This local doctor is still healing wounds of 9/11

WNYC News

On September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan killed nearly 3,000 people and changed New York -- and the world -- as we knew it. According to New York City data, more law enforcement officers have died from 9/11-related illnesses in the 23 years since the attacks than were killed on the day itself.

Dr. Iris Udasin is a professor and medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program at Rutgers’ Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute’s Clinical Center. Dr. Udasin has received the "Service Above Self” award from the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Foundation for her work caring for thousands of first responders who were in and around ground zero that day and the days that followed.

She joined WNYC Morning Edition host Michael Hill along with former Secret Service member Michael Vaiani of Wall Township, New Jersey, who survived the attacks and became a patient at the Rutgers World Trade Center clinic in 2008.