International Regional Advisers

Professor Samir Naim Assaad is Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology, having served as the chief of the Division of Endocrinology (2011-2014) and the head of the Department of Internal Medicine (2013-2014) at the University of Alexandria. He obtained his medical degree from the Alexandria Medical School in 1977 and completed fellowships in endocrinology at the MD Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas, and Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. 

He is member of the PACES committee in Cairo.

Professor George Oyoo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics at the University of Nairobi and Head of the Rheumatology Unit at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi. He is Chairman of the Arthrheuma Society of Kenya, Chairman of the Association for Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases of Kenya, and the founder and Chairman of the Uwezo Rheumatology Foundation.

Prof Oyoo is the former president of the African League of Associations for Rheumatology, past chairman and member of the executive committee of the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR). He was the WHO Bone and Joint Decade National Action Network Coordinator for Kenya. He is also a Fellow of the American college of Rheumatology, a Fellow of the East and Central Africa College of Physicians, and a member of the British Society for Rheumatology.

Professor Mashiko Setshedi is the St Anne’s Chair and Head of Medical Gastroenterology at Groote Shuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town. Between 2009 and 2011 she was at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, conducting laboratory research towards her PhD. In 2015 she was awarded the Oxford Nuffield Medical Scholarship where she spent 2.5 years at Oxford University on a post-doctoral fellowship.

Professor Setshedi has peer-reviewed publications, supervises postgraduate students, examines and convenes for the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa and serves as an external examiner at national universities. She is a member of several committees within the Faculty of Health Sciences and university, and has recipient of a number of awards.

Dr Dalia Allam is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at Salisbury District Hospital, UK. She obtained her MBBS from the University of Khartoum in 2007, MRCP UK in 2012, a Clinical MD in Internal Medicine in 2016, a Gastroenterology Fellowship from the Sudan Medical Specialization Board in 2019, FRCP Edin in 2020, and an MRCP Specialty Certificate in Gastroenterology in 2023. 

Dr Allam leads inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology services, performs advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy, and manages complex liver and GI disorders. Previously, she was Senior Clinical Fellow at Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust and Consultant at the Ibn Sina Centre for Gastroenterology & Liver Disease in Sudan, where she established HBV screening and vaccination services and founded a dedicated research office. She has published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology and the Journal of Hepatology, presented at international conferences, and is a member of BSG, BASL, EASL, and ILTS.

Professor Victor Lasebikan is a Professor of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine at the University of Ibadan. He obtained BSc Health Sciences and MBChB from the University of Ife (Nigeria), MS and MSc in Addiction Medicine from the Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, United States, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, and University of Adelaide Australia, MPH and PhD (Public Health/Community Medicine) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and MD (Psychiatry) from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria. He also holds Psychosomatic Specialist Certificate of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine.

Professor Lasebikan is a leading African member of the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM), International Society of Biological Research on Alcohol (ISBRA) and Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals and is a reviewer of several journals such as the BMC journals, PLOS Medicine, American Journal of Public Health. He is also a review editor of Frontiers journals. 

Dr Kondwelani Mateyo is a consultant respiratory physician at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, where he leads the Respiratory Medicine Unit and serves as the Medical Lead of the Intensive Care Unit. He also holds an honorary lecturer position at the University of Zambia. 

Dr Mateyo obtained his MBChB from the University of Zambia and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University Teaching Hospital. He pursued a fellowship in Respiratory Medicine at St Antonius Ziekenhuis, Nieuwegein. Afterwards, he returned to Zambia to establish the country’s first specialist respiratory service, with the aim of improving respiratory clinical care, research, and teaching. He is currently a PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. His research interests are primarily in pulmonary infections, with a particular focus on novel tuberculosis diagnostics and therapeutics. He is also a Fellow of the East, Central and Southern Africa College of Physicians, where he is a trainer and examiner.

Dr Tien Kheng Khoo graduated from Newcastle University in England where he obtained his MBBS and PhD qualifications. He migrated to Australia in 2012 and remains active in clinical and academic positions. He works full-time as a consultant physician and is Head of Medicine at Ballina District Hospital, New South Wales. His academic appointments include Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at Griffith University, Queensland, and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong, New South Wales. Via these appointments, he teaches graduate medical school programmes and supervises higher degree research candidates.

Dr Khoo has a special interest in movement disorders, in-particular Parkinson’s disease. His other research interests include polypharmacy and frailty. As a regional adviser, Dr Khoo is happy to be contacted if he can assist as a representative of the college and looks forward to hearing from local fellows, members and affiliates in Australia.

Dr Mya Mya Yee is a graduate from the University of Medicine (1), Yangon. She received her MRCP(UK) in 2000 followed by Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2007. She also achieved her Doctorate degree in Hepatology in 2007. She was the Head of Department of Hepatology and Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine in Myanmar until she migrated to Australia in 2011.

Dr Yee received her FRACP (Australia) in 2013 and is currently the Senior Consultant Physician of both the Acute Medical Unit and the Internal Medicine Unit of Royal Perth Hospital which is an acute tertiary hospital of Western Australia. She also has a special interest in hepatology and perioperative medicine. She is also interested in teaching, training and supervision. She is an adjunct senior clinical lecturer of University of Western Australia (UWA) and actively participates in physician training.

Dr Richard Baker obtained his MBBS from Monash University. After a year as house officer in Yorkshire, including at the Leeds General Infirmary, he worked as an SHO at the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, the Spinal Unit at Stoke Mandeville, and at several hospitals in London before obtaining his MRCP(UK). He completed his physician training in Melbourne at the Austin Hospital, Monash Medical Centre, and as the senior medical registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Additionally, he qualified as a psychiatrist. He worked as a consultant physician in general medicine and in psychiatry for many years at Box Hill Hospital, and is now in private practice.

Dr John Edmond is an interventional cardiologist in Dunedin Hospital, New Zealand and Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Otago. Born and bred in Edinburgh, he studied medicine at Bristol University and subsequently went through the South West cardiology training scheme, undertaking an MD (thesis subject of STEMI management) at Greenlane Hospital, Auckland. He returned to the UK in 2003, but eventually relocated to Dunedin in 2014.

John’s interests include education, and in particular the use of simulation for medical education, and quality improvement. Outside the hospital his interests are cycling and skiing, and in particular welcomes any questions from Fellows about the ski fields of New Zealand.

Professor Quazi Tarikul Islam is Professor and Head of the Department of Medicine, Popular Medical College, Dhaka. He is an Examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate examinations. He previously served as Consultant, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Medicine in different medical colleges. He worked as the editor-in-chief of different journals in Bangladesh and also reviewer of a number of international journals.

Professor Islam graduated in 1981. He qualified his FCPS (Fellowship) in Internal Medicine in July 1987. He received Fellowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2008, and Master of the American College of Physicians in 2018. He was the Councillor, Treasurer and former Controller of examination of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the past president of the Bangladesh Society of Medicine, and Founder Governor of American College of Physicians (ACP) Bangladesh Chapter. He was the Executive Member of International Society of Internal Medicine (ISIM) 2018-2020.

Professor Ivan Fan Ngai Hung is Chair Professor of Infectious Diseases, Ru Chien and Helen Lieh Endowed Professor in Health Sciences Pedagogy, Associate Dean (Partnership & Engagement), Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant in Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. He is a dual specialist in Infectious Disease and Gastroenterology & Hepatology. He graduated from the University of Bristol Medical School in 1996. After working in the University of Cambridge Medical School and Charing Cross Hospital, London, he returned to Hong Kong in 1999 and joined the Queen Mary Hospital. He was awarded the Anti-SARS gold badge by the Hospital Authority in 2003, the Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal award for best M.D. thesis, the Richard Yu Lectureship and medal in 2016 by the Hong Kong College of Physicians and the Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong in 2019.

Dr Emmy Lau is Chief of Service and Consultant, Department of Medicine, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital. Since 2008, she has been an Honorary Clinical Professor at The University of Hong Kong. Her administrative experience includes various leadership roles within the Hospital Authority. She was Head of the Endocrine and Diabetes team for 16 years till 2023 and held the role of Deputy Hospital Chief Executive from 2021 to 2024. She was Assistant Program Director for the AIM Board of HK East Cluster from 2015 to 2021. 

Dr Lau actively participates as an examiner for AIM and PACES examinations and has served on the Education and Accreditation Committee for the Endocrine Subspecialty Board, the Credentialing Committee, and a Council Member of the Hong Kong Society of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Reproduction (HKSEMR). Since 2018, she has also been a co-editor for the editorial board of “Synapse,” a publication of the College.

Dr Ajith Kumar Sivasankaran is the Chief Consultant at the Department of Hyperbaric Medicine and Diabetic Foot Care, SP Fort Hospital, Trivandrum and serves as an Associate Professor of Medicine at SUT Academy of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum. 

In 2014, he then went on to start the first hyperbaric oxygen therapy centre in Kerala at SP Fort hospital, focussing mainly on the treatment of non-healing foot ulcers. He is one of the two DGCA licenced Class 1 and 2 medical examiners for commercial pilot licence aspirants in Kerala. He is the founder of Kairali Diabetes Research and Care, an organisation focused on academic and research activities related with diabetes and also providing diabetes care and education to public. 

He is an examiner for the MRCP PACES examination. He is an office bearer for various professional organisations like IMA (Branch Vice-President, state convener for various committees), RSSDI (joint secretary, Kerala), Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (Executive committee member) and Physician club of Trivandrum (secretary) and is an active member of ADA.

Dr Syamasis Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Consultant Physician and Rheumatologist at Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata. After studying for his MBBS at Medical College, Calcutta, he graduated MD Medicine from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. Subsequently, he undertook MRCP (UK) and worked at various places in the UK, including as a Specialist Registrar in South Wales, mainly University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, and then moved to Bristol Royal Infirmary as Consultant Physician and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Bristol University Medical School.

Dr Bandyopadhyay worked as a Royal College Tutor and Post Graduate Medical Tutor at BRI. Currently he is an MRCP PACES Overseas Examiner and a National Board New Delhi Tutor and Examiner as well.

Dr Jugal Kishor Sharma is Medical Director and Senior Consultant at Central Delhi Diabetes Centre. He is Founder and Secretary General of the Innovative Physicians Forum and Founder Member (Promoter) of the Vaccine Advocacy Forum. He is former Vice President of both the Geriatric Society of India (2014 - 2019) and the Karol Bagh branch of the Indian Medical Association (2018 - 2020) and was the Honorary Secretary of the RSSDI Delhi Chapter (2017 - 2020).

He received a letter of recognition from the RCPE for Outstanding Contribution to the Work of the Fellowship Committee (2018) and was nominated among our Top Ten Inspiring Physicians for 2019. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Services in the field of Diabetes and Medicine presented by the Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India’s Rajasthan Chapter (2018).

Professor Molly Thabah is Professor and Head of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.

Professor Thabah has been on the faculty of JIPMER since 2011, where she oversees a team of 30 staff members, including technical, and support staff. Additionally she is involved in teaching MD Medicine, and DM Clinical Immunology students, fostering the next generation of medical professionals. Her team manages a busy clinical schedule, seeing approximately 1,000 to 1,200 rheumatology patients per week in the outpatient settings.

Currently, Professor Thabah also serves as Education Editor of the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (JRCPE). She has served as an Associate Editor of the Indian Journal of Rheumatology from 2013 to 2022 and has also been one of the editors for the Manual of Rheumatology for its 5th and 6th editions.

Dr Sandeep Tamane has 22 years of experience as a Consultant Physician and Geriatrician. He works at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Research Centre and Symbiosis University Hospital and Research Center, Pune. Prior to this, he worked in the UK and obtained MRCP(UK). He was instrumental in starting the International Center for MRCP PACES at Pune where he is Federation Lead. He regularly examines for MRCP PACES at many other centres in India and is a MRCP(UK) Theory Question Writer. He has a keen interest in Geriatric Medicine and is a Fellow of the Geriatric Society of India. Currently, he is Chairman of the Pune Chapter of Geriatric Society of India and Executive Committee Member of Geriatric Society of India National Body. He is working as an Assistant Professor in Medicine at a Dental School in Pune. He is regular faculty for various national conferences and often organises conferences in Pune.

Professor Hasan Ali Farhan is Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Medical Education Specialist, and President of Iraqi Scientific Council of Cardiology. His positions include: founder and Head of the training program of an Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Devices Fellowship; founder and Chairman of a Cardiac Imaging Training Program Fellowship; founder and Director of the first Cardio-Maternal Clinic in Iraq and the National Program of Heart Disease in Pregnancy; faculty and member of advisory board of International Congress of Cardiac Problems in Pregnancy; Committee Member of Heart Failure Association/European Society of Cardiology Peripartum Cardiomyopathy (PPCM) Committee; National Principal Investigator of the international EurObservational Research Programme (EORP); member of the Steering Committee of acute coronary syndrome STEMI Registry; founder of First Cardio-Oncology Clinic in Iraq; and President of the Iraq Chapter of the International Cardio-Oncology Society [ICOS].

Dr Aso Sabir Saeed Sheikh Bzeni is an Assistant Professor and Senior Consultant Neurologist at Rizgary Teaching Hospital, Erbil, and Program Director of Neurology in the Kurdistan Council for Medical Specialties. He completed his MBChB at Mosul Medical School in June 1992. In June 2013 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He has a special interest in multiple sclerosis.

Dr Mudher Al-Khairalla qualified in 2001 from Dundee University. He completed his training in Scotland to become a consultant in Respiratory medicine in 2009. He spent four years establishing and advancing respiratory services in Iraq. He continues to be an active examiner on the MRCP PACES exams circuit. He has successfully nominated colleagues in Iraq who have gone on to successfully attain Fellowship. He has engaged in teleconference meetings with the President of the College and senior office bearers to promote and plan potential college involvement in utilising the MTI programme, setting up local written MRCP and hopefully in the future, PACES exams in Iraq. He is currently in active clinical practice and regularly engages in undergraduate and postgraduate training. He continues to participate in organising CPD events in Iraq.

Professor Mohammad Ali Ghnaimat is a Consultant Nephrologist, an Associate Professor at Mo'tah University and the Secretary General of the Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplant. He received his certification in internal medicine in Jordan in 1991, then he completed his Diploma in Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplant at University of London in 1994 and trained in Nephrology and Transplantation at Hammersmith Hospital in London between 1994 and 1995. He received his certification in nephrology in Jordan in 1996 and undertook specialty training in Immunology of Kidney Transplantation at Harvard University, Boston from 2002 to 2003.

Professor Ghnaimat is President of the Jordan Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, the Jordan Society of Internal Medicine, and the Jordan Society of British Medical Graduates. He is also President Elect of the Middle East Society of Organ Transplantation (MESOT). He has participated in around 150 medical conferences and meetings, presented over 70 scientific papers, and published 27 papers.

Dr Varkey Alexander is Consultant in Internal Medicine, Head of Medical Unit at Al-Sabah Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait, and Clinical Tutor, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University. After completing his BSc, he obtained MBBS and MD (Gen. Medicine) from Medical College, Trivandrum, University of Kerala. He had training in respiratory medicine from the Chest Institute, Trivandrum, and obtained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta.

He served the state health service of Kerala before he moved to Kuwait. His prime interest is in clinical medicine and his passion is in teaching medical students, trainees and PACES candidates.

Professor G R Letchuman Ramanathan is the Professor of Medicine in the Clinical School Johor Bahru, Monash University Malaysia since May 2021. He is President of the College of Physicians, constituent college of the Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. He has been involved in many studies both local and international, mainly in diabetes related areas, as well as in endemic goiter prevalence studies and in health system research especially on patient safety.

Professor Letchuman Ramanathan was previously the Senior Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist in the Department of Medicine, Hospital Ipoh, Perak. He was the National Head of the Ministry of Health Internal Medicine Services. He was the President of ASAP (Autism Support Association for Parents) until 2020.

Professor Aye Aye Chit is the Head of the Department of Medicine at the University of Medicine, Mandalay. A graduate of the same institution in 1988, she holds a Master’s degree in Internal Medicine, a Doctorate in General Medicine, and a Diploma in Medical Education.

As the current President of the Myanmar Internal Medicine Society (2024–2026), Professor Chit chairs the undergraduate and postgraduate medical training boards and is a member of the Academic and Research Ethics Committees. With 35 years of experience in teaching, clinical care, and research, her expertise focuses on Endocrinology and Diabetes. The Myanmar Internal Medicine Society emphasizes collaboration to enhance internal medicine practice across the globe. 

Professor Lochan Karki is the Rector and Professor of Internal Medicine at the National Academy of Medical Sciences (NAMS), Bir Hospital, where he oversees academic programs and postgraduate training, mentoring young doctors and guiding research projects. Beyond his academic role, he is an advocate for healthcare reform, having served as the Immediate Past President of the Nepal Medical Association. In this capacity, he spearheaded initiatives to improve health policies, enhance working conditions for medical professionals, and expand access to quality care across Nepal.

Professor Karki has led disaster relief efforts, organised free health camps in underserved regions, and championed innovative approaches such as telemedicine to reach remote populations. He has received awards including the Saprabal Janasewa Shree Award and has represented Nepal in global medical forums. He has a deep passion for fostering collaboration and education.

Professor Issa Al Salmi is a Senior Consultant and the Head of Renal Services in Oman. He works at the Royal Hospital and Ministry of Health in Oman. He has over twenty years of experience in education across various countries. He regularly provides education for undergraduates and postgraduates, both locally and internationally. 

Professor Al Salmi has a passion for medical education. As part of his roles at the Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB), the University (SQU), and Oman Medical College (National University), he provide curriculum, assessment, and examination, and manages the quality of curricula for undergraduate and postgraduate Candidates. He is also responsible for Nephrology and Internal Medicine academic conferences, and continuous Professional Development accredited programs through OMSB.

Professor Muhammad Tariq has worked as Vice Dean, Medical College, Aga Khan University, Karachi, since August 2022. He has been Professor of Medicine since 2017, served as Interim Associate Dean, Education, and Chair, Department for Educational Development, from 2015 to July 2022. He served as Section Head, Internal Medicine from 2011-2017, Director of Postgraduate Programmes Medicine from 2008-2015 and Programme Director of Internal Medicine from 2001-2011, supervising both FCPS and MRCP candidates.

Professor Tariq graduated from Dow Medical College. He obtained FAIMER Institute Fellowship from Philadelphia in 2011 and MHPE from Maastricht University Netherlands in 2014. He became Supervisor and Examiner for FCPS (Fellowship of the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Pakistan) in 2005 and 2012 respectively. He is a supervisor and examiner of MHPE students. Professor Tariq has also been Global Faculty Project Advisor for FAIMER since 2017. He became a Fellow of the Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine in July 2021.

Dr Afsha Khan is a Consultant Rheumatologist at Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar. She graduated from Khyber Medical College, Peshawar in 2003 and following a year of house job, she continued postgraduate training in the UK. She passed MRCP in 2009 and obtained CCT in Rheumatology in 2019. She then worked as a Consultant Rheumatologist at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham till July 2022.

In October 2022, Dr Khan commenced her job as Consultant Rheumatologist at Rehman Medical Institute, where she established a Rheumatology service. She practices general Rheumatology and her area of subspecialist interest is inflammatory arthritis. Her vision is to improve care and treatment in the Northern areas of Pakistan to free the region of disease related deformities, which is still evident in this region. She is a member of the Rheumatology SCE Question Writing Group.

Dr Muhammed Aasim Yusuf graduated from the King Edward Medical College, Lahore, and went to the UK for postgraduate training thereafter. In 1994 he joined the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, Lahore as a consultant gastroenterologist and a member of the commissioning team. He was the Medical Director of the hospital from 2004 to 2015, when he was appointed Chief Medical Officer for both hospitals, in Lahore and Peshawar, overseeing all clinical activity and clinical quality at both sites.

Dr Yusuf has been responsible for development of site specialisation and multi-disciplinary teams for cancer treatment, a robust system of 360-degree physician appraisal, clinical governance, a population-based tumour registry and for development of clinical quality indicators for the hospital. He is a supervisor for postgraduate training in gastroenterology and continue to practice, my main clinical interests being in advanced pancreatico-biliary endoscopy and endoscopic ultrasound, on which he has published extensively over the last five years.

Professor Wanis H Ibrahim is a Senior Consultant Physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine. He works at Hamad General Hospital, the Qatar University College of Medicine, and Weill-Cornell Medicine, Qatar. He is an internist and pulmonologist and the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Hamad Medical Corporation.

Prof Ibrahim is the director of several educational events including international clinical courses, life support courses, clinical exams, and other teaching activities. He authored three medical books and over 90 research papers.

Prof Ibrahim played a principal role in the establishment and development of “Internal Medicine Resident’s Research Program” at Hamad Medical Corporation. Prof Ibrahim played important role in establishing the MRCP (UK) PACES exam in Qatar. He is an associate editor, editorial board member and reviewer for several of international medical journals. He is a member of the “National Clinical Guideline Development” team.

Dr Asad Ullah Roomi is a Consultant Cardiologist at the Prince Sultan Cardiac Centre, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh. He received his MBBS from Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan and Cardiac Imaging Training from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. He is a Member of the Saudi Board General Cardiology and Echo Fellowship Program, and a Fellow of the International Society of the Cardiovascular Ultrasound.

Assistant Professor Endean Tan is a Senior Consultant at the Department of General Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, and is the founder and Head of the Acute Internal Medicine Service. In addition to being Principal Lead for Medicine (Final Year) and a clinical examiner at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, he is also a clinical tutor and examiner at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, and the Alice Lee School of Nursing, NUS. At the postgraduate level, he is a local clinical tutor and UK examiner for the MRCP(UK) examination, and a tutor for the local exit examinations for the Advanced Internal Medicine Senior Residency Programme.

Asst Prof Tan has a passion for nurturing the next generation of doctors and has been very active in the leadership and mentorship of students and colleagues from the pre-undergraduate to the postgraduate years.

Dr Vijay K Sharma is Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, and Senior Consultant Neurologist at National University Hospital, Singapore. He is the recipient of the Senior Clinician Scientist Award from the National Medical Research Council, Singapore. He has co-authored 375 peer-reviewed papers in reputed scientific journals including New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, Lancet Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Circulation, Neurology and Stroke etc. He has edited 2 books and co-authored 43 book chapters.

Dr Sharma is a member of the Stroke Guidelines Committee at World Stroke Organization and Co-Chair of the WSO Oversight Committee for International Journal of Stroke. He serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neurology, BMC Neurology, Exploration of Neuroprotective Therapy and British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research and serves on the editorial boards of scientific journals including Stroke, Journal of Neuroimaging, Journal of Stroke etc.

Professor Senaka Rajapakse is Honorary Consultant Physician to the University Medical Unit, National Hospital of Sri Lanka and Deputy Director of the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine at the University of Colombo. He graduated from the University in 1993, and was board certified as a consultant in general internal medicine in 2001. He joined the University’s Department of Clinical Medicine as lecturer in medicine in 1996, and was promoted to Merit Professor in 2009. He also worked for two years as a substantive consultant in United Lincolnshire NHS Trust, UK.

Professor Rajapakse is an examiner at the Sri Lankan MD Medicine examination and the MRCP PACES. His main research interest is tropical infectious diseases, and he has over 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has received many research grants, and supervises several masters and doctoral research students. He has received numerous research awards, including the CVCD Excellence Award for the Most Outstanding Senior Researcher in Health Sciences in 2016.

Professor Thilak Jayalath is Professor of Medicine at the University of Peradeniya, and an honorary Consultant physician at Teaching Hospital Peradeniya. Professor Jayalath graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya. He obtained his MD in General Medicine from the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo, and is a board certified specialist in General Medicine.

Professor Jayalath became a member of Royal College of Physicians UK in 1999 and had his overseas training in Guy’s Hospital, London. He is a trainer and examiner in the MD Medicine program, conducted by Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Colombo Sri Lanka. Professor Jayalath has been an examiner for the MRCP PACES for several years. His main research interest is on non-communicable diseases. He was the Co-coordinator for the landmark study ‘INTERHEART’.

Dr Attapon Cheepsattayakorn is Consultant in Respiratory Medicine (Pulmonologist) at the 10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Centre, Chiang Mai and Senior Expert Level 11 (Highest Level), Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. He graduated Doctor of Medicine from Chiang Mai Medical School in 1986, then completed further training in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Radiology. Presently, he serves as Editor-in-Chief, Editor, Editorial Board Member and referee on several international journals. 

Dr Cheepsattayakorn is experienced in the fields of pulmonary diseases and tuberculosis including infectious diseases and immunology. He has numerous scientific publications, with more than 200 publications both in national and international journals and books. He served as Director of the 10th Zonal Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Centre, Chiang Mai. 

Dr Gaba Waqar Haider is Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor for UAE University and Khalifa University. He joined Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi in 2018 as a consultant in internal medicine. He is the lead for stroke services and program director for the internal medicine residency programme directly supervising training of 30+ residents.

Dr Gaba completed his Acute Medicine Specialist training in Yorkshire followed by Stroke Fellowship from King’s College and St Thomas’s Hospitals, London. He obtained CCT in Acute Medicine, Internal Medicine and Stroke Medicine. He worked as a consultant physician in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK where he received clinical excellence award and special commendation award for team of the year for ambulatory care unit. He is a former clinical lecturer for King’s College, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer for University of Leeds. He is MRCP Ireland Examiner. He played a principal role in establishing the MRCP(UK) PACES exam in Abu Dhabi.  
 

Dr Timothy Patrick Cassidy is a consultant physician in Elderly Medicine and Stroke Medicine at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin. He graduated in 1983 from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and he completed his postgraduate training in the North East of England and Edinburgh.

In 1993, Dr Cassidy was appointed as a consultant physician in the North East of England where he developed his interest in Stroke Medicine and services. He later returned to Dublin in order to take up a consultant position at St Vincent’s University Hospital, where he led the hospital to further develop their stroke services. His research interests are in stroke prevention and recovery and he has a major interest in teaching both undergraduates and junior medical staff.

Dr Adrian Pace is a consultant neurologist at Gozo General Hospital, a visiting consultant neurologist at Karen Grech Hospital and honorary clinical senior lecturer within the Institute of Health Sciences Education, Queen Mary University London. After graduating in 2001 and completing his initial medical training in Malta, he moved to the UK to read towards a PhD on health outcome measurement. He trained in neurology in the South West of England and obtained his CCST in neurology in 2014. He joined a neurology department in Greater Manchester where he worked as a consultant for five years prior to returning to Malta.

Dr Pace has broad experience in neurology research, having held local, principal and Chief UK Investigator roles for over 20 clinical trials, and has published widely on various topics in neurology including epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and headaches. He has delivered talks and presentations in national and international neurology forums.

Dr Layth Mula-Hussain is an attending physician at the Cape Breton Cancer Centre, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and a visiting professor at Ninevah University, Iraq. After graduating from the University of Mosul, he undertook a residency in radiation oncology at the King Hussein Cancer Center, Jordan. After which he completed an MSc in advanced oncology at Ulm University. Then he completed four years of clinical fellowships in Canada. 

Dr Mula-Hussain served as a consultant physician in radiation oncology at the King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan, Zhianawa Cancer Center in Iraq, and Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Oman. He was the founding director of Iraq's first radiation oncology certification board program (2013-2017). He acted as an Expert within imPACT IAEA teams for Pakistan (2013) & Syria (2022), a member of the ASCO International Affairs Steering Committee (2016-2019), and a reviewer in the IAEA curriculum for radiation oncology education and training (2024).

Professor Abhay Lodha is a Professor of Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary. He is the Chair of Continuing Medical Education in the Section of Neonatology and a member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute. He serves as the Scientific Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, District 8. Additionally, he is the Director of the Canadian Neonatal Foundation.

His goal is to improve the outcomes of vulnerable NICU babies. His research has encompassed various aspects of perinatal epidemiology, neonatology, prematurity, neurodevelopmental outcomes, and patient-oriented health outcome research. He has participated in multi-site clinical trials serving as the Principal Investigator at the Foothills Medical Centre, evaluating growth and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants. He served on the editorial board of the BMC Pediatric Journal and as an Associate Editor on the Canadian Pediatric Society Paediatric & Child Health Journal.

Dr Chad R Bisambar is a consultant endocrinologist and Lecturer in Endocrinology, Diabetes and General Medicine at the University of The West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. He completed his MBBS at The University of The West Indies in 2010. He undertook general medicine residency training in Trinidad and Tobago before moving to the United Kingdom for specialty training in 2016. He completed an international fellowship in internal medicine, endocrinology and diabetes via The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and then subsequently moved to the University of Cambridge where he completed a fellowship in sub-specialty endocrinology and diabetes. In 2020, he was awarded General Medical Council (UK) Specialist Registration in Endocrinology and Diabetes.

He currently serves as an Ambassador to The Society for Endocrinology (UK) and to the British Thyroid Association and is also a Scientific Adviser to The Diabetes Association of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr Brian T Garibaldi is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the director of the Northwestern Center for Bedside Medicine, whose mission is to redesign the modern clinical encounter to meet the needs of patients and healthcare professionals. 

In 2017 Dr Garibaldi co-founded and became the first co-president of the Society of Bedside Medicine, an organization devoted to education, innovation and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine. He was formerly the associate program director for bedside medicine at the Johns Hopkins Osler Medical Residency Program. He also directed the Johns Hopkins Special Pathogens Center, a federally funded special pathogens treatment program. When the President of the United States became ill with COVID-19 in 2020, Dr Garibaldi served as a member of his care team. 

Professor Aasma Shaukat is the Robert M and Mary H Glickman Professor of Medicine, Professor of Population Health, and Director of Outcomes Research (Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology) at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. In addition this, she is Co-Director of the Translational Research Education and Careers programme at the NYU Clinical & Translational Science Institute.

Professor Shaukat is a practising gastroenterologist with research focused on the prevention of colorectal cancer and quality indicators for colonoscopy practice. She has active research on improving colorectal cancer screening, with a focus on underserved populations. She is an accomplished teacher and educator, and has mentored numerous trainees and early stage investigators.

Dr Vijay Rajput is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Education at Nova Southeastern University, College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD). He was a program director of Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey from 2004 to 2012. Dr Rajput was an associate fellow at the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2013. He was elected as a Master of the American College of Physicians in 2022.

Dr Rajput has authored or co-authored more than 130 papers, abstracts, and book chapters. He has presented over 200 seminars, workshops, and grand rounds at regional, national, and international conferences. Dr Rajput has received more than fifteen 'Excellence in Teaching' awards from students, residents, and national organizations, including the ACGME and SHM. He has an interest in artificial intelligence and the intersection of humanism and compassion in the role of physicians.

Professor Mohammad Haq Nawaz is a Professor and Head of Department of Clinical Medicine. He is also a consultant physician with a special interest in endocrinology and pulmonology. He is the former President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan.

Professor Nawaz has been WHO National Coordinator for Environment for Pakistan and Provincial Coordinator for Medical Education for the Province of Punjab. He has been a member of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council and a member of the Senate Committee for developing the Vocabulary of Medical Stores Depot in Punjab and in Pakistan.

Professor Ronald K Hsu is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He is also the Medical Director of the Sutter Roseville Endoscopy Center and holds positions as the ACG Governor for Northern California and Regional Councillor for the Board of Governors. Dr Hsu is a member of several ACG committees, including Educational Affairs, Practice Management, International Relations, Legislative and Public Policy Council, Nominating Committee, and Patient Care Committee. He previously co-chaired the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation Northern California Medical Advisory Committee and serves on the CCF National Scientific Advisory Committee. 

He obtained his medical degree from the University of Wales College of Medicine in the UK and completed his Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of California Davis Medical Center. He served as the Director of Endoscopy for the UC Davis Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy Training Program.