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Ron Pust, MD

Ron Pust, MD, is a family physician who is also board certified in public health/preventive medicine.  He sees international health as part of the FCM/College of Medicine commitment to underserved people.  He is the director of the FCM Medical Student Teaching Program, focusing on Years III and IV.

Dr. Pust's first four years experience as a physician was with the Centers for Disease Control, working for two years in the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, followed by two years in Nigeria after its civil war.

His extensive and formative experience as a clinical and public health generalist was at a 120 bed provincial hospital in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea from 1973 to 1979.  He has returned to Papua New Guinea periodically since 1979, when he joined the University of Arizona faculty.  He has developed training courses for physicians, medical students and other health care providers who plan to work in less developed countries.  Rather than seeking shortcuts or substitutes merely for the sake of economy, he seeks to promote intellectually sound but efficient ways of diagnosing and treating clinical and public health problems in underserved settings in the USA and abroad.

Programs Dr. Pust is involved with:

Predoctoral Program
Residency Program