Eduardo Peña Dolhun is an American family physician in

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. He is the inventor of

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, a medical-grade

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. Dolhun is a staff member at the

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and founded the Dolhun Clinic, the Dolhun Clinic Pre-Medical Internship Program, and Doctors Outreach Clinics. He is an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences at

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. Dolhun was the co-director of Ethnicity and Medicine at

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from 2000-2018. He has been a member of the

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since 1999. He is also a fellow of the Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health and holds membership in the San Francisco Medical Society.

Education

Dolhun received his bachelor's degree in philosophy and Spanish literature from

in 1989. He received his medical doctorate from

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in 1996, and completed his family medicine residency at the

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in 1999. He graduated from the

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Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship Program in 2000, the UCSF Primary Care Research Fellowship in 2001, and the

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/Santa Clara County Family Practice Obstetrics Fellowship in 2004.

Career

In 1999, Dolhun moved to

after his residency to pursue fellowships in Family Medicine Research and Faculty Development at the

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and Obstetrics at

and the Santa Clara County Hospital. In 2000, he became the co-director of Ethnicity and Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at

. Dolhun founded the Dolhun Clinic and the Dolhun Clinic Pre-Medical Internship Program in 2005. In 2008, Dolhun began developing an

, after traveling to Guatemala and witnessing a cholera outbreak. Dolhun began manufacturing DripDrop Oral Rehydration Solution in 2010. That year he traveled to

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after an earthquake and treated approximately 500 patients and was an original member of what was to become Team Rubicon. Later that year, he traveled to

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with

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to treat victims of a massive flood that was chronicled by reporter Kaj Larsen of

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. Dolhun traveled to

the Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

in 2013 to assist in the relief effort following

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. In October 2012, Dolhun addressed an audience on the importance of

in reducing deaths due to dehydration at a TedX event. He received the "Service to the Community" award from

that year. Dolhun appeared on

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to discuss the

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epidemic in West Africa in September 2014. In April 2016, Dolhun traveled to

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

to provide

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to the victims of a magnitude 7.8

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. In June 2016, Dolhun traveled to

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to provide aid at the

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located there. In March 2017, Dolhun treated children near

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, South Africa with DripDrop in the aftermath of the

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fire. He is co-founder and co-owner of AlphaSperm Inc, a male pre-conception supplement company based in California.

Awards and recognitions

* In 1999, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine named Dolhun "Resident Teacher of the Year." * In 2012, Dolhun was awarded the Marquette University Alumni Service to the Community Award. * In 2014, Dolhun's invention

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earned an Edison Award and was named one of the best new products of the year. * In 2015, the Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health recognized Dolhun as their first highlighted member. * In 2017, Mayo Clinic awarded Dolhun the Mayo Clinic Humanitarian Achievement Award. * In 2018, the California Academy of Family Physicians recognized Dolhun as part of the "My Family Medicine Story" program.

Film and photography

Dolhun began a professional photography career in 2019. He has photographed

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for multiple publications, including

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and

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. He created the ''Facing Homelessness Together'' project, where he photographed and interviewed over a hundred homeless people in San Francisco. Thirty-one of these photographs were on public display across from the

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in San Francisco from December 2021 to February 2022.

Selected publications

*Dolhun, Eduardo P., and Andrew W. Antes. "A Case of Cardboard Boxes Likely Facilitating the Biting of a Patient by Trypanosoma cruzi-Infected Triatomine Bugs." The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 95.5 (2016): 1115-1117. *Dolhun, Eduardo P. "Report from Nepal." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness Vol. 9 (2015): 226. *Dolhun, Eduardo P. Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan: the Imminent Epidemic of Waterborne Illnesses in Leyte, Philippines. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. December 2013. Vol. 7, Issue 6. *Dolhun, Eduardo P.; Munoz, Claudia; Grumbach, Kevin. Cross-Cultural Education in US Medical Schools: Development of an Assessment Tool. Academic Medicine. June 2003. *Rodnick, Jonathan E.; Dolhun, Eduardo P. International Family Medicine Education: The Netherlands. Continuity: What do Patients Want?. Family Medicine Journal, March 2003. Vol.35, No. 3. *Pena-Dolhun E; Grumbach K; Vranizan K; Osmond D; Bindman AB. Unlocking Specialists' Attitudes Towards Primary Care Gatekeepers. Journal of Family Practice. May 2001. *Rodnick, Jonathan E.; Dolhun, Eduardo P. International Family Medicine Education: Portugal. Personal Dissatisfaction in Primary Care. Family Medicine Journal, July–August 2001. Vol.33, No. 7. *Rodnick, Jonathan E.; Dolhun, Eduardo P. International Family Medicine Education: United Kingdom. What Should Our Priority Areas in Research Be?. Family Medicine Journal, January 2001. Vol.33, No. 1. *Rodnick, Jonathan E.; Dolhun, Eduardo P. International Family Medicine Education: Ireland. Irish GPs are on the Web. Family Medicine Journal, May 2000. Vol.32, No.5.

Patents and inventions

* U.S. Patent 8,557,301 B2 - Oral Rehydration Composition * U.S. Patent D646,580 - Bottle * U.S. Patent D700,314 - Stackable Pellethttps://patents.justia.com/patent/D700314

References

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