Stephen BezruchkaStephen Bezruchka is Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington. He is the author of Nepali for Trekkers (1991), The Pocket Doctor: A Passport to Healthy Travel (1999), Altitude Illness: Prevention and Treatment (2005), Trekking in Nepal: A Traveler's Guide (2011), and Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World (2022), and contributed to Far From the Road: A Community Health Project in the Himalayas (2025), among other titles. He also set up a remote district hospital in the western part of Nepal and supervised Nepali doctor training there. Read More Read Less