Dr. Paul Barach possesses extensive health care experience as a clinician, administrator and policy advocate. He is a leading health services researcher and consultant with a reputation for investigating and contributing to systems improvement and patient safety. He is an internationally known author and speaker specializing in strategic management: linking clinical programs to advance population health; understanding how to work from the provider side with administration; applying health information technology to care delivery; building effective teams; leadership development; supporting and creating new ventures whether independently or as part of an organization. Paul is a sought after speaker and has
Dr. Zakiuddin Ahmed is a visionary strategist, healthcare entrepreneur & a physician leader who specializes in developing socially beneficial. sustainable, scalable and innovative solutions in Healthcare through information technology. Areas of Interest/Expertise: eHealth / mHealth, Digital Healthcare Marketing, Healthcare Quality, Healthcare Leadership, eLearning, Ethics, Strategic Planning & Patient Centric Health Advocacy.
Dr. Ellahham has served as Chief Quality Officer for SKMC since 2009. In his role, Dr. Ellahham has led the development of a quality and safety program that has been highly successful and visible and has been recognized internationally by a number of awards. As Chief Quality Officer and Global Healthcare Leader, Dr. Ellahham has a focus on ensuring that that implementation of this best practices leads to breakthrough improvements in clinical quality and patient safety. He is a recognized leader in quality, safety, and the use of robust performance improvement in improving healthcare delivery. He serves on a
Russell Gann is presently serving as the CIO, Surveillance Coordinator, Informatics Lead, Preventive Medicine, Project/Program Manager and Supervisor/IMIT for the Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs Division in Riyadh. He has had broad education, training, and over 30 years of experience in the United States and abroad in developing, managing, implementing, evaluating and improving informatics development assistance projects, and advising US Government, UN agencies, WHO agencies, NGOs and national public and private Health sector counterparts on various aspects of surveillance science and health services research, and on assessing and improving the policies and practice of public health, monitoring &
Dr. Manish Kohli is an active clinician and an experienced leader in US and emerging markets who is passionate about wellness and health care transformation. He is a champion of prevention, safety and clinical outcomes through technology. Along with his U.S. experience with government, provider groups, public health and academic centers, Dr. Kohli has worked in UAE, India, Malaysia and Mexico. He is also dually Board Certified in Clinical Informatics and Family Medicine.
Dr. Isabell is an International interactive network promoting and implementing knowledge management and collaborative solutions in both high and low income countries. Promote collaborative and collective intelligence. She is specialized in Knowledge Translation Knowledge Management Evidence Informed Policy Making and Public Health.
Mr. Joshua Symons is honorary research fellow in the Division of Surgery within the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine. Previously he worked on a research project which involved parsing news and social media sources for critical information related to health care within the United Kingdom, including policy, social concern, social awareness, and various other topics. Currently working with NHS patient safety data in regards to redesigning and improving data capture as well as providing trending and statistical analysis for the existing data. Data architect responsible for integration of medical data sources for the Big Data &
Dr. Ghazala is currently a licensed practicing Clinical Pathology/Cytopathology in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. I have a COQ-Certification of Qualification as a Laboratory Director from the New York State Department of Health in the following categories: Bacteriology, Blood pH and Gases, Clinical Chemistry, Clinical Toxicology, Diagnostic Immunology, Endocrinology, Hematology, Immunohematology, Ther. Sub. Mon,/ Quant. Tox. (Oncology), and Virology in the Clinical Pathology setting. She is also a NYSDOH Tissue Bank Compliance Officer in the following categories: Musculoskeletal tissue, Skin tissue, and Amniotic Fluid Membrane.
Dr. Kelsey is a Research Fellow at the Center for Health Policy within the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI). She works on a broad portfolio of research relating to patient experiences of care and patient safety. Her projects focus on both the NHS and international systems, and include developing new mechanisms for engaging patients and improving the effectiveness of incident reporting.
Mr. Muhammad Ayub Shaikh currently serving as Secretary Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination has a distinguished career spanning over 32 years. He belongs to Pakistan Administrative Services and has held key administrative, management and judicial positions in his accomplished career. Among the key positions held by Mr. Sheikh is Chairman of the Employees Old age Benefit Institution, Member Judicial, Board of Revenue Sindh, Secretary I&C, Services and General Administration Department, Govt. of Sindh. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Secretary to Chief Minister Sindh. He has also served as Member of the Sindh Service Tribunal.
Vice Chancellor Riphah International University
Professor Dr. Anis Ahmad is a social scientist of international repute. He carries a Ph.D. from the Temple University, Pennsylvannia, USA. He has held numerous academic leadership positions both nationally and internationally. He is former Vice President of International Islamic University, Islamabad and former Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences, International Islamic University, Malaysia. He writes on contemporary social, political and cultural issues faced by the Muslim Ummah.
Dr. Assad Hafeez is a leading public health specialist and researcher with extensive clinical and management experience spanning over 25 years in various capacities. He has held progressively responsible positions in the health sector with leadership, financial, monitoring and strategic guidance roles in international organizations, public sector and civil society organisations, over these years. He is currently the Director-General of Health in the Federal Ministry of Health Services Regulations and Coordination Islamabad, which is the senior most technical position in the public sector in health in the country.
He Graduated in 1986 from KEMC, he did his fellowship in surgery in 1992 and served in various positions. Promoted as Professor and currently working at KEMU, Lahore. After election as a Councilor in 2007, he has been trying to solve the problems relating to fellows in general and trainees in particular. He is well aware of the importance of quality assurance in educational and research programs and is striving for the same. Recognizing his 60 publications and 32 presentations on national and international forum, HEC has nominated him as the focal person for evaluation of research in surgery
Prof. Dr. Muhammad Aslam is the third vice chancellor of UHS. A graduate of Nishtar Medical College Multan, Prof Aslam’s area of specialization is physiology with special interest in reproductive endocrinology and high altitude physiology. He did his MPhil from Postgraduate Medical Institute Lahore in 1982 and later moved to the UK where he did PhD in Physiology from St.Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1987. He is also a fellow of Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences and College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.
Dr. Muhammad Ajmal Khan is the Chief Operating Officer of the Punjab Healthcare Commission. He holds an MBBS degree from Allama Iqbal Medical College and a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from the University Of Manchester, UK. He stood 5th in the Central Superior Services Examination in a countrywide competition and was assigned to the District Management Group.
