Tiverton Doctor Named a TIME's 'Person of the Year'

A Tiverton doctor was recognized as TIME magazine’s 2014 “Person of the Year” along with all of the other Ebola Fighters who worked selflessly to combat the Ebola outbreak.

Dr. Timothy P. Flanigan traveled to Liberia in August to help contain the Ebola virus.

Flanigan trained health-care workers to properly care for Ebola patients without contracting the virus, National Catholic Register reported.

He also helped to reopen a Catholic hospital in Liberia, according to the Providence Journal.

Flanigan returned to Tiverton in November.

Read about Flanigan’s journey while in Liberia through through his website TimothyPFlaniganMD.com.

Flanigan is an infectious-disease specialist at Brown University and works as a deacon at Saint Theresa and Saint Christopher Parishes in Tiverton, Aleteia reported.

Another “Person of the Year” from Rhode Island is emergency medicine physician Dr. Adam C. Levine. Levine treated Ebola patients in Liberia for two weeks during the outbreak.

Levine works as a physician at the Rhode Island Hospital and Miriam Hospital and as an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown Medical School.

An excerpt from the TIME article details why Flanigan, Levine and the rest of the Ebola Fighters were chosen as the 2014 “Person of the Year”:

“The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.”

Photo Credit: TimothyPFlaniganMD.com.