Biography
Thaer Ahmad is a Palestinian-American emergency medicine physician based in Chicago. He appears as himself in the 2026 documentary film American Doctor, which follows three American physicians providing medical aid in Gaza.
Ahmad was born in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before receiving his medical degree from Rush Medical College. He serves as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago and is a board member of MedGlobal. He has undertaken humanitarian medical work in Gaza and other countries.
