Randy Christensen, a Phoenix-based doctor who has garnered national recognition for his efforts to provide health-care services to homeless and at-risk youth via a bus clinic in the Valley, will speak Thursday at ASU’s Downtown campus about his experiences and how to make a difference in one’s community.
Christensen, a pediatrician at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, will speak at 7 p.m. in the Walter Cronkite School’s First Amendment Forum. The event is free and open to the public.
In his recent book, “Ask Me Why I Hurt: The Kids Nobody Wants and the Doctor Who Heals Them,” Christensen chronicles the early years of his mobile clinic, dubbed the Crews’n Healthmobile, and the challenges he encountered both personally and professionally. Christensen’s bus has provided care to youth on the streets all around the Valley, and much of his work has been in the downtown area, often within blocks of the Downtown campus.
Christensen has been honored as a local hero by CNN in 2007 and in People magazine in 2008. The Arizona Republic named him one of the Valley’s 10 most fascinating people in 2009.
Contact the reporter at jessica.goldberg@asu.edu
