Kent Brantly

Dr. Kent Brantly is a family medicine physician who, in 2013, accepted a post-residency with World Medical Mission to serve at the ELWA Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia. In July 2014 he contracted the Ebola virus, and his treatment and ubsequent recovery became an international news story. He is a graduate of Abilene Christian University in Texas and received his degree in medicine from Indiana University. In fall of 2014 Dr. Brantly testified on the Ebola crisis in West Africa before both houses of the United States Congress, and later that year he was honored by Time magazine as a Person of the Year.