Overseas Regional AdvisersAustralia - Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
Email: Kichu.Nair@newcastle.edu.au Biographical Information: Professor Nair has been Director of the Centre for Medical Professional Development, Hunter New England Health since June 2004. He holds a conjoint appointment as Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Newcastle and has extensive experience in medical education. He has been a Senior Staff Specialist in the Division of Geriatric Medicine at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle for the past 10 years and works on the General Medical Roster there. Prof Nair has been Chair of a number of Committees and Panels relating to geriatric and general medical education and is a member of the National Panel of Examiners, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. Australia - Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia Post currently vacant Australia - Western Australia and the Northern Territory
Email: roger.warne@health.wa.gov.au Biographical information: I have worked as Physician Aged Care Services at Royal Perth Hospital for the past 15 years. The structure of the services is a teaching hospital based acute service `hub' with satellite community rehabilitation units through the catchment areas of the Royal Perth Hospital. The community aged care teams are located at each satellite unit. The department also provides a country service based at a regional centre 60 miles from Perth and also coordinates aged care throughout the Pilbara and Kimberly regions of Western Australia. Bangladesh - Chittagong
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Bangladesh - Dhaka
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Canada – British Columbia Professor George Sandor Egypt
E-mail: tarraf_hisham@hotmail.com Biographical Information:
Hong Kong
E-mail: lamwk@hkucc.hku.hk Biographical information:
India - Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala
Dr Vijayaraghavan graduated from Trivandrum Medical College in 1964. In 1976 he was Associate Professor, Christian Medical College, Vellore whilst working on the natural history of tropical endomyocardial fibrosis and its possible relationship with eosinophelia. He established Trivandrum Medical College as a continuing medical education centre on echo in India (with the first 2-D echo laboratory in India) and also the Middle East’s first Doppler Echo laboratory at Kuwait University and instituted a new treatment for cerebera odollum. At the University of California in 1983 he and Professor Pravin Shah co-authored the USA’s first book on Doppler Echocardiography. In 2001 he was appointed chief of cardiology at the Institute of Medical Sciences where he is also Vice Chairman and Director of medical services. India – East Region of India Dr Tarakant Jha India – North and Central
Regions of India Email: drgurmohan@gmail.com Biographical Information: Professor Gurmohan Singh is India’s most senior dermatologist, having been awarded the first MD in dermatology from AIIMS. His special interests throughout his career of over 50 years have been tropical dermatology and psychodermatology. He also introduced the concept of ‘community dermatology’ to the world. Among his innumerable decorations are: Professor Emeritus, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Lifetime Achievement Award, Indian Association of Leprologists and ‘Teacher par excellence’ Award, Indian Association of Dermatologists. Professor Singh has been instrumental in starting postgraduate dermatology courses in Nepal and Libya. He continues to be a Visiting Professor at various national and international universities and a role model in dermatology. India - Tamil Nadu
Email: vhsneuro@eth.net Biographical Information: Professor Krishnamoorthy Srinivas was educated at the University of Madras, in the United Kingdom and Canada. He holds the degree of Doctor of Medicine in Neurology (DM) from the University of Madras. He is a Fellow of all three Royal Colleges (Glasgow, Edinburgh and London). He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the Indian Academy of Medical Sciences. He was elected to Honorary Membership of both the American Neurological Association (2003) and the American Academy of Neurology (2005). He has over 50 publications in regular and peer journals and has given over 100 presentations at national and international meetings. India - West Bengal
Email: rkmsp@cal2.vsnl.net.in Biographical Information:
Jamaica
Email: ostcmorgan@yahoo.com Biographical Information: Professor Morgan is Honorary Consultant Physician at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica, where he served from 1999-2005 as Head of the Department of Medicine and Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Mona Campus, University of the West Indies.; Although retired he continues to take an active part in clinical work and to study the HTLV-1 associated neurological disorders on which he has published extensively. Professor Morgan has been Chair of a number of committees to the government of Jamaica and is the recipient of many national awards including the Order of Jamaica (O.J.). He is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Ireland and London and Master of the American College of Physicians. Jordan
E- Mail: Ghnaimat@hotmail.com Qualifications: Societies: Publications: 27 Papers Scientific Papers Presented in Conferences: Kenya
Email: j.aluoch@africaonline.co.ke Biographical Information:
Kuwait
E-mail: bsuthaman@hotmail.com Biographical Information: Dr Uthaman is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University and Consultant Cardiologist in Kuwait Heart Centre. After MBBS from Kerala University, he was trained in internal medicine at Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh and in Cardiology at Christian Medical College, Vellore, India. He served as faculty member at Medical College, Alleppey and Christian Medical College, Vellore before he moved to Kuwait. He was instrumental in establishing the division of Congenital and Paediatric Cardiology in Kuwait. His research interest is interventional cardiology and his passion is teaching and training medical students and post-graduate trainees. Libya
Email: g_bozedi@hotmail.com Biographical Information:
Malaysia Professor Khalid Yusoff Malta
Email: myra.tilney@um.edu.mt Biographical Information: Myra Tilney trained in Malta, the United Kingdom and Belgium; she qualified with Distinction in Medicine from the University of Malta in 1984; MRCP(UK) in 1989, FEFIM in 2000, Dip Mgt (Henley) in 2001 and MBA (Henley) in 2003 (on scholarship). Her main interests include cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, and quality of care improvement. She is Examiner for MRCP(UK) PACES and MD (Malta). She has sat on various educational and professional committees including the University of Malta, Association of Physicians of Malta, Commonwealth Medical Association and Medical Association of Malta. Her outside interests include classical music, swimming, and walking holidays with her family. Myanmar
Email: drnt@yangon.net.mm Biographical Information: After postgraduate pathology training worked as an assistant lecturer and pathologist. Following local and UK training and MRCP, held various posts in Department of Medicine; before; assuming his current post at Myanmar’s largest and oldest medical institution..; He was also awarded diplomas in pathology and medical education from the University of Medicine (1), Yangon.; Professor Nyunt Thein is a Member of Postgraduate Courses of Medicine and Allied Medical Specialties of all Universities of Medicine, Member of Myanmar’s Drug Advisory Committee/FDA, President of Myanmar Medical Association’s Internal Medicine Society, a Member of its Proceedings Editorial Board and a Member of Curriculum Committee for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Courses in Universities of Medicine. Special Interest – Medical education Hobbies – meditation and writing experiences as teacher and physician New Zealand
Email: simon.allan@midcentraldhb.govt.nz Biographical Information:
New Zealand Professor Marius Rademaker Oman
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Pakistan – Punjab Professor Mumtaz Hasan Pakistan - Karachi, Sindh and Baluchistan
Email: hasnain.alishah@aku.edu Biographical Information:
Pakistan - North West Frontier Province
Senior Consultant Physician in charge of an acute medical unit Email: sultan_mahmood@hotmail.com Biographical Information:
Qatar
Email: ddeleu@hmc.org.qa Biographical information:
Saudi - East of Saudi Arabia
Email (RCP Edinburgh): c.gray@rcpe.ac.uk Biographical Information: Worked in the Al Hammadi Hospital, Riyadh, lectured at Edinburgh University and Ninewells Hospital, Dundee; also worked in Kirkcaldy and at Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Continues to be actively involved in teaching at the latter hospital (including bedside clinical teaching). Taught in the annual Diploma of Paediatrics Course – held jointly in Saudi Arabia between Edinburgh University and the Ministry of Health - and in 54 courses and seminars at the Al Hammadi Hospital, Riyadh. Contributed to the establishment of the Annual Al Hammadi Lectures at the RCP Edinburgh and the RCS Edinburgh. Interests are teaching (lecturing), human behaviour (particularly in relation to child abuse and communication skills) Examiner for the MRCP (UK), PLAB and for the Arab and Saudi Board. Saudi – North-west of Saudi Arabia Professor Shad Salim Akhtar Singapore - Eastern Region
E-mail: jam_chin_tay@ttsh.com.sg Biographical Information: Professor Tay is currently the Head and Senior Consultant, General Medicine II, Tan Tock Seng Hospital which is an acute tertiary admitting hospital. He has worked as a consultant in the department of general medicine for more than 10 years. In addition he has a special interest in vascular medicine. He is the current Chair of the Specialist Training Committee (Internal Medicine) and a Council member of the College of Physicians and the Academy of Medicine.
Singapore - Western Region Professor Kok-Onn Lee Email: mdcleeko@nus.edu.sg Biographical Information: Professor Lee had his medical education at the Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has worked at the National University Hospital in Singapore from 1986. His training in Endocrinology included fellowships at the NIDDK in NIH, and Stanford University. He has been an examiner for the MRCP(UK) for many years. He is involved in postgraduate training in internal medicine and endocrinology in Singapore and in the surrounding countries. He is active in research and also in medical ethics, and was Chairman of the Hospital Research Ethics Committee, and Chairman of the National Medical Ethics Committee. South Africa - Northern Area
E-mail: arnold.christianson@nhls.ac.za Biographical information: Arnold Christianson qualified in medicine from the University of Zimbabwe in 1974, trained as a paediatrician at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, and moved into medical genetics in 1990. His current interests are the global epidemiology and burden of congenital disorders and the development of medical genetic services appropriate for middle- and low-income nations. He is an expert advisor to the WHO’s Human Genetic Programme and Genomic Resource Centre. Other interests include travel (which his position fortunately enables him to do) reading, trout fishing and, on rare occasions when nothing needs to be done, contemplating what it is really all about. South Africa - Southern Area
Email: girdwood@iafrica.com Biographical Information:
Sri Lanka
Email: jbpeiris@hotmail.com Biographical Information: He is a Past President of the Ceylon College of Physicians, the Sri Lanka Medical Association and the Sri Lanka United Kingdom Society. He was instrumental in founding Colombo’s 4 floor Institute of Neurology - in 3 years, entirely from public donations. From 1996 to 2002 he was Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the National Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo and Chairman of the 1001 bed Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital (donated by the Japanese Government to the Sri Lankan people). He has written two books and over 30 papers to peer reviewed journals. Sudan
Email: tubra716@hotmail.com Biographical Information: Qualifications: MBBS University of Khartoum, Sudan 1982. Posts: Currently Head of Consultancy Council of Respiratory Medicine and Chief of Respiratory Medicine Department Ministry of Health, Sudan. Previously:
Thailand
Email: pinitkul@hotmail.com Biographical information:
Trinidad & Tobago
Email: drrasheedrahaman@tstt.net.tt Biographical Information:
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Email: jmbaron@dohms.gov.ae Biographical Information:
United States of America - Minnesota Professor Ian Hay United States of America - North East USA
Email: gary.lyman@duke.edu Biographical Information: Dr Gary Lyman is Director of Health Services and Outcomes Research in Oncology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and a Senior Fellow in the Duke Centre for Clinical Health Policy Research. Previously, Dr Lyman served as Professor of Medicine and Oncology, University of Rochester and Thomas Ordway Professor of Medicine, Albany Medical College in New York and Chief of Medicine, H Lee Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Florida. Dr Lyman holds fellowships in the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the American College of Physicians, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American College of Preventive Medicine. United States of America - South-east USA (ie, for Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas)
E-mail: Bharat.K.Kantharia@uth.tmc.edu Biographical Information: Professor Kantharia is Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Training Programme and EP Laboratories at the University of Texas-Medical School and Health Science Centre in Houston. He graduated (MBBS and MD) at the Seth G S Medical College in Mumbai. After further training in Medicine and Cardiology in the UK, an academic career in the USA followed in Invasive Cardiac Electrophysiology. He is one of the world’s leading experts in Ablations and Non-pharmacological Therapies for Cardiac Arrhythmias. Professor Kantharia holds Fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Physicians, the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society. Patient care, clinical research and the training and education of future physicians are his main interests. United States of America - Western USA
Email: moira@u.washington.edu Biographical Information: Moira Aitken qualified in medicine from Edinburgh in 1978. She completed four years as a House Officer, Senior House Officer and Registrar in Edinburgh prior to completing a Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1985. Her clinical duties include attending physician at the University of Washington Medical Centre and Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Programme. Her research interests are in clinical and translational research of cystic fibrosis. She is a member of the Cystic Fibrosis Centre Directors Committee and is the elected adult Cystic Fibrosis representative for that committee. Her outside interests include hiking and ski-ing but primarily focus on the activities of her two children. West Africa
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Professor Balakrishnan (Kichu) Nair FRCP Edin
Dr Roger W Warne FRCP Edin
Professor Mohammed Nurun Nabi, MBBS, DTM&H, MRCP, FCCP, FCPS, FRCP
Professor Mohammed Tahir FRSM, FCPS, FCCP, FRCP
Professor Hisham N. Tarraf , MD, FRCP Edin
Professor Wah Kit LAM, FRCP Edin 
Professor G Vijayaraghavan MD; DM(Card); FRCP(Edin);
FRCP(Lond); FACC; FAHA
Professor Gurmohan Singh
Professor Krishnamoorthy Srinivas
Professor Dilip Kumar Mazumdar FRCP Edin
Professor Owen Morgan, FRCP Edin
Professor Mohammad Ali Ghnaimat, FRCP Edin
Dr Joseph A Aluoch FRCP Edin, FRCP Glas
Dr
Chulliparambil Babu Uthaman MBBS, MD, DM (Cardiology), FRCP (Edin),
FACC
Professor Giuma M El-Bozedi, FRCP Edin, FRCP Glasg
Myra
K Tilney MD FRCP Edin, FRCP, FACP, FEFIM,MBA(Henley)
Professor Nyunt Thein, MBBS, FRCP Edin
Dr Simon G Allan FRCP Edin
Dr
Nasser Hamed Salim Al-Busaidi
Dr Syed Hasnain Ali Shah, MBBS 1980, MRCP(UK) 1988, FACG (USA) 1996,
Professor Sultan Mahmood FRCP Edin
Professor Dirk Deleu, MD, PhD, FAAN, FRCP Edin
Dr Safaa Al Essa FRCP Edin
Professor Jam Chin Tay
Professor Arnold Christianson FRCP Edin
Dr Andrew Hampden Girdwood FRCP Edin
Dr J B Peiris
Dr
I A H Ismail FRCP Edin
Professor Pinit Kullavanijaya, MBChB(Leeds), DTM.&H (Liverpool), MRCP(UK), FIMS, NDC, FRCP (Edin, Glas, Lon, Thailand), FAMM, FACG, FACP (Hon), FRACP(Hon), FAMS, FRCPI
Dr Rasheed Rahaman, FRCP Edin, CMT
Professor J M Muscat-Baron, MD BPharm, FRCP (Lond), FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Glasg)
Dr Gary H. Lyman MD, MPH, FRCP Edin
Professor Bharat K Kantharia
Dr Moira Aitken
Dr Adesola Ogunniyi FRCP Edin