Kenneth J. Schaefle, MD

Dr. Kenneth Schaefle in an Eagle Scout and a graduate of Evanston Township High School and Northwestern University. After graduating, he and two friends founded the Boom Chicago theater company in Amsterdam, creating the first English-language improvisation comedy theater in the Netherlands. Boom Chicago became the largest and longest-running theater show in the country’s history and launched the careers of many well-known comedians.  

Ken entered medical school at the age of 40 and participated in a global health trip to Uganda where he developed his love for working in low-resource settings. After completion of residency, Ken joined the global health faculty at Montefiore to work with the Uganda program in which he participated as a student.

Now in his 6th year in the PCSM/Global Health faculty group, Dr. Schaefle is the editor of Reasoning Without Resources, a 1500-page global health textbook. He spends many months each year in Uganda, teaching medical students, residents, and Ugandan medical officers how to provide medical care in a low-resource setting.