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RESEARCH & INNOVATIONS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS 2016

Innovations in Global Health Professions Education’s Second Annual Conference

April 27 -29, 2016

Hilton Molino Stucky Hotel

Venice, Italy

www.innoHealthEd.com

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The Molino Stucky was built in the late 1800s upon the initiative of Giovanni Stucky (featured), entrepreneur and financier of a noble Swiss family, whose father John Stucky had moved to Venice with the vision to utilize the Venetian canal for fast water transport of grain to and from the island of Giudecca. What started as a flourishing flour mill, later expanded

into a striking complex with storage facilities, offices and a pasta factory under the design of architect Ernst Wullekopf.

Preserving its original neo-Gothic architecture, the beautifully restored Molina Stucky now houses a hotel offering a unique view of Venice. Its name and structure have been retained

to preserve the historical memory and will of its founder, Giovanni Stucky, whose aim was “to establish a connection with the city.” Today, the Molino Stucky is regarded as

one of the most impressive and iconic buildings in Venice.

Table of Contents

Program Organization 2

Introduction to the Conference 3

Acknowledgments 3

Program 4

About Innovations in Global Health Professions Education (IGHPE) 8

Speakers 10

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Program OrganizationJavaid Sheikh,

Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Thurayya Arayssi, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional

Development, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Robert Crone, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Anesthesiology and Associate Dean for

Clinical and Faculty Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Nicola Adair, Director, Dean’s Office Administration, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

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Research & Innovations for Healthcare Professions 2016Welcome to the second annual conference hosted by Innovations in Global Health Professions Education (IGHPE). The conference focuses on research and innovations that advance performance of the health professions, and is part of our ongoing aim to build an active health profession community inspired to lead transformative initiatives.

This event is designed to stimulate discussion with three themes:

• The Vision for Our Healthcare Professions

• Healthcare Without Borders

• Preparing for Digital Healthcare

Attendees of this conference are leaders and stakeholders in health professions education, including educators, administrators, deans, program directors, and others from Europe and around the world who are prepared to share their vision and expertise in transforming the health professions learning experience.

All are invited to discuss new paradigms, practices and digital solutions that are innovating and pushing traditional pedagogical approaches. Our aims for this forum are to frame a vision and stimulate creative thinking and collaborations that address the demand for effective, integrated, 21st century health professions education.

We hope this conference at the historic Hilton Molino Stucky, nestled on the banks of picturesque Giudecca Island in Venice, Italy, will be an opportunity to explore new ideas, make new friends

and colleagues, and improve the care of patients.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful for the support of our strategic stakeholder, the Association of Medical Schools in Europe (AMSE), which shares our common interest in stimulating discussions and collaborations that advance the fields of education and research in the healthcare

professional community. We would like to thank Professor Peter Dieter, President of AMSE and the AMSE membership for taking part in this program.

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Wednesday, 2016

12.00 – 19.00 Conference Registration Desk OpenDelegates to pick up conference bag and materialsCampiello Area, Hilton Molino Stucky

19.00 – 21.00 Welcome ReceptionSkyline Rooftop Bar, Hilton Molino Stucky

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Thursday, 2016

07.00 – 08.45 Buffet Breakfast Il Molino Restaurant, Hilton Molino Stucky

08.00 Conference Registration Desk Open Delegates to pick up conference bag and materialsConference Center, Hilton Molino Stucky

Program

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09.00 Innovations for Healthcare Professions: The Future BeckonsJavaid Sheikh, Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

09.10 Introduction to AMSE Peter Dieter, President of Association of Medical Schools in Europe (AMSE)

09.20 The IGHPE Platform Thurayya Arayssi, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, Weill Cornell Medicine-QatarRobert Crone, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Anesthesiology and Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

09.40 Session 1: The Vision for Our Health ProfessionsModerated by Robert Crone, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Anesthesiology and Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

09.50 Developing Models of Education for the FutureVictor Dzau, President, National Academy of Medicine

10.15 Designing the Future Healthcare Professional Barbara Brandt, Associate Vice President for Education, University of Minnesota and Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

10.40 Preparing the MD of the Future Nuno Sousa, Director of the Medical School and Vice President of the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho School of Medicine

11.05 Break

11.25 Value Added Medical Education: Innovation to Enhance Student Learning, Augment Health System Performance and Improve Patient Care Richard Hawkins, Vice President, Medical Education Programs, American Medical Association (AMA)

11.50 Topic Discussion: What Do You Think? Panelists and delegates are invited to share their experience and perspectives.

12.35 Audience Feedback and Expectations Going Forward

13.00 LunchStucky Garden, Hilton Molino Stucky

14.15 Free Afternoon

18.30 Reception Campiello Area, Hilton Molino Stucky

19.00 DinnerIl Molino Restaurant, Hilton Molino Stucky

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Friday, 2016

07.00 – 09.15 Buffet Breakfast Il Molino Restaurant, Hilton Molino Stucky

09.30 Introduction to Day 2 Session 2: Healthcare Without Borders Moderated by Thurayya Arayssi, Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

09.40 From a Highly Regulated, Self-Supporting Regional Health Workforce, to Global Hiring: Experience from Two ContinentsMarco Marcus, Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar and Maastricht University, Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, ICU and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation

10.05 Developing a Medical Workforce to Meet the Needs of the PopulationMichael Richmond, Chief Medical Officer, Hamad Medical Corporation

10.30 The Role of Context and Culture in Medical Education TransformationEric Holmboe, Senior Vice President, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)

10.55 Break

11.15 International Certification: Past, Present and FutureMira Irons, Senior Vice President, American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)

11.40 Topic Discussion: What Do You Think? Panelists and delegates are invited to share their experience and perspectives.

12.30 LunchStucky Garden, Hilton Molino Stucky

13.30 Session 3: Preparing for Digital Healthcare Moderated by Shahrad Taheri, Professor of Medicine and Director, Clinical Research Core, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

13.40 Exploiting Digitized Data to Promote Population Health Aziz Sheikh, Professor and Co-Director of Centre for Medical Informatics, University of Edinburgh

14.05 Telemedicine in Emergency CareGuenevere Burke, Assistant Professor and Co-Director Health Policy & Social Mission Collaboration, George Washington University

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14.30 The interaction with virtual patients as an educational tool: the experiential learning at the Interactive Patient Simulation Experience (IPSE) Center Raffaele Landolfi, Full Professor of Internal Medicine, Scientific Director of the IPSE Centre Catholic University and Policlinico Gemelli Foundation

14.55 Break

15.10 From Quantified Self to Population HealthAlexis Normand, Healthcare Development Director, Withings

15.35 Editing Wikipedia for Medical School Course Credit: You Can Too!Amin Azzam, Associate Clinical Professor and Director of the “Problem-Based Learning” curriculum, University of California, San Francisco & Berkeley

16.00 Topic Discussion: What Do You Think? Panelists and delegates are invited to share their experience and perspectives

16:45 Summing It Up Moderated by Javaid Sheikh, Dean and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. A meeting summary provided by participants

17.00 Close of Meeting

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About IGHPEInnovations in Global Health Professions Education (IGHPE) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar and edited by a board of renowned experts in all areas of healthcare education. In the context of a globally interconnected world, this ambitious new global publishing platform seeks to be the preeminent forum for the presentation and discussion of innovative concepts in all areas of healthcare professional education. We invite nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare specialists, in addition to physicians, to contribute to the platform. Beyond an impact on scholarship in health professions education, publications of the platform ultimately aim at measurable improvements of healthcare delivery.

IGHPE’s Mission

As health education becomes increasingly globalized, we have unique and exciting opportunities to benefit from judicious use of technology-based pedagogy and to carefully evaluate its transformative potential for changing healthcare for many generations to come. The world’s population is less restricted by individual country borders, and healthcare professionals have more freedom to choose appropriate opportunities for practice in their fields —consequently, training has a global mandate. It must be easily accessed and be of a consistently high standard across country barriers, with technology the great equalizer.

The mission of IGHPE is to promote the advancement of global health education, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, and to engage practitioners, researchers, students, and teachers in revolutionizing the quality and distribution of care. We will:

1. Provide a forum for the exchange of information that addresses the achievements and the challenges of global health education and practice.

2. Illuminate innovations that facilitate globalization in health education.

3. Engage opinion leaders worldwide in policy-making endeavors relevant to health education globally.

4. Stimulate a consistent and productive debate on worldwide health education.

5. Enhance the delivery of the journal content by using up-to-date technologies.

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IGHPE’S EDITORS-IN-CHIEFJavaid I. SheikhDean and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Victor J. Dzau

President, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORSThurayya ArayssiAssociate Professor and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Robert K. CroneProfessor and Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Doha, Qatar

EDITORIAL BOARDRima Afifi Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Elizabeth ArmstrongClinical Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Director of Harvard Macy Institute, Boston, MA, USA

Emmanuel G. CassimatisPresident and CEO, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), Philadelphia, PA, USA

Humayun “Hank” ChaudhryPresident and CEO, Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), Euless, TX, USA

Kim CritchleyDean and CEO, University of Calgary–Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Richard HawkinsVice President, Medical Education Programs, American Medical Association (AMA), Chicago, IL, USA

Eric S. HolmboeSenior Vice President for Milestones Development and Evaluation, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), Chicago, IL, USA

Robert K. KameiVice Dean of Education, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore

Yang KeExecutive Vice President, Peking University and Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Donald E. MelnickPresident, National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), Philadelphia, PA, USA

Lois M. NoraPresident and CEO, American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), Chicago, IL, USA

John J. Norcini Jr.President and CEO, Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER), Philadelphia, PA, USA

Andrew Padmos EO, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Janette S. SamaanFounding Senior Director, Global Health Learning Opportunities (GHLO), Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Washington, DC, USA

Kelley M. SkeffGeorge DeForest Barnett Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

George E. ThibaultPresident, The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, New York, NY, USA

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Javaid SheikhDean and Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Professor Sheikh is an internationally renowned medical executive, distinguished clinician-scientist, and widely sought-after thought leader and innovator in global academic medicine. As the Dean of the groundbreaking Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q), he is the Chief Academic Officer of the first successful international branch campus of a US, research-intensive graduate medical school to grant a medical degree from a US university. WCM-Q graduates have distinguished themselves as peers of the best and the brightest of their US and global counterparts, and are now part of the next generation of physicians and physician-scientists serving this region and the rest of the world.

Dean Sheikh built the first Academic Center for Translational and Clinical Research at WCM-Q, where the collaborative work of clinicians and scientists is focused on the unique populations of the MENA region. Under his leadership, WCM-Q has attracted a critical mass of world-class educators, biomedical scientists, medical and public health specialists who are actively fulfilling Qatar’s national vision of transforming itself from a petrochemical to a knowledge-based economy with the objective of improving the lives of its citizens.

To support the ongoing professional development of healthcare practitioners, Dean Sheikh established a Division of Continuing Professional Development at WCM-Q, currently recognized by Qatar’s Supreme Council of Health as a major provider of education for all practicing physicians, nurses and allied healthcare providers.

Dean Sheikh has led the conceptualization and implementation of comprehensive programs to advance health promotion and disease prevention for the general population of Qatar by cultivating healthy behaviors in school-age children, and by designing and conducting population-based, longitudinal studies to assess the efficacy of these interventions. In recognition of his leadership role in education and public health policy making, Dean Sheikh has been asked to serve on a number of national health policy committees, including being Co-Chair of the Joint Steering Committee of Qatar’s Academic Health System, serving on the Qatar Council on Health Practitioners Board of the Supreme Council of Health, and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of Sidra Medical and Research Center.

Prior to joining WCM-Q in 2007, Dean Sheikh built a distinguished career as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Dean and Chief of the Medical Staff and Chairman of the Board of the Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education at the prestigious Stanford University School of Medicine and the Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System in California. At Stanford, Dean Sheikh published the first studies exploring the impact of aging on anxiety disorders, while delineating differential sleep architecture in various anxiety disorders. His work was funded both by the National Institutes of Health and private sources and resulted in more than 140 publications and more than 100 abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

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Victor DzauPresident, National Academy of Medicine

Victor J. Dzau is the President of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly the Institute of Medicine (IOM). In addition, he serves as Chair of the Health and Medicine Division Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is Chancellor Emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University and the past President and CEO of the Duke University Health System. Previously, Dr. Dzau was the Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine and Chairman of Medicine at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, as well as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Stanford University.

Dr. Dzau has made a significant impact on medicine through his seminal research in cardiovascular medicine and genetics, his pioneering of the discipline of vascular medicine, and his leadership in health care innovation.

Dr. Dzau’s vision is for academic health sciences centers to lead the transformation of medicine through innovation, translation, and globalization. Leading this vision at Duke, he and his colleagues developed the Duke Translational Medicine Institute, the Duke Global Health Institute, the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School, and the Duke Institute for Health Innovation. These initiatives create a seamless continuum from discovery and translational sciences to clinical care, and they promote transformative innovation in health.

As one of the world’s preeminent academic health leaders, Dr. Dzau advises governments, corporations, and universities worldwide. He has been a member of the Council of the IOM and the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as Chair of the NIH Cardiovascular Disease Advisory Committee and the Association of Academic Health Centers. He served on the Governing Board of the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School and the Board of Health Governors of the World Economic Forum and chaired its Global Agenda Council on Personalized and Precision Medicine. He also served as the Senior Health Policy Advisor to Her Highness Sheikha Moza (Chair of the Qatar Foundation). Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore Health System, the Expert Board of the Imperial College Health Partners, UK, and the International Advisory Board of the Biomedical Science Council of Singapore. In 2011, he led a partnership between Duke University, the World Economic Forum, and McKinsey, and he founded the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery and currently chairs its Board of Directors.

Dr. Dzau has received numerous honors and recognitions as a leader in health care innovation and a renowned cardiologist. Recently, he was awarded the Public Service Medal by the President of Singapore. He has received eight honorary doctorates.

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Peter DieterPresident, Association of Medical Schools in Europe

Professor Dieter joined the AMSE Executive Committee in 2012, and was elected as President of AMSE by the General Assembly in 2014.

Peter Dieter is also a professor at the Carl Gustav Carus Medical School, Dresden University of Technology, Germany, where he was dean of education for almost ten years. He was also elected as a vice-president of the German society of education for six years and is member of several boards of the German Association of Faculties of Medicine (MFT - Medizinischer Fakultätentag) including the academy of higher medical education. The MFT is the representative

body for all medical schools in Germany and particularlyconcerned with German national policy for medical education.

In 2010 Professor Dieter was honoured with Ars legendi Award for excellent teaching in higher medical education. After qualifying from the University of Freiburg (Germany), he held research and academic appointments in Freiburg and Dresden, working and publishing on cellular biology, biochemistry and biomedical engineering. Internationally, he is involved in curricular reforms, new foundations and accreditation (WFME) of medical schools, particularly in Asia and Australia. In his position as the representative for international programs at the Dresden Medical School, he arranged many exchange programmes for medical students in education and research all over the world, ranging from Harvard University and the University of Sydney to Universities in Nepal, China and Vietnam. As a member of the executive board of AMEE, he also works widely in Europe. In Dresden, he runs the module ‘faculty development and leadership’ of the German master programme of medical education for more than seven years.

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Amin AzzamAssociate Clinical Professor and Director of the “Problem-Based Learning” curriculum, University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley

Dr. Azzam completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester, before starting medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. During medical school, he participated in the inaugural year of the National Institutes of Health’s “Clinical Research Training Program.” After completing medical school, he participated in the research track of the general adult psychiatry residency program at the University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry. He then completed a two-year research fellowship in psychiatric genetics at the San Francisco Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, before discovering that his true passion was in medical education. Deciding that 27

years of formal education just wasn’t enough, he went back to school for a two-year masters’ degree in education, at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on quantitative methods and evaluation. He is now an Associate Clinical Professor at both the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California.

Currently, he wears three hats:

• Director of the “Problem-Based Learning” curriculum at the UC Berkeley—UCSF Joint Medical Program,

• Co-Director of the “Foundations of Patient Care” course for first and second-year medical students at UCSF, and

• Associate Director of the UC Berkeley—UCSF Joint Medical Program.

Clinically he specializes in group psychotherapy for patients with chronic medical conditions.

Dr. Azzam’s research interests include exploring the efficacy of various instructional approaches in stimulating medical students’ acquisition, retention, and application of content knowledge in their evolving roles as clinicians.

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Thurayya ArayssiAssociate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Dr. Thurayya Arayssi is Associate Professor of Medicine and the Associate Dean for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, a branch campus of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. She obtained her M.D. degree from the American University of Beirut, and completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine and her Geriatrics fellowship at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. She then joined the National Institutes of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders (NIAMS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, completing a second fellowship in Rheumatology with a focus in the area of early arthritis.

Dr. Arayssi has been working in the area of International Medical Education for almost two decades and has held multiple leadership positions including Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency Program, Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Assistant Dean for Clinical Curriculum, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and more recently the Associate Dean for CPD. She is interested in physician work-force development and retention in less resourced countries through improvement of standards of education and training of physicians across the continuum of education. In this capacity, she has been involved in accreditation of residency programs and CPD programs.

Dr. Arayssi’s current research interests focus on rheumatoid arthritis (RA),and Behcet disease for which she has received funding as the Principal Investigator. She has organized the Middle East Rheumatoid Arthritis Consortium (MERAC), which brings together renowned rheumatologists from the Middle East and the United States who share the interest of investigating the genetics and the clinical characteristics of Arab patients with RA for the purpose of improving their care. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts and book chapters in her area of expertise. She has received several teaching awards and honors including being inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society and being spotlighted as a woman leader in Residency Education by the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM).

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Barbara BrandtAssociate Vice President for Education, University of Minnesota and Director, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education

Renowned for her work in health professional education, and specifically, interprofessional education and continuing education, Dr. Barbara Brandt serves as the associate vice president for education within the University of Minnesota’s Academic Health Center, and she is responsible for the University’s 1Health initiative to build the interprofessional practice skills of students and faculty in a broad range of health professions. Dr. Brandt is also the director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, a public-private partnership and cooperative agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration, established in 2012.

In her leadership roles, Dr. Brandt has served as a consultant, advisor and speaker for a wide variety of organizations such as the Institute of Medicine, the National Quality Forum, the Academy of Healthcare Improvement, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Brandt holds a bachelor of arts in the teaching of history from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a master of education and doctor of philosophy degrees in continuing education (specializing in continuing professional education for the health professions) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2013 she was recognized as a University of Illinois Distinguished Alumna. She completed W.K. Kellogg Foundation-sponsored post-doctoral fellowship for faculty in adult and continuing education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Guenevere BurkeAssistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Co-Director Health Policy & Social Mission Collaboration, George Washington University

Dr. Guenevere Burke is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the George Washington University (GW). In this role, she serves as a member of the health policy and innovative practice groups and as co-director of the Health Policy & Social Mission Collaboration between GW and Kaiser Permanente. Dr. Burke completed fellowship training in health policy at GW, working as a fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation and serving as a health policy advisor to Senator Grassley, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. She completed her medical education at UCLA and residency training at the University of Southern California, where she served as chief resident. She holds an MBA

from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and previously worked in healthcare consulting and finance. She is actively involved in medical education and interdisciplinary graduate programs in health policy, social mission and technology innovation.

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Robert CroneProfessor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Anesthesiology and Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Dr. Robert Crone is Associate Dean for Clinical and Faculty Affairs and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Clinical Anesthesiology, at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). Dr. Crone works closely with physician faculty at WCM-Q affiliated hospitals in Qatar and WCM affiliate hospitals in New York.

Dr. Crone graduated from Albany Medical College and completed post-graduate training in pediatrics and anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and a research fellowship in fetal cardiovascular physiology at the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. After serving

as the Associate Director of the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at MGH, Dr. Crone became the Founding Director of the Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Anaesthesia and Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He subsequently moved to the University of Washington where he was Professor and developed the first academic department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Following a successful career in academic medicine, Dr. Crone moved into international medicine. He served as Senior Vice President for Operations at The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., (Project HOPE) prior to becoming the Founding President, and Chief Executive Officer for Harvard Medical International, Inc., a not-for-profit subsidiary corporation of Harvard Medical School and its Dean for International Programs.

Subsequently, Dr. Crone founded Huron Consulting Group’s Global Healthcare Practice and Strategy Implemented, Inc., through which he worked closely with the healthcare regulatory, assessment and accreditation communities, both in the US and internationally. Dr. Crone also served on the governing boards of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), the National Committee for Foreign Medical Education Accreditation (NCFMEA) of the US Department of Education and the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and served as a consultant to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB).

Dr. Crone is currently a member of the Board of Academic Health System Partners of Hamad Medical Corporation and a member of the Quality and Safety Committee of Sidra Medical and Research Center. He also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of numerous healthcare organizations in the US and internationally.

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Richard HawkinsVice President, Medical Education Programs, American Medical Association

Dr. Richard E. Hawkins joined the American Medical Association (AMA) in December 2012 as vice president for medical education programs. In this capacity, he is responsible for providing senior staff leadership and support to the AMA’s Council on Medical Education and Section on Medical Schools. He also is actively involved in the AMA’s Accelerating Change in Education project, a broad initiative designed to better prepare medical school graduates to practice and learn in an evolving health care environment. Dr. Hawkins has more than 20 years of experience working on various initiatives to evaluate and improve physician performance, and is co-editor of a textbook on the assessment of clinical

competence. Prior to joining the AMA, Dr. Hawkins was senior vice president for professional and scientific affairs at the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). At ABMS, he worked with staff, committees and external stakeholders to help promote the science of ABMS Maintenance of Certification® and certification in the context of advancing physician assessment programs. He also led in the formation of ABMS-International and development of its certification and examination programs. Prior to assuming his position with ABMS, Dr. Hawkins was vice president for assessment programs at the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) in Philadelphia, where he helped implement the Clinical Skills Examination of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE), develop the NBME’s assessment of professional behaviors program and enhance the post-licensure assessment system of the NBME and Federation of State Medical Boards. Before joining the NBME, Dr. Hawkins was Assistant Dean and Director of the Simulation Center at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine with a subspecialty in infectious diseases.

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Eric HolmboeSenior Vice President, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

Dr. Holmboe, a board certified internist, is Senior Vice President, Milestones Development and Evaluation at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). From 2009 until January, 2014 he served as the Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. He originally joined the ABIM as Vice President for Evaluation Research in 2004. He is also Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Yale University, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

Prior to joining the ABIM in 2004, he was the Associate Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the US Naval Reserves in 2005.

His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the evaluation of clinical competence. His professional memberships include the American College of Physicians, where he is a Master of the College, Society of General Internal Medicine and Association of Medical Education in Europe. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London.

Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.

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Mira IronsSenior Vice President, Academic Affairs, American Board of Medical Specialties

Dr. Mira Bjelotomich Irons oversees core ABMS programs and staff that serve to advance improved standards and methods for certification, continuing certification and lifelong assessment, as well as leading the ABMS International programs.

Dr. Irons has an impressive breadth and depth of experience in academic medicine, clinical practice, medical professional leadership and scientific research. She is active in leadership positions with numerous professional societies related to her specialty focus in Medical Genetics. Dr. Irons is active as an invited presenter at regional, national and international teaching and medical events, and is a widely published researcher.

Prior to ABMS, Dr. Irons oversaw clinical operations of the Division of Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital and served as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, in addition to running a busy clinical practice. She currently is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She also has served on the faculties of the Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine.

Her accomplishments include several related to ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (ABMS MOC®) for the Medical Genetics specialty. Working with the American College of Medical Genetics and the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Dr. Irons helped develop a competency-based curriculum and practice performance assessments for MOC in Medical Genetics.

She received her bachelor’s degree in medical science from Northwestern University and her medical degree from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She is ABMS Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and is meeting both boards’ requirements for the ABMS Program for Maintenance of Certification (ABMS MOC®). She has garnered recognition as a Top Doctor from both U.S. News and World Report and Boston Magazine.

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Raffaele LandolfiFull Professor of Internal Medicine, Scientific Director of the IPSE Centre Catholic University and Policlinico Gemelli Foundation

Professor Landolfi is a specialist in internal medicine and haematology with particular expertise in vascular medicine, haemostasis and thrombosis, and clinical use of antithrombotic agents. For the most part, his clinical training, research and teaching has been developed at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome but he also trained at Brown University, in Providence Rhode Island, in the USA and as a result has a license to practice medicine in the United States. His main research interests are the alterations of the hemostatic system in various diseases and the role of antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants in the prevention of thrombosis. He has published over 150 papers in international journals and is

a speaker at national and international conferences.

As the Director of the undergraduate degree course and postgraduate specialty progams in internal medicine, Professor Landolfi also provides expertise in Internal Medicine for the Italian Ministry Council of Health. He was also a member of the Oversight Committee of the International Foundation of Medicine (IFOM) established by the National Board of Medical Examiners in the US. In all areas of teaching, he promotes collegial and multidisciplinary discussion of complex cases with an additional focus on improving the doctor-patient relationship.

Professor Landolfi is a member of the Editorial Board of the following Journals: Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Italian Heart and is a referee for numerous additional journals.

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Marco MarcusProfessor, Maastricht University and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Adjunct Professor of Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Marco Abraham Marcus was trained and has worked in the USA, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. He is the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, ICU, and Perioperative Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation, in Qatar, and Professor of Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar, while keeping the position of Professor in Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and the Westfaelische Wilhelms University, Muenster, Germany. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Hamad Medical Corporation, the Executive Committee of Hamad General Hospital, and the Executive Committee of the Women’s hospital. He is the Chair of the Corporate IP and Commercialisation Committee as well as a serving as a member of several other committees.

Professor Marcus began his career as an Obstetric Anaesthesiologist, and later added Neuro–Anesthesiology and acute pain management. His research interests focus on medical education and training, obstetrics, the transition of acute into chronic pain, pharmacokinetics, new materials and blood management. He has been involved in the development of several national clinical guidelines. Marco Marcus was the winner of several prizes, and worked with top researchers like Prof. Jan Baan, Leiden, The Netherlands (physicist and physiologist, 3 years), Prof. Ted Stanley, Houston and Salt Lake City, USA (anaesthesiologist, 2 years), Prof. Willem Flameng, KU Leuven, Belgium (cardiac Surgeon, 3 years), and Prof. Hugo Van Aken, Leuven, Belgium and Muenster, Germany (anaesthesiologist, 12 years), and Prof. Harry Steinbusch, Maastricht, the Netherlands (Neurobiologist, 13 years).

He is the author of more than a 160 cited articles, 50 non-cited articles, several book chapters, and has been an invited guest speaker over 300 times. He owns several patents.

Professor Marcus has worked on several projects of the Ministry of Health in the Netherlands, most notably looking at the influence of a “Healing Environment” for children and its possible effects on the consumption of future health care.

Originating from a small nation with an economy dependent on trade, and now working in one of the geographically “smaller” countries, Professor Marcus regards the topic of “Healthcare without Borders” as an opportunity to improve health care at a time when treatments are getting more complicated, time consuming and expensive.

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Alexis NormandHealthcare Development Director, Withings

Alexis Normand is responsible for relations with healthcare professionals at Withings. A graduate of HEC, Sciences-Po and La Sorbonne in political philosophy, he has a background in public policy, healthcare reform and industry. He previously held managerial positions at Saint-Gobain and in strategic consulting working for Booz & Company in the Gulf. There, he led public policy reforms in the Gulf for local governments. Alexis is also active within a French think-tank, la Fondation Concorde. He joined Withings to build its activities with professionals, with the vision that smart health connected objects are creating a new business model for disease prevention in an aging society. This is a game changer that has the potential to turn healthcare “upside down.”

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Michael RichmondChief Medical Officer, Hamad Medical Corporation

Professor Michael Richmond is Chief Medical Officer at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the principal public healthcare provider for the State of Qatar, where he has been leading on Clinical Affairs, Medical Education, Quality and Patient Safety since 2012. He is also acting as the interim Chief Executive of Hamad Medical Corporation’s Women’s Hospital.

Professor Richmond is responsible for the medical and clinical affairs of HMC’s eight hospitals, and is tasked with growing the Corporation’s clinical capacity in order to meet the diverse needs of Qatar’s rapidly growing population. His remit and expertise support HMC’s plans

to evolve into an academic healthcare system, internationally recognized as a world-leading centre of excellence in clinical care, medical education and research.

Professor Richmond’s remit includes medical workforce development as well as medical job planning, appraisal and revalidation. He is also one of the lead sponsors of the clinical reconfiguration and transformation programs at HMC – these are major initiatives to incorporate services and staff from across the organization with the unifying aim of improving patient care and raising standards of quality.

Prior to this appointment, he was the Executive Medical Director and Board Member of Sheffield Teaching Hospital Foundation Trust in UK. Sheffield is the largest and one of the most successful Foundation Trusts in England and Prof Richmond was instrumental in radically improving the clinical services.

Professor Richmond is an experienced clinician with more than 30 years of practical experience as a UK Teaching Hospital Consultant in Anesthesia, Intensive Care & Pain Management.

Professor Richmond graduated in Medicine from University of Aberdeen before pursuing his initial medical training in the Royal Air Force.

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Aziz SheikhProfessor of Primary Care Research & Development and Co-Director of Centre for Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

Aziz Sheikh is Professor of Primary Care Research and Development and Co-Director of Medical Informatics at the Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. He is an editorial board member of Medical Care and Health Informatics Journal, Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and the International Journal of Medical Informatics, Guidelines and Guidance section adviser of PLOS Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of npj: Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. He has advised the Scottish, UK, US and Saudi Governments on health information technology (HIT) and patient safety, was an adviser to NHS Connecting for Health’s Evaluation

Programme, served as a member of the Information Technology for Patient Safety Expert Working Group of the World Health Organization’s World Alliance for Patient Safety (2009-2010), and is now co-chairman of the World Health Organization’s Patient Safety in Primary Care Expert Working Group and an Adviser to the World Health Organization’s Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region. He served as a member of the UK Government’s Research Excellence Framework (REF 2014) panel for Medicine. He is a co-investigator in the Farr Institute and is Director of the 14-university Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research.

Together with colleagues, Dr. Sheikh has held research grants in excess of $50m, has over 800 peer-reviewed publications, and over 21,000 citations (Google Scholar) to his work. He has won numerous fellowships and awards, has given keynote and plenary presentations in over 30 countries, and has recently returned to the UK after completing a Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy and Practice based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, USA. He holds visiting chairs at: University of Birmingham (UK), Queen Mary’s University of London (UK) and Maastricht University (Netherlands) and was recently appointed as Visiting Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Professor Sheikh was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for Services to Medicine and Health Care by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 2014.

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Nuno SousaDirector of the Medical School and Vice President of the School of Health Sciences, University of Minho School of Medicine

Nuno Sousa, MD, PhD is Full Professor at the School of Health Science, University of Minho (UMinho). He is the Director of the Medical Degree at UMinho. Dr. Sousa, together with a small group of other leaders, was able to create a highly respected medical school, one of the most well known and respected internationally, from scratch after he moved from University of Porto to University of Minho (UMinho) in 2001. Dr. Sousa serves at several medical education and medical assessment advisory boards (NBME, EuroBMA). He is a NeuroRadiologist and presently the Director of the Clinical Academic Center at Hospital de Braga.

He is also the Coordinator of the Neuroscience Research Domain, which integrates the newly formed (in 2011) Portuguese Government Associate Laboratory (LA) ICVS/3B´s. This is the highest rank a research group can have in Portugal, being awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science. The ICVS/3B´s is a joint-venture with the Institute of Health and Life Sciences (ICVS) of UMinho, a research institute of the highest quality in medicine, health and life sciences.

He is the Coordinator of the Neuroscience Research Domain at ICVS/UMinho. His research main interests are focused in the establishment of functional and structural correlations mediated by stress and its implications in neuropsychiatric disorders. The work from the lab covers from basic to clinical research and several modulatory interventions have also been described in order to promote recovery of structure and function in neuronal tissues.

Dr. Sousa has published more than 250 peer-reviewed research articles and 15 reviews. His papers have been cited more than 5000 times and his H-factor is 40. Dr. Sousa also coordinates several national and international scientific projects, including work-packages in some European initiatives in the field of neuroscience. He has directly supervised 21 PhD students and currently supervises another 6 PhD students and 5 Post-Docs. Dr. Sousa serves on several science policy and advisory board positions, and as an ad hoc reviewer for various neuroscience journal and international funding organizations. He is Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience and Member of Editorial Board of Molecular Neurodegeneration.

Dr. Sousa was the President of the Portuguese Society for Neurosciences (2011-2015). He is currently the President of the Scientific Council of Life and Health Sciences of FCT (Portuguese Science Foundation), a member of Bial Foundation and the Chief Medical Officer of Pathena, SA. He also has created 3 Spin-Offs: BnML, Enlighentment and ICognitus.

He has received awards and honours for his research accomplishments of which the Gold Medal from the Portuguese Ministry of Health merits a specific mention.

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Shahrad TaheriProfessor of Medicine and Director, Clinical Research Core, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Dr. Shahrad Taheri is Professor of Medicine, the Director of Clinical Research Core and the Assistant Dean for Clinical Investigations at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar. Dr Taheri is also Visiting Professor of Medicine at King’s College London. He graduated in Medicine from the Medical College of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London University and obtained his PhD in neuroendocrinology from Imperial College London. He has trained in clinical medicine and research in London and Bristol (UK) and Stanford (USA). At Stanford, Dr Taheri was a Howard Hughes research associate.

Dr. Taheri has extensive experience of leading the multiprofessional care of patients with obesity and diabetes within the UK National Health Service. He has also led large multidisciplinary research teams aiming to develop, implement, and evaluate clinical services for patients with diabetes and obesity.

Dr. Taheri’s research experience extends from basic laboratory to human intervention, and population studies. His research interests are increasingly focused on the development, conduct, and implementation of a range of clinical trials into diabetes and obesity, and linking these trials to investigation of disease mechanisms through laboratory studies.

Dr. Taheri is senior consultant physician in endocrinology and diabetes at Hamad Medical Corporation and works in a multidisciplinary team to care for patients with diabetes and extreme and complex obesity.