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Dr. Ahson Rabbani is the CEO of ChildLife Foundation since 2014, an ISO certified nonprofit based in Pakistan. ChildLife provides pediatric emergency care to a 1.5 million children annually – free of cost – through a network of 100+ public sector hospitals.

With a passion for learning, he acquired bachelors, masters and doctorate education from USA focusing on technology and management. His research interest is sustained behavior change for improved health.

In the first decade of his career, he worked at Fortune 500 companies at senior regional management roles honing his skills for managing large teams. For the last two decades he has played leading roles at some of Pakistan's largest philanthropic foundations in education and health.

His forte is leveraging local philanthropy and creating public-private partnerships for scaled impact.

David Chiu, MD, MPH is the Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC, where he is part of a collaborative team that facilitates the operations of the emergency department including optimization of flow through the department. He is also a a developer for the division of emergency medical informatics. Dr. Chiu also serves as Vice President of Network Operations for the BIDMC physician group, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. He completed his residency and chief residency year at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a 2-year fellowship in emergency medicine informatics. Dr. Chiu obtained a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health as part of his fellowship. His interests lie in operational informatics, educational informatics, emergency medicine operations, and medical education.

Dr. Edlow is a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He lectures nationally and internationally on topics such as stroke, TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and various causes of weakness and dizziness. He is an internationally renowned expert on neurological emergencies. Dr. Edlow’s ED operational specialty areas include ED quality assurance, ED physical layout and facilities redesign, physician professional development, and the creation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines. For the past 15 years, Dr. Edlow has contributed to the international development of emergency medicine in a variety of countries, participating in educational, quality assessment, and emergency care systems consulting projects. Practicing medicine since 1981, he is board-certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.

Majid Al Zarooni is an accomplished professional with a background as a paramedic, having joined the UAE’s first paramedic program in 2003. He has led several transformative initiatives in emergency services, including the establishment of marine and Air ambulance services in Dubai.

As the Director of Ambulance Operations at Dubai Ambulance, Majid has overseen operations during major international events like Expo 2020 and COP28, achieving top response times and survival rates. He also managed emergency ambulance operations during severe weather conditions in April 2023.

Majid is a key member of the Events Security Committee in Dubai, managing ambulance coverage for large-scale events.

Dr. Moiz Qureshi is a board certified ER physician in Dallas, Texas. Having completed his education at the prestigious 6 year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri Kansas City, he then completed his residency at Penn State University Hospital in Pennsylvania. While in residency he also completed his MBA from the Smeal College of Business at Penn State and then went on to complete a Disaster Medicine Fellowship as part of the program at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston Massachusetts. He was then recruited to be the medical director for a community hospital in rural Dallas and then transitioned to a more administrative focus as part of the largest free standing ER group in Dallas where he was the Director of Operations overseeing clinical operations for 9 facilities and a micro hospital. Dr. Qureshi has since transitioned to an entrepreneurial mindset and is simultaneously working clinically while also developing a consulting firm that focuses on ER optimization and efficiency and AI integration in both clinical and administrative capabilities.

OSAMA KENTAB, M.D., FAAP, FACEP

Consultant Pediatric Emergency Medicine

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital

Clinical Associate Professor

Princess Nourah Bint AbdulRahman University, Riyadh,

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Educational Background:

College of Medicine, King Saud University - MBBS

Specialty, Subspecialty and Years of Experience:

Board certification in Emergency Medicine (FAAEM) – December 2010

American Board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (FAAP) – October 2000

Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency (FAAP-PEM) – June 1999

American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) – October 1997

Arab Board of Pediatrics (ArabBP) – April 1995

King Saud University Fellowship in Pediatrics (KSUF-P) – December 1994

Sergey M. Motov, MD, FAAEM

Dr. Motov is an Emergency Medicine Physician practicing in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Medical Academy of Latvia and completed his EM residency at Maimonides Medical Center. Dr. Motov is a Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine and a Professor of Emergency Medicine at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.

Dr. Motov previously served as the Assistant Residency Director and Associate Research Director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Maimonides Medical Center where he has trained more than 200 residents.

Dr. Motov has been very passionate about safe and effective pain management in the ED. His true interests are geared towards perfecting the role of non-opioid analgesia in the ED and more refined and judicious opioid use in the ED. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered multiple presentations on regional, national, and international levels about safe and effective ED pain management.

Dr. Motov is actively involved in growing this body of work both nationally and globally and currently serves as a co-Chair of the Pain and Procedural Sedation Interest Group at AAEM.

Dr. Suneel Upadhye is an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at McMaster University (Hamilton, Canada) since 2001. He completed his MSc in Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact in 2005. He is a founding member of the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) program since 2005, and was the inaugural Research Lead for the EM Researchers of Niagara (2017-current). He is currently involved as a Level II INGUIDE Methodologist in the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Guidelines for Reasonable & Appropriate Care in Emergency Room (GRACE) group, which creates EM-specific clinical practice guidelines for EM physicians worldwide. He is also the creator/curator of the nonprofit EmergencyGuidelines.ca website, providing guidelines summaries for the global EM audience. He has also been a founding member of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) EM Working Group, which produces recommendations to reduce low-value care in Canadian ED settings. He has produced numerous award-winning abstracts and peer-reviewed publications with these activities. Current research interests include optimizing ED Low Back Pain care, evidence-based emergency medicine/knowledge translation, and implementing CWC EM recommendations into practice. He is also an avid scuba diver, mediocre golfer and erstwhile aspiring jazz musician…

Suneel Upadhye, MD MSc FRCPC

Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, McMaster University

Staff EM Physician, Niagara Health

Dr Taj Hassan is a consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK and immediate Past President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (2016 - 2019).

His major interests include developing leadership skills for emergency physicians, the role of technology in decision support and global emergency care. He helped devise and led on the EMLeaders prog for RCEM.

Internationally, he has been involved in running leadership training programmes for the International Federation of EM (IFEM). He Chaired the IFEM group on Sustainable working Practices for the Emergency Physician in 2014. He is European Lead on the Board of IFEM & also International Chair of the Pakistan Society of EM.