--- title: Ebola: Unknown Patient Dr. Ian Crozier Speaks Out After Emory Care description: An Ebola patient who arrived at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in September, and was successfully treated, has revealed his identity canonical: https://time.com/3622735/ebola-emory-university-hospital-ian-crozier/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-08T02:17:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:38:37.756Z article:section: Health og:title: Emory's 'Sickest' Ebola Patient, Now in Recovery, Reveals Identity og:description: He weighed 220 lb. pre-Ebola, but lost 30. og:url: https://time.com/3622735/ebola-emory-university-hospital-ian-crozier/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Emory's 'Sickest' Ebola Patient, Now in Recovery, Reveals Identity twitter:description: He weighed 220 lb. pre-Ebola, but lost 30. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Emory's 'Sickest' Ebola Patient, Now in Recovery, Reveals Identity by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Dec 8, 2014 2:17 AM CUT by [Alexandra Sifferlin](/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) ## Alexandra Sifferlin Dec 8, 2014 2:17 AM CUT A doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone and was evacuated to the U.S. for care in September revealed his identity in a [report](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/health/ebola-doctor-ian-crozier-return-from-the-edge-of-death-.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=photo-spot-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news "undefined") published Sunday. Ian Crozier, who had been working with the World Health Organization in Kenema, told the New York _Times_ that he explicitly kept his identity a secret to protect his family. Crozier, 44, is now recovering in Phoenix and working through a physical-therapy program. One specialist admitted in the report that Crozier was the “sickest” patient that Emory University Hospital in Atlanta has seen thus far. He weighed 220 lb. pre-Ebola, but lost 30\. The viral load in his blood was 100 times that of the facility’s other patients; he spent 12 days on a ventilator and was on dialysis for 24 days. Crozier went public, he said, to thank Emory and bring awareness to the epidemic. At least 17,145 cases of Ebola have been [reported](http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/situation-reports/en/ "undefined") in the outbreak, including 6,070 deaths. [Read more at _NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/health/ebola-doctor-ian-crozier-return-from-the-edge-of-death-.html "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3622735/ebola-emory-university-hospital-ian-crozier/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3622735/ebola-emory-university-hospital-ian-crozier/"},"headline":"Emory's 'Sickest' Ebola Patient, Now in Recovery, Reveals Identity","datePublished":"2014-12-08T02:17:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:38:37.756Z","description":"He weighed 220 lb. pre-Ebola, but lost 30","url":"https://time.com/3622735/ebola-emory-university-hospital-ian-crozier/","keywords":["ebola","Sierra Leone"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alexandra Sifferlin","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/ebola/","name":"ebola"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3622735/ebola-emory-university-hospital-ian-crozier/","name":"Emory's 'Sickest' Ebola Patient, Now in Recovery, Reveals Identity"}}]}] ```