Dr. Neil Osheroff is Professor of Biochemistry and Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and holds the John G. Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry. In addition to running his research laboratory, he has been a medical school course director since 1990, co-leads the pre-clerkship phase, and is a Past-Director of the Academy for Excellence in Education. He is a Past-President of the Association of Biochemistry Educators, sits on the Steering Committee of the Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association, and serves as the immediate Past-President of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. Dr. Osheroff has received awards for mentoring, teaching, curricular design, educational leadership and service, and promoting diversity and inclusion. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Medical Education in Europe. He has published >270 papers and has presented ~400 scientific and educational talks in 37 different countries.

John Norcini, PhD is Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Upstate Medical University and a Fellow of Presence (a Center at Stanford Medical School). Previously, he held positions at FAIMER and the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has more than 200 publications, lectured and taught in more than 45 countries, and is on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed journals. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK) and the Academy of Medical Educators and has received numerous awards including the Karolinska Prize for Research in Medical Education and the Hubbard Award.

He is a medical doctor with Master and PhD in Medical Education and currently the Head of Medical Education Department, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He is the Editor in Chief of Education in Medicine Journal, President of Malaysian Association of Education in Medicine & Health Sciences, Secretary of Medical & Health Science Cluster Majlis Profesor Negara, Regional Director of East Asia of International Society for Emotional Intelligence, and Fellow of National Higher Education Research Institute. His areas of expertise are medical education, well-being, assessment, development & validation of questionnaire, and emotional intelligence. He is the recipient of many awards such as Reimagine Education Teaching Delivery Award, Best of the Best Award for International Innovative Practices in Higher Education, Excellent Educator Award, International Leadership Award, Ronald Harden Innovation in Medical Education Award, and Sanggar Sanjung Research Award. In 2022, he was listed in the Top 2% Researchers in World list by Stanford University. 

Ardi Findyartini is a medical doctor graduated from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. She completed the doctoral program in Melbourne Medical School Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne in 2012. She is currently the Head of Medical Education Unit and the Coordinator of Medical Education Cluster at Indonesia Medical Education and Research Institute at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia. She has been mentoring research in medical education for undergraduate and postgraduate students and conduct faculty development programs in medical schools in Indonesia for the past 14 years. She authored and co-authored many international publications in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and conferences. She’s also been involved as the reviewer of national and international medical education journals. Her research area of interest includes faculty development, professionalism, clinical reasoning and clinical teaching, interprofessional education, curriculum development, and socio-cultural factors underpinning approaches in medical and health professions education.

Professor Ronald Harden graduated from medical school in Glasgow, UK. He completed training and practised as an endocrinologist before moving full time to medical education. He is Professor of Medical Education (Emeritus) University of Dundee, Editor of Medical Teacher and General Secretary and Treasurer of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). Professor Harden has pioneered ideas in medical education including the OSCE and has published two books and more than 400 papers in leading journals. His contributions to excellence in medical education have attracted numerous international awards and an OBE by Her Majesty the Queen.

Professor Amanda Kenny is a nurse and midwife. She is Editor in Chief of the world’s most highly ranked nurse education journal, Nurse Education Today. Amanda is a highly experienced and innovative educator and has won awards for teaching excellence and led major national course development. In her career, Amanda has attracted almost AU$104 million dollars of grant funding, has published extensively, and is highly cited. She is a leader in qualitative and mixed methods research, knowledge translation, and impact beyond academia. She has led or contributed to highly cited policy documents, and as an expert witness, has given evidence to major government inquiries. She has strong international partnerships and is actively sought as a speaker, to lead writing for publication workshops, and mentors’ staff and students from a multitude of universities.

Lambert Schuwirth obtained his MD from Maastricht University. In 1991, he joined the Department of Educational Development and Research there, taking up various roles in student assessment: Chairman of the Inter-university and the Local Progress Test Review Committee, the OSCE Review Committee and the Case-based Testing Committee. Since the early 2000s, he has been Chair of the overall Taskforce on Assessment. He has been advisor on assessment to medical colleges in the Netherlands and the UK. Since 2007, he has been a full professor for Innovative Assessment at Maastricht University until 2019. In 2011, he was made a Strategic Professor for Medical Education at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia and is also the Chair of the Flinders University Prideaux Health Professions Education group. He is an advisor to multiple Royal Australian Colleges and the Australian Medical Council in matters of assessment.

Dr. Hatim Abdulrahman is a Senior Paediatric Gastroenterologist, holding a master degree in medical education. In addition to his clinical commitments, he is interested in postgraduate medical education. He has a special interest in in the areas of research in medical education. Dr. Hatim graduated from Khartoum University in Sudan, and is Arab Board certified in paediatrics, as well as has achieved MRCP and FRCPCH, UK and the JMHPE.

Dr Yang Faridah Abdul Aziz is an academic professor and a consultant radiologist. As an academic, she is involved in developing, implementing, and ensuring quality improvement of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the Universiti Malaya. As a previous Deputy Dean of Undergraduate programmes (2015-2021), she helmed and aided the shift to e-learning and the use of digital platforms during the Covid-19 pandemic. She had been entrusted with numerous roles and responsibilities including duties as programme coordinator, head of department, SETARA member (under the Malaysian Qualifying Agency) and as a member of the Malaysian Medical Council from 2017 to present. She is now the chair of the Medical Education Committee for the Malaysian Medical Council. She continues to dream passionately, embrace the art of seeking knowledge, remain curious, and create possibilities in her career and her life.

Dr. Abdel-Razig is a clinician educator with expertise in educational policy development, health systems regulations, and graduate medical education. As a practicing physician, former regulatory official, teacher and academician, Dr. Abdel-Razig has a unique perspective in optimizing population health through the alignment of health systems needs with educational outcomes. Dr. Abdel-Razig specializes in workforce development and healthcare capacity gaps, health professionals’ education and program development. She currently serves as the Chief Academic officer and Chair of Medical Education at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Abdel-Razig received her B.A. degree in Biological Sciences from Barnard College, her M.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and completed her internal medicine training from New York University Langone Medical Center. Dr. Abdel-Razig holds a master’s in education of health professionals from Johns Hopkins University and serves as a clinical Associate Professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.

Anbarasi earned a PhD in competency-based dental education after completing her master's degree in oral medicine and radiology. In addition to teaching clinically, she is in charge of revising the curriculum, implementing innovative teaching-learning strategies, and 3600 assessment of undergraduate dental students at Sri Ramachandra Dental College and Hospital. She serves as a resource person for faculty development initiatives and -focused training sessions. She is a member of the national curriculum committee (Dental Council of India) for establishing an oral medicine and radiology curriculum that is competency-based. Her areas of interest in research include reflective practice, observational learning, gifted underachievers in dental education and collective competence. She received the "Teaching Excellence Award" in 2019 in honour of being an exceptional teacher.

Dr Eman A. Rahman Senan Al Maslamani is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases Senior Attending Physician at SIDRA Medicine, Doha, State of Qatar. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Paediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar and the Program Director both for the Transitional Year Residency and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. She has been appointed as an Assistant Program Director of Paediatric Residency Program and Chairs its Assessment Committee, represents Qatar and is an examiner of the Arab Board of Health Specialisations. In 1995, Dr Eman obtained her medical degree from Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. She completed her Paediatric Residency Training in 2001 and Paediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training at Hamad Medical Corporation. As a practitioner, Dr Eman enhances the 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.

Jo’s research focus is specifically in the area of learner (and staff) well-being and its alignment within curricula using empirical evidence. Jo has coordinated the recent review of mental health and well-being within the University as the chair of the promoting well-being working group. The group contributes to the work of the Student Wellbeing and Safety Advisory Committee that reports directly to the VC. Jo contributed to the publication of the medical student wellbeing – a consensus statement from Australia and New Zealand in 2019 and led the writing of the Learner wellbeing chapter in the Understanding Medical Education; Evidence, Theory and Practice textbook.

Professor Boker is the current President and Chairman of the Board Directors of the Saudi Society of Simulation in Healthcare. In 2016 and 2017, KAU CSSC achieved full accreditation status from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) and the Society of Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) in all accreditation standards. Also, in August 2017, the KAU CSSC team received the ASPIRE award for Excellence in Simulation Education Category from AMEE. Professor Boker was the first recipient of the International Residency Educator of the Year (2014) Award from the RCPSC. In 2016, he was also the first recipient of the Regional Excellence in Simulation Award from the 3rd UAE simulation & 2nd Society of Simulation Applied to Healthcare in Europe (SESAM) MENA Regional conference. In 2019, Professor Boker received the Makkah Region Humanitarian Category Excellence Award for his exceptional achievements in the humanitarian field.

Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, MS, PhD, is the Chief of Staff and Chief Education Officer, Department of Education at the ACGME. Dr. Brigham’s responsibilities, as head of the Department of Education, include the ACGME’s Annual Educational Conference and the development of new educational programs for the ACGME.

Prior to joining the ACGME in 2008, Dr. Brigham served since 1989 in several capacities at Jefferson Medical College, including associate dean for graduate medical education and continuing medical education and, most recently, as senior associate dean for organizational development and chief of staff and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Brigham has been involved in physician faculty development, resident education and chief resident and program director development. He is widely sought after as a teacher, speaker, group facilitator, and consultant in a variety of areas including resident stress and well-being; chief resident, program director and chairperson leadership development; medical student, resident and faculty teaching development; and group and team organizational development. Dr. Brigham holds a PhD in psychological studies in education from Temple University, a master’s degree in counseling and human relations from Villanova University, and a Master of Divinity from Palmer Theological Seminary.

Dr Pacifico Eric Eusebio Calderon is Associate Professor within St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, Philippines, where he is Chair of the Department of Professionalism, Medical Ethics, and Humanities. He is also Head of Clinical Ethics Services at St. Luke’s Medical Center. Dr Calderon has relevant backgrounds in medicine, bioethics, and medical education. He is interested in the moral aspects of doctors’ health, particularly the ethics of self-care.

Dr. Teresa Chan is an associate professor at McMaster University. Currently, she is the Associate Dean, Continuing Professional Development. She previously was the Assistant Dean, Program for Faculty Development in the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster from 2019-2021. She is a nationally-recognized medical education researcher and has received numerous awards. Dr. Chan completed her medical school at Western University, and then completed her residency in the RCPSC emergency medicine training at McMaster University. In 2016, she completed a Masters of Health Profession Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Chan is very well known for her scholarship in faculty development and online education research. She is a Senior Advisor of the international Faculty Incubator program for the Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) group. For ALiEM, she has also served on their Editorial Board and was a lead of the Medical Education in Cases Series (www.aliem.com/medic).

Yan Chen is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand. A main focus of her research is on culture and cognition, and she is particularly interested in developing strategies to promote wellbeing among individuals from ethnic minority and vulnerable groups. Her other key research area is in clinical education, and this includes curriculum development, assessment and evaluation, and professionalism.

Dr. Kim Dahlman is Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the USA. She received her PhD in Cancer Biology from Vanderbilt University and completed her postdoctoral training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She currently directs a cancer research laboratory and oversees the Integrated Science Course program at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Recently she was awarded the Denis M. O’Day award for Team Implemented Curriculum from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, the Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching and Innovation from the International Association of Medical Science Educators, and the Stephen Abrahamson Award for Innovation from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. She is also President-Elect of the Association of Biochemistry Educators. Dr. Dahlman a passion for the intersection of foundational science and patient care and has demonstrated leadership in this area both at the bench and in the classroom.

Dr. Chappell is the Senior Vice President of Accreditation, Certification, Measurement, the Institute for Nursing Research and Quality Management, and Advanced Practice Initiatives at the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is responsible for certification of individual registered nurses (RNs) and advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs); and development of board certification examinations. She is responsible for the accreditation of organizations that provide continuing nursing education and interprofessional continuing education; and for accreditation of residency and fellowship programs for RNs and APRNs. She directs the Institute for Nursing Research, analysing outcomes related to credentialing and other important nursing issues, and the quality management department. She also leads the Advanced Practice Initiatives department. She holds a baccalaureate in nursing with distinction from the University of Virginia, a Master of Science in advanced clinical nursing, and a doctorate in nursing from George Mason University. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and a Distinguished Scholar & Fellow in the National Academies of Practice.

Turar is a fifth-year medical student in Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He is currently serving as the Medical Education Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific for the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA). He is also a constant member of the Accreditation Council and Accreditation experts for on-site visit in ‘ECAQA’, Kazakhstan’s National Accreditation Agency. He strongly advocates for meaningful engagement of medical students in medical education as a full-pledged stakeholder. He is interested in accreditation and quality assurance, social accountability, and research education.

Prof Vajira H. W. Dissanayake MBBS (Colombo), Ph.D.(Nottingham), Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka (FNASSL), and Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (FIAHSI) is the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and the Senior Professor (Chair) of the Department of Anatomy, Genetics and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He was the President of the Sri Lanka Medical Association in 2012 and the President of the Commonwealth Medical Association from 2016 to 2019. He is the current Chairman of the Commonwealth Health Professions and Partners Alliance (CHPA), Chairman of the Board of the Global Genomic Medicine Collaborative (GGMC), and the Chairman of the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health (CWCDH). He was awarded the National Titular Honor of Vidya Jyothi for scientific accomplishment by the President of Sri Lanka in 2019.

Peter de Jong is a senior adviser/researcher in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. He received a Master degree in Medical Technology from Eindhoven University and did his PhD at the department of Biophysics/Physiology at Maastricht University. At LUMC he leads a development team for online learning materials and he conducts research in the field of Online and Blended Learning. He authored several articles on the topic and presented numeral oral, poster and workshop presentations. Since 2007, Peter is involved in the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). He has served the organisation as Board member and Vice President, and hosted the 2009 and 2016 IAMSE Annual Meetings in Leiden. Currently he holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Medical Science Educator, the online journal of IAMSE published by Springer. For the period of 2022-2023 Peter serves as President-Elect of the organization.

Dr Del Rosario is a Consultant Anesthesiologist at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi(CCAD) and is core faculty for the Anaesthesiology Residency Program. She completed her undergraduate studies at Valenica University and her Anaesthesiology residency at Consorcio Hospital General Universitario Valencia, Spain. Prior to CCAD, Dr Del Rosario held consultant positions at Son Llatzer University Hospital (Spain) and the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde University Hospitals (United Kingdom). Working in multiple different countries and furthermore in different languages has given her a unique personal experience in multi-culturalism. Dr Del Rosario’s academic interest is in medical education. She is passionate about yoga and as a certified instructor, facilitates yoga and meditation sessions for caregivers. She has led other wellbeing initiatives such as the commissioning and set up of a dedicated quiet space for CCAD caregivers. Dr Del Rosario is a member of the European Society of Narrative Medicine and the Functional Medicine Institute with whom she is completing certification.

Dr. Dickinson earned her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Tulane University in 1995 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 (2017) and earned a master’s degree in health professions education from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in 2019. Prior to her appointment at Mercer University School of Medicine, Dr. Dickinson served as vicechair of the Department of Biomedical Science at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine where she was an inaugural faculty member. Dr. Dickinson is the current president of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). Dr. Dickinson’s scholarship focuses on how the biomedical sciences are taught in the undergraduate medical curriculum, the application of biomedical science knowledge to patient care, and professional identity formation.

Chiara Marie M. Dimla, MD, MSPH, DPPS, is the Associate Professor of the Department of Preventive and Community Medicine, College of Medicine, UERMMMCI (University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center, Inc. ), Phillipine. She served many positions including, Director for Quality and Patient Services (Medical Director), UERM Hospital. Also, she is a General Paediatrics Consultant, Pasig Doctors Medical Center (PDMC). She is an Associate Member, Philippine Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (PSECP). She served as a Clinical Data Analyst (Research Consultant), Health Services Outcomes Research, Total Quality Management, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City and Global City. She has presented award winning papers. A/Prof Dimla has special interest in medical education and she is a Member, of the Steering Committee of the Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association (APBSEA)

Professor Diann (Di) Eley is the Director of MD Student Research and the MD Director of Higher Degree Research Training in the Faculty of Medicine. She is also Chair of the University of Queensland (UQ) Human Research Ethics Committee. Di’s research career began with a MSc degree in reproductive physiology at the University of Florida. 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. Di is responsible for the development and implementation of the Clinician-Scientist Track in the UQ Medical School which encourages student interest and experience in research and facilitates medical students undertaking a PhD or MPhil alongside their medical degree.

Prof Er is the Dean of Teaching and Learning and Acting Director of the Centre for Education at the International Medical University, Malaysia. She obtained her PhD in Science from the University of Sydney, and Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education from the University of Dundee. She has vast experience in curriculum design, development, and implementation of health professions programmes. She chairs the Teaching and Learning committee in the university and works closely with the academic programme teams in developing policies and guidelines for teaching, learning and assessments, overseeing their implementation and quality assurance. Besides undergraduate pharmacy and health science programmes, she is also teaching in postgraduate health professions education programmes as well as mentoring students in health professions education research. She contributes significantly to the faculty development activities at the university and regularly shares her knowledge and experience at health professions education conferences.

Dr Karen Flegg is President-elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) and former Director of Remote Medical services at the Central Australian Health Service. She is a general practitioner, medical educator and health system manager.

She is an Associate Professor at the Rural Clinical School, of the Australian National University. Karen has been actively involved as an educator in both undergraduate and postgraduate specialty training for general practice for over 20 years. Teaching and mentoring the next generation of specialised general practitioners is an ongoing passion.

Clinically, Karen has a strong interest in Aboriginal Health, women’s health, and has worked part-time for many years in breast clinics and also a sexual assault crisis service. Geriatrics is another favoured part of her clinical work as she enjoys interacting with the older generation and working with them for the best outcomes.

Dr Kulsoom Ghias completed her PhD and post-doctoral training at Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center in Chicago, IL, USA. She received her Advanced Diploma in Health Professions Education from AKU in 2015 and was recognized as a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (previously the Higher Education Academy of United Kingdom) in 2017. Dr Ghias has held several educational leadership positions in the AKU Medical College; she was the departmental Vice Chair for Undergraduate Medical Education (UGME) from 2011 – 2014, chaired the UGME Year 1 Sub-Committee from 2008 – 2011 and co-chaired the UGME Curriculum Committee from 2011 – 2018. She is a member of the inaugural AKU Haile T. Debas Teachers Academy and continues to be involved in curriculum planning and implementation and in teaching across programmatic levels, including undergraduate and graduate. Dr Ghias also chairs the AMEE ASPIRE Academy.

Dr. Harumi Gomi has been working as a clinician educator in the field of infectious diseases. She has been extensively involved in medical education and its management both nationally and internationally. She 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. She currently serves as Secretary, the Continuing Professional Development Committee, Association for Medical Education in Europe, and Governor (as of 2023), American College of Physicians Japan Chapter. Nationally she has been 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 at the governmental level.

Dr. Green is the program director for the Anesthesia Residency Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD) and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He completed medical school and residency in Anesthesia at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Afterwards, he completed a fellowship in Trauma Anesthesia in Perth, Australia, returning to Vancouver as a Consultant Anesthesiologist until his move to Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi in 2019, where his clinical practice is focused on Neuroanesthesia. He took over as Program director for the new anesthesia residency program at CCAD in 2021, leading the program through a successful initial accreditation with the ACGME-I. He was also nominated as chair of the Emirati National Institute of Health Specialties Anesthesia Specialty committee, where he led a multinational team to create the new Anesthesia Standards for Board Certification in the United Arab Emirates.

Aviad “Adi” Haramati, PhD, 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 (CENTILE), at Georgetown University Medical Center, in Washington, DC. He received a PhD in Physiology and came to Georgetown in 1985, after 5 years at Mayo Clinic. His research interests addressed renal and electrolyte homeostasis, but now he focuses on health professions education. Dr. Haramati served as the first president of IAMSE (International Association of Medical Science Educators), and has keen interests in medical education, integrative medicine, the learning environment and improving the well-being of faculty and learners. Dr. Haramati is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges and he has been a visiting professor at over 100 medical schools worldwide.

Dr Manasik Hassan is an Academic General Pediatric Consultant at Hamad Medical Education, Clinical Lecturer of General Pediatric Medical College - Qatar University and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Weill-Cornell Medical College Qatar. Dr Manasik received her medical training at Gezira University in Sudan. She has worked as a general pediatrician at Hamad Medical Corporation since 2015. Dr Manasik’s areas of practice and interest include inpatient medicine, participating in designing and conducting clinical research, teaching, and supervising residents during their pediatric residency, putting great effort into clinical and academic research and quality improvement projects in pediatric programmes. She has a wide variety of accepted abstracts and has presented workshops at multiple national and international conferences. She is an instructor of different workshops including communication, simulation, quality and professionalism.

Marcus Henning is an associate professor and post-graduate academic advisor at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Centre provides a suite of post graduate clinical education courses. He has facilitated numerous workshops to clinical teachers in relation to developing pragmatic clinical teaching skills. He is actively engaged in research and his specific interests include: quality of life, the motivation to teach and learn, assessment, organizational behaviour, conflict management, and professional integrity. His background is in psychology, education and mathematics teaching. His PhD was in the area of educational psychology.

Michael Herr received his Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis, TN, USA. This pursuit took place with the end goal of teaching in an undergraduate institution. After a brief time as a juggling a career as staff scientist and adjunct assistant professor, Dr. Herr landed a full-time position in the UTHSC College of Medicine teaching human gross anatomy. His efforts making the classroom an engaging and dynamic learning space has earned the recognition of eight golden apple awards as outstanding first-year lecturer and first-year medical school instructor. This is in addition to the highest honour of two student government association executive council excellence in teaching awards. Dr. Herr is passionate about revitalizing the classroom experience for students in medical education and disseminating the skills and techniques that make the classroom a captivating environment for students.

Julie Hewett, owner of JulNet Solutions, is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Entrepreneurial Management. She has over 25 years of office management experience working with small organizations in the services and manufacturing industries. This broad work experience allowed Julie to develop JulNet Solutions, offering management support services to small businesses, entrepreneurs, and eventually professional non-profit associations. Since 1998 Julie has been involved in the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) for Association Management and Meeting Planning. In 2010 JulNet Solutions got involved in the production of IAMSE’s online journal Medical Science Educator, and her office now offers Editorial Manager Support for the Editor-in-Chief.

Hoang works at HAIVN as Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager. He is in charge of managing and coordinating Monitoring, Evaluation and Research activities for the projects such as “Improving Access, Curriculum and Teaching in Medical Education and Emerging Diseases” (IMPACT-MED) and other satellite projects related to infection prevention & control, COVID-19 response at hospitals, Hepatitis care and treatment management at the primary healthcare facilities in Vietnam and other SEA countries. He also provides training courses on evidence-based decision-making and health research implementation for provincial hospitals in Vietnam. Before joining HAIVN, he was a lecturer and researcher at the Hanoi University of Public Health for over 10 years. He had experience conducting monitoring, evaluation, and research activities in healthcare service delivery and training programs funded by the Ministry of Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Field Epidemiology Training Program, and the World Health Organization.

Mr. Ogunkeye serves as the ACGME’s chief financial and administrative officer and as executive vice president of ACGME Global Services. Mr. Ogunkeye previously held various management positions within academic medical centers for nearly three decades. He started his career in 1985 as a division administrator at the University of Texas Health Sciences in Houston. He subsequently held roles with expanding scope and responsibilities, including as the executive director and chief executive officer of Morehouse Medical Associates in Atlanta, Georgia; as the chief operating officer of Jefferson Medical College and as the executive director/vice president for Jefferson University Physicians, a multi-specialty physician group practice based in Philadelphia; and then at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he served as vice president and chief administrative officer for the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians. He also served as the associate dean and executive director for the Clinical Practice Association and Clinical Research Operations & Finance for the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Mr. Ogunkeye also serves on the Board of Intealth, a US-based organization that brings together the expertise and resources that advance quality in health care education worldwide to improve health care for all. He has served on several non-profit boards, including for physician practices, a governmental authority, an international agency, and an insurance captive. He holds Master of Science degrees in biology and health care administration. He joined the ACGME in 2013.

Dr. Vinod Pallath is working in the capacity of Associate Professor at Medical Education Research and Development Unit (MERDU), Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research focuses on faculty development, professionalism, leadership and management, technology enhanced learning and student support in medical education. As a trained Medical Microbiologist, he also teaches and does research in bacterial virulence and currently focuses his research on survival strategies of uropathogens. He is a FAIMER fellow, Co Faculty member for FAIMER Competency-based Medial Education (FACE) professional development programme and Project Advisor to fellows of International FAIMER institute, Philadelphia

Viktor Riklefs holds the degree of International Master of Health Professions Education from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a Ph.D. in Physiology from the Ministry of Education and Science of Kazakhstan. His research is focused on assessment, simulation, e-learning, virtual patients, active learning and curriculum development. He is also an active researcher in adaptation, stress, mind-body therapy, heart rate variability and nonlinear analysis of electrophysiological signals. For 10 years (2007-2017), he served as the Director of the Simulation Center of Karaganda Medical University, which won the ASPIRE award for excellence in Simulation from the Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE). He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association (APBSEA).

Dr. Solomon has vast experience in unravelling the miracle of Human Physiology to Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Sciences students. His interests include Integrated Learning, Self-Directed Learning and Early Clinical Exposure. He has several publications in the field of Medical Education. As the former Vice Principal, he was involved in the extensive curriculum renewal that took place to mark 100 years of Medical Education at Christian Medical College. The renewal ensured that the curriculum was contextual and relevant.

His primary research interest is treatment of articular cartilage defects with cell-based therapy, as hyaline cartilage does not have an intrinsic capacity for self-repair. In collaboration with the department of orthopaedics, the potential of chondrocytes, mesenchymal stem cells and chondroprogenitor cells are being studied in order to find the most appropriate cell-type for cartilage repair. He has several publications in this field.

Dr Susie Schofield is a Reader in the Centre for Medical Education (CME), School of Medicine, University of Dundee. A significant part of her role is as Associate Dean for Academic Quality and Standards, Deputy Programme Director for the CME Masters in Medical Education and the University Online Distance Learning Lead. She specialises in intersecting professional identities, faculty development and curriculum design, particularly for distance learning, and has given many keynotes, workshops and consultancy locally and internationally. She is a member of the University Senate, a committee member of SHED (Scottish Higher Education Developers) and President of Graduate Women Scotland East. As an experienced PhD supervisor, she leads the Centre’s PhD programme and was recently awarded Recognised Research Supervisor status by the UK Council for Graduate Education.

Associate Professor Karen Scott is Academic Lead, Evaluation of Sydney Medical Program. In health professional education, Karen conducts research in technology enhanced learning, the nature of student learning and teacher development, education research development and the culture of healthcare settings. She also explores education approaches to help adolescents and parents improve their digital health literacy so they can find trustworthy health information on the internet and social media. Karen is Editor of Focus on Health Professional Education (FoHPE), journal of the Australian & New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators (ANZAHPE).

Wei-Han is a Senior Lecturer in the Medical Education and Research Development Unit (MERDU), Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Her first degree and Master degree was in Science Education. She holds a PhD in Medical Education from University of Malaya and has been attached to the Medical Education unit since 2013. She is currently entrusted with managing the Curriculum and Assessment team for the undergraduate medical program which also includes quality assurance and Faculty development initiatives at Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya. She also has special interests in research pertaining to students' admission, curriculum development, metacognition and students’ motivation.

Indika Mahesh Karunathilake is the first ever professor in Medical Education in the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has conducted extensive research and authored over 100 publications in peer reviewed international journals and over 200 research presentations at international and national level. Prof. Indika Karunathilake is the President of Sri Lanka Medical Association for year 2020, the Apex body for medical professionals in Sri Lanka. He has played a major role leading SLMA during the nations’ battle of controlling the COVID 19 epidemic.

Michele Kigozi is a Consultant Anesthethesiologist at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi(CCAD). She is core faculty for the CCAD Anesthesiology Residency Program and leads provision of the Intensive Care portion of the curriculum. Dr. Kigozi received her medical degree from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. She has fellowship with the Royal College of physicians; the Royal College of Anaesthetists; and with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine. Her clinical areas of specialization include neuro-anaesthesia, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation and critical care and she has a Masters degree in organ donation and transplantation. Her academic interests are in medical education and she serves on local and national committees for the same. Dr Kigozi has worked in a variety of centers, regions and educational institutions, and has used these experiences to develop her understanding of culture and how it impacts education.

He is a research Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics of Yonsei University College of Medicine. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence of Yonsei University.

He is a member of IEC TC62 SNAIG AG and ISO/IEC JTC1/WG12 (project leader of ISO/IEC AWI 8801), leading global standardization of medical 3D printing modelling in Korea. He is a board member of Korean Society of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine as well.

He earned his Ph.D. in medical physics from Seoul National University College of Medicine.

She is an educator and obtain her Ph.D. in educational technology and instructional design from Korea University. She has worked for the Department of Medical Education at Korea University College of Medicine with her professional knowledge of education since 2022. She serves for regular and extra-curriculum development, learning environment construction, and continuous quality improvement in higher education.

As an education expert, she worked at the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in Korea University, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and Chung-Ang University for several years.

Her general research topics are; instructional design, educational technology, teaching and learning method, and learning environment. As a co-researcher, she is participating in the Korean Medical AI education and overseas expansion project granted by Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea.

Chris Krägeloh, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Auckland University of Technology. His recent research interests are outcome measurement in health and mental health, mindfulness, and investigating psychosocial factors in robotics. He is a founding member of the New Zealand World Health Organisation Quality of Life Group and the Psychosocial Aspects in Robotics (PAIR) Lab. Chris is an author of more than 120 articles in international journals, lead author of a mindfulness research book (Mindfulness-Based Intervention Research: Characteristics, Approaches, and Developments), co-editor of two major reference works on assessment (Handbook of Assessment in Mindfulness Research and International Handbook of Behavioral Health Assessment), and co-editor and co-author of several other books on research methods and well-being. Chris is joint Editor-in-Chief of the journal Mindfulness, which is widely considered to be the flagship journal of mindfulness research.

Prof Paul Lai teaching portfolio spans across undergraduate anatomy, clinical surgery to teaching administration. He was the director of the Office of Medical Education from 2014 to 2020. He has taken various roles in post-graduate surgical training programs and examinations through his work at the College of Surgeons of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.

Prof. Lai was conferred a Master in Medical Law (MML) by the University of Northumbria and he is also an accredited mediator in Hong Kong. He has received training in administrative medicine and was conferred the Fellowship of Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators and Fellowship of the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine. He teaches medical students and surgical trainees on medico-legal issues, quality and risk management, and patient safety using a number of different teaching pedagogies.

Wee-Ming Lau is a senior lecturer and deputy head of the medical education unit at Monash University Malaysia. She is clinically trained in Internal and Respiratory Medicine. She is the Early Years lead coordinator in Clinical Skills (teaching, learning and assessment) in addition to being a lecturer/facilitator in Bioethics in the Monash University BMedSc and MD programme. She is passionate about effective teaching, reflective learning/practice and scaffolding feedback in medical education. In the spirit of “Ancora imparo”, Wee-Ming loves to network and learn from others in improving these teaching, learning and assessment sessions. She is an active member of the Asia Pacific Bioethics Network (APBEN), an AMEE Associate Fellow, and also a member of the AMEE CPD Community of Practice Task Force. Her areas of research are feedback, clinical skills, professionalism, bioethics and faculty development.

Dr. Tao Le is an internationally recognized expert in digital learning and student engagement in medical education. Dr. Le earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco, trained in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital and completed an allergy and immunology fellowship and a master’s in health sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Le has authored over 40 textbooks including the First Aid for the Boards series. He is currently chief of adult allergy and immunology at the University of Louisville and Chief Education Officer of ScholarRx, a global platform for shared medical curriculum.

She is a family physician and got the master degree in Health Professional Education (MSED) in the University of Southern California, U.S. Since 2000, she has worked for the Department of Medical Education, KUCM. She serves for a director of faculty development, SP (standardized patient) program, continuous quality improvement in medical education, international relations at the KUCM.

She is a chair of Academic Committee of Korean Society of Medical Educators. She was an Editor-in-Chief of the Korean Journal of Medical Education (KJME), and currently is a senior editor of KJME, a board member of TAPS, BMC Medical Education, International Medical Education.

Her major research fields are; professionalism, communication skills education, and program evaluation. As a PI, she got a government grant for development & spreading Medical AI curriculum and Support oversees expansion of Medical AI software, which is funded by Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea.

Founding Director, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine; Program for Women (ELAM); and Professor Emerita, microbiology and immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine. Also Founding Co-Director and continuing consultation, International FAIMER Institute. She has directed numerous grants in both biomedical and social science and authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications. Positions include Chair and first woman President of the Association of Medical School Microbiology and Immunology Chairs, 1990; American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow, 1992-93; Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. She received her B.S., Agnes Scott College magna cum laude; M.A., Hunter College; and Ph.D., Medical College of Wisconsin. National honours include the Association of American Medical Colleges Women in Medicine Leadership Development Award; ACE Office of Women in Higher Education, Network Annual Leadership Award; Fellow, American Women in Science; Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology; Distinguished Career Award, Agnes Scott College; Graduate Student Alumna of the Year Award, Medical College of Wisconsin.

Prof Vishna is an experienced medical educator and biochemist at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. A graduate of 3 universities across 3 countries, she values diversity as a strength in any institution. She leads the educational strategies, new programme development and international partnerships at IMU as Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Institutional Development. She is very fortunate to work with a collaborative, committed and talented multidisciplinary team at IMU and would like to emphasise that it’s the values of its people that will carry forward an institution during this unprecedented time. She has published and presented research papers in both biomedical sciences and medical education, supervises research students and reviews for indexed and international journals. Her areas of research in health professions education are in Faculty Development, Assessment and Innovative Teaching Learning Methods.

Mr. Eddie Ng is head of education and academic affairs and leads faculty curriculum planning. Mr. Ng will give an insider perspective to the facilitators and constraints that curriculum designers need to be aware of and navigate.

Dr Olivia Ngan has a multidisciplinary background in neuroscience, bioethics, and public health. She is the co-ordinator of the medical ethics curriculum at the University of Hong Kong. In addition to her primary research interest in reproductive health, public health genomics, rare diseases, and empirical bioethics, she is also passionate about cultivating ethical sensitivity among medical students. She awards teaching development grants in the capacity of PI, leading bioethics learning activities outside the classroom. She also provides supervision for undergraduate and postgraduate student projects related to medical ethics and medical education, such as moral distress.

Nguyen Thi Anh Phuong is a university senior lecturer and clinical physician at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy and its Medical Center for nearly 20 years.

Dr. Nguyen received her MD and Master of Pediatrics from Hue UMP and completed her PhD on Medical researches and International Health at Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, Germany. Currently, she is the Dean of International Education Faculty & Deputy Head of Office of Science-Technology and International relations. She is the nursing professor with the expertise on child care, nursing research and international health. Dr. Nguyen also is the pioneer on advanced teaching methods (PBL, UBL) in Hue UMP and in Vietnam. She is editor and reviewer for several international journals (Frontier, Child health Nursing Research, Journal of Problem- based Learning, etc)

Wayne is Deputy Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences at Monash University. In this role he is responsible for the Education portfolio, overseeing all aspects of teaching and learning for the Faculty’s suite of health professions courses in Australia and offshore campuses including medicine, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiography, psychology, dietetics, social work and paramedicine. Wayne is also Chair of the Australian/New Zealand University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT) Consortium, a member of the VCAA (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority) Board, and Vice President of the Western Pacific Association for Medical Education. Wayne is an internationally renowned toxinologist and heads the Monash Venom Group, responsible for pharmacologically characterising a wide range of spider, snake and marine venoms. He has published over 180 papers including manuscripts in Nature, PNAS and Molecular & Cellular Proteomics and is on the editorial board for the journals Toxicon and Toxins.

Dr. Holmboe is Chief, Research, Milestones Development and Evaluation Officer at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). He is Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is Adjunct Professor of Medical Education at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University.

He previously served as the Associate Program Director, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program, Director of Student Clinical Assessment, Yale School of Medicine, and Assistant Director of the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program. Before joining Yale in 2000, he served as Division Chief of General Internal Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Holmboe retired from the US Naval Reserves in 2005. He served as the Chief Medical Officer at the American Board of Internal Medicine from 2009 until 2014.

His research interests include interventions to improve quality of care and methods in the assessment of clinical competence. His professional memberships include the American College of Physicians, where he is a Master of the College, Society of General Internal Medicine, and Association of Medical Education in Europe. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and honorary fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators.

Dr. Holmboe is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He completed his residency and chief residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Yale University.

Professor Susan Pelea Nagatalon is Dean and Chief Academic Officer of St. Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial, Philippines. She practices OB-Gyn and maternal and foetal medicine within St. Luke’s Medical Center. She has significant experience in healthcare leadership and medical education and is interested in professionalism, healthcare quality, and patient safety.

Gominda Ponnamperuma has served as an invited speaker cum resource person in many international symposia and conferences. Author of several journal articles and books, he sits on the editorial boards of four international medical education journals. Gominda, who has served as an advisor, visiting professor, consultant and fellow in several academic institutes of repute, is a founding co-chair of the Asia Pacific Medical Education Network (APME-Net). He is a postgraduate tutor, examiner, and resource material developer for national and international medical education courses. His research interests are in assessment (including selection for training), and curriculum development and evaluation.

Assistant Prof. Puranitee received a diploma from the Board of Pediatrics and the Sub-board of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. She graduated with her Master of Health Professions Education in 2016, and she is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Health Professions Education at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. In 2021, she achieved the status of Senior Fellow of Advance Higher Education (SFHEA), United Kingdom. In 2022, the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University received the ASPIRE to Excellent for Student Engagement Award from the AMEE ASPIRE Academy. Assist. Prof. Puranitee is a member of the medical education scientific committee at the Consortium of Thai Medical Schools. She has contributed to the faculty development program regarding medical education and continues to be involved in curriculum development, assessment reform, and a newly developed mentoring program at her institution.

Subha Ramani is the current President of AMEE, a premier International Association for Health Professions Education. She is a general internist, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Adjunct Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions Education; Honorary Professor of Medical Education at the University of Manchester; and External faculty at Maastricht University’s School of Health Professions Education. She is a general internist who holds several educational leadership roles at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, one of the founding teaching hospitals for Harvard Medical School. Subha has been actively engaged in AMEE for nearly 20 years serving on the Postgraduate education, Fellowship and Executive committees. She has a long track record of scholarship, areas of interest include: faculty development, application of theories to educational practice, mentoring, feedback, clinical teaching, cultural and global perspectives in education, and qualitative research.

Mohammed Ahmed Rashid is a Professor of Medical Education at UCL Medical School, where he leads the UCL Centre for International Medical Education Collaborations. He is also Vice Dean (International) for the UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences. He has led medical education projects in various countries at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and is Chief Examiner for the General Medical Council PLAB exam that is taken by international medical graduates applying to join the UK medical register. His training included a prestigious NIHR-funded academic clinical fellowship at the University of Cambridge, a clinical leadership fellowship at NHS England, and postgraduate degrees in Cardiology (Imperial College London) and Medical Education (UCL). He continues to practice as a physician in the UK National Health Service

Professor Mairi Scott is a Professor of General Practice and Medical Education at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre for Medical Education which has an international reputation for excellence in medical education. Mairi has provided consultancy advice and regulatory reviews of medical education in the UK and internationally, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Georgia. Mairi is a member of the University Senate and University Court and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. She is a past-Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners in Scotland and was appointed from 2008 to 2012 as a Council Member of the General Medical Council and continues to work as a GMC Associate Advisor.

Dr Veena Singaram is a senior lecturer and Academic Leader of Research in the School of Clinical Medicine. She is a steering committee member in the Doctoral Academy and Team Lead of the Medical Education Strategic Team at UKZN. Her qualifications include a BMMedSc, MMedSc (UKZN), and PhD in Health Professions Education (Maastricht University, the Netherlands). She is a fellow of the Foundation for Advancement in Medical Education and Research (FAIMER). Dr Singaram recently received the Southern African Association of Health Educationalists Distinguished Educator Award. She has published widely in HPE and has graduated several doctoral and masters students. Dr Singaram has actively contributed to capacity building and development of HPE and research that has to led novel innovations and significant contributions to the training of healthcare professionals. Her scholarly interests include doctoral research, mentoring, technology-enhanced learning, formative assessment feedback, and collaborative learning environments within a transformative learning paradigm.

Dr Seneviratne is a Consultant Paediatrician and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya. She received Doctor of Medicine in Paediatrics from the University of Colombo and the membership of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health of United Kingdom. Subspecialised in Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and has done award-winning research in the field. She has a special interest in simulation-based medical education and she is the vice president of the Sri Lanka Association of Simulation for Health care. Dr Seneviratne pioneered simulation-based teaching of therapeutics in Sri Lanka. Which she upgraded to virtual platforms during the pandemic. She is a member of the board of studies in Family medicine and the board of studies in Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. Dr Seneviratne is a member of the Asia pacific biomedical science educators Association (APBSEA) since its inception.

Stuart Slavin MD, MEd is Vice President for Well-being at the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). A graduate of Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Dr Slavin completed his residency training in pediatrics at UCLA and then served as a faculty member there for seventeen years before returning to Saint Louis University as Associate Dean for Curriculum. While at Saint Louis University, Dr Slavin led efforts to improve the mental health of medical students that produced dramatic decreases in rates of depression and anxiety in pre-clerkship students. He joined the ACGME in 2018 and is helping to lead efforts to improve the mental health of residents and faculty across the US.

Lawrence Sherman FACEHP, FRSM, CHCP is Executive Vice President, Strategy and Performance, AXDEV Global, following the merger of Meducate Global, LLC. Lawrence is involved in the quality improvement/performance improvement in healthcare initiatives, educational needs assessments and gap analyses, assessments of global healthcare education systems, faculty development, and support of continuing professional development in healthcare worldwide.

Lawrence has been involved in medical and interprofessional education for over 29 years, authoring numerous publications and delivering hundreds of presentations worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK).

Lawrence has also been an Educator for the Emergency Medical Institute and Center for Learning and Innovation of the Northwell Health System in Long Island, New York, and has lectured in the Healthcare Communications program at the Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, also in New York.

Dr Kelby Smith-Han is a Senior Lecturer in Health Professions Education at the University of Western Australia. Kelby currently teaches in the Humanities in Health and Medicine undergraduate major; the Health Humanities course in the first year of the University of Western Australia’s medical degree; and the postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and Master courses in Health Professions Education.

Kelby’s research interests cover student learning development, student experience, and academic staff development in a health professional education context. His student learning development research specifically includes professional identity development, transformational learning, professionalism, health humanities, threshold concepts, metacognition, and clinical experience of health professional students.

Kelby’s research on student experience focuses on the health and wellbeing of health professional students. His academic staff development research currently centres on the professional development of educators in metacognition strategies to use in their teaching. He uses qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches in his research.

Dr. Siyam is the director of Anesthesiology operations and the associate residency program director at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD). She is a graduate of the University of Maryland medical school and a diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology who completed her residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in Ohio. Dr Siyam was a member of the founding body of physicians who initiated operations at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Her special interests include neuro-anesthesia, major hepato-biliary surgery anesthesia, medical education, peri-operative quality and safety, operational efficiency, physician recruitment. She serves on several multi-disciplinary and cross-organizational committees concerned with resident education, at both the local and national levels.

Diantha graduated as a medical doctor from the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia in 2005, acquired MMedEd title from the University of Dundee in 2007 and Ph.D. in the same field from the University of Melbourne in 2013. She is now the head of Master in Medical Education Program at Universitas Indonesia and is also responsible for the multi- and interprofessional curriculum of Health Sciences Cluster. Since 2018, she is appointed as the vice director of medical education at the Indonesian Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI). Her research interests are student assessment, reflection and feedback, interprofessional education and collaborative practice, and professional development.

Carole is the Director of Medical Education for Medicine in the Curtin Medical School. Prior to this she was National Director Learning and Teaching at the University of Notre Dame Australia. She has also worked in Notre Dame’s medical school as Associate Dean Learning and Teaching. In each of these positions, her focus has been to support educators in providing engaging and transformative learning experiences for students through curriculum design. Carole led the development of Prudentia, an award-winning online curriculum mapping software. She has been a partner in several nationally funded OLT projects, through which she has developed rich collaborations with clinical educators, academics and researchers to develop sustainable models of inter-professional health education. Carole has chaired peak academic governance boards and is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2018).

Prof. Tran, Diep Tuan is the Chairman, Board of Trustees of University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City (UMP). Under his tenure, the UMP has demonstrated its strong commitment for innovation and quality improvement. Prof. Tran received his M.D. degree (1989), pediatric certificate (1993) at UMP and later in pediatric neurology. He got his Ph.D. at Tokyo University (1998-2003), post-doctoral training at Japan National Institutes for Physiological Sciences (2003) and University of Michigan (2003-2005). He was awardee of John J. Bonica Award (2002), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2003), International Brain Research Organization (2003), WHO/NINDS International Neurological Science Fellowship (2003). His research interest is pain imaging, pediatric neurology, and children quality of life. He has published more than 50 articles in international peer review journals. His main agenda is to make UMP a leading university in Vietnam and an internationally recognized institution in the region.

Professor Jamuna is the current Head of Medical Education and Research Development Unit (MERDU). She graduated with a PhD in Microbiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom (UK) and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in the University of Maryland, United States (US). Prof Jamuna is a Fellow of the Foundation of Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) under the auspices of ECFMG, USA. She also followed a two-year program to develop skills in leadership and implementation for undergraduate and postgraduate and medical education. She is currently entrusted with leading and managing the curriculum revision, implementation and quality assurance of the undergraduate and postgraduate curricula and Faculty development initiatives at Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya.

Dr. Vyas contributes her expertise in medicine, health professions education and understanding of international culture to FAIMER programs and its research and scholarship activities. She applies her extensive experience to oversee the FAIMER Global Programs, geared towards healthcare education and workforce development in collaboration with international partners. Prior to joining FAIMER, Dr. Vyas was a professor at Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India. She has led education innovations such as the distance learning postgraduate diploma in family medicine, integrated learning, and early clinical exposure. She was the convener for the National Medical Commission (NMC) regional and nodal centers for national faculty development in medical education. She served on the expert committee for the development and implementation of basic and advanced courses in medical education for NMC. Dr. Vyas received her M.B.B.S. and M.D. degrees from India. She holds a master’s in health professions education from UI Chicago, USA.

After obtaining his MD degree, Dr Wangsaturaka furthered his Master’s and doctoral study at the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland.

He has been a key person in curriculum development, student assessment and student engagement at his institution. His long-standing contribution to student engagement has resulted in the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University achieving ASPIRE-to-Excellence Award in Student Engagement in 2015 and him being awarded the National Role Model Teacher in Student Engagement in 2017.

Dr Wangsaturaka has provided educational consultancy and run faculty development workshops for not only schools of medicine, but also health professions schools and other disciplines in many universities. He is currently the Assistant Secretary General of the Consortium of Thai Medical Schools.

He serves as the chairman of the Working Committee for the Accreditation of Medical Education (WCAME), the Secretary-General of the Expert Committee for Medical Education of the Ministry of Education, Executive Member of China Association of Higher Education and Executive Vice Chairman of its Medical Education Committee, Director of Chinese Society of Medical Education of Chinese Medical Association, and Chairman of Simulated Medical Education Committee of China Medical Association.

Prof Wang is Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Journal of Medical Education, Chief Editor of Surgery and Deputy Director of Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Medicine, Associated Director of Medicine Teaching Research in Universities (Electronic Edition), and the International Editorial Board Member of Medical Education.

Craig Webster is an Associate Professor with the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education and the Department of Anaesthesiology at the School of Medicine, University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has degrees in psychology and a Ph.D. in medical human factors, with research experience in clinical and human factors research projects, patient safety, compliance with safety initiatives, healthcare simulation and the applications of mindfulness in reducing stress and clinical errors. He teaches postgraduate courses in Clinical Education and healthcare system redesign, and has interests in the way people and technology interact in complex systems and the effects such interaction has on clinical safety.

Dr Carmen Wong is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean (Education) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr Carmen Wong is a medical doctor is a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners (UK). She is a fellow of the higher education academy and obtained a Master of Science of Clinical Education (Edinburgh, UK). She received the Faculty Teaching Award, University Education Award and the prestigious University Grants Council (UGC) Education award in 2020. Her numerous teaching grants include clinical communication and language skills, social responsibility and interdisciplinary curriculum design and implementation. Since 2021, Prof. Wong has been leading design thinking workshops in education and has conducted interdisciplinary workshops across Hong Kong universities with CLEAR CUHK and for medical education for Hong Kong tripartite conference.

Professor Samuel WONG is a clinician with training in both Family Medicine and Public Health. He is the Director of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care (JCSPHPC) and the Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Medicine. He is also the Founding Director of the Thomas Jing Centre for Mindfulness Research and Training.

Professor WONG’s research interests include evaluating and developing mindfulness-based and mental health interventions in primary care, evaluating primary care services and developing primary care service models as well as multimorbidity. He has published more than 380 original papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has contributed 5 book chapters and co-edited the Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health published by the Oxford University Press. He was awarded the Outstanding Fellowship of the Faculty of Medicine, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2021. Prof. Wong oversees the medical programme at CUHK and public health programmes at JCSPHPC.

Wong Pei Se is an Associate Professor at the School of Pharmacy and the Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at International Medical University. Her research interests include interprofessional education and skills training. In her current role as Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning, she has been involved in faculty development as well as the development of university guidelines for teaching and learning.

Dr Wai-Tat WONG is a specialist in internal medicine and critical care medicine. He is now working in the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and Centre for Bioethics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He is providing clinical service as a consultant in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Prince of Wales Hospital. Dr Wong is responsible for undergraduate teaching in acute medicine, anaesthesia, communication skills, professionalism, and medical ethics at CUHK. He has been working on research projects related to clinical ethics, end-of-life care in ICU, mechanical ventilation and infectious diseases.

Shi Sien is a fourth-year medical student at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. He is currently serving as the Regional Director for Asia-Pacific of the International Federation for Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), one of the world’s oldest and largest student-led organizations representing 1.3 million medical students from around the globe. He was also the Chairperson of the Society of Malaysian Medical Association Medical Students (SMMAMS). He strongly believes in meaningful youth engagement and strives to amplify the voice of the youth to be effective changemakers.

Dan Xu is a medical educator, researcher and clinician, chairing medical education, general practice research and international collaboration at Curtin Medical School. Dan has been in charge of writing the initial draft, providing ongoing advices and review of the GP placement curriculum for General Practice Student Placement. Dan, being appointed as visiting professor at First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, leads an international exchange program for undergraduate students between Curtin Medical School of Curtin University and Zhongshan School of Medicine of Sun Yat-sen University. Dan designed Program Curriculum for general practice, hospital outpatient and inpatient placements. Dan is a Senior Research Fellow and Principal Supervisor of Ph.D. students. Dan has over 70 publications in journals of medical education, cardiovascular health, neurosciences, musculoskeletal health and international health.

Professor Jen-Hung Yang graduated from National Yang-Ming University (NYU) School of Medicine (MD) in 1985 and Institute of Clinical Medicine (PhD) of NYU in 1994. He completed his dermatology residency training at Veterans General Hospital Taipei (1985-1991), and subsequently chaired Department of Dermatology at China Medical University and Hospital in Taichung from 1991 to 1995. Then he served as Director of Centre for Faculty Development (2006-2009), Vice-Director of School of Medicine (2006-2008), and Director of School of Medicine (2009-2010), and the Dean of College of Medicine of Chung Shan Medical University (CSMU), and the vice-Superintendent of CSMU Hospital (2010-2011). He was then invited as Dean of Tzu Chi University College of Medicine (2011-2019), and as the vice-Superintendent of Tzu Chi General Hospital at Hualien (2011-13), and Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU) Hospital in 2021.

He is currently the Chair Professor of CSMU and the CEO of the Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council (TMAC), and a senile Member of Joint Commission of Taiwan (JCT). His research interests focused mainly on medical education in areas of curriculum, faculty development, and professionalism and humanities. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in the fields of dermatological science and medical education.

Magda Ahmed Wagdy Yousef is a Senior Consultant Pediatrician SIDRA Medicine- Qatar Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics Weill-Cornell Medical College Qatar Dr Magda received her medical training at Cairo University -Egypt; she has worked as a general pediatrician at Hamad Medical Corporation since 2006. Dr Magda’s areas of practice include inpatient medicine, patient safety and detection of adverse events; and she was appointed to chair the pediatrics quality and patient safety Committee. Dr Magda has strong interest in medical education and supervises residents in clinical settings. She is an instructor and is in charge of different workshops including communication, APLS, quality, and professionalism.

Ms. Yuan is responsible for conceptualizing, designing and implementing evaluation and applied research studies for a broad range of health professionals’ education programs. She teaches project management and evaluation, quantitative methods and survey methods to international health professions educators. She leads complex statistical analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of results. She collaborates with and provides analytical support for the Senior Associates on FAIMER research studies. Shiyao also performs data visualization, develops dashboards, and delivers data in useful and appealing ways to internal and external users. Ms. Yuan joined FAIMER in 2011 as a cross-cultural facilitator and has grown professionally since then. She holds a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Science in Business Analytics from Drexel University. In addition, she holds a FAIMER-Keele Certificate in Health Professions Education: Accreditation and Assessment and is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9.

Dr Benson Ang graduated from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine in 2020. He is passionate about Medical Education. Dr Ang has been working to improve clinical thinking since his student days. His key interests include furthering our understanding of clinical diagnosis and practical ways to teach it. He has co-authored a systemic review on this topic recently in a high impact journal. He continues to apply advanced methods in teaching & practicing this domain.

Dr Aw is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and a Senior Consultant in the Department of Paediatrics, National University Hospital (NUH). Her area of clinical expertise is in paediatric gastrointestinal disease, hepatology and liver transplantation. Dr Aw is also passionate about medical education and people development. Her previous education portfolios include being the Program Director, Paediatric Residency Training at NUH and Assistant Dean (Education), NUS Medicine. She currently serves on the Graduate Medical Education Committee as Chair of the Physician Health and Resilience Subcommittee and is the Vice Dean (Students) for the Medical School.

Dr Ashokka Balakrishnan is a Consultant Anaesthesiologist and Simulation Program Director (anesthesia division) at the National University Hospital and a CenMED Associate at the 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 has 17 years of experience in high-fidelity simulation-based undergraduate, postgraduate medical and allied health acute care teaching. He has a Fellowship from the Australia New Zealand College of Anaesthesiologists (FANZCA) and a Master’s in Health Professions Education (MHPE) from Maastricht, the Netherlands. He holds the office of the treasurer for the Asia Oceanic Society of Regional Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine (AOSRA-PM) and board member of the Pan Asia Society of Simulation (PASSH).

His special interests are obstetric and regional anesthesia, postgraduate exam support, simulation-based postgraduate and undergraduate education and Interprofessional education.

Kenneth obtained his BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and MBBS degrees from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Ph.D. 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).

Gayathri is a third-year medical student at the National University of Singapore. Being part of the minority of medical students who lack a pre-university background in Biology made her interested in how medical education could further develop to level the playing field among students. This interest spurred her to become involved in the Medical Sciences Bridging Programme in her school, where they sought to smoothen the transition between pre-university education and medical school for incoming students. Given the various changes brought about by the pandemic, she hopes to learn more about the future directions of medical education in the coming years.

Zhi Xiong is Assistant Dean (Education) of NUS Medicine and a Centre for Medical Education (CenMED) Associate. Deeply interested in international professional development, he is the Chairperson of the Asia-Pacific Biomedical Science Educators Association (APBSEA) and a Board Member of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE). In pediatric cancer research, Zhi Xiong is seeking new therapies and new ways of monitoring disease as Principal Investigator of the Neurodevelopment and Cancer Laboratory at N2CR, an Affiliate Member of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS) and a Joint Scientist of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH). 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.

Dr Faith Chia is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow) and a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Chapter of Rheumatologists. She serves on the council of the College of Physicians and College of Clinician Educators. She has received peer-reviewed research funding and continues to serve as deputy chair of the institutional research ethics board. Faith actively teaches undergraduates and post-graduates and has been recognized for numerous teaching awards, including the ACGME international award for Physician Leaders. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and a 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.

Ms Xanthe Chua is a Rheumatology Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). She has 18 years’ experience working with patients with Rheumatic diseases. In 2014, she played a pivotal role in setting up the Rheumatology Nurse-led Arthritis Clinic. She is currently the appointed hospital lead, overseeing the institution APN Internship Program. She serves as an Adjunct faculty of NHG college and is involves in several teaching programme. Her other administrative roles involve overseeing the APNs in TTSH.

APN Chua completed her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (University of Sydney) Subsequently, she undertook the Advanced Rheumatology Course under the American College of Rheumatology and holds a Master’s degree in Nursing (National University of Singapore).

Kesavan is Professor of Surgery at the National University of Singapore and has been engaged in medical education since 1986. He is a urologist, with a primary focus on uro-oncology. He is also a tumour immunologist, running a wet laboratory since 1994, to investigate immunotherapy in bladder cancer. He was a head of department and a vice-chairman in the National University Hospital and has also held other senior administrative posts, including serving as a consultant to the Ministry of Health. He is a past president of both the College of Surgeons Singapore and the Singapore Urological Association. He has served on the editorial boards of some of the most prestigious journals in his field. He is also a Principal Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and is board-certified in Health and Wellness Coaching.

Dr Benjamin Goh enjoys a successful clinical practice as a fellowship-trained Urologist with a special interest in robotic kidney surgery and a Kidney Transplant Surgeon. In the realm of medical education, Benjamin is passionate about people and their growth in the journey of life. Benjamin is a PCC level credentialed coach with the International Coach Federation and an Organisational Design and Development practitioner. Blending in skillset, toolset and mindset from ontological coaching, organizational development with educational pedagogies, he strives towards a holistic medical education. In his role as Undergraduate Director for Surgical Education and Assistant Dean of Students for the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS, Benjamin believes in embodied leadership of the teams towards optimal delivery of medical education. At the heart of all these endeavours is the desire to best prepare future generations of doctors in service of patients.

Dr Gao Yujia is currently an Associate Consultant in the Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery at the National University Hospital. Dr Gao is deeply involved in undergraduate medical education at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Dr Gao spearheads various projects including the development of Holomedicine, Mixed Reality devices, and applications for medical education and clinical medicine.

Dr Goh Poh-Sun 吳 宝 山 MBBS(Melb), FRCR, FAMS, MHPE(Maastricht), FAMEE Associate Professor, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (YLLSOM), National University of Singapore (NUS) Senior Consultant, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, National University Hospital (NUH), National University Health System (NUHS) Associate Member, Centre for Medical Education, YLLSOM, NUS Member, AMEE TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) Committee (since 2011) Poh Sun is a Clinical Radiologist at NUHS/YLLSOM@NUS and has worked at NUH since 1989. He is also a Medical Educator, with Masters in Health Professions Education (MHPE) from Maastricht University (2012); with deep passion for both eLearning/Technology enhanced Learning and Faculty Development - locally and internationally. Dr Goh is formally trained as, and is an in-house Coach at YLLSOM.

Raymond graduated from NUS Medical School in 1995 and obtained his postgraduate certification (Master of Medicine Anaesthesia, Singapore as well as Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists) in 2003. He specializes in Obstetric Anaesthesia and has completed subspecialty training at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth Western Australia. He completed the Master in Health Professions Education (Maastricht University) in 2017. He is currently the Campus Director for KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and the Associate Designated Institutional Official (ADIO KKH) for SingHealth Residency.

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) at the 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 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.

Associate Professor Liaw is the Director of Education, PET at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (NUS Nursing). She has been in the nursing profession for more than 20 years. As a pioneer academic staff at NUS Nursing, A/Prof Liaw has contributed to the development of the undergraduate nursing programme at the school since 2006, implementing teaching innovations such as simulation-based learning and assessment as well as interprofessional education. For her teaching contributions at the school, A/Prof Liaw has received the “Faculty Teaching Excellence Award” (2009, 2011, 2013) by the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and the “Annual Teaching Excellence Award” (2011) by the National University of Singapore.

Jamie graduated from NUS-Masters of Nursing in 2006 and is currently an Advanced Practice Nurse with the Department of Cardiology. Apart from her clinical and administrative portfolio, she is happily engaged in educational activities for the past two decades. Jamie has also ventured beyond the shores of Singapore to teach in rural areas of Thailand and China of which she finds immerse joy and gratitude. As a film believer of life-long learning, she pursued her second Master’s Degree in Health Professionals Education with Massachusetts General Hospital and graduated in 2016.

Lincoln is a 3rd-year medical student with a keen interest in medical education. He has participated in various online courses and workshops on medical pedagogy and applied what he has learnt in both formal and informal teaching sessions, mostly on preclinical content.

Professor Lim was Head of Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, NUHS from 1999-2012 when he implemented the Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia and Non-Invasive Ventilation for life-threatening COPD Programmes for which he received National Medical Excellence awards in 2010 & 2014. He received the Master Clinician Award from the NUH in 2011. As director of the Singapore National Asthma Programme he won recognition from the World Health Organization's GINA (2015). He also chaired the Ministry of Health workgroups on COPD integrated care, Appropriate Care Guides (2018) and Clinical Practice Guidelines (2018). Prof Lim is a proponent of the “free energy principle” in clinical thinking.

Yan Nerng is a third-year medical student studying at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is interested in Medical Education. He is a member of the Medical Science Bridging Programme and the Needs Assessment and Curriculum Review Committee to understand and improve Medical Education.

Dr Mok Shao Feng is an avid educator who currently serves as the Programme Director of the NUHS Internal Medicine Residency Programme. He is particularly interested in developing clinical reasoning skills and improving assessments in medical education. He completed the Master in Healthcare Professional Education (MHPE) with Maastricht University in 2019. Outside of medical education, Dr Mok Shao Feng is an endocrinologist and is a firm believer of empowering and supporting patients in their journey of living with chronic diseases like diabetes mellitus. He takes a person centred approach in delivering both clinical care and education and believe they ultimately converge in benefitting the patients whom we all seek to serve.

Dr Ng is a Senior Consultant in Gastroenterology with a special interest in advanced endoscopy, working in Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He was appointed as the National Healthcare Group Internal Medicine Programme Director in 2018, with a special interest in postgraduate and undergraduate medical education.

Nisha is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation. Alongside her executive coaching practice, she is a part-time tutor at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine where she coaches medical students. She is a general practitioner with experience in both public and private healthcare, as well as public health administration. Nisha previously worked in public hospitals in the United Kingdom and Singapore across a wide spectrum of departments and developed national health policies in the Public Health Group of the Ministry of Health Singapore. She is extremely passionate about developing effective and compassionate communication in medicine, including the transformative effect coaching can have on medical education and the profession at large.

Associate Professor Koh Dow Rhoon is an alumnus of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and completed his undergraduate training in medicine in 1981. He then completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Immunology.

He has been active in medical education for more than two decades and was the Vice-Dean (Education) from 2001 to 2010, driving medical education reforms in the school. He also led the development of medical schools’ standards for the three medical schools in Singapore and is currently putting in place an accreditation and quality improvement framework under the Professional Training, Assessment and Standards (PTAS) division in the Ministry of Health.

He is currently the Director for International Relations and advisor for medical science education in the medical school. He is also an associate member of the Centre for Medical Education (CenMed) involved in faculty development and training. He is a trained coach and helps with student support and ontological coaching. His current interests include integrated medical science education, student coaching and medical education quality assurance.

Associate Professor Alfred Kow is the Head & Senior Consultant of the HPB Surgery Division at the National University Hospital Singapore. His main area of interest is liver transplantation and minimally invasive HPB surgery. He is also the Clinical Director of the Management & Innovation for Longevity in Elderly Surgical (MILES) patient program at NUH.

He is the Assistant Dean (Education) at NUS Medicine and ACMB (Edu) at NUH. He has received many teaching awards for teaching excellence, including the Outstanding Educator Award in NUS. His main research areas of interest include development of surgical techniques in HPB surgery and outcome of surgical treatment for HPB malignancies, and liver transplantation.

He is also the Chairperson of the Medical Education, Technology & Enterprise committee. He is one of the main drivers that helps to introduce advanced technology such as virtual reality and mixed reality technology in medical education and training. He also actively looks out for gamification technology that can be used in medical training.

James is Senior Consultant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. He holds academic appointments at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He is Chair of the Core Curriculum and Education Committee at the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. Prior to his moving to Singapore, James was the Academic Lead in Emergency Medicine and Assessment in the School of Medicine at Western Sydney University, Australia. James is passionate about medical education and has led curricular development in undergraduate medical and postgraduate training programmes at a national and international level.

Hwa Lin is a Senior Principal Pharmacist (Specialist) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and Unit Head of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) Pharmacy. Hwa Lin is actively involved in patient care, including the care of patients during pandemics. Besides outbreak management, she is also actively involved in the management of other infectious diseases particularly with HIV patients and travel medicine. Hwa Lin is also actively involved in undergraduate and post-graduate education and training. She is an adjunct lecturer at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, a faculty member with National Healthcare Group (NHG) college, Residency Program Director for the National Residency Program R1 and Clinical Educator Lead (CEL) for Pre-Professional Education and Chief Preceptor for TTSH Pre-Registration Pharmacist Training Program. One of the notable workshops that Hwa Lin has been conducting is the portfolio building and assessment workshop for pharmacists embarking on Advanced Practice Framework in Singapore.

Jason Lee obtained his first degree from Loughborough University, UK. Following the award of G V Sibley Memorial Prize, he stayed on to complete a PhD in Exercise Physiology under sponsorship from the UK Overseas Research Scholarship and Faculty Studentship. Jason is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He serves in various national and international panels related to human performance and safety. He completed his 12-year tenure at the DSO National Laboratories in 2018 by directing the Human Performance Programme in his final appointment. He is currently an Associate Professor in Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore, co-leading the Human Potential Translational Research Programme and directing the Heat Resilience and Performance Centre. He is a member of the WHO and WMO Report on Climate Change on Workers’ Health and Productivity. Jason chairs the Scientific Committee on Thermal Factors at the International Commission on Occupational Health and is on the management committee at the Global Heat Health Information Network.

Dr Lee Shuh Shing is a Medical Educationalist in Centre for Medical Education (CenMED). Prior to joining NUS, she was a Medical Educationalist attached to the Medical Education Research and Development Unit (MERDU) at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. After obtaining her PhD in Education, she has been actively involved in MBBS curriculum planning and faculty development. She leads the Research division in CenMED and provides support to educators in carrying out health professions education research. She is also involved in providing research support to students as well as conducting research workshops to faculty members, especially in Qualitative Research. Her main research interests are in teaching and learning approaches, technology in teaching and learning, student learning and qualitative research. She has been publishing articles in medical education and author of a few book chapters. She serves as the managing editor for The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS), as well as editorial board member for BMC Medical Education and Education in Medicine Journal.

Jonathan Liang is a third-year medical student from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine who is passionate about teaching and medical education. Having been actively involved in teaching first aid in Junior College and as an adult volunteer for St John Brigade Singapore, teaching and passing it on has always been something that he enjoys doing. Being part of NUS Medical Society’s Academic Directorate, he is the lead coordinator for the pioneer planning committee of the Medical Sciences Bridging Programme which serves to bridge biology content for incoming medical students without a biology background, whilst also serving to aid in the transition of pre-medical students into medical school. He hopes to be able to make learning more accessible and less intimidating for new medical students and believes in paying it forward.

Brian O’Dwyer founded CognaLearn to make team-based learning (“TBL”) easier better and more accessible. CognaLearn uses technology (www.intedashboard.com) developed at Duke-NUS Medical School to support the TBL implementation at over 100 institutions on five continents. Brian has been an invited presenter and workshop facilitator on TBL and education technology at over 60 events in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Brian taught aviation business at Aeronautical University’s Asia campus in Singapore using TBL. Previously, Brian was the Chief Financial Officer of Skywest until the sale to Virgin, a Credit Suisse investment banker and A.T. Kearney management consultant. Brian is based in Singapore and holds a BS, in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University and an MBA, in Finance from Duke University. Brian is a licensed pilot.

Dr Phua graduated from the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore in 1999 and earned his Master’s degree in Emergency Medicine in 2005. He qualified as a specialist emergency physician in 2006 and is currently a Senior Consultant emergency physician in Tan Tock Seng Hospital Emergency Department. He is also trained in Clinical Toxicology and currently provides toxicology services to his hospital. He is actively involved in medical education and obtained a Master’s degree in Education Evaluation, Statistics and Assessment in 2016. He is currently the Program Director of the Emergency Medicine residency program of the National Healthcare Group. His research interests include acute poisoning and management and clinical decision-making.

An experienced Nurse Educator and trained midwife, Catherine commits herself to the education of healthcare professionals to be competent and confident practitioners with patients at the heart of all they do. She has collaborated with healthcare professionals from different disciplines to design and implement training programs to equip her colleagues with advanced knowledge and skills to provide quality and safe care to their patients. She also has a special interest in interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) and is a passionate member of the IPE faculty in KKH. She strongly believes that IPCP plays a part in enhancing patient safety as it encourages interprofessional communication and teamwork among healthcare providers, patients and their caregivers. She has facilitated in numerous interprofessional education workshops, such as the IPE Ward Rounds and the Virtual Interprofessional Teaching And Learning (VITAL) Workshop in collaboration with the University of Toronto.

Ethan is a third-year medical student at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. As Honorary General Secretary of the 74th NUS Medical Society, his role revolves around holistic development and the mental well-being of medical students. He strongly believes in the importance of work-life balance

Dr Inthrani Raja Indran is a Senior Lecturer and Education Director (Medicine) at the Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. Inthrani has been leading a study focused on disruptive behaviour (DB) in our healthcare system, which study has now raised greater awareness at the national level on the need for effective measures to mitigate the causes and impact of DB and paved the way for constructive conversations in this challenging area. In her role as Assistant Dean, Office for Students, which experience she deeply values, Inthrani is committed to supporting students develop their self-awareness, self-mastery, and resilience to make their best walkthrough Medical School. Aside from her roles in education, as the Director for the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Inthrani spearheads efforts to enhance the personal and professional development of postdoctoral fellows at NUS Medicine.

Jai is a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon in the National Neuroscience Institute. He graduated with his MBBS degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1999 and was awarded his FRCSEd (SN) in 2013. Jai has a strong educational belief and was awarded his Master of Science (Health professions education) from the MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2015. He is also extensively involved in the education of medical students and residents as the Program Director of the SingHealth Neurosurgery Residency Program and the Singapore Integrated Neurosurgery Program.

Dujeepa Samarasekera trained in Health Professions Education at University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. Dujeepa is the Senior Director of Centre for Medical Education (CenMED) at School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He also holds the portfolios as Senior Advisor to the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning (CDTL) at National University of Singapore and is a Senior Consultant with the Ministry of Health Singapore. He leads the School of Medicine Continuous Quality Improvement team for education and is a member of the Joint Committee to Accredit Medical Schools in Singapore by the Ministry of Health and Singapore Medical Council. Dr Samarasekera also provides leadership and expertise in the following areas - development of training courses and assessment frameworks for Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy and Allied Health programs. He is the inaugural and immediate past President of College of Clinician Educators in Singapore, Executive Board member of the World Federation for Medial Education (WFME) and the President of the Western Pacific Association of Medical Education from 2018-2022. Dujeepa Has won many accolades such as NUS School of Medicine Special Recognition Award as a Role Model in 2015, Residents Choice Award by NUHS Residency Program, Value in Action Award awarded for excellence in innovation by National University Health System (NUHS) in 2014, MILES Award given for Mentoring Innovation and Leadership in Educational Scholarship, NUS Virtues Award for excellence and dedication by oneself contributing to service under difficult circumstances due to COVID in 2021, and NUHS Mochtar Riady Pinnacle Award for Excellence in Education in 2022.

Dr Samarasekera is the Editor-in-Chief of The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) journal and serves on the editorial advisory boards of a number of other international education journals. He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals as well as authored books in education and book chapters. He is an honorary Professor and Visiting Faculty at several international universities. He holds the fellowships of Academy of Medicine Singapore and Malaysia, Academy of medical educators UK, inaugural fellow of Association of Medical education Europe and Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh.

Dr Soh Jian Yi is a clinician-educator who holds the portfolios of clinical reasoning and evidence-based medicine in his Department’s residency program.

In 2015, he founded the first clinical service in Singapore providing oral immunotherapy for food allergies in Singapore. In 2018, he created the Universal Clinical Reasoning method for teaching and applying reasoning to all healthcare.

Assistant Professor Shorey’s areas of teaching include communications in healthcare, maternal and child health nursing, physical health assessment, teaching and learning, applied research methods and evidence-based nursing. Dr Shorey is an experienced and award-winning educator who believes in life-long learning and a student-centered approach in facilitating evidence-based students learning. For her exceptional contributions to teaching, Dr Shorey was awarded the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s Teaching Excellence Award (AY2017/2018) and the prestigious NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (AY2017/2018). The latter recognises faculty members who have excelled in teaching and have shown a high level of performance, dedication and commitment to teaching and learning.

Dr. Judy Sng is the Education Director of Nursing Curriculum and Digital Transformation in the Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She joined NUS in 2014 on the educator track. Judy developed the Virtual Integrated Patient or the VIP, that is an AI-enabled chatbot e-patient that allows the students to practice before they enter clinician practice. In this session, she will share the journey of developing the VIP and how it is used in medical and nursing curriculum.

Kevin is a Senior Consultant Neurologist at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and Associate Professor at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS Medical School. He completed his Fellowship in Neuroinfectious Disease and Neuroimmunology at Johns Hopkins University (2008) and Master of Science in Health Professions Education at MGH Institute of Health Professions (2016). His clinical expertise is in neuroinflammatory diseases and neurological infections. He was formerly the Program Director, Neurology Senior Residency, NNI (2013-2018) and is currently the Education Director, NNI and Vice Chair of Education, Neuroscience Academic Clinical Program, Duke-NUS Medical School. His medical education interests are team-based learning, innovations in teaching and assessment, clinical reasoning and interprofessional education.

Nigel is currently Group Director Education (Undergraduate) SingHealth. He graduated with a Masters of Health Professions Education in 2013 and is faculty for all 3 medical schools in Singapore and for Internal Medicine and Neurology residencies. His areas of interest in education are assessment, clinical reasoning, and interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Most people consider him terminally geeky, an assessment he does not disagree with.

Like many Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Heidi started her journey in health professional education as a student supervisor, three years after working as an Occupational Therapist at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Now 20 years on, she is active in the management and leadership of the professional development of AHPs and AHP students in her roles as Education Assistant Director for the Allied Health Division and Clinical Educator Lead (Therapy) at the Pre-Professional Education Office at TTSH. In 2015, she took on a joint appointment faculty role in the undergraduate Occupational Therapy programme at the Singapore Institute of Technology. Through collaboration with various stakeholders, Heidi was instrumental in setting up the Clinical Educators’ Appointment System and implementation of Entrustable Professional Activities in OT clinical practice education at SIT. Heidi recently completed her Master’s in Health Professions Education to deepen her learning in the science and art of education.

Dr Tan is a Senior Consultant in the Department of Renal Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital and is the Program Director for the Renal Medicine Senior Residency Programme at the National Healthcare Group. She serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She plays an active role in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Dr Tan serves as a Senior Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist at the National University Hospital and an Honorary fellow at Pharmacology of the National University of Singapore. She is a member of Centre for Medical Education and is actively involved in faculty training in Curriculum Review, Problem-Based Learning and Feedback. She worked closely with other medical educators in Coaching and Mentoring Programmes. Dr. Tan has received multiple University teaching awards from 2002 to 2017. She has been named the National University of Singapore Faculty Outstanding Educator in 2016.

Professor Tan Hak Koon is the Chairman of the Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (O&G) at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), where he is also a Senior Consultant. He is Chairman of the SingHealth-Duke NUS Obstetrics and Gynaecology Academic Clinical Programme (OBGYN-ACP) and Designated Institutional Official (DIO) at SingHealth Residency concurrently.

He is an Associate Dean, Office of Academic and Clinical Development, Duke-NUS Medical School.

He was the President of College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2013 - 2015. He was the Head of Department, O&G at Singapore General Hospital 2010 - 2019.

He is a Clinical Professor at Duke-NUS Medical School. He has been a teaching faculty and examiner for both undergraduate and postgraduate examinations since 1990s.

He is a renowned Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, and currently sits on many local and international committees and is actively contributing to clinical work, education and administration.

Faculty member in NUS-YLLSOM, since 2018. Director of Master of Science (Speech & Language Pathology) programme, since 2020. Formally trained and practicing in-house Coach at YLLSOM. Elizabeth is a Principal Speech and Language Therapist and serving Council member of the Allied Health Professions Council, Singapore. She enjoys teaching and constantly seeks to improve the learning experience for her students. Her main research interests are in social cognition and language processing in typical development and autism spectrum disorders.

Thaarun is a third-year medical student with an active interest in identifying and evaluating the role of feedback and effective methodologies of garnering feedback to identify the best pedagogical methods and improve established pedagogical methods.

Dr Amanda Wong is an early-career educator with a background in biomedical research. She obtained her Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Pharmacology from the University of Melbourne and her PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she specialized in prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers in lung cancer and asthma. During her post-doctoral research fellowship in lung diseases research, Amanda became more involved in teaching for the Department of Physiology and completed the CenMED Young Biomedical Science Educator Programme. Her current work focuses on medicine and health professions education for the Department of Physiology at NUS

Adj A/Prof Camilla Wong has 29 years of experience in healthcare and is currently Director, Allied Health, Sengkang General Hospital (SKH) and Chief Pharmacist at the Ministry of Health (MOH).

At SKH, Adj A/Prof Wong has been integral in the planning of the infrastructure, processes and services not only for Allied Health services but the hospital as a whole. She is a member of a number of SKH committees including the Medical Board and IT Steering Committee, and as part of the SKH Senior Management team, serves as a catalyst for collaborative partnerships between the various departments and SKH stakeholders.

Adj A/Prof Wong has played an integral role in the development of career pathways and competency frameworks for the pharmacists and Allied Health professionals both cluster-wide and nationally. She has been a role model and mentor to pharmacists and other healthcare professionals, with many helming leadership and headship positions.

Recognised as a leader in healthcare, she has been appointed to numerous committees spanning a variety of portfolios including, the SHS Allied Health Council, One Rehabilitation Workgroup, Institute of Patient Safety and Quality and Patient Experience Council, and the Singapore Pharmacy Council, MOH Pharmacist Specialist Accreditation Board and Drug Advisory Committee, and HSA Product Vigilance Advisory Committee.

As Chief Pharmacist, MOH, Adj A/Prof Wong oversees the National Pharmacy Strategy which spans over 19 initiatives, encompassing pharmaceutical care excellence, developing a confident pharmacy workforce, re-designing the supply chain, and information and technology enablement. She has also initiated the PharmForce initiative that focuses on establishing a healthy, motivated and resilient pharmacy workforce to deliver value-added services that meet the population needs.

She is a past president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore (PSS) and has received a number of awards including the PSS’s Professor Lucy Wan, Outstanding Pharmacist of the Year Award, Federation of Asian Pharmaceutical Associations Ishidate Award for Hospital Pharmacy, Group CEO SingHealth Excellence Award for Allied Health and the Singapore National Day Awards, Long Service and Commendation Medals, and The Public Administration Medal (Bronze) for the National Awards (COVID-19).

Clarissa Wong is a Year 3 medical student from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. An inquisitive individual, she discovered her passion for teaching in junior college when she volunteered to run an English enrichment programme at a children’s home as well as tutor primary-school children at a youth centre. The dynamic mentorship culture in medical school, upheld by inspiring professors, clinicians, and seniors alike, further ignited her interest in the field of medical education. This has led her to join the pioneering planning committee of the Medical Science Bridging Programme (MSBP) in 2020, an initiative under the Academic Directorate of the NUS Medical Society. She has served as the Head of Pedagogy and Head of External Relations for the project, where she learnt more about and implemented pedagogical methods suitable for engaging an online audience during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Xu Hongyun is currently serving his National Service as a Medical Officer in the Singapore Armed Forces. He has held a keen interest in the art and science of clinical reasoning ever since his medical student days. He recently published a systematic review exploring various methods to teach clinical reasoning in medical students. He is currently pursuing a Graduate Diploma in Family Medicine to further broaden his clinical skills. He is working on practical methods to teach complex decision making in clinical management.

A/Prof Mabel Yap is currently the Director of Professional Training and Assessment Standards (PTAS) Division at the Ministry of Health (MOH). She is responsible for overseeing the training and assessment standards for healthcare professionals, from undergraduate to postgraduate levels. Additionally, she holds the position of Adjunct Associate Professor at both Duke-NUS and NUHS.

A/Prof Yap's specialty is in public health, and she holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and a Master of Science in Public Health from the National University of Singapore (NUS). She also holds a PhD in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Aside from her medical and academic qualifications, A/Prof Yap is also a trained teacher in several Mindfulness-based interventions [Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindful Self Compassion (MSC), Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT-L)] and yoga. She has a keen interest in promoting wellness among healthcare professionals

Jillian Yeo is a medical educationalist with the Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. She graduated from the National University of Singapore with a BSc (Pharmacy) and is a registered clinical pharmacist in Singapore. Prior to joining the centre, she has also completed her MSc (Clinical Pharmacy, International Practice and Policy) with the University College London. She is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Education (EdD) program with Northeastern University. Her main area of interests is in the assessment psychometrics of health professions education.

Dr Amanda Zain is a Consultant Paediatrician in the Children’s Emergency, Khoo Teck Puat-National University Children’s Medical Institute at the National University Hospital (NUH). She also serves as Assistant Dean of Sustainability and Enterprise at her alma mater, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. She is a mother to two young children, who, like many of her patients, are in the demographic that will experience up to 88% of the health burden of climate change. After receiving her MBBS as a recipient of the Public Service Commission Medicine scholarship, Amanda was conferred Master of Medicine (Paediatrics) by NUS and completed her paediatrics training at NUH. She began her journey in sustainability in 2017, where as a senior resident she led a twin quality improvement project across the paediatric ward and operating theatre to increase the recycling rate by threefold within 6 months. These days, Amanda is actively involved in cultivating a culture of sustainability in the medical school and among health professionals, as well as developing an academic centre in sustainable healthcare.