Dr LEE Jong-wook (1945-2006): a personal tribute.

Dr Jim Yong Kim is Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. He was co-founder of the Boston-based advocacy group Partners In Health, which developed pioneering schemes to treat tuberculosis and HIV in resource poor settings. The group provides health services to men, women, and children suffering from treatable diseases in Guatemala, Haiti, Lesotho, Mexico, Peru, the Russian Federation, Rwanda and the United States. In 2003, Jim Yong Kim, won a MacArthur “genius” fellowship for his work with Partners In Health. Despite his occasional bouts of cynicism in the face of the political absurdities we often faced at WHO, Dr Lee never lost his deep personal empathy for the suffering of the poor. Dr LEE Jong-wook (1945-2006): A personal tribute