart mackler

'''Stuart Fred Mackler, M.D. Born in Brooklyn New York 1937. Attended Poly Prep Country Day School and Dartmouth College and New York Medical College. Dr. Mackler served in Vietnam 1966-67 as the Senior Medical Officer for Squadron 3 of the US Coast Guard. Dr. Mackler was deployed to the Virgin Islands with the US Public Health Service following hurricane Hugo. He served two tours with Operation Smile in Haiti after the earthquake in January 2010 performing orthopedic surgery at the hospital established at the Love a Child Orphanage in Fond Parisian. As a result of this experience he founded and serves as President of the American Humanitarian Initiative a 501C3 tasked to provide prosthetics and training in prosthetic fabrication to assist the estimated 10,000 amputees injured in the earthquake. He is currently the Orthopedic consultant for Operation Smile and a member of the Board of Directors of the Medical Society of Virginia  Dr. Mackler currently serves as President of the Virginia State Board of Medicine.