Speakers

Jeffrey D. Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University. From 2002 to 2006, he was also Director of the UN Millennium Project and Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals, the internationally agreed goals to reduce extreme poverty, disease, and hunger by the year 2015. Sachs is also President and Co-Founder of Millennium Promise Alliance, a nonprofit organization aimed at ending extreme global poverty. He is widely considered to be the leading international economic advisor of his generation.

For more than 20 years Professor Sachs has been in the forefront of the challenges of economic development, poverty alleviation, and enlightened globalization, promoting policies to help all parts of the world to benefit from expanding economic opportunities and wellbeing. He is also one of the leading voices for combining economic development with environmental sustainability, and as Director of the Earth Institute leads large-scale efforts to promote the mitigation of human-induced climate change.

In 2004 and 2005 he was named among the 100 most influential leaders in the world by Time Magazine, and is the 2005 recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Equal Justice. He is author of hundreds of scholarly articles and many books, including New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty (Penguin, 2005).

Sachs is a member of the Institute of Medicine and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has received many honorary degrees, most recently from Trinity College Dublin, the College of the Atlantic, Southern Methodist University, Simon Fraser University and McGill University. Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years at Harvard University, most recently as Director of the Center for International Development. A native of Detroit, Michigan, Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard University.

Dr. Kent R. Hill was sworn in on November 2, 2005, as Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Hill had served as acting Assistant Administrator from January 21, 2005, until his confirmation by the Senate on October 7. USAID is the government agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide.

From November 2001 to October 2005, Hill served as Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia at USAID.

As Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Global Health, Hill is responsible for a Bureau that in 2005 managed or comanaged health programs all over the world with funding of more than $1.6 billion. The Bureau seeks to provide global leadership in the effort to improve the quality, availability, and use of essential health services. USAID focuses its efforts on HIV/AIDS, avian influenza, other infectious diseases (such as tuberculosis and malaria), maternal and child health, family planning, environmental health, and nutrition.

A graduate of Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, Idaho, Hill has a master's degree in Russian studies and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has published books, articles, or reviews on human rights, intellectual history, international development, and matters related to religion in the former Soviet Union.

Duff Gillespie is a Professor Senior Scholar at the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Before moving to Johns Hopkins in February 2004, he was a Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

He was Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Global Health Bureau at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He has worked in the population and health field for 33 years. Dr. Gillespie received the Arthur Flemming Award in 1977 for pioneering operations research on community-based health systems. He was a recipient of Presidential Rank Awards in 1988, 1990, and 2001. In 2003, the Global Health Council presented Dr. Gillespie with a lifetime recognition award from the Global Health Council. He received the Administrator’s Distinguished Career award from USAID in 2004. Dr. Gillespie obtained his Ph.D. from Washington University.

Dr. Jim Scott is the Dean, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC. Dr. Scott’s professional interests include Medical Education, Toxicology, and Maritime Medicine. Dr. Scott is a Diplomate, American Board of Emergency Medicine, as well as a Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners. His membership in professional societies includes, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, and the American Medical Association.

Brigadier General Ron Sconyers is the Chief Executive Officer of Physicians for Peace, a global nonprofit medical education and treatment organization serving developing nations with unmet medical needs and scarce resources. General Sconyers was a career military officer in the U.S. Air Force serving as Director of Public Affairs for the Secretary of the Air Force. He has an undergraduate degree in International Affairs from the USAF Academy and a master's degree in communications from St. Louis University. He was also a Fellow in Foreign Politics, International Relations and the National Interest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently a Senior Fellow with the Center for Risk Communications, New York City. General Sconyers is accredited in public relations and a member of the elite Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) College of Fellows. He has earned a number of prestigious awards, including four Silver Anvils, the highest award in the public relations industry.

Dr. E. Andrew Balas serves as the Dean of the College of Health Sciences and Professor of Community Health at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His areas of expertise include strategic leadership for organizational advancement to achieve national impact, development of policy priorities for the production of new scientific knowledge responsive to societal needs, and application of advanced information technologies for transferring research to practice.

He is a member of the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association, and the Steering Committee of the eHealth Initiative. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He has served on several expert panels of the Institute of Medicine, several state government committees, and study sections of the National Institutes of Health. He is quoted in the press including Business Week, Bloomberg News, CNN, Managed Care, St. Louis Post Dispatch, National Public Radio, and Reuters.

Dr. Tim Garson is the Dean of The University of Virginia Medical College, Charlottesville, Virginia. He was graduated (Phi beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) from Princeton University in 1970 and received his MD (Alpha Omega Alpha) from Duke University in 1974, remaining at Duke for Pediatric residency through 1976. In 1979, he completed his Pediatric Cardiology fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, becoming Chief of Pediatric Cardiology in 1988. He has been a visiting professor in more than 100 institutions, is on the faculty of the Children's Hospital in Paris, and was awarded the "Keys to the City" of Parma, Italy. He is the author of more than 450 publications including 7 books. In 1992, he received a Masters degree In Public Health from the University of Texas Houston. Also in 1992, he joined the faculty at Duke University, becoming Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs, where he served as Medical Director of Government Relations for the Medical Center; and professor in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

Dr. Gerald Pepe
Dean, Eastern Virginia Medical School
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A member of the faculty of Eastern Virginia Medical School since 1978, Gerald Pepe has served as dean since May 2005.

Pepe is a reproductive physiologist internationally recognized for his research in the role estrogen plays in pregnancy and fetal development. Working with a colleague at the University of Maryland, Pepe has earned continuous support for his research from the National Institutes of Health. Pepe frequently serves on study sections at the National Institutes of Health and referees several professional journals.

Before he joined the EVMS faculty in 1978, Pepe served as senior staff fellow at the National Institutes of Health. He left the NIH in 1978 to come to EVMS, at the time a small, relatively new medical school. Pepe said he was attracted to EVMS by the school's novel scientific study of reproduction. He has chaired the physiology department from 1985-2005.

A native of Rhode Island, Pepe earned his undergraduate degree from Providence College and a master's degree from Northeastern University. He earned his Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Kansas and completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in reproductive physiology at Case Western Reserve.

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Kimberly Adams Tufts DNP, APRN, FAAN. Dr. Adams Tufts is currently an Associate Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner. Dr. Adams Tufts is best known for her policy work targeted at providing access to health care for underserved populations including the elderly, the impoverished, and minorities. She developed a nurse managed primary health care and birthing center targeted at increasing access to health care services for underserved populations. Dr. Adams Tufts has extensive experience related to global maternal/child health issues and has served on health care planning and implementation teams in Zimbabwe and Ukraine. Physicians for Human Rights recently awarded her the “Nursing as a Platform for Advocacy” award in acknowledgment of her commitment to human rights and global access to quality health care.

Roy Ahn, S.D., is the senior administrative manager at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. This new center's mission is to care for the world's most vulnerable by developing and facilitating health-care delivery, research, education and capacity-building initiatives. Formerly, Ahn was a research fellow of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University, where he examined issues related to nonprofit strategy and civil society capacity-building, and he previously worked in health policy analysis and consulting. He holds a doctorate of science degree from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Fran Butterfoss is head of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention section of the Eastern Virginia Medical School Center for Pediatric Research. Dr. Butterfoss received her B.S. in Nursing and M.S. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in Health Promotion and Education from the School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. She is an associate editor of Health Promotion Practice and the immediate past president of the national Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE).

Dr. Butterfoss' research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of community coalitions for health promotion including: asthma, HIV/AIDS, tobacco control, immunizations, alcohol and other drug abuse, injury prevention, nutrition, and breast and cervical cancer. She has developed tools and methods to aid practitioners and evaluators in self-assessment, development, maintenance and evaluation of coalitions and their efforts. With her colleague, Michelle Kegler, she recently developed the Community Coalition Action Theory that explains how coalitions move from formation to institutionalization as well as the constructs that predict successful planning, implementation, and community change outcomes.

Julius E. Coles is the President of Africare. Before assuming this position, he was the Director of Morehouse College's Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997 - 2002. He served as the Director of Howard University's Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994 - 1997. Most of Mr. Coles' career of some twenty-eight years in the foreign service has been spent as a senior official with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). While with USAID, Mr. Coles was Mission Director in Swaziland and Senegal and served in Vietnam, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal and Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. from Morehouse College (1964) and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (1966). Mr. Coles retired from the U.S. Government's Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister.

Dr. Yehuda Danon is a graduate of the Hebrew University Hadassah School of Medicine, and completed his specialization in Pediatrics at the Beilinson Medical Center and Immunology at Weizmann Institute in Rehovot Israel, and UCLA-California.

He served as Surgeon General of the State of Israel in 1986 to 1981. Dr. Danon initiated the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel (SCMCI) and served as Founding Director of SCMCI until 1997.

At the present time, Dr. Danon is Professor of Pediatrics at the Tel Aviv University (TAU) Sackler School of Medicine and director of the Kipper Institute of Immunology at SCMCI. Dr. Danon is also a bioterrorism consultant to the Israeli government. Dr. Danon has published more than 300 original papers and six books.

Dr. Satish Deopujari, is a pediatrician with special interest in pediatric intensive care and relational biology especially in regards to oxygen. He was a national chairman, pediatric intensive care chapter of the Indian academy of pediatrics and founding president of National Meet on pediatric critical care.

Dr. Deopujari is presently (Hon) professor of pediatrics and loves to teach. He is extremely popular among his colleagues and students all over the county for his work shops on Blood gases, oxygen therapy and fluid electrolytes. He has served as faculty for various national and international conferences.

Dr. Forno-Batres is a general physician licensed in Guatemala, where she obtained her medical degree at the Francisco Marroquin University. She worked as a research associate at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Later, she earned a Master in Public Health and worked as a teaching assistant at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. In 2005, she joined Physicians for Peace (PFP) as global health consultant in research and evaluation. Presently, she is Director of Research for PFP and has evaluated health programs in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic and Turkey. She is an active member of the Guatemalan College of Physicians and Surgeons and the American Public Health Association (APHA). In 2005, she was given the Medical Care Section Student Paper Award during the APHA annual meeting. In 2006, she gave an oral presentation about PFP Resource Mother Program, during the APHA annual meeting.

Ciro Franco is a physician with a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and a Diploma in Tropical Disease from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine in Belgium. He has over 20 years experience in medicine and public health, with 16 years focused on international health issues and 10 years of long-term assignments in Africa. His areas of expertise encompass a wide range of health care programs, including reproductive health (family planning, maternal health, HIV/AIDS/STI), child health (IMCI, malaria, ARI, diarrhea), and nutrition (Vitamin A, anemia).

Pape Amadou Gaye, MBA, has over 30 years experience as a leader in International Health including extensive field experience throughout Africa. Mr. Gaye a native of Senegal (West Africa) is currently the President and CEO of Chapel Hill-based IntraHealth International Inc., an organization dedicated to improving the health and well being of vulnerable women and their families and communities. Prior to becoming the CEO of IntraHealth Gaye lead the organization's regional office for West, Central and North Africa and oversaw the company's work in that region. In that capacity Gaye traveled extensively in the region and built strong collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and international health leaders in several Anglophone and Francophone African countries. Gaye's areas of expertise include RH/FP and HIV/AIDS program development, management and oversight. He is a master stand-up trainer and as such has worked with the US Peace Corps, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Committee and the Centers for Disease Control where he was responsible for field testing the mid-level management course in malaria prevention and diarrheal disease control. Gaye contributed vastly in building the strong reputation IntraHealth enjoys in Training and Learning, Performance Improvement and Human Capacity Development. Technically adept and dedicated to improving health care for the poorest people around the globe, he recognizes that partnership is essential to meet the enormous challenges posed by viral pandemics such as HIV/AIDS and on-going efforts to reduce maternal mortality and improve reproductive health care. Skilled in building cooperative relationships among diverse groups, organizations and governments, Gaye is able to creatively channel human and material resources to produce the most vibrant results.

Dr. Atul Grover
Associate Director, Association of American Medical Colleges
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Dr. Altul Grover joined the Association of American Medical Colleges in 2005 as Associate Director of the Center for Workforce Studies. He has been a health care consultant and has over a decade of experience working with hospitals, health systems, government agencies and NGOs. He is widely recognized as an expert on physician workforce and related issues in medical education and training. Dr. Grover earned a PhD in Health and Public Policy at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where he completed a three-year fellowship in health services research; there, he remains on Faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is a board certified internist, practicing hospitalist and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. Prior to his consulting career, he served as Chief Medical Officer in the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis at HRSA.

Dr. Richard Guerrant is an internationally-recognized expert on enteric infections. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He is also the Thomas H. Hunter Professor of International Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health.

Dr. Guerrant graduated from Davidson College and the UVA School of Medicine. He was trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Harvard Medical Service of the Boston City Hospital, the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins, and UVA.

Dr. Guerrant's research is focused on the recognition, diagnosis, pathogenesis, impact, and control of enteric infections and their consequences. He is also working to develop a network of Centers for Global Health at top institutions across the United States and abroad.

Dr. Guerrant is the author of over 420 scientific and clinical articles, reviews, and major textbook chapters, and editor of six books, including a two-volume textbook, Tropical Infectious Diseases, Infections of the Gastrointestinal Tract and a book about lessons learned from his collaborations in Northeast Brazil entitled At the Edge of Development: Health Crises in a Transitional Society.

Dr. Shehadeh "Shawki" Harb was born in Ramallah, now Westbank. He attended the American Friends School and pursued medical studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he graduated Magna cum Laude in 1965. He completed his training in general surgery at the University of Florida in 1972, and continued as a fellow in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

In 1975 Dr. Harb returned home to Ramallah where he introduced open-heart surgery at the Ramallah Government Hospital. He also served as chief of surgery, and later as medical director. He became first president of the Palestinian Surgical Society, founder and first president of the Society of The Friends of the Sick, chair of the Ramallah Hospital Foundation, chair of the Board of the American Friends Schools, and also served as a member of the city council.

Dr. Harb is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the International College of Surgeons and of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Harb is a practicing surgeon in Detroit, Michigan.

Edward A. "Buzz" Heidt is the President of the Board of Trustees of Physicians for Peace and President and CEO, The Penrod Company, a diversified company headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. PENROD has offices in every major international region around the globe and operates distribution centers on five continents.

Peter Hotez is Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University, where his major research and academic interest is in the area of vaccine development for parasitic and tropical diseases, and the role of vaccines in international diplomacy. He is also Visiting Professor at the Chinese National Institute of Parasitic Diseases in Shanghai. Dr. Hotez is the Principal Investigator on a Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative from the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Gates Foundation to develop a recombinant vaccine for hookworm-induced malnutrition and anemia. He is also the Principal Investigator on grants from the NIH, March of Dimes, American Heart Association and the China Medical Board.

Dr. Hotez is the author or co-author of over 120 scientific and technical papers in molecular and immunoparasitology and tropical disease, as well as two books, Parasitic Diseases (Apple Tree Press) and Krugman's Infectious Diseases of Children. His articles on international science policy have appeared in The Washington Post, Scientific American, and Foreign Policy.

Dr. Hotez is the recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal from the American Society for Parasitologists and a Young Investigator Award from the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pedriatics (FAAP).

Dr. Hotez is a native of Hartford, Connecticut. He obtained his B.A. degree in Molecular Biophysics phi beta kappa from Yale University (1980) and his M.d. and Ph.D. from the medical scientist-training program at Cornell University and The Rockefeller University. After completing his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Hotez returned to Yale University where he was on the faculty for 12 years, before joining GW.

Dr. John P. Howe, III became President and Chief Executive Officer of Project HOPE on May 1, 2001. He is a board certified physician in both internal medicine and cardiology. Previously, Dr. Howe was the Chief Executive Officer at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio for fifteen years. He provided leadership to the University's Medical School, Dental School, Nursing School, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences and Doctor of Pharmacy programs.

Dr. Howe earned a bachelor's degree at Amherst College and his medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine. He served two years in the Army Medical Corps and later completed the Health Systems Management Program at Harvard Business School.

He has served recent terms as President of both the Texas Medical Association and the Bexar County Medical Society. He is a board member of the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research and the Southwest Research Institute.

Dr. Howe is Chair of the Harvard College Board of Overseers Committee at the Medical School and School of Dental Medicine and a member of the Board of Visitors at the Boston University School of Public Health. He is also the founding President of the Texas Society for Biomedical Research, a member and past Chair of the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs and a past member of the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board.

In 1994, Dr. Howe was appointed by the Governor of Texas to serve as Chairman of the Texas Statewide Health Coordinating Council, a group chartered by the state legislature to develop a health plan for the State of Texas.

He has been featured on national television and in national journals as a leader in the biosciences. He represented the United States at a Tri-National Conference on Health in Mexico City, a forum designed to develop solutions to multi-national health concerns following the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Dr. Howe has spoken in more than 30 states, has presented testimony to the U.S. Congress and has been a national advocate for the importance of continued medical research.

Dr. Kightlinger received her undergraduate education at Allegheny College, and her medical training at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her OB/GYN residency at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, and is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She practiced OB/GYN for 12 years in Erie, Pennsylvania, and in 2004 joined the OB/GYN faculty of the University of Virginia where she has become an active member of the University's Center for Global Health. In addition, Dr. Kightlinger directs the Remote Area Medical (RAM^®) Women's Health Program, which has established a comprehensive cervical cancer screening and treatment program in indigenous villages of Guyana, South America. Her research includes the epidemiology of cervical cancer and HPV as well as determination of the predominant HPV genotypes causing cervical disease in this isolated population.

Dr. David O. Matson, MD, PhD, is Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Graduate Program in Public Health, Eastern Virginia Medical School. Dr. David Matson is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist who has conducted fundamental research on gastroenteritis viruses, including being a patent holder for development of the methods that are utilized to detect Noroviruses, the common cause of outbreaks of illness in adults that receive notoriety from occurrence on cruise ships. Dr. Matson's research contributions span from basic science investigations of virus structure to population studies to assess disease burden. He has been a central figure during the last 10 years in rotavirus vaccine development, including Chair of the advisory committee assisting the manufacturer of the failed rotavirus vaccine to respond to the adverse events and Principal Investigator in the U.S. for the successfully completed ~70,000 child rotavirus vaccine study that led to licensure in 2006 of a new rotavirus vaccine in the U.S. Dr. Matson is an advisory to the Gates Foundation and both rotavirus vaccine manufacturers. The publication of the recent rotavirus vaccine study was recognized by the Editors of The Lancet as the "best paper of 2006", honoring the best medical research worldwide.

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Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D. is the Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and a clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University. He is also a member of the medical staff at the Upper Cardozo Community Health Center in Washington, D.C. and a contributing editor of the journal Health Affairs. His research focuses on issues and trends in the US and global health workforce. Dr. Mullan, a pediatrician, is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Chicago Medical School. He has served as director of the federal Bureau of Health Professions and the National Health Service Corps and has written widely for professional and general audiences. His recent books include Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to Human Resource Crisis in the HIV/AIDS and Narrative Matters: The Power of the Personal Essay in Health. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

A native of the Philippines, Dr Romulo completed his Infectious Disease Fellowship at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 1992, after which he returned to his homeland as a private Infectious Disease clinician caring for patients with tropical diseases such as malaria, typhoid fever and dengue fever. He immediately began work organizing private health care providers for tuberculosis control. His work linking the private and public health sectors served as early impetus for a movement that the World Health Organization later dubbed “Public-Private Mixed DOTS” (Directly Observed Treatment Shortcourse). WHO now promotes PPM-DOTS throughout the developing world as part of the DOTS strategy for TB control. Dr. Romulo led the Philippine Coalition Against Tuberculosis as its chairman for several years sharing the Philippine experience in public-private collaboration with other countries in Asia and Africa. Appointed by the Secretary of Health, he chaired the committee which drafted the revised national tuberculosis control policy for the Philippines in 2002. Dr. Romulo continues to serve a member of the Technical Review Committee of the Global (Tuberculosis) Drug Facility based at the WHO in Geneva, Switzerland to which he was nominated in 2002. He is currently a partner in Infectious Disease Consultants of Hampton Roads, based in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ms. Shumann is Vice President and Regional Director for West and Central Africa for Population Services International (PSI). PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in malaria, reproductive health, child survival and HIV, PSI promotes products, services and healthy behavior that enable low-income and vulnerable people to lead healthier lives. Products and services are sold at subsidized prices rather than given away in order to motivate commercial sector involvement. Ms. Shumann overseas PSI’s operations in 15 countries, covering areas such as HIV prevention, malaria prevention and treatment, family planning and diarrheal disease prevention and management. Prior to her current position, she was PSI’s Country Representative in Mozambique, where she introduced malaria prevention and voluntary testing and counseling for HIV into PSI’s portfolio. Ms. Shumann has also worked with the Save the Children/US in Angola and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea. She holds an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an MHS from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Marilyn Tavenner was appointed Secretary of Health and Human Resources by Governor Kaine in January of 2006. As Secretary of Health and Human Resources, she oversees 12 agencies, employing over 18,000 people, including the Departments of Health, Mental Health, Social Services, Health Professions and Medical Assistance Services.

Prior to her appointment, Marilyn spent the previous 25 years working for the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). She began her career as a Staff Nurse and steadily rose through the ranks; becoming CEO of Richmond, VA based Johnston-Willis Hospital in April of 1993 and finishing out her service to HCA as President of Outpatient Services, a national position spearheaded by Ms. Tavenner.

As an active community member and healthcare advocate, Marilyn has served on the Board of several organizations including the American Hospital Association, Meals on Wheels, United Way, Greater Richmond Partnership, and the YMCA. She also served as Past President of both the Virginia Hospital Association and the Chesterfield Business Council. Ms. Tavenner was a recipient of the Virginia Commonwealth University's Star Alumni Award and is a current Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives.

A physician specializing in child health in developing countries, Dr. Ronald Waldman began his career with the World Health Organization’s Global Smallpox Eradication Program in Bangladesh. He subsequently worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 20 years where, among other assignments, he directed technical support activities for the Combating Childhood Communicable Diseases Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he and his colleagues at the CDC published a series of studies on the epidemiology of refugee health and provided public health assistance in many international humanitarian crises. Dr. Waldman was the coordinator of the Task Force on Cholera Control at WHO and the technical director of the USAID-funded child survival BASICS Project. He is the immediate past chairman of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association and serves in an advisory capacity to a number of international non-governmental organizations. He has worked in complex emergencies in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo,Afghanistan and, most recently, Iraq. Dr. Waldman was the founder and former director of the Mailman School’s Program on Forced Migration and Health. He currently serves as a technical advisor at USAID.

Dr. Huda Ayas is the Executive Director, International Medicine Programs, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C. Dr. Ayas has formed over 24 strategic partnerships and affiliations and has developed and implemented many international educational and training programs. These programs include the International MD Program which allows foreign students to study medicine at GWUMC and then return to their home country to practice; The International Observership Training Program which allows foreign physicians to come to the U.S. for up to 8 weeks of training in a specific area of medicine; The International Residency Training Program allows foreign medical graduates to pursue their clinical training here in the U.S.; The International Clinical Electives Programs allows the exchange of medical students with our affiliated institutes and the Fellowship Program which was designed to increase the knowledge and skills of a physicians in any particular subspecialty beyond that of residency training.

Dr. Ed Karotkin is a neonatologist at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. Kartokin holds Board Certifications from the American Board of Pediatrics as well as the Board of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. He received his training from Bowman Gray School of Medicine, and completed his residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. Dr. Karotkin’s research interests include International Medicine and Strategies to improve the outcome of pregnancy. He is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Caroline Martin is the President and CEO of NurseWorks, Inc., a consulting company founded to articulate, position, and promote the value of the work of the nurse in improving health and saving lives. Her consulting services include strategic planning and business development, workplace consultation, and motivational speaking to hospitals and physician offices, colleges and boards of governance. Ms. Martin is a Registered Nurse, earning a BSN and a Master of Health Administration from the Medical College of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University respectively. For over thirty years she has taught nursing, as well as being a director of nursing, and for twenty –seven of those years served as a health care executive for Riverside Health Systems in Newport News, Virginia. She currently serves on several boards, including the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts Foundation, Chairman of the Suffolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Women Business Leaders in Healthcare, and Ramps Across America as well as the Medical Operations Committee of Physicians for Peace.

In 1988, Susan Mathews founded Corporate Health Dimensions (now AMEX:DMX), which became the country’s largest provider of outsourced medical and pharmacy services for Fortune 500 companies, and served as its President/COO until 2000, just before a merger with a Nashville-based company, Meridian Healthcare. Prior to that, she launched the third largest managed care program in the US for the NYS Government Employees Health Plan hosted by Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield. Since 2000, she has served as an investor in multiple private equity backed companies, as an Advisor to numerous early stage businesses and selected boutique investment banking firms, and has also functioned as an interim CEO for 3 healthcare companies.

Mathews is an RN and holds a Masters and Doctorate in Health Services Administration. Twice within 6 years, she was recognized for Excellence in Management, Private Sector and in Yr. 2000 was named one of the 100 Women of the Century by the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce. In October, 2001, she was honored by Girls, Inc at their annual Women & Entrepreneurship Celebration Luncheon.

Mathews serves on multiple Boards, as a member of the Executive Committee and Audit and/or Quality Committees. Board commitments include: GHI, a statewide health plan in New York; GHI-HMO, a NY for profit managed care plan; Game Institute, an early stage game developers courseware business; Healthtrax, Inc, a national provider of medical based fitness centers; The Oyster Bar at Grand Central Station, an ESOP and highly recognized specialty restaurant in NYC; and, as Vice Chair for Physicians for Peace in Norfolk, VA an international humanitarian organization. She also serves on the Women Business Leaders in the U.S. Healthcare Industry Foundation Advisory Board, the High Peaks Venture Capital Partners Advisory Board, Roman Catholic Diocese Finance Council, Babson College Graduate School of Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, and Excelsior College President’s Council.

Dr. Eid Mustafa is a Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, and Cosmetic & Hand Surgeon. He serves as the Chief of Plastic Surgery, United Regional Health Care System and Kell West Regional Hospitals, Wichita Falls, TX. Dr. Mustafa is a member of the Medical Advisory Board. American Near East Refugee Aid; President, North Central Texas Medical Foundation; Treasurer, The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development, President, National Arab American Medical Association. Former Vice President, Medical Advisory Board, Texas Rehabilitation Commission; former President, Wichita County Medical Society; Honor Degree, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria, Egypt. Resident of the year, Howard University Hospital. Residencies at Ramallah Hospital, Ramallah, Palestine, Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC; and Brown University Program in Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI. Member of TMA, AMA, NAAMA, ASPS, ASAPS, and ACS.

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