Desmond Aisi

Location: Papua New Guinea

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Vincent Atua

Location: Papua New Guinea

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Tim Beacon

PTCF Ambassador

Location: United Kingdom

Tim has had an impressive and varied career, starting as an Operating Department Practitioner and subsequently an Assistant Training Co-ordinator for the NW Thames Health Authority. Tim has been a university healthcare lecturer, a civilian lecturer on the UK Special Forces Patrol Medical Course. He is a published author. He is CEO of the Medical Aid International group which includes Orthopaedics International and the MedAid Academy. Tim has directed many PTCF courses, so he knows how effective they are:

“The success of this pioneering programme is evidenced by its enormous global use, where it saves lives every day and enhances clinical practise, which directly benefits patients in the critical stages following a trauma event. But to me it is more than that. There are the other positives such as the way it brings people together, from all disciplines, both in their own facility but also from further afield, enabling relationships and teams to be built up and developed, it truly is a formidable, well thought out programme”

Silver Honour

This award recognises that the individual has been part of the PTC Instructor Course Faculty at least 2 times.

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Pauline Wake

Location: Papua New Guinea

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Juan Graterol

Location: United Kingdom

Bronze Honour

This award recognises that the individual has been a PTC Instructor at least 2 times.

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Dr. Shireen A A Ramzanali

Location: Pakistan

DR SHIREEN A. A RAMZANALI  IS A YOUNG GENERAL SURGEON. SHE RECENTLY PASSED HER SURGERY FELLOWSHIP EXIT EXAM(FCPS) OF COLLEGE OF PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS PAKISTAN (CPSP),CURRENTLY SHE IS WORKING AS A POST FELLOW IN SURGICAL UNIT OF JINNAH POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTER (JPMC) KARACHI, PAKISTAN WITH FUTURE PERSPECTIVE  OF SPECIALIZING  IN BREAST ONCOPLASTY.

SHE IS AN  ACTIVE INSTRUCTOR  OF PRIMARY TRAUMA TEAM PAKISTAN AND HAVE BEEN RENDERING HER SERVICES FOR LAST EIGHT YEARS. SHE IS ALSO INVOLVED IN THE ACADEMICS OF UNDERGRADUATE AND POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS. SHE HAS TO HER CREDITIT NUMBER OF ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED IN BOTH NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL JOUNALS. SHE IS AUTHOR OF “TASK ORIENTED APPLIED CLINICAL SKILLS (TOACS) FOR FCPS SURGERY “BY PARAMOUNT INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS (IN PROCESS OF PRINTING).

Please see updated CV: Shireen Ramzanali CV-2020-1

 

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Michelle White

Location: Mercy Ships

Dr Michelle White is a Paediatric Anesthesiologist originally from the UK. In January 2012 she resigned her Consultant post in England and joined the international charity Mercy Ships full time. Mercy Ships operates the worlds largest non-governemental hospital ship and performs free surgeries and delivers free training courses and mentoring projects in Africa. Dr White is currently the Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Medical Capacity Building Director for Mercy Ships. She first became involved in PTC back in the 2000’s completing an instructor course in Oxford, but took until 2013 to become involved again. She has co-ordinated PTC courses in partnership with Mercy Ships in Republic of Congo and in Madagascar.

Dr White has also co-authored the SAFE Paediatric Anaesthesia Course – an initiative of the the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology. Her research interests include surgical global health and capacity building. And in particular the implementation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist and Lifebox pulse oximetry.

Gold Honour

This award recognises that the individual has organised at least 4 PTC Course cascades and has trained at least 10 instructors.

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Tasnime Akbaraly

Location: Madagascar

Dr Tasnime Akbaraly is a general practictioner who worked for years in a traumatology hospital in Montreal, Canada. Her career was always oriented toward tropical medicine and shed did few humanitarian missions in Asia and Africa. She was also working in a traveling clinic as well as in a Refugee  Clinic. She used to work as a medical reporter on radio and written magazine.

Since 2009, she moved with her whole family to Madagascar, her husband’s country.

For a while, she invested herself in many humanitarian projects, including PTCF and Mercy Ship. She also founded her own association, fighting school drop-out among children.

Now, beside her private pratice, she specializes in teaching first care in bushes and  sanitary education in schools.

Bronze Honour

This award recognises that the individual has been a PTC Instructor at least 2 times.

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