Professor Mora Claramita is Professor and Head of the Department of Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada. She is interested in doctor-patient relationship, community-based education, interprofessional education, and had published papers and books in this area of health professions education related to the cultural dimensions. Professor Claramita graduated from Maastricht University, also an active general practitioner at the UGM clinic, and received the Lyn Clearihan Award for the Best Paper in 2019 from Asia-Pacific Family Medicine Journal. Herewith is her profile as a scholar in SCOPUS Author profile (h-index 2021: 10): https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=15729539900

Other awards are FAIMER Fellow, 2014, Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, 2014, and Australian Fellowship 2016. Several colleagues of Health Professions Education from Asian region and more continents, and Professor Claramita had written an edited volume regarding the issue of "Challenges and Opportunities in Health Professions Education – Cultural Diversity" which are now visible on https://www.springer.com/in/book/9789811672316

Professor Richard Fuller is the Director of Christie Education in Manchester, UK, with an innovative portfolio of local, national and international education work focused on realising learner potential and improving healthcare outcomes, in association with the Manchester Cancer Research Centre and major partners including the University of Manchester.

This is underpinned by a substantial career in Health Professions Education (both nationally and internationally) and the development of sector-leading curricula, programmes of study and assessment systems in previous senior education roles at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool which generated exciting new initiatives in curriculum design, mobile technology, assessment and personalised learning across health professions and the continuum of undergraduate and postgraduate practice. Richard practices clinically as a Consultant Stroke Physician and Geriatrician.

Richard’s main research interests focus primarily on assessment, working with a cross institutional group of research colleagues, which has led to over 200 key outputs (significant journal papers; invited and peer reviewed presentations to learned societies and institutions; educational consultancy). This portfolio of work centres on the ‘personalisation’ of assessment, to support individual learner journeys, drawing on impact-based research including the application of intelligent assessment design in campus and workplace-based assessment formats, assessor behaviours, mobile technology delivered assessment and the impact of sequential testing methodologies. Richard publishes and speaks regularly at leading international medical education conferences, and is an active PhD supervisor, with current students focusing on assessment and curriculum research.

Richard holds a number of national/UK educational advisory roles, including acting as an assessment expert for the General Medical Council, and leadership of the GMC's Tests of Competence Panel. Richard is the current Chair of the ASPIRE to Excellence Panel in Health Professions Education Assessment, set up by the Association of Medical Education in Europe (https://www.aspire-to-excellence.org/), and additionally is a trustee, and member of the executive group of AMEE.

Professor Ronald Harden graduated from medical school in Glasgow, UK. He completed training and practised as an endocrinologist before moving to full time medical education. He is Professor of Medical Education (Emeritus) University of Dundee, Editor of Medical Teacher & General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). Professor Harden was formerly Teaching Dean & Director of the Centre for Medical Education at the University of Dundee.

He is committed to promoting excellence in medical education through the development of new approaches to curriculum planning, assessment and to teaching and learning. Ideas which he has pioneered include the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) which has been universally adopted as a standard approach to assessment of clinical competence, the spiral curriculum and the SPICES model for curriculum planning and models for outcome-based education. He has published more than 400 papers in leading journals. He is co-editor of A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers and the Routledge International Handbook of Medical Education and co-author of Essential Skills for a Medical Teacher, The Definitive Guide to the OSCE and Eight Roles of the Medical Teacher.

His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous awards including the Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education, which has been equated to the Nobel Prize for medical education. He was awarded by the Queen the OBE for his services to medical education. He was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize for services to medical education at a ceremony in Manila and presented with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws in Dundee.

Associate Professor Erle Lim Chuen Hian is Vice Provost (Teaching Innovation & Quality) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Currently a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National University Hospital, Assoc Prof Lim has been Associate Provost (Undergraduate Education) since October 2016. He was Assistant Dean of Education at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS from 2007 to 2010.

Assoc Prof Lim graduated from NUS in 1990, and obtained his Masters in Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 1997, also from NUS. In 2009, he was appointed Fellow to the Royal College of Physicians, Glasgow. He trained in Neurology at the Singapore General Hospital, after which he completed his training in Movement Disorders at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, under Professors C Warren Olanow and Mitchell F Brin.

Assoc Prof Lim’s subspecialty interest is in Movement Disorders, focusing on the clinical applications of Botulinum toxin, Parkinson's disease, Spasticity and Dystonia. He lectures on Neurology, Movement Disorders and Education (Medical Education and Technology in Education) regionally and internationally, and teaches techniques of Botulinum toxin injection using electromyographic guidance to neurologists and physiatrists, regionally and internationally. He sits on the specialist training committee in Neurology and the Neurology MCQ Committee of the Royal College of Physicians, London.

In 2006 and 2007, Assoc Prof Lim was awarded both the faculty teaching excellence award and the university's annual excellence teaching award. In 2007, he was awarded the university’s outstanding educator award. He was Chairman of the Executive Council of the NUS Teaching Academy from 2010 to 2012.

Professor Dr Rosmawati Mohamed is a Consultant Hepatologist at the University Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

Internationally, she was appointed as Founding Co-chairperson of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for Viral Hepatitis both at the global level and at the Western Pacific Region, Co-chairperson and Founding Committee Member of the Coalition to Eradicate Viral Hepatitis in Asia Pacific.

Locally, she is the Master, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia (AMM) and serves in various committee of the Malaysian Medical Council governing medical specialists’ recognition, training and continuous professional development.

She has worked tirelessly as a hepatitis and cancer advocate and organised nationwide campaigns on World Hepatitis Day and World Hepatitis Day together with MOH specialists, Malaysian Oncological Society and NGOs to increase public awareness on hepatitis and liver cancer.

Prof Rosmawati was instrumental in initiating the discussion which led to an agreement signed by Universiti Malaya with University of New Mexico, US, to replicate Project ECHO (which stands for Extension for Community health Outcomes) in Malaysia, to bring together specialists and frontline providers/ primary care doctors and trainees NATIONWIDE to provide best practice care. The ECHO model is a FREE capacity building and guided practice model that is proven to exponentially increase workforce capacity of healthcare providers (Workforce Training Multiplier), provide rapid learning and best-practice dissemination, reduce variations in care (by providing simple algorithm, adapt available international guidelines to local context or modify from online learning tools), and provide healthcare access for rural and underserved patients and reduced disparities.

Professor Hiroshi Nishigori graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1998 and became a Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (2004) and a Diplomate in Primary Care of the Japan Primary Care Association (2011). He obtained a Master’s Degree in Medical Education from University of Dundee in 2008 and completed PhD in Health Professions Education in Maastricht University in 2020. His research interests include culture and medical professionalism (especially work ethic), Hypothesis-driven physical examination (HDPE) and teaching and assessing behavioural and social sciences. He is working as an editor of the Journal, Medical Education Japan, an executive member of the Japan Society for Medical Education, and a core member of the Asian Pacific Medical Education Network (APME-Net). He is also the Visiting Program-Leading Professor at the Medical Education Center, Kyoto University, Japan.

Professor Dr. April Roslani graduated in 1995, and received the Master of Surgery in 2003. In 2007, she established University Malaya Medical Centre’s Colorectal Surgery Unit, which is now the largest in the country, and a key stakeholder in colorectal training and services nationally and regionally. Until recently, she was Head of the Department of Surgery, comprising six specialty divisions and six sub-specialty units. As part of the hospital’s COVID-19 Task Force, she coordinated the surgical pandemic response. She briefly took on the role of Deputy Director (Surgical) for Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, and is currently Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya.

Her areas of expertise include surgery for colorectal cancer, proctology, surgical training and professionalism. She has been instrumental in driving the development and implementation of the basic and advanced General Surgical National Curricula, including the delivery of standardized courses, such as Train-the-Trainers, Train-the-Examiners, Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS), Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) and Science of Tissue Management (SoTM), amongst others. As a local resource person, she has developed guidance for surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease. Discrimination, bullying, sexual harassment and harassment in the workplace, in addition to advocacy for women, are recent foci of her work.

She is the President for the Malaysian Society of Colorectal Surgeons, and the Asia Pacific Federation of Coloproctology, as well as the immediate Past-President for the College of Surgeons, Academy of Medicine of Malaysia. She also chairs the National Conjoint Committee for Postgraduate Medical Degrees. Through these and other related roles, she works towards advancing surgical standards, and fairness in the workplace.

Dr. Wesam vascular surgeon by training, His passion is to create sustainable learner- centred systems (undergraduate & Postgraduate) that foster the learning environment promoting self-growth and lifelong learning in surgical & other health professions education with a local, national & international impact. These systems are built on the solid principals of medical education coupled with the proper governance, policies and procedure to assure practicality and continuous evaluation and improvements. Locally, He was a founding member of the college of medicine at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for health sciences establishing and leading the medical education department then as the associate dean for academic affairs, during his tenure we worked on revamping and applying the PBL curriculum including the surgery block which consistently teach till I left the institution. Nationally, He was lucky to be the national educator for ATLS for Saudi Arabia & reign 17 and worked on the inauguration of ATLS in multiple countries of the reign. Currently he is the Chief academic officer of the Saudi commission for health specialities responsible for all the postgraduate training in health profession education across the kingdom, spearheading it transformation efforts into a different governance and educational model. His passion project during his tenure is to revamp surgical education across the kingdom through collaboration with national and international bodies to improve the experience and the learning environment of our trainers. Lately He was elected to lead the Saudi Association for health professions education that focuses on promotions inter-professional education across disciplines. Internationally, He is an active member of the ATLS community participating in multiple capacities, he is a contributor in the student manual, authored and co-authored two chapter in the instructor manual and aided the ATLS app development team aa the project manager. Moreover, currently the deputy chair of the senior educator advisory board which he was a founding member since its inception. Currently He is the Chief academic officer of the Saudi commission for health specialities responsible for all the postgraduate training in health profession education across the kingdom, spearheading it transformation efforts into a different governance and educational model.

Dr Eman A.Rahman Senan Al Maslamani is a Senior Consultant of the Paediatric Infectious Disease at Sidra Medicine. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Paediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar and the Program Director for the Transitional Year Residency Program and Paediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Program. Administratively, she is the chairman of Infection Prevention & Control Committee of Hamad General Hospital, Chairman of the Exam Committee ACGME-I and assistant Program Director of Paediatric Residency Program. She also represents Qatar in the Arab Board of Health Specialisation (Paediatric). Dr Eman obtained her medical degree from Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. She had her Paediatric Residency Training and Paediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Training at Hamad Medical Corporation. As a practitioner, Dr Eman enhances health of infants, children, and adolescents by promoting excellence in the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infectious diseases through clinical care, education, research, and advocacy. Dr Eman had a role in the establishment and implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine. She also contributed in the development and implementation of Paediatric Sepsis Program at Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine.

Chief, Division of General Academic Paediatric at Hamad Medical Corporation – Qatar and Sidra Medicine - Qatar. Associate Programme Director of Paediatric Residency Programme, Assistant Professor of Paediatrics - Weill-Cornell Medical College - Qatar (WCM-Q). Dr. Alhammadi completed his Paediatrics Residency Training at British Colombia Children Hospital (BCCH) Vancouver – Canada, and a General Academic Paediatrics fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children-Toronto – Canada; Dr. Alhammadi areas of interest are medical education, faculty and professional development and cultural competency. He is the co-founder of the Professionalism Course and Workshops conducted at HMC-Qatar. He is involved and has led several medical education workshops locally, nationally and internationally. Dr. Alhammadi, Director of the new multidisciplinary programme in Qatar caring for children with technology-dependent and medically complex conditions (Paediatrics Complex Care Programme) which offer coordinated care that spans the inpatient and outpatient divide.

Prof Ang is head and professor at Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, NUS. She is a renowned clinician and educator with more than 35 years of experience in nursing profession. She is internationally recognised for her work in evidence-based practice. She received various award for her research, clinical and leadership excellence including the President Nurse Award. She specialises in oncology nursing and have been engaged in developing psychosocial interventions for various group of participants. She has led different generations of nurses in Singapore and she is one of the pioneers who has transformed oncology nursing and nursing education in Singapore. Her research interests include Evidence based healthcare, Leadership and management and Supportive cancer care.

Prof Mahwish Arooj is the Principal of the University College of Medicine and Dentistry. She is also the Director of the Medical Education Department. As Director of the Medical Education Department, she ensures smooth curriculum implementation, good quality assessments, faculty development and a supportive mentoring program. She also assures that the program and processes are evaluated to continually bring improvements.

Yoshikazu Asada is an associate professor of Medical Education Centre at Jichi Medical University in Japan. He is an administrator of the Learning Management System (Moodle) at the university and has worked on learning analytics with the data of Moodle. His research interests are instructional design, game-based education, and technology enhanced learning, especially asynchronous education with LMS. He also works as the officer of educational association in Japan, such as Moodle Association of Japan and Japan Association for Simulation-based Education in Healthcare Professionals.

Dr Aw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (NUS Medicine), National University of Singapore and a Consultant Paediatrician in the Department of Paediatrics, National University Hospital (NUH). Her area of clinical expertise is in paediatric gastrointestinal disease, hepatology and liver transplantation. She has an interest in nutrition and feeding issues in children, and set up the Interdisciplinary Feeding and Nutrition Clinic at NUH in 2013. In recognition of the rising trend of inflammatory bowel disease in children in SE Asia, she initiated the Paediatric IBD Regional Network in 2017 and is the Chair of its EXCO. Dr Aw also serves as the Chair of the Paediatric Gastrointestinal Subcommittee for the Asian Pan-Pacific Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. Dr Aw is actively involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. She is an Assistant Dean (Education) for the Medical School, as well as the Education Director at NUH, overseeing all pre-employment placements and training (medical, nursing, allied health). She currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education Committee as Chair of the Physician Health and Resilience Subcommittee, and is actively involved in the School’s Longitudinal Mentorship Program for Medical Students.

Gormit has more than 30 years of nursing experience and has worked in SGH, KKH and is currently posted to SKH. She is the Director of Interprofessional Education (IPE) under College of Clinical Nursing, SingHealth Academy. She has worked closely with the other members of the different colleges under SingHealth Academy to champion IPE. As a member of the Interprofessional Collaboration Practice Taskforce, she has facilitated on interprofessional education workshops and activities on asthma, sexual education and ward rounds in collaboration. She has also attended the Virtual Interprofessional Teaching and Learning (VITAL) Workshop in collaboration with the University of Toronto.

Dr. Badyal contributed significantly to new competency based UG medical curriculum in India as Member of Reconciliation Board of Medical Council of India. He is member National Medical Commission (NMC) Task Force for Implementation of competency based curriculum in India. His area of interest includes faculty training for teaching learning & assessment, simulations and competency-based curriculum. He is Senior Editor, Indian Journal of Pharmacology. He is Faculty in International and National Medical education programs and published >120 papers, written research modules and authored 2 books & contributed chapters in other. Received several awards & fellowships in medical education & Pharmacology.

Dr Ashokka Balakrishnan is a Consultant anaesthesiologist and Simulation Program Director (anaesthesia division) at National University Hospital and CenMED Associate at Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), National University of Singapore. He is the director for Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) program for the Maastricht-Singapore Collaboration at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He started his career in Anaesthesia in 2002 and has 15 years of experience in high fidelity simulation based undergraduate, postgraduate medical and allied health acute care teaching. He has a Fellowship of the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists (FANZCA) and a Masters in Health professions educations (MHPE) from Maastricht, Netherlands. He holds the office of the treasurer for the Asia Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (AOSRA-PM) and board member for the Pan Asia Society of Simulation (PASSH). His special interests are obstetric and regional anaesthesia, postgraduate exam support, simulation based postgraduate and undergraduate education, Inter professional education through acute care simulation and multidisciplinary team training. He has conducted international workshops in simulation, airway and crisis management for acute care practitioners, trauma teams, anaesthesiologists and nursing delegates and hosted medical education faculty development programs in USA, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia & India. He is reviewer of BMJ Open, BMJ STEL, the Advances in Health Sciences Education (AHSE), Advances In Simulation, Annals Of Medicine Singapore, The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) and Singapore Medical journal.

Kenneth obtained his BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and MBBS degrees from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a PhD in Cancer Biology from Stanford University. He completed his postdoctoral training at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) Singapore before joining NUS Medicine. He currently serves as the Phase I Director, overseeing the implementation of the medical sciences curriculum for first-year medical students. He also serves as the Director of the NUS Medicine Bioinformatics Core Facility and the Program Director for Health/Biomedical Sciences at the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore (NSCC).

Ms Jennifer Bao is the Senior Assistant Director (Education) at the Chief Nursing Officer’s office, Ministry of Health (MOH). She provides strategic direction for the establishment of the National Nursing Academy (NNA) and works with various stakeholders and healthcare institutions to promote life-long learning in every nurse and enable continuous professional development of nurses with quality workplace-based training programmes. Ms Bao also supports the development of nursing education at national level, including course admission policy, clinical training quality, curriculum review and nursing career progression. Prior to joining MOH, Ms Bao had spent 17 years as an educator in the School of Health Sciences, Ngee Ann Polytechnic. She is an advocator for the transformation of nursing education with ICT innovations which make learning real and authentic.

As the Associate Dean, Student Affairs Service Quality (SASQ), A/Prof Bishop ensures that all students reach their potential and are supported when required. What does support mean to her? It all too often encompasses an array of complexity for the individual and as SASQ they provide a confidential, personalised triage opportunity to ensure students feel safe and listened to. The current stats around mental health are daunting but together we can support our own wellbeing and those around us to live fulfilled lives.

Graduated from Universidad La Salle, Faculty of Medicine, specialised in the field of paediatrics in Mexico. She completed her PhD at Nagoya University in paediatric oncology and completed her postdoctoral training at UC Davis, USA at the department of dermatology. Currently working at Nagoya University as Associate Professor in the department of International Affairs as well as in the Cancer Immune Therapy Research Centre. Skilled in cancer Immunotherapy & Cancer Research. She is also focused in international medical education at Nagoya university and delivers education to medical undergraduates. She also implemented the joint on-line clinical cases discussion between the universities of GAME-consortium.

Dr Chen Fun Gee graduated from the Faculty of Medicine National University of Singapore on April 1981. He completed his postgraduate training in Anaesthesia in Singapore in 1987. He underwent subspecialty training in Critical Care Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney in 1990. With an interest in medical education, Dr Chen underwent a 2-year Masters Health Professions Education course at Maastricht University Holland and graduated in 2016.

Dr Chen joined the Department of Anaesthesia National University Hospital in 1986 and became an academic staff of the Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore in 1989. He subsequently held positions as Director of Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Director Anaesthesia, Vice Chairman Medical Board (Quality Assurance), Head of Department of Anaesthesia (NUS and NUH and Director, Division of Graduate Medical Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.

Dr Chen is a member of the Singapore Medical Council, the Singapore Specialist Accreditation Board and the Family Medicine Accreditation Board. He is the Co-Chair, Joint Committee of Specialist Training and Chair, Joint Committee of Family Medicine Training. He sits in advisory panels in licensing assessments in Advance Practice Nursing and Pharmacy Residencies. For his contributions in education, he was awarded a Public Administration Medical (Bronze) during the Singapore National Day Awards 2016.

Dr Chen’s research interest has been in the area of outcomes in critical care, airway devices, medical simulation as well as assessments in medical education, in particular residency training outcomes. He has been invited as a faculty internationally to talk on critical care management, use of airway devices as well as medical simulation in medical education. Dr Chen has also served as an anaesthesia examiner in postgraduate anaesthesia examinations in Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Dr Chen’s extracurricular interest is in Jazz music. He is a student of the saxophone and electric guitar and has performed publicly in D&Ds and celebratory events.

Zhi Xiong is Assistant Dean (Education) of NUS Medicine. He is Chairperson of Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association and Board Member of International Association of Medical Science Educators. Zhi Xiong is Principal Investigator of Neurodevelopment and Cancer Laboratory at NUS Centre for Cancer Research and Joint Scientist of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Involved in the education of medical, dental, pharmacy and life sciences students, Zhi Xiong is exploring ways to broaden health professions education and promote transdisciplinary learning with specific interests in the role of medical sciences in health professions practice, faculty development, student affairs and medical education technology.

Michelle is a recent graduate of the Doctor of Medicine Program at the University of the East Roman Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Inc. in Manila, Philippines. She is currently serving as Regional Director for Asia-Pacific for the International Federation for Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), one of the world’s oldest and largest student-run organizations representing 1.3 million medical students from around the globe. She was also the Liaison Officer to IFMSA for Asian Medical Students' Association – Philippines (AMSA-Phil). She strongly believes that meaningful youth involvement in global health constitutes an essential asset worth investing in. She also advocates for disability inclusion and the health of people with disabilities.

Dr Chong Choon Seng graduated from the National University of Singapore (MBBS) in 2004 and obtained his Fellowship diploma from Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2013 and continued his fellowship in one of the most prestigious cancer centres in South Korea, Samsung Medical Centre. As a Senior Consultant in Colorectal Surgery, his clinical interest is Minimally Invasive Colorectal Cancer Surgery. An established instructor for in many regional centres for cancer treatment. Courses include endoscopic stenting and resection for cancers, transanal total mesorectum excision (taTME) for rectal cancers and laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer. Locally, he is appointed as the representative for robotic surgery in the division of colorectal surgery in NUHS. Internationally, he is appointed as a visiting expert with Boston Scientific and a recognized collaborator in COLOR III trial. Appointed as an Assistant Professor in surgery, Dr Chong is significantly involved in both the undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. He has obtained numerous awards including Best teacher award, NUH Excellence teaching award and nominated role model for students over several years. In 2018, he was awarded the Special Recognition Award and the Dean’s Honour Roll for teaching excellence. In 2019, he was awarded the NUH Eminent Teacher Award in recognition of his continual excellence in teaching efforts. Since 2019, he has been appointed as Assistant Dean (enterprise), NUS to lead Continual Education and Teaching (CET) and assist in executive matters in administration.

Dr. Chong Shin Yuet is a Senior Consultant at the Department of Anaesthesiology at Singapore General Hospital (SGH). She is currently the Lead in Simulation in the Singhealth Anaesthesiology & Perioperative Sciences ACP. She leads a core group of educators who conduct multidisciplinary in situ simulation crisis management workshops for healthcare teams in operating theatres and ICUs within SGH and Seng Kang General Hospital. They also run simulation workshops for nurses, medical students, residents, medical officers and specialists, as well as train-the-trainer courses. She is also faculty for the Master Debriefer course offered by the Debriefing Academy.

Dr. Cook, Senior Associate Dean, Office Education at Duke-NUS Medical School (DNUS) and Deputy Director of the Academic Medicine Education Institute (AM.EI), received her PhD from Cornell University. Her Master’s and Bachelor’s, both from Ohio State University. Dr. Cook joined DNUS June 2006. She facilitated the development of TeamLEAD, as the primary instructional strategy for DNUS basic science year. She helped establish the AM.EI in 2012, a joint venture with Duke-NUS and SingHealth, designed to promote excellence in education for Health Professional Educators. In 2016 received the Master Scholar Award from the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE).

Dr. Faith Chia is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. She is currently a council member on both the College of Physicians and College of Clinician Educators, and also contributes as the deputy chair for National Healthcare Group (NHG) DSRB E. Faith actively teaches both undergraduates and post-graduates and has been recognised numerous teaching awards including the ACGME International Physician Leader Award in 2021. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and senior lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She was previously the Programme Director for the NHG Internal Medicine Residency Programme and is currently the Designated Institutional Official of NHG Residency.

Kim Dahlman, PhD is an educator and cancer biologist who has demonstrated educational leadership in curriculum and faculty development, foundational science integration, student assessment, and program evaluation. Dr. Dahlman oversees the Integrated Science Course program at Vanderbilt. She has been recognized for her outstanding educational contributions by election to the Vanderbilt Academy for Excellence in Education and as President-Elect to the Association of Biochemistry Educators. Recently she was awarded the Denis M. O’Day award for Team Implemented Curriculum from Vanderbilt and the Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation from the International Association of Medical Science Educators.

Peter de Jong is a strategic advisor and senior researcher in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning at Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands, where he leads a team for the development, implementation and support of learning materials and where he provides strategic advice in the field of technology enhanced learning. His research interest is in the field of Blended Learning in medical education, especially the integration of Massive Open Online Courses into regular classroom teaching. He authored several articles on the topic of the use of computers in education and online learning, and presented almost 200 oral, poster and workshop presentations. Since 2007 Peter is involved in the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), an international organization with a focus on advancing medical education through faculty development while ensuring that the teaching and learning of medicine continues to be firmly grounded in science. Since 2010 he holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Medical Science Educator, the online journal of IAMSE published by Springer. Under his leadership the journal has grown into one of the leading journals in the field of health professions education. In his capacity of editor he conducted numerous workshops, sessions and lectures on scholarship and publishing. Since 2012 Peter chairs an international group of Editors of Health Professions Education Journals.

Dr. Dickinson earned her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Tulane University and completed post-doctoral fellowships at the National Institutes of Health and Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of the Harvard Macy Institute Program for Educators in Health Professions and earned a master’s degree in health professions education from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions. Dr. Dickinson begins her term as president of IAMSE in January 2022. Her scholarship focuses on how the basic sciences are taught, the application of basic science knowledge to patient care, and professional identity formation.

Professor Diann (Di) Eley is the Director of MD Research, Chair of the Medical Student Research sub-Committee, Chair of the Low and Negligible Risk (LNR) Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC), and the MD Post Graduate Coordinator in the Faculty of Medicine. She is Deputy Chair of the UQ HREC Committee-A. Di became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2018.

Di’s research career began with a Master's of Science degree (MSc) in reproductive physiology at the University of Florida in 1978. She subsequently worked for nearly 20 years as a bench scientist in bio-medical laboratories in Kenya and the UK. In 2000, she began her academic career after receiving a PhD in health and exercise psychology at the University of Bristol. She moved to the School of Medicine at UQ in late 2003.

The primary focus of Di’s research is medical education, research training and rural health workforce. Her specific area of research interest deals with personality and its association with student well-being and career decision making. Di is responsible for the development and implementation of the Clinician-Scientist Track in the UQ Medicine Program which encourages student interest and experience in research, and facilitates medical students undertaking a higher degree by research (MD-PhD, MD-MPhil) alongside their medical degree.

Dr. Sohair Elsiddig works as a paediatric consultant at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) - Doha Qatar. She graduated in 2008 from Omdurman Islamic University's Faculty of Medicine and completed her paediatric residency training and Academic Paediatric Fellowship in HMC-Qatar. She is very active in the field of medical education and simulation. She conducts many sessions and simulation workshops for medical students in Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, College of Medicine at Qatar University, and paediatric residents in HMC program. Dr. Sohair is an instructor in the professionalism medical education program, and Continued Medical Education (CME) programs in HMC. Dr. Sohair has an interest in clinical research she has considerable research activities and during the last few years, she published and presented many original research papers in Peer-Reviewed Pub-Med journals and International Paediatric Conferences.

Ardi Findyartini is a medical doctor graduated from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia (FMUI) in 2002. She completed the doctoral programme in Melbourne Medical School Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne in 2012. The highlight of her thesis on how clinical reasoning is taught and learned in Australia and Indonesia motivates her to learn further on how best practices in medical education can be implemented contextually. She is currently the Head of Department of Medical Education, the Head of Medical Education Unit and the Coordinator of Medical Education Cluster at Indonesia Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI) at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. She has been teaching in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in medical education and mentoring students and graduates in conducting research in medical education. With her team, she’s been very active in conducting workshops for faculty development in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in the FMUI and in other institutions in Indonesia for the past 13 years, and is a nominated panel member for ASPIRE excellence in faculty development since 2014. She authored and co-authored several international publications in peer reviewed journals and conferences. She’s also been involved as the reviewer of national and international medical education journals. Her research area of interest includes professional development, faculty development, clinical reasoning and clinical teaching, inter-professional education, curriculum development, and socio-cultural factors underpinning approaches in medical and health professions education.

Dr Kelvin Foong is a tenured Associate Professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, NUS and a Senior Consultant at NUCOHS. He graduated from NUS in 1988 with the Bachelor of Dental Surgery and with a PhD in 2005. He obtained the Master in Dental Surgery in Orthodontics from The University of Adelaide in 1994 and the Membership in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1996. A/P Foong has been the Director of the NUS Orthodontics Residency Program since 2000. His educational inquiries revolve around how students learn with technology and how to make this learning visible.

Kirsty has been involved in medical education research for over 15 years, and her research has been translated through co-authoring and editing several best-selling medical textbooks including ‘Understanding Medical Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice’ and ‘Healthcare Simulation at a Glance’. Kirsty's passion for medical education extends beyond the undergraduate forum into the graduate forum through her roles as member of the Education, Development and Evaluation Committee and a lead facilitator for the educator program of Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA). She works clinically as a Consultant Anaesthetist at Gold Coast University Hospital and her clinical research areas include medical leadership education and patient safety. Kirsty’s other leadership roles, including as an Executive Member and Treasurer of the Medical Deans of Australia and New Zealand and Chair of the Medical Education Collaborative committee.

Matthew Frese, General Manager for Med Learning Group, is responsible for the development and implementation of the vision and mission of MLG’s continuing medical education programming. Matthew has more than 17 years of experience in the Continuing Medical Education arena. Matthew specializes in developing innovative approaches to continuing education and establishing unique partnerships to provide continuing education and data solutions. Matthew has also served as a volunteer Site Surveyor for the past 10 years for the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Matthew holds a B.A. in Psychology from Quinnipiac University and an M.B.A from Quinnipiac University School of Business.

Poh-Sun (MBBS(Melb) 1987, FRCR 1993, FAMS 1998, MHPE(Maastricht) 2012 and FAMEE 2017) practices on the clinician educator tract (80/20 time allocation clinical/education) augmenting his education and training time allocation with technology, and regular cumulative early morning focused scholarly efforts, spent developing and evaluating the use of open access online digital repositories in clinical training, and medical education faculty development, under a mastery training and deliberate practice framework. He focuses his efforts on the challenge of transfer to practice, in the widest possible settings, through use of reusable comprehensive digital content, iterative low cost proof of concept implementation combined with collaborations and partnerships to scale, all anchored on a solid foundation of theory and evidence.

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Dr. Harumi Gomi graduated from Okayama University Medical School, Japan. She completed her residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, New York, and fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Texas-Houston. She obtained her master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, and master’s degree in health professions education from Maastricht University.

Her international activities include a membership of the Continuing Professional Development Committee, Association for Medical Education in Europe, and a Governor-elect, American College of Physicians Japan Chapter. Nationally she serves as a Board Member, Japan Society for Medical Education, a Member, the National Board Examination Committee, Ministry of Health, and a Member, the Revision Committee for the Model Core Curriculum for Medical Education, Ministry of Education.

Associate Professor Goy is a Senior Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Deputy Campus Education Director (Postgraduate Education) at the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital. He obtained his postgraduate certification (Master of Medicine Anaesthesia, Singapore and Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists) in 2003, and Masters of Health Professions Education (Maastricht) in 2017. His medical education research interests include reflective learning and practice, complex learning, work-based assessment and feedback. He is a member of the SingHealth Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) Taskforce.

Janet is an educational psychologist and Director of CenMEDIC, London. She is an Honorary Professor of University College London Medical School and Senior Scholar, Department of Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is also Emerita Professor of Education in Medicine at the UK Open University. Janet has mainly conducted policy research in medical education for the UK government and professional and regulatory bodies. She focuses on policy research, regulation, educational development, continuing professional development and curriculum in context. CenMEDIC runs an international distance learning Master’s course on accreditation and assessment in health professions education. Janet has been a regulator in both medical education and legal education.

Nadia has a background as a dentist, obtained her DDS degree from Faculty of Dentistry Universitas Padjadjaran. She started her journey as medical educationalist in 2019 upon obtaining her master degree in medical education from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia in which she actively teaches and conducts research in the field. She is also a core researcher in Medical Education Center, Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI) FMUI. Her main research interest in medical education is assessment of professionalism, technology enhanced learning, mentoring, as well as student support and wellbeing.

Lois is the Clinical Director of Maluk Timor, a Timorese NGO focusing on capacity building of primary care in Timor-Leste. In this role, Lois oversees Learning & Development (Education and Research), Staff Health and Volunteer Management. She has previously worked in Sierra Leone, delivering hospice care and supporting programmatic interventions in Neglected Tropical Diseases. Lois believes that everyone should have access to competent, compassionate healthcare. She is particularly interested in cross-cultural communication, health literacy and narrative medicine.

A/Prof Intekhab Islam is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. He graduated with B.D.S. from India in 2001. He pursued specialty training in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery from NUS in 2008. He went on to complete a PhD in Bone Tissue Engineering from NUS in 2017. A/Prof Intekhab has been the recipient of the NUS Annual Teaching excellence award in 2016 and has won the award numerous times at the Faculty Level in Dentistry. His research interests include using Virtual and Augmented reality for Simulation Training and for Undergraduate Dental Education.

Dr. Maryellen E. Gusic has extensive experience in administrative leadership with a career and scholarly focus in education and professional development. She is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees for ECFMG/FAIMER (Intealth) and an inaugural member and Chair of the Executive Committee for the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics. Dr. Gusic has presented over two hundred peer-reviewed and invited professional development sessions at national and international meetings and as a visiting professor. Her peer-reviewed educational publications and presentations have focused on evaluating educational scholarship, promoting the academic advancement of faculty, measuring the impact of professional development and mentoring programs and competency-based assessment.

Professor Gwee is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He joined the medical school in 1965 and has served in it in several capacities, including: Head, Dept. of Pharmacology, Vice-Dean of the then faculty of medicine, Chairman, PBL Committee and several Committees responsible for the disbursement of funds to needy students as well as educational scholarships to students. He has served in external organisations like WHO, Ministry of Health and CASE. He was also appointed to the NUS Teaching Academy by the then Provost of NUS. Professor Gwee also served as a Member of the University Committee on Educational Policy; the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee; inaugural Co-Chairman of the Nursing Curriculum Committee, Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies; and Associate Director of the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning. Professor Gwee is a pioneer in the field of medical education in Singapore. In 1978 he pursued a Master of Health Personnel Education degree from the University of NSW on the award of a Scholarship. He received the prestigious: MILES Award in the 3rd Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference in 2006 in recognition of his many contributions to Mentoring, Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship; the Lifetime Achievement Award from APMEC 2015 and, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Medical Education for Europe presented in Helsinki. Professor Gwee served in numerous local, regional and international committees, Advisory Boards as well as Editorial Boards, including Medical Teacher, Medical Education and the International Journal of Medical Education. Professor Gwee has been invited as speaker/panellist for several gold standard meetings in medical education in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Professor Gwee has served as a Member of the Management Committee of the Association for Medical Education in Asia, and also as a Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. He has published several chapters in books, including: “Globalisation of Medical Education: An Asian Perspective” (together with D Samarasekera and Tan Chay Hoon). He has also contributed to other book chapters, the most recent (2018) is a chapter (“Large Group Teaching”) in the International Textbook “Understanding Medical Education”. Professor Gwee also published two key papers in Special Issues to commemorate the centenary year (2010) of the Flexner Report in the Journal of Medical Education (“Medical and Health Care Professional Education in the 21st Century: Institutional, National and Global Perspectives”) and the Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (“Role of Basic Medical Sciences in 21st Century Medical Education.”).

Aviad “Adi” Haramati, PhD, is Dr. Haramati is an award-winning physiologist and medical educator. He is Professor of Integrative Physiology and Medicine, and Founding Director of the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Education (CENTI