Moi Aguila

GCAC Member - Central America

Moises Abraham Aguilar de los Santos

Medical professional with training in critical areas. Passionate about teaching with great organizational skills. Seeking innovation by applying technological tools and implementing adaptive strategies.

Associated Physician at Intensive Care Unit, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City. Specializing in kidney and liver transplantation.

Abdallah Al-Wawi

GCAC Member - Middle East

Dr. Abdallah Al-Wawi is currently head of the Department of Anesthesia and Resuscitation technology at the faculty of Health Professions- Al Quds University, and an Assistant Professor of Adult Critical Care in the Nursing Department. He joined the Department in 2008 after graduating with honors and worked as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Adult Nursing and Psychiatry. In 2009, he enrolled in the Master’s Program in mental health and graduated with Honors. In 2012, He became a faculty member in the same department. In 2014, Obtained a higher Specialist in critical nursing for newborns with honors, in 2017 received a Turkish grant to complete his doctorate in the specialty of Adult Critical Care at the University of Ankara.

He worked for more than ten years as a nursing specialist in the Palestine Medical Complex, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, the Arab Care Center in various critical care and emergency departments. He has also worked as a certified trainer and coordinator of training programs for doctors and nurses in the field of trauma, critical care and burns care in the General Directorate of Health Education / Ministry of Health. He worked as a lecturer at the Ibn Sina Faculty of the Ministry of Health. He obtained many specialized training courses in the field of psychotherapy, counseling and specialized critical care. He was also appointed as a member of the Quality Committee of the faculty of Health Professions. He is a member of the University’s Academic Council, and a member of the Global Clinical Advisory Committee (GCAC) of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation (PTCF). He is a certified trainer in various training programs accredited by the American Heart Association.

My participation in teaching, training, and volunteer work in the medical field, and my vision of how my students grow and change through education with love and passion made me believe that we can make a noticed change in the medical field in our beautiful Palestine, through creativity in training.

Thanks to the efforts of Dr Jeanne Frossard, Dr Khaled Dawas, we were trained to become trainers in trauma care, and since that time 2014 we have been training weekly. I have trained with our wonderful team 150 training sessions and I have trained 20 trainers in trauma care when Ms. Jeanne came to Palestine in 2016 and 2017. I am still training voluntarily. Because I believe that we in Palestine need this kind of training because of the daily violence due to the occupation. I believe that we resist the occupation through education.

Liz Tissingh

GCAC Member - UK

Dr Elizabeth Khadija Tissingh AKC MBBS MSc FRCS

Elizabeth Khadija Tissingh is a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon and leads King’s Global Health Partnerships’ work in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A King’s alumnus (Medicine 2008), she also has an MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is committed to the delivery of excellent surgical care in the NHS and to improving access to safe, timely and affordable surgery in areas of the world where it is most needed.

Michelle Joseph

GCAC Member - North America

Name & qualifications:
Michelle Joseph MBBS, BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD, FRCS

Employment: An academic trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, Instructor at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine on the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change.

Other positions:

  1. Chief Strategy and Health Equity Officer, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  2. Director, Equity Research Hub
  3. Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Warwick
  4. Hope Health Action (UK/USA NGO) Trustee
  5. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Instructor
  6. Primary Trauma Care (PTC) Instructor
  7. Royal College of Surgeons of England Fellow
  8. British Orthopaedic Association Member
  9. American College of Surgeons Fellow
  10. The Academy of the Asian Collaboration for Trauma Fellow
  11. Principal Investigator on the PROTHA Study (PROject Trauma HAiti), IMPACT Study (Integrated Military Partnerships and Civilian Trauma Systems), CER Study (Conference Equity Research) and Racial Health Equity Framework Study.

Awards:

  • 2021: Harvard T.H. Chan MPH Scholarship, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • 2007: Lightowler Orthopedic First Prize, Lightowler Annual Orthopedic Meeting, Basildon University Hospital
  • 2007: Lightowler Orthopedic Second Prize, Lightowler Annual Orthopedic Meeting, Basildon University Hospital
  • 2005: Royal College of Surgeons of England Opportunities in Surgery Poster Prize, Opportunities in Surgery Annual National Meeting
  • 2004: Merit Award in Women’s Health and Communicable Diseases, University College London Medical School
  • 2004: The Lord Mayor’s Anniversary Award: Elective Orthopedic Patient Hospital Stay, Lord Mayor and City of London
  • 2004: Amulree Award, Amulree Trustees, British Geriatrics Society
  • 2003: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Scholarship, University College London Medical School
  • 2001: Intercalated Medical Students Award for Academic Performance and Quality of Research, The PPP Foundation

Grants:

  • 2020: Kletjian Foundation
  • 2019: Global Surgery Foundation, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Foundation/research
  • 2019: Institute of Advanced Study – Global Challenges Research Fund (IAS-GCRF)
  • 2011: Joint Action, British Orthopaedic Association
  • 2009: Action Medical Research

Mulinda Nyirenda

GCAC Member - Africa

Location: Malawi

Name & qualifications:
Mulinda Nyirenda, MBBS, MMed, FCP

Employment:

  • Senior Lecturer, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (formerly University of Malawi – College of Medicine and Kamuzu College of Nursing), Blantyre, Malawi
  • Emergency and Internal Medicine Physician, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi

Other positions:

  • College of Medicine-Johns Hopkins Research Project, Blantyre, Malawi; Clinical Research Investigator
  • International Federation of Emergency Medicine, current Board Member (Regional Representative for Africa)
  • Africa Federation of Emergency Medicine, current Board Member (Regional Representative for Africa)
  • International Christian Medical and Dental Association, Board Member
  • International Faculty Member for Certification Program in Emergency Medicine, Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
  • African Journal of Emergency Medicine Journal; Associate Editor

Awards:

  • 2021: William Rutherford Award Co-Recipient

Gold Honour

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Jeanne Frossard

GCAC Member - Europe

Name & qualifications:
Jeanne Frossard Mb ChB. FRCA

Employment:
Semi-retired Consultant anaesthetist, University College London Hospital (UCLH) Trust

Other positions:

  • Primary Trauma Care instructor in 17 different countries, mainly Africa and the Middle East
  • Mentor for students of the Madrinha trust
  • Anaesthetist for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  • Emergency Room Trauma Care (ERTC) course for the ICRC
  • PTC instructor for Mercy Ships
  • Co-director for Anaesthesia in Developing Countries (ADC) course in Uganda
  • Lecturer on the Developing World Anaesthesia  (DWA) course

Gold Honour

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Georgina Phillips

GCAC Member - Southeast Asia, Australasia & the Pacific

Location: Australia

Name & qualifications:
Georgina Phillips, MBBS, FACEM

Employment:

  • Emergency Physician, St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
  • Senior Lecturer and Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  • PhD Scholar and Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Other positions:

  • Global Emergency Care Committee, Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM); former Chair, current committee member
  • ACEM Foundation; Board member
  • ACEM Country Liaison Representative;
    • Solomon Islands
    • The Pacific Community
  • Visiting Emergency Medicine Lecturer and Faculty, School of Medicine:
    • Fiji National University
    • University of Papua New Guinea
  • Honorary Professor, Emergency Medicine
    • University of Medicine (1), Yangon, Myanmar
  • St Vincent’s Pacific Health Fund; Board Member
  • Emergency Medicine Australasia Journal; Section Editor

Awards:

  • ACEM 2019: Tom Hamilton Oration
  • ACEM 2012: Teaching Excellence Award
  • ACEM: Research awards for published / presented papers (2019, 2020), shared funding grants for research projects (2007, 2013)
  • ACEM: International Development Grants (project funding) (2012, 2020)
  • World Health Organisation: Project funding grant for ‘Epidemic Ethics’ research (2020)
  • Medical Journal of Australia publication prize (2015)
  • Australian Medical Association Sir Richard Stawell research prize (2007)

Gold Honour

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Arun Prasad

GCAC Member - Asia

Location: India

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

Employment:

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

Other positions:

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

 

Gold Honour

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Juan Carlos Duarte

GCAC Member - South America

Location: Venezuela

Name & qualifications:
Juan Carlos Duarte Giraldo, MD MTSVA

Employment:
Staff Anesthesiologist, Policlínica Las Mercedes. Caracas – Venezuela

Other positions:
Coordinator CLASA Education Committee
Instructor, Simulation Lab, Venezuelan Society of Anesthesiology

Gold Honour

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