Ben LaBrot
Dr Benjamin LaBrot is a native Southern Californian who has a long association with the ocean. From childhood, he worked on commercial fishing and research vessels and spent countless hours on (or under) the water off the coast of southern California.
Ben attended RCSI and worked as a medical doctor in the Irish healthcare system, helping to set up and run a long-term care for the elderly facility that also provided acute hospital services.
Travel and private medical mission work in developing countries led Ben to combine his love of the sea and medicine, and in 2009 he founded the Floating Doctors to bring more help to remote rural communities. In 2010, he led the first Floating Doctors mission to Haiti and has continued ever since.
Benjamin is also the President of RemoteCare Education (providing training for clinicians to practice international medical relief), a professor of global medicine at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, a clinical professor at University of California, Irvine Medical School, and an FDA compliance advisor for Roche Pharmaceuticals.
Hear Ben tell his story below.