Dr. Joel Selanikio spent January 2005 in Aceh, Indonesia, caring for victims of the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. Working with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), he was dropped by helicopter in a remote village on the west Sumatran coast and set up a clinic treating both children and adults with traumatic injury as well as malaria and other common tropical diseases.

http://www.theirc.org/

Joel Selanikio was chosen as the recipient of the 2005 Haverford Award, from his alma mater Haverford College, "for exemplary service to humanity" as a doctor treating tsunami victims with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Sumatra after the December 2004 tsunami.

http://www.haverford.edu/newsletter/may05/alumniaward.htm

http://www.theirc.org/news/irc_first_to_reach_wounded_in_aceh_village_of...