Mr. David Strand
Chief Emerging Businesses Officer and Interim Chief Operating Officer, Cleveland Clinic, US

Anil K Maini
President, Corporate Development, Apollo Hospitals Group, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, India

Anil K. Maini is President-Corporate Development for Apollo Hospital Group and is based at Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. Anil's current assignment includes Group corporate development activities, market (national & international), identifying new markets and new ventures in India and overseas. During this tenure he has taken Apollo Hospitals to new International markets like Lahore, Kabul, Bahrain, Muscat, Yemen, Africa and UK

Presentation
Strategic Health Care Tourism – Evolving Trends in Medical Travel

• Successful Value Creation Strategies
• Healthcare Value Chain
• Continuum of Care
• Care Cycle is Crucial
• Gold Standard Destinations

Peggy Farley
Director of the General Partner and co-founder, Ascent Medical Technology Funds, US

Ms. Farley is a Managing Director of the General Partner and co-founder of the Ascent Medical Technology Funds. As well, she is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ascent Capital Management, Inc. From 1984, Ms. Farley was Chief Executive Officer of a set of firms that she developed as the locus for investment in the U.S. for non-US investors, engaging in venture capital investments, identifying and conducting acquisition transactions in the U.S. and South Asia as well as directing the management of private and corporate assets. She has a top-tier record of investment, is well known for expertise in the IPO markets, and has been very successful with private equity. From 1978 to 1984, she was with Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, in the International Group of the Corporate Finance Division. During her tenure with Morgan Stanley, she was advisor to the People’s Republic of China, working with Bank of China and other government ministries to better deploy foreign exchange and gold holdings. She also advised the country on approaching the principal capital markets to finance development programs. In addition, she conducted business with many of the top-ranking European and Japanese commercial banks and other foreign corporations, advising them on strategies for extending their reach into the U.S. markets, through both business combinations and tapping the capital markets. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Ms. Farley served as consultant to U.S. corporations, including Avon, Ingersoll-Rand, Citibank, and Morgan Stanley. Her career in business began in the mid-1970s in Citibank’s Athens-based Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, where she participated in the bank’s successful reach into those regional markets. She received her A.B. from Barnard College in 1970 and completed her graduate work at Columbia University.

Presentation
Developing an Infrastructure to Support Medical Innovation and Manufacturing in the Middle East

• steps necessary to ensuring that an idea is feasible, safe and efficacious--will be discussing the testing, both pre-clinical and human for new products--and how we are putting such a center into place in the Middle East (only exist now in the US fully) so that innovation need not be exported to the US to be able to be marketed;
• manufacturing high tech therapeutic medical devices for global sales (will discuss our joint venture in Oman and how we are getting to the world markets);
• the road to new pharmaceutical products (right now the Middle East produces only generic products);
• what are the criteria for an explosively successful new therapeutic medical product;
• the road to achieving a successful company (one that has both excellent products and a high valuation) that provides a superb return to investors, inventor, and staff;
• what internalizing the medical technology innovation process will do for the Middle East.

H.E Sobhi A Batterjee
CEO and President, Saudi German Hospital Group, KSA

Engr. Sobhi A.Batterjee is the Founder President & CEO of Saudi German Hospitals Group, the largest Healthcare Developer in the MENA region. Engr. Batterjee graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, USA and has Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Colorado, USA.

Driven by the Philosophy, a verse from The Holy Quran “ومن احياها فكأنما احيا الناس جميعا المائده  32 And if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind. Al-Maidah (32)”.

He started the SGH Group in 1988 with a Capital of 50 Million Saudi Riyals. The Group has now grown to a 5 Billion Saudi Riyals’ institution and number one Healthcare brand in GCC, Pan Arab and Levant regions. SGH Group has 5 World class Tertiary care Hospitals in KSA and Yemen, with over 1600 beds, treating over one million patients annually and performing over 100,000 operations. 12 Hospital Projects are under various stages of construction and planning like in UAE, Egypt, KSA, Ethiopia, Sudan.… etc. The Group is developing Not-for-Profit Hospitals for the poor in association with Prof. Mohammad Yunus, Grameen Bank,GE and CCC.

The Group has started the largest private Medical University of the MENA region with strategic partnership with Tubingen University of Germany. Group has a network of SGNAs (Saudi German Nursing and Allied Sciences Training Institutes) across Saudi Arabia.

Engr. Batterjee has also established many Not-for-Profit institutions like Charity Blood Bank, Saudi Entrepreneurship Development Institute (SEDI), Health Management Research and Training Institute (HMRTI) and Family Business Academy (FBA).

Group has developed strategic partnerships with many institutions like IDB(Islamic Development Bank), IFC (International Finance Cooperation, Private sector arm of World Bank), Arab Fund, Global Investment House, Olympic Group, Yemen Airways, Retirement Fund of Ministry of Interior-Yemen, General Corporation for Social Security-Yemen, Islamic Finance Company….. etc.

The Corporate Vision of the Group is “To design, finance, construct and operate 30 World Class Hospitals and Create 50,000 jobs by the Year 2015 & To be the dominant regional player in the Private Medical Education by establishing 5 Medical Colleges by the Year 2015”

Engr. Batterjee is widely recognized for his contributions and has received many awards which include Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Arab Management in the category of 'Best Arab Management Personality’; National Medal of Cedar – Grade Knight by the President of Lebanon; Best Client of the Year from ICD-IDB; Saudi Achievement Award for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by Arabian Business’; Millennium Development Goals Award by MDG-UN and The Arab–African Initiatives at Cairo, Healthcare Industry CEO Award by Middle East Excellence Awards Institute presented by Hon. Dominique de Villepin, Former Prime Minister of France. …. etc. SGH Group is among “50 most admired companies of the GCC” in a survey done by the Arabian Business.com, the one and only Healthcare Company in the list.

Engr. Batterjee personally believes that “What Man wants, Man gets”. He is currently working on developing a sustainable Private Healthcare model for the poor.

Dr. Derick P. Pasternak
Managing Director Middle East, Joint Commission International (JCI), UAE

Derick Pasternak, MD, MBA, Managing Director, Middle East International Office, Joint Commission International With over 30 years of experience in the health care field and more than 14 years as a health care executive, Derick P. Pasternak is a board certified internal medicine specialist. Prior to his position as Managing Director, Dr. Pasternak was a JCI consultant. Dr. Pasternak had consulted extensively since 1993 in the Middle East, India, Asia-Pacific, Eastern and Western Europe, and Latin America. He is the author of several articles and an eBook on the subject of health care quality and medical management. He actively participated in the development of the World Health Organization's standards for HIV/AIDS services. Dr. Pasternak received his medical degree from Harvard University and holds an M.B.A from Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico.

Presentation
The impact and role of standardization in achieving global interoperability

• A review of international standards
• Assessing various licenses and accreditation processes
• The future of regulation in the Middle East
• How do suppliers, contractors and consultants meet the standards

Dr. Claus W. Biermann MD MPH
Vice President - Business Development Healthcare

Dr. Biermann has been active for many years both as a doctor and a scientist in the field of transplantation surgery, surgical oncology and urology on various universities in the US, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. He is also as a Master of Public health specialized in health economy and healthcare management teaching at several universities. He worked in a number of healthcare companies and before joining Philips he was Principal Consultant Health Care/Pharma T-Systems International /Deutsche Telekom AG.
As Master of Public Health he lectured at various universities and schools of public health and was appointed visiting professor to a Chinese university. He is also member of several medical,scientific and company advisory boards in the healthcare arena.

Mark Clark
Director Healthcare EMEA, Hitachi Data Systems

Mark Clark is the Director of Healthcare for Hitachi Data Systems. His main responsibilities include setting strategy and developing business in the Healthcare vertical with leading Healthcare partners including Carestream Health, NDMA, AGFA, GE Healthcare and others throughout EMEA. Mark was previously the Strategic Partner Manager (Healthcare and SI’s) for Hitachi Data Systems EMEA. His main responsibilities included developing business in healthcare as well as SI
partners such as Accenture in EMEA. His main focus was setting up the Healthcare vertical in EMEA and in collaboration with SI partners like Accenture, quickly grew the business by creating a solution led strategy combined with focused partnerships to create value driven propositions.
Mark has worked for Hitachi Data System’s for 4 years. He has more than 20 year’s experience in the IT industry, much of it gained through a variety of consulting, sales, and channel management positions throughout Europe.

Raj Singh
Healthcare Solutions Consultant EMEA, Hitachi Data Systems

Raj Singh is the lead Healthcare Solutions Consultant for Hitachi Data Systems. His main responsibilities include driving focused Healthcare Solutions within EMEA from a pre-sales perspective and technical solution development in conjunction with leading Healthcare partners including Carestream Health, NDMA, AGFA, GE Healthcare and others throughout EMEA.
Raj was previously the Technical Account Manager (Healthcare and SI’s) for Hitachi Data Systems EMEA. His main responsibilities included supporting pre-sales activity in healthcare as well as SI partners such as Accenture in EMEA. His main focus was to expand the internal technical knowledgebase within the Healthcare vertical in EMEA and in collaboration with SI partners like Accenture, to create value driven propositions into the marketplace.
Raj has worked for Hitachi Data System’s for 3 years. He has more than 20 year’s experience in the IT industry, much of it gained through a variety of support, pre-sales, and technical consultancy positions throughout the UK and Europe.

Dr Ayesha Mohammed Abdullah
Chief Officer at CPQ, Dubai Healthcare City

Ayesha Mohammed Abdullah is Chief Officer at CPQ, a division of Dubai Healthcare City. Ayesha is a 13-year veteran of the healthcare and engineering industries. Ayesha joined Dubai Healthcare City in December 2004 as a Planning Manager at the Centre for Healthcare Planning and Quality and was appointed Director of Facility Licensing in August of 2005. She was appointed Chief Officer in April 2007.
In her current position she is responsible for operations and strategic direction of CPQ, commissioning, and post occupancy inspection of all healthcare facilities in DHCC. She also manages relationships with Dubai and UAE governmental organizations/agencies/ministries in areas concerning healthcare facility licensing and regulations.
In her earlier position as the Director of Engineering at the Ministry of Health she conducted feasibility studies for strategic developments and has worked on all major hospitals in the UAE. She has worked on prestigious projects such as Jumeriah Beach Hotel, City Center, Burj Al Arab, Al Salam Tower and Wonderland as Senior Design Engineer with internationally renowned WS Atkins.
Ayesha’s core competencies include Project Management, Managing Multi-disciplinary Teams, In-Service and Continuing Education, Strong Technical Competency, Project Design and Finance.
Ayesha holds a Bachelors of Science, Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Wisconsin, USA, and MBA with emphasis on Finance and a PhD, MPhil in Strategy Management /Planning Studies from the UK.

John R. Hawkins
Director of Information and Technology Services for SEHA

John R. Hawkins is the Director of Information and Technology Services for SEHA. In his role, John provides strategic healthcare information technology direction and IT management oversight for 8 hospital systems totaling 14 facilities and 55 primary care clinics in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Combined, SEHA employs 14,350 healthcare professionals, currently has 2,472 beds, and provides healthcare to close to 1 million lives.
John’ career is an anastomosis of two diverse backgrounds. In his youth, John served as a combat medic in the US Army; in addition, John has over ten clinical years as a registered radiological technologist. This medical background gives John operational insight into the healthcare ecosystem and the application of healthcare information technologies. John combines his clinical experience with over ten years of Information Technology Management.
Most recently, John worked for Intel Corporation as a Manager in Information Security and Controls Operations. During his tenure at Intel, John has worked as a project and program manager delivering IT infrastructure projects and shaping the IT organizations foundation for program and project management. John currently holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Management, PMP and IT Service Management Certifications and is pursuing an Executive MBA from Babson University.
John R Hawkins
jhawkins@seha.ae
050-822-4931

Muwaffa Lahham
CEO, E3 Corporation

Mr. Lahham has 20 years experience guiding, building and growing technology organizations in the USA and the Middle East. With roots in technical engineering, Muwaffa gained commercial technical and business experience working for retail, manufacturing and technology companies like Family Wonder, Emerson Electric, Autodesk and Sega.
Over the past 10 years Muwaffa has shifted his focus from senior roles in large organizations, to pursue his entrepreneurial passion of establishing and growing technology companies.
Muwaffa is the cofounder of Titan Holdings Limited and the founder of Simtix which he established in 2002. Simtix is an international security technology company that provides security solutions to leading government and commercial organizations.
Prior to founding Simtix, Muwaffa co-founded Apexion Inc. a US–based technology company that redefined how mobile devices could improve productivity in field operations. Muwaffa was the CTO at Apexion, and played a key role in the sale of Apexion to Lawson Software (Nasdaq:LWSN), providing a significant return to the stakeholders.
Prior to Apexion, Muwaffa was the Chief Technical Officer at Sega.com. He joined Sega through an acquisition of Familywonder (acquired by Sega) was the world’s 14the largest etailor. Previously, Muwaffa was Vice President of Research & Development leading the advanced technology, development and content groups at EoExchange. Prior to EoExchange, Muwaffa led software development at Autodesk. Earlier, at Emerson Process Management (the world's leading process control company) Muwaffa designed and implemented best selling, mission-critical systems featuring high reliability that automate manufacturing plants.
Muwaffa has an MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California. Muwaffa has also been awarded several patents in Information Technology.

Gayle Romack
Solution Consultant, Patient Care

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science of Nursing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

CERNER CERTIFICATION(S)
Patient Care Certification, In progress, Expected completion June 2008.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Gayle Romack, RNC is actively working as an expert in the Patient Care solution has assisted multiple clients in creating context nursing workflow and enhancing patient safety. She works with a team to ensure that her solution integrates well with every other solution that is being implemented. Through her role as a Solution Consultant, Gayle has had the opportunity to interact with several other Cerner solutions and continues to learn about each one.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Cerner, Gayle worked as a Obstetrical Nurse Manager for a current Cerner client. Gayle has more than 15 years in the Women’s Health arena. Prior to Cerner, Gayle held may committee chairperson positions from Family Centered Care, Family As Faculty, Cerner Implementation Expert, HillRom Nurse call & Watch Child implementation Expert just to name a few. She is certified in NCC in Maternal Newborn Nursing. She is also an active member in AWHONN (Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses). Gayle has dedicated her nursing career to promoting safe care to Women and Infants through technology.

ADDITIONAL SKILLSETS
Powerchart, Orders, PAL, EMAR,

Sharla Dunn
Solution Consultant, Patient Care

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Sport Medicine and Athletic Training, University of Kansas

CERNER CERTIFICATION(S)
Solution Delivery Consultant Certification: November 2006, Velocity Business Consultant Certification: November 2006 Patient Care Certification: In progress, expected completion: October 2008

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

November 2007 to Present (Solution Consultant) Sharla is passionately presenting as an expert in the Patient Care Venue solutions and is also an active presenter for Cerner’s SmartRoom Experience in the Vision Center as well as the traveling SmartRoom Semi. Sharla’s main focus is providing the client with a solution that successful provides in context workflow opportunities while raising the patient safety level. “Cerner helps save lives” is a motto that Sharla is able to carry out through functionality deriving patient care.

November 2006 to November 2007 (Delivery Consultant) Sharla worked with the implementation teams as a field based Sr. Analyst. She was able to implement Children’s Hospital of Boston along with UPMC Hospitals in Pittsburgh, PA. She became on expert not only for the Intensive Care solution but also as a Bedside Medical Device Interfacing Analyst. She was in charge of the Design, Build, and Implementation for Cerner’s Device Architecture at both hospitals. Project Management was on Sharla’s “to do” list throughout her time at UPMC. She provided and presented a project plan to keep Cerner as well as the client up to date and on schedule for a successful rollout of functionality. Sharla also was given the opportunity to provide her expertise in the Patient Care venue when Emory Hospital; Atlanta GA, Vail Medical Center; Vail CO, and Carolinas Healthcare Systems, Charlotte, NC converted to Cerner solutions.

May 2006 – November 2006 (Velocity Business Consultant and Support Analyst) Sharla spent four months in Cerner’s Velocity Associate Development Program where she obtained essential skill sets for the Patient Care Venue. To finish the Program Certification, she was asked to assist with the Patient Care Support team to further her database skills and problem solving issues for the clients.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sharla graduated from the University of Kansas with the knowledge of Physical Medicine, Biomechanics, and Rehabilitation. She spent a year after College working for a sales company to further her sales skills prior to joining Cerner.

ADDITIONAL SKILLSETS
Acute Care;Powerchart, Orders, PAL, EMAR, and Message Center. Critiacal Care; BMDI, INet and INet Virtual. SmartRoom; CareAware, Mystation, iLocate, iAware, Point of Care Devices. Emergency Medicine; FirstNet, and Powernote ED Physical Medicine, Biomechanics, and Rehabilitation.

Karl Groth, Ph.D.
Co-founder of the Ascent Medical Technology Funds and President and CEO of the General Partner.

Dr. Karl Groth is the co-founder of the Ascent Medical Technology Funds, venture capital funds in USA and Middle East with over 30 years experience in the global health care and medical research industry.
As President and CEO of General Partner, he has a long successful history of developing funds for medical research and innovations. In recent years, General Partner has highly successful technology fund portfolio.
He also served as President and CEO of First Circle Medical Inc., a major player in manufacturing of critical medical devices used in the treatment of patients with chronic intractable diseases.
Dr Groth is an expert on transforming start-up organisations which has led to growth in individual size and market share. He has used a combination of his commercial acumen with his first-rate research background to build successful organisations.
Some of his past accomplishments also include serving at top management positions including CEO level with organisations such as Browne Medical Systems, InStent Inc., Heart Technology Inc. and Clarus Medical.
Dr Groth spent more than a decade in Medtronic Inc. in diverse management positions including Director of Non-Pacing Business for Europe, Middle East and Africa and Director of Business Development.
As a Senior Scientist, Dr Groth also made a key contribution in research and development of antviral drugs and vaccines at department of Infectious Disease, University of Minnesota. He is a prolific author with over 30 peer-reviewed articles credited in professional journals. He is a highly sought speaker and author on topics including vascular disease and endovascular intervention.
Dr. Groth received his BSc from the State University of New York in biology, his MS in plant physiology from New York University and his PhD in microbiology from the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Mario Ibrahim
Regional Sales Manager for Cerner Middle East

Mr. Mario Ibrahim is the Regional Sales Manager with Cerner Corporation. He joined the company in March 2006 and has been leading the sales and marketing organization and developing business within the private and public sectors in the Middle East.
He has more than 25 years experience in healthcare sales, product development and client services, with an excellent track record in corporate, end-user and channel sales of medical equipment, software applications and information systems spanning the fields of general hospital, radiology, laboratory and medical devices.
Prior to joining Cerner Middle East, Mr. Ibrahim has held senior positions with Cedara Software Corporation, Integrated Medical Systems and IDX Systems Corporation establishing and growing their healthcare IT business internationally with focus on the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Ibrahim received his B.Sc. Honors degree in Biomedical Engineering from the UK and has undergone post-graduate work in Medical Physics at the University of London. He possesses sales and general management certification, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, Canada.

Najati Ali-Hasan
Client Result Executive for Cerner Middle East

Najati Ali-Hasan is responsible for Cerner’s delivery of Health IT projects in the emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Najati is serving as Client Result Executive for Cerner implementations at SEHA - Abu Dhabi Health Services Company.
Najati’s international experience spans the United States and the Middle East with large scale high impact projects at reputable healthcare organizations. He is considered an expert in Health IT matters with over 10 years of experience in the field.
Najati received his MBA from Southern Illinois University.

Ghassan Abboud
Sales Manager for EMC

Ghassan Abboud is the Sales Manager covering the Healthcare Sector in UAE for EMC. Ghassan brings over 11 years of experience in the IT field with extensive business and technical knowledge having worked most of his professional years with NCR and EMC. He also has a deep understanding of the Healthcare business in the Middle East acquired during his years of work with GE- Healthcare as the Sales Manager for the Integrated IT Solution Division. Ghassan, has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Communications Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Engineering. In his presentation Ghassan will cover how EMC can help the healthcare institutions maximize their resources, reduce their IT costs, and overcome their information infrastructure challenges from storage, backup, recovery, archiving, and information life cycle management perspectives.