Nationality American | Name Eduardo Dolhun | |
Residence San Francisco, California Alma mater Marquette University, Mayo Clinic Occupation Physician, founder of DripDrop Website | ||
Doctors Outreach Clinics - Ecuador Earthquake 2016
Eduardo Peña Dolhun is a board certified American family physician with a private practice in San Francisco, California. He is the founder of DripDrop, an oral rehydration solution manufacturer. Dolhun also founded the Dolhun Clinic, the Dolhun Clinic Pre-Medical Internship Program and Doctors Outreach Clinics. Dolhun is the co-director of Ethnicity and Medicine at Stanford University and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Stanford University Medical Center. He is also a member of the San Francisco Medical Society.
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Education
Dolhun received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Spanish Literature from Marquette University in 1989. He received his medical doctorate from Mayo Medical School in 1996, and completed his Family Medicine residency at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida in 1999. In 2012, Dolhun received the Marquette University Alumni Service to the Community Award for his humanitarian work.
Career
The Mayo Graduate School of Medicine named Dolhun "Resident Teacher of the Year" in 1999. That year, Dolhun moved to San Francisco, California after his residency to pursue fellowships in Family Medicine Research and Faculty Development at the UCSF Medical Center and Obstetrics at Stanford University and the Santa Clara County Hospital. In 2000, he became the co-director of Ethnicity and Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at Stanford University. Dolhun founded the Dolhun Clinic in 2005.
In 2008, Dolhun began developing an oral rehydration solution and using the patients from his private clinic to test the product. He was inspired to create a new solution after traveling to Guatemala and witnessing a cholera outbreak. Dolhun began manufacturing the product, DripDrop, in 2010. That year, he traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti after an earthquake and treated approximately 500 patients. Dolhun has also engaged in international relief work in Pakistan and the Philippines.
In 2011, Dr. Dolhun was inducted into the Oconomowoc Area School District Wall of Fame.
In October 2012, Dr. Dolhun addressed an audience on the importance of oral rehydration solution in reducing deaths due to dehydration at a TedX event. He received the "Service to the Community" award from Marquette University that year. Dolhun appeared on HuffPost Live to discuss the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in September 2014.
In April 2016, Dr. Eduardo Dolhun and his assistant Andrew Antes traveled to Ecuador to provide Oral Rehydration Therapy to the victims of the 2016 Ecuador earthquake. In June 2016, Dr. Eduardo Dolhun and Andrew Antes traveled to Greece to provide aid at the Syrian refugee camps located there.
In March 2017, Dr. Eduardo Dolhun treated children near Cape Town, South Africa with DripDrop in the aftermath of the Imizamo Yethu fire.