Damien Byas is the President, North American Scientific Committee on Cardiovascular Health, USA as well as an Epidemiologist and Professor of Public Health, American Public Health Association, International Public Health Delegate, USA.

Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Epidemiology

Dr Matthias Muenzberg is a senior consultant in trauma surgery at one Germany’s largest trauma centres. As an emergency physician, he is also the head of medicine for the air rescue centre. He is an assistant professor of trauma surgery at the Univerity of Heidelberg. He teaches about managing severely injured patients pre-hospital and at the clinic, trauma education from personal experience and human factors. As an executive committee member of the German Society of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery (DGOU), Matthias was part of the task force to implement a “safety culture in medicine” and was responsible with developing the new course concept of IC (Interpersonel Competence). Dr. Muenzberg is the national director of the Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) programme as well as the director of several other international trauma programmes. Matthias has authored a number of highly regarded publications about the standardisation in trauma and burn care. Additionally, he is a frequent speaker at international conferences in the field of trauma, education and emergency medicine.

Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery

Maj Gen S M Motahar Hossain, Director General Medical Services, Bangladesh Armed Forces, has 34 years of experience in research, evaluation and teaching. He became Director General Medical Services on 18 August 2016. He has expertise in Internal Medicine especially in Gastroenterology. He held important appointments in his long career including Personal Physician to Honorable Prime Minister (2000 -2001), Personal Physician to Honorable President (2012-2016) of Peoples Republic of Bangladesh and Instructor of Medicine in Armed Forces Medical College, Bangladesh (2003-2004). He has number of publications in National and international Medical journals. He is a widely travelled person and visited more than fifty countries around the globe including USA, UK, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, China and Netherlands. He also participated in UN Peace Keeping Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) and Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Infections

Nur Birgen is an expert of Clinical Forensic Medicine and dealing with medical malpractice claims since 1997. She has a long practice in the Council Of Forensic Medicine, Turkey. Since2010, she is working for the Acıbadem Healthcare Group as a consultant and dealing with patient claims and patient safety

Forensic Medicine

Dr. Subashnie Devkaran is a leader in quality, accreditation and patient experience in the Middle East Africa region and currently holds this position at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. She serves on various regulatory committees and leadership societies in the Middle East including President Elect of the American College of Healthcare Executives, MENA. Subashnie has a PhD from Edinburgh Business School (Scotland). With a Masters in Healthcare Management from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, she also serves as an associate lecturer with the University. Subashnie received recognition as Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) from the Healthcare Quality Certification Board based in Washington D.C. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) and a Fellow of the International Society for Quality in Healthcare(FISQua).In addition to her full time role at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi she is also an International Consultant with Joint Commission International. Subashnie regularly speaks at international conferences and has published research papers on healthcare quality and patient safety. With a passion to reduce the knowledge gap in healthcare quality and patient safety internationally, Dr. Devkaran continues to pursue research in these areas.

She continues to serve on various regulatory committees and leadership societies in the Middle East.