Sheba wrote:

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Is he in Africa, or Australia ?

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 In the photo, he's in the Ukraine (red herring)

Sheba wrote:

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Well he ain't David Attenborough.  .

-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 25th of November 2020 11:19:49 PM

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 Correct! :D

sandman55 wrote:

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I would say he is making a documentary but I cant find him

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 A BBC series about wildlife in 11 russian Nature reserves...  He's not mostly from tv like David Attenborough is.  He's written books, including one about his family when he was a boy, and that's been a tv series. 

Found him by a fluke.   Gerald Durrell.   Thought we were going to be stuck for a while there.  

Well done Sheba I was stumped

That looks like Mahatma Gandhi

Thank Sheba this will be easy or hard depending on if you recognise him

Not some-one I know.

He is a Doctor (actually a Professor in his field) and there are a couple of books about him, my wife has just picked up one from the library that he co-wrote with another author I have plenty of clues but see how you go with this. He is world famous and has helped a lot of people.

He became a surgeon under the regime of Saddam Hussein. As a junior surgeon, he fled from Iraq following an incident in which he refused to mutilate the ears of army deserters. The senior surgeon was shot for refusing so the man in the picture thought he would be next. He ended up a boat refugee and was held in detention by the Australian government for 10 months.

You've got him Sheba over to you for a pic.

Dr. Munjed Al Muderis (born 1972) is an Australian Adjunct Clinical Professor in orthopaedic surgery, author and human rights activist. He has done pioneering work on prosthetics, especially on titanium devices.^[2]

Al Muderis was born in Iraq and became a surgeon under the regime of Saddam Hussein. He was a medical student in Basra at the start of the Gulf War. As a junior surgeon, he fled from Iraq following an incident in which he refused to mutilate the ears of army deserters. He traveled through Indonesia and Malaysia and reached Australia where he was kept in at the Curtin Detention Centre. He was released after 10 months and carried on his career in medicine, eventually specialising in osseointegration surgery.^[3]

Al Muderis wrote the book Walking Free on his experiences in Iraq and in the Australian immigration detention system, and on his career in Australia.

He is a patron of the Asylum Seekers Centre, a not-for-profit that provides personal and practical support to people seeking asylum in Australia.

Early life

Munjed Al Muderis was born under the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.^[5] His father was a former Supreme Court judge and had authority in the Marine Corps, while his uncle was a descendant of the second royal family and Prime Minister, back when Iraq was still a kingdom.^[6] His mother was a school principal who had been demoted for refusing to join the Baath Party.

Al Muderis graduated from Baghdad College High School in 1991, where he was a classmate of Qusay Hussein. He went on to study medicine at various universities, including the Baghdad University from 1991 to 1997, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery.^[7]

At the beginning of the Gulf War he was a second year medical student in Basra. He fled the city in the early days of the war, returning later to see the aftermath of the Basra uprising.

In 1999, he was forced to flee Iraq when he was working as a junior surgeon at Saddam Hussein Medical Centre in Baghdad.^[1] A busload of army draft evaders were brought into the hospital for the top of their ears to be amputated under Saddam Hussein's orders. The senior surgeon in the operating theatre refused the orders and was immediately interrogated and shot in front of several medical staff. Instead of complying with the orders, Al Muderis decided to flee.^[8] He escaped the operating theatre and hid in the female toilets for five hours. Shortly after, he fled to Jordan before the authorities caught up with him and moved on to Kuala Lumpur. From there, he took a people-smuggling route to Christmas Island, where he was sent to Curtin Detention Centre. He was detained there until his identity was verified, given the number 982. He was punished with solitary confinement and was repeatedly told to go back where he came from after fellow detainees who caused riots blamed him. In 10 months after being sent to the detention centre, he was granted refugee status and freed.^[2]

Upon release, he only landed a job at Mildura Base Hospital as an emergency unit and orthopaedic resident after sending out more than 100 resumes. A year later, he moved to the Austin Hospital in Melbourne and travelled to many different countries, completing specialisation fellowships and attending short-term courses.^[1]

Osseointegration

Al Muderis developed the new generation of implant, osseointegration prosthetic limb (OPL), which addresses several issues previously faced by patients.^[9] This led Orthopedics This Week^[10] to praise Al Muderis's work as 'The Most Incredible Orthopedics You'll Ever Read About.'^[11] The Osseointegration Group of Australia Team (OGAP) is made up of specialists in various fields. Women's Weekly and NEWS rank Al Muderis as one of the world's top osseointegration surgeons.^[12][13]

Traditional and rigid socket based technology is now replaced with a surgery that inserts a titanium implant into the bone. Osseoperception occurs as the prosthetic is anchored directly to the bone which would transmit sensory signals, resulting in patients recovering a certain level of feeling. The implant's surface is also made of highly porous titanium, providing the user with balance and allowing for ingrowth of bone. A dual adaptor is designed with a smooth surface to minimise friction and coated with titanium niobium for antibacterial purposes. The adaptor is fixed to a control device and is connected to the exterior of the prosthetic limb. Putting on and taking off the limb can be done in less than ten seconds.^[9] Osseointegration surgery aims to provide amputees with greater mobility and reduced discomfort.^[14]

Al Muderis is spreading the word to make the technology available globally. Patients travel from around the world to see him for this groundbreaking surgery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munjed_Al_Muderis

My first thought was Bill Bailey when he had hair. Did he ever have hair???

ok, who am I?