U.S. Law Enforcement Officers Honor Iris Udasin, Director of Rutgers World Trade Center Health Program
September 4, 2024
Michael Vaiani, a survivor of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, is grateful for the compassion and care he received from Iris Udasin, a medical doctor and Rutgers professor.
“It’s easy to say somebody cares, but Dr. Iris Udasin has a passion for people’s well-being. You can’t fake that,” the Wall Township, N.J., resident said. “She called me at 9:30 at night to tell me the CT scan is fine. Who does that?”
Vaiani was a member of the Secret Service working at Building 7 at the World Trade Center on 9/11. He is representative of the thousands of 9/11 first responders who have been under the care of Udasin, the medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program at Rutgers’ Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute’s Clinical Center since its inception in 2003.