Professor Thomas Stephen Potokar OBE (born January 1964) is chair of the Centre for Global Burn Injury Policy & Research at Swansea University. He is the founder and director of the charity
Interburns.
Potokar has been the chief surgeon of the
ICRC since 2021. During the
2023 Israel–Hamas war
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The ongoing armed conflict between Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups and Israel military forces began on 7 October 2023, 50 years after the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Hamas's coordinated surprise offensive, codenamed "Al-Aqsa Fl ...
, Potokar shared his experiences while he was working in the
European Hospital in southern Gaza, describing an over-capacity hospital with Palestinian civilians who had suffered shrapnel wounds.
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1964 births
British plastic surgeons
Academics of Swansea University
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