Santiago Alban

Location: Ecuador

Born at Quito – Ecuador.

General Surgeon at AXXIS Hospifuturo. Quito – Ecuador.

Member of the E-Emergency Society. Madrid-España. Since 2004.

Member of the Mexican Emergency Medicine Association. Mexico City, Mexico since the year 2004.

Member of the Ecuadorian Society of Disasters and Emergency Medicine. Quito-Ecuador. Since 2003.

Member of the Foundation of Primary Trauma Care. Quito-Ecuador. Since 2003.

General Surgeon at AXXIS Hospifuturo. Quito – Ecuador.

Medical Director of Rescue and Occupational Health. PANAMERICANA VIAL S.A. PANAVIAL S.A. Herdoiza Crespo Construcciones. Herdoiza Guerrero Construcciones. (The biggest road construction company in Ecuador).

Medical Director of Rescue and Occupational Health (HES Department). Petroamazonas. (The biggest Oil Company in Ecuador).

Professor of Health Services Management of the Faculty of Medicine. San Francisco University Quito.

HOBBIES: Several sports. Running (marathons), tennis, and mountain biking.

Silver Honour

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Rajendra Prasad

Location: India

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C.V. Rajendra Prasad

Gold Honour

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Rajesh Gongal

Location: Nepal

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C.V. Rajesh Gongal

Gold Honour

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Lutful Aziz

Location: Bangladesh

Consultant and Head, Dept. of Anaesthesia, ICU and Pain Medicine, Apollo Hospitals Dhaka

Dr. Lutful Aziz graduated in 1985 from Dhaka Medical College under Dhaka University. In 1990 he went to Okayama University Medical School under the Govt. of Japan Scholarship and completed his PhD in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine in 1995. After returning back to Bangladesh, he completed his fellowship in Anaesthesia (FCPS) from the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1997. Prior to his joining Apollo Hospital as Consultant, he was Associate Professor in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University and was the Academic Coordinator of the Post Graduate Studies of Dept. of Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Intensive Care Medicine.

During his career he has travelled to many countries to attend International Congresses in Anaesthesia, ICU and Pain medicine and delivered more than 75 lectures as an Invited Speaker. To his credit he has more than 50 publications in different National and International journals. He is in the Editorial Committee of four national and International journals. He is the founder member and is currently the Immediate Past President of Bangladesh Society for Study of Pain.

His areas of expertise are different techniques of modern anaesthesia like General Anaesthesia, Neuro Anaesthesia, Paediatric Anaesthesia and other disciplines of anaesthesia. He is an expert on Obstetric anaesthesia and Labour analgesia. His special interest is Pain Medicine, dealing with regional blocks for different cancer and chronic pains. He has devoted himself on the Academic improvement in Anaesthesia Studies in Bangladesh and is currently working with the Faculty of Anaesthesia of the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He has brought PTC to Bangladesh and organised the first PTC course for trainees and trainers in Dhaka. He is one of the trainers in PTC and regularly organising PTC courses in Bangladesh.

Kolini Vaea

Location: Tonga

This is my 4th and last year, 2011, in doing the Master in Medicine (Surgery) at Fiji School of Medicine, and I am currently work as a Surgical Registrar at Vaiola Hospital in Tonga. The 4th year requirement is doing research, and I am doing a “Pilot study of Breast screening in Tonga” which I will present at end of this year in Fiji.

Silver Honour

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Hossein Saidi

Location: Iran

He was born in 1967 in Tehran, Iran. He was graduated from Iran University of Medical Sciences in 1993, as a General Practitioner. He completed a 4-year course of pediatrics specialty, and became a member of the faculty of medicine in 2000, as a pediatrician. In 2001 he was accepted for a 6-mount course as an executive fellowship on Emergency Medicine in George Washington University , and Pennsylvania State University. He is one of nine Physicians who have established the academic Emergency Medicine in the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is interested in Hyperbaric medicine,Trauma, Toxicology and Pediatrics and has worked on a pressure chamber for about 3 years. He has wrote a book about toxicology with special focus on Iran herbal agents.

In 2008, he became the instructor and director of the Primary Trauma Care (PTC). During the last 3 years he has been running the PTC programs all over the country for more than 3000 general practitioners as well as the practitioners with specialties related to trauma .

He is now an Associated Professor of Emergency Medicine in Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Gold Honour

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Amaia Arana

Location: United Kingdom

I was born in Bilbao, the Basque Country, and I got my medical qualification from the Basque Country University. My post-gradual training was done mainly in the UK but I also spent two years in Australia, Sydney and Melbourne. I am working as a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at the Leeds Royal Infirmary – Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK since 2000

I am very interested in all aspects of health improvement in the developing work particularly anything related to anaesthesia. During 2008-2009 I worked for a year at the Queen’s Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, where I had clinical and teaching commitments within the department of anaesthesia. I have also joined missions as a volunteer with Interplast, Mercy-ships and Operation Smile in Ecuador, Liberia, Philippines, Honduras and India.

My first contact with PTC was in 2000 when I met Douglas Wilkinson during an anaesthetic congress in Peru. At that time he was considering the introduction of PTC to Latin America, and the first PTC course took place a year later in Asuncion – Paraguay in September 2001 where I participated as an instructor. Since then I have been witnessing the successful evolution and expansion of the PTC through Latin America and I am proud to see how much they have grown. More recently I have been involved with the PTC-China Project as an instructor and as the medical coordinator of the project. I am glad to say that it is progressing very favourably as well.

Other interests: you have probably guessed by now that I enjoy travelling, I am also very curious about the different ways of looking at our world from different cultural perspectives, and I also like reading, swimming and walking.

Gold Honour

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Arun Prasad

GCAC Member - Asia

Location: India

Name & qualifications:
Dr Arun Prasad, FRCS (UK), FRCSEd, FACS (USA), MS (MAMC), MBBS (AFMC)

Employment:

Senior Consultant in General, GI & Bariatric Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, 2020 onwards
Formerly:
- Head of Department of Surgery, Chief of Surgical Gastroenerology & Bariatric Surgery. Manipal Hospitals, New Delhi, India, 2018– 2020
- Senior Consultant in General, GI & Bariatric Surgeon, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi, 1995 – 2018

Other positions:

President of Obesity Surgery Society of India (OSSI)
International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)
President – International MGB–OAGB Club ( Bariatric Surgery )
Founder member of BRICS Bariatric Surgery Society
Founder member of Indian branch of Clinical Robotic Surgeons Association (CRSA)
Academic Coordinator of International Bariatric Club Academy (IBCA)
Vice President of Indian Association of Gastroendoscopic Surgeons ( IAGES )
Executive Member of Association of Surgeons of India ( Delhi chapter )
Editor of Journal of Minimal Access Surgery (JMAS)
Editor of World Journal of Gastroenterology
Reviewer – Surgical Endoscopy, Obesity Surgery
Board member of EC Journal of Gastrotenterology
Editorial Board Member of Journal of Bariatric Surgery(JBS)
Editorial Board Member of World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
Trustee – Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTC), Oxford, UK

Gold Honour

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Paul Borgdorff

Location: The Netherlands

Paul Borgdorff is a specialist in anaesthesia and pain management in the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht, The Netherlands. As a pain specialist his main interests are myofascial pain, neuropathic pain and treatment using radio-frequency.

From 1988 to 1992 he worked in Lesotho as Medical Superintendent of a rural hospital. He has been active in PTC since 10 years, conducting courses in Suriname, Pakistan, Lesotho and Ethiopia. Recently he has supervised PTC courses in China.

In his hospital in Utrecht he is medical manager quality and patient safety. In this function he is responsible for the introduction and maintenance of a Safety Management System in order to reduce errors and incidents in the hospital.

Paul Borgdorff is married with two daughters and his hobbies include golf and travelling.

Silver Honour

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Ahmed Chekairi

Location: Morocco, United Kingdom

Ahmed graduated at Hassan the Second University, faculty of Medicine in Casablanca. After a short career in Accident and Emergency in London and Scotland, he joined anesthesia training and completed the Certificate of completion of training in anesthesia at Oxford School of Anesthesia.

Currently, he practices as a consultant and delivers anesthesia for major surgical procedures and day care surgery at The Whittington Hospital, London. He also leads on the Pre assessment service and Peri operative care redesign project.

Ahmed is actively involved in training and teaching trainees, nurses and medical students and has been engaged in developing the Whittington simulation centre. Ahmed’s interest in simulation developed when he was a trainee and initiated airway crisis management simulation training at Kadoori Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Ahmed’s other interest is leadership and management in Healthcare. He has also led on many service developments and currently leads on the clinical Leadership and Management programme at Whittington Health.

He has been exploring ways of introducing the Primary Trauma Care into Morocco and ensuring it become standard teaching for managing trauma patient in the Country.

Ahmed is father to two beautiful daughters and passionate about football. His team is Arsenal.

Bronze Honour

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