James Kong

Location: Hong Kong, Myanmar

Gold Honour

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Howard Kingu

Location: South Africa

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Howard Kingu CV

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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Wayne Morriss

Location: New Zealand

Wayne Morriss is a consultant anaesthetist in Christchurch, New Zealand. His interests include teaching and anaesthesia for neurosurgery, obstetrics and trauma surgery.

He worked at the Fiji School of Medicine in Suva, Fiji from 2000-2002. He has been a PTC instructor since 2001 and has been involved with courses throughout the Pacific region – Fiji, Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.

He was the Chair of WFSA Education Committee from 2012 to 2016 and is currently Director of Programmes of the WFSA.

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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Victor Pineda

Location: Guatemala

Born in Honduras in 1957.
Graduated from Medical School in Honduras National University, 1984.
Graduated from Anesthesiology in Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala in 1989.
Graduated from Neuroanesthesiology from the: Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía Manuel Velasco Suarez in Mexico D.F. in 1994.
Cordinator of PTC since 2006

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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Teresa Ambolumbet

Location: Bolivia

Born January 4 in Sucre, Bolivia.

Studied medicine at the Universidad Mayor Real Pontificia San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca

Specialty in Anesthesiology. Hospital de Clínicas Jose de San Martin, Buenos Aires

Master of Public Health

Former President of the Bolivian Society of Anesthesiology-Subsidiary Chuquisaca

Former Chief of Anesthesiology at the Hospital Santa Barbara

Former scientific secretary of the Bolivian Society of Anesthesiology

Actually:

Anesthesiologist Medical Hospital Santa Barbara Sucre-Bolivia

President of the Association of University Professional Women

Graduate Teaching anesthesiology resident – Hospital Santa Barbara

Spanish:

Biografía

Nació el 4 de Enero en Sucre – Bolivia.

Estudió Medicina en la Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca

Especialidad en Anestesiología. Hospital  de Clínicas – José de San Martín de Buenos Aires

Magister en Salud Pública

Ex Presidente de la Sociedad Boliviana de Anestesiología – Filial Chuquisaca

Ex Jefe del Servicio de Anestesiología del Hospital Santa Bárbara

Actualmente:

Médico Anestesiólogo del Hospital Santa Bárbara Sucre-Bolivia

Presidenta de la Asociación de Mujeres Profesionales Universitarias

Docente Posgrado de la Residencia de Anestesiología – Hospital Santa Bárbara

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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Suzi Nou

Location: Cambodia

Currently a Staff Specialist at Royal Darwin Hospital, I graduated from The University of Medicine with an MBBS and a Bachelor of Medical Sciencen 1999.   I was an intern at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne and undertook anaesthesia training at the same hospital, as well as Box Hill Hospital, Goulburn Valley Base Hospital, Peter MacCallum Hospital, The Mercy Hospital for Women and the Royal Children’s Hospital.  I obtained Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists in 2008 and was also a Provisional Fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.  After obtaining Fellowship I was a Senior Lecturer at the Fiji School of Medicine and a volunteer at Angkor Hospital for Children in Cambodia.

I have maintained an interest in trauma management and medical education, and have been an EMST and Primary Trauma Care Instructor since 2006.  As a PTC Instructor I have taught in Fiji, Vanuatu, China and Cambodia and hope to facilitate more courses in the Asia-Pacific region.  I am currently undertaking a Masters of Health and International Development and am involved with health improvement projects in Cambodia.

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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Rajendra Prasad

Location: India

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C.V. Rajendra Prasad

Gold Honour

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Rajesh Gongal

Location: Nepal

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C.V. Rajesh Gongal

Gold Honour

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James de Courcy

Former Trustee

Dr James de Courcy MB, BS, DA(UK), DCH, FHEA, FRCA, FFPMRCA

Consultant in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia, Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, UK.

James trained at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London and then, after initially heading towards a career in General Practice, changed direction into Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine and trained in Gloucester and subsequently Southampton and Newcastle upon Tyne before taking up a Consultant post in Pain Medicine and Anaesthesia in Cheltenham. He has been involved in ATLS as an instructor and course director since 1991, and after teaching in Uganda in 1996 became involved in PTC, leading the first course in Kenya in 2000 and subsequently leading and teaching on PTC courses in Sri Lanka (Colombo and Jaffna), Pakistan (Peshawar and twice in Karachi), with MSF in Belgium and more recently courses in Gaza, Jordan, the West Bank and Ethiopia; he was also involved in teaching on the PTC Instructor courses in the UK. He was one of the authors of the PTC instructor course and manual and has been involved in revising the PTC course slides and manual. He has recently been elected to Chair the PTCF Trustee Board.

He is married with two daughters, who are both doctors.

Gold Honour

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Hossein Saidi

Location: Iran

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

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

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

Gold Honour

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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