CEO, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

Adj Prof Tang is the CEO of TTSH – the flagship hospital of the National Healthcare Group (Singapore). With more than 2200 beds on HealthCity Novena Campus, TTSH serves the healthcare needs of 1.4 million residents in Central Singapore. As CEO, Adj Prof Tang drives the hospital’s long term plan to achieve excellence in Tertiary Care and Academic Health, enabled through digital and workforce transformation and also redevelopment of the Campus, as part of Phase 2 of the HealthCity Novena Masterplan.

University of Calgary, Canada

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Hong Kong University, Hong Kong

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Professor, Kyushu University Hospital, Japan

Prof Shin Ushiro works as a deputy director of and divisional director of the Division of Patient
Safety in Kyushu University Hospital, Japan. At institutional level he has engaged in wide range of quality and safety initiatives such as incident reporting system, hospital accreditation, conflict mitigation through candid communication with patient and family. Dr. Ushiro also works in the Japan Council for Quality Health Care (JQ) which has project lines such as Hospital accreditation, National adverse event reporting and learning system, No-fault compensation system for cerebral palsy. JQ is an influential body over quality and safety improvement across healthcare sector in his country. As such, his activities extend to
a national level. Furthermore, at international level, he worked as a board member of ISQua (International
Society for Quality in Healthcare) during 2017-2024 which provides global opportunities of conference, education, external evaluation. He still works for ISQua as a member of Accreditation Council which is one of the most important committees in ISQua. In addition, he has been working as a steering committee member of the serial Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety. He also serves as a member of the G20 Patient Safety Leaders Group. Who is engaged in those activities which are valued opportunities for Dr
Ushiro to work with WHO.

Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners & Director of Population Health at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England

Dr Dominique Allwood is Chief Medical Officer at UCLPartners, a large health innovation partnership across North London and Essex covering a population of 5 million people, 17 hospitals and 5 universities. Dominique is currently Director of Population Health, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She provides leadership and expertise on a range of areas including improving equity and population health, anchor institutions, environmental sustainability, clinical engagement, and quality improvement. A Consultant in Public Health Medicine by background, she is a medical leader with 20 years of experience in healthcare including NHS provider and commissioner organisations, management consultancy and think tanks. She is a medical leader & public health physician with over 20 years of experience. She is an international speaker and facilitator & has published over 35 papers on improving healthcare. She holds an MPH and is Associate Editor of BMJ Leader Journal, Board Member of The Patient Revolution & Scientific Advisory Committee member, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge. She is currently completing an MBA at Henley Business School.

Hospital Authority, Hong Kong

Dr. Chow is a graduate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is now the Chief of Service in the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital. Dr. Chow obtained the Croucher Foundation Fellowship and had worked in the Artificial Cells and Organs Research Centre at McGill University, Montreal. Dr. Chow has combined his position as nephrologist with that of honorary teaching staff in the Prince of Wales Hospital. He is actively involved in student teaching, and works as Deputy Service Director (Quality & Safety) at the Prince of Wales Hospital. Dr. Chow has published more than 290 Indexed publications in peer review journals, over 110 of them being the first author. As of January 2024, his H-index is 54.

Chief Executive of Learning and Innovation, Qulturum, Sweden

Göran Henriks has been Chief Executive of Learning and Innovation at The Qulturum in the County Council of Jönköping, Sweden, since 1997. Qulturum is a centre for quality, leadership and management development for the employees in the County and also for health care on a regional and national level.

Göran has nearly forty years’ experience of management in the Swedish Health Care system. He is a member of the Jönköping County Council top management and Strategic Group. The county are ranked among the best in Swedish care with regards to patient satisfaction, access, clinical performance, safety and costs.

Göran is a senior fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and is the chair of the Strategic Committee of the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare.

NanYang Technological University, Singapore

Professor Joseph J.Y. Sung, a distinguished medical researcher, earned his MB BS from The University of Hong Kong in 1983, later obtaining a PhD in biomedical sciences from the University of Calgary and an MD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). With fellowships from esteemed medical institutions worldwide, he is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and a Founding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (ASHK).

Renowned in gastroenterology, Professor Sung’s seminal work includes proving the relationship between H. Pylori and peptic ulcer diseases. He pioneered antibiotic treatments for H. Pylori infection and innovative endoscopic procedures for ulcer bleeding, transforming global gastroenterological practices. His research now extends to the gut microbiome and AI in clinical medicine.

Professor Sung led groundbreaking colorectal cancer screening research in the Asia-Pacific, earning recognition like the Laurel Award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation (2008) and the Marshall and Warren Lecture Award (2009). Notably, he spearheaded efforts against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, recognized as an “Asian Hero” by Time Magazine.

Acknowledged with numerous awards, including the Silver Bauhinia Star (2004) and the World Outstanding Chinese Award (2013), Professor Sung’s contributions are acclaimed locally and internationally. He has authored over 1000 scientific articles and edited numerous medical textbooks, cementing his legacy in medical academia.

Editor-in-Chief, The BMJ, BMJ, England

Kamran Abbasi is editor in chief of The BMJ. He is a doctor, journalist, editor, and broadcaster.

After starting his career in hospital medicine, in various medical specialties such as psychiatry and cardiology, Kamran worked at the BMJ from 1997 to 2005. He was deputy editor and acting editor during that time. In 2013, Kamran returned to the BMJ in a new role as executive editor for content, leading the journal’s strategic growth internationally, digitally, and in print.

In December 2021 he was appointed editor in chief of the BMJ.

Outside the BMJ, Kamran’s previous roles include being editor of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization and a consultant editor for PLOS Medicine. He is editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine and JRSM Open.

Kamran also created three major e-learning resources for professional development of doctors, including BMJ Learning and the Royal Society of Medicine’s video lecture service.

Kamran has held board level positions and been chief executive of an online learning company. He has consulted for several major organisations including Harvard University, the World Health Organization, and McKinsey & Co.

In addition, Kamran is an honorary visiting professor in the department of primary care and public health at Imperial College, London. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of London, patron of the South Asian Health Foundation, and a member of the General Advisory Council of the King’s Fund.

He is an experienced contributor on radio and television.

Kamran’s other passion is cricket. He writes on cricket for publications throughout the world, including Dawn and Wisden, but is best known for his popular blog that featured on ESPNCricinfo for over a decade. His cricket book, Englistan: An immigrant’s journey on the turbulent winds of Pakistan cricket, is available from Amazon.

Kamran tweets from https://twitter.com/KamranAbbasi

President Elect, Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators; National Director of Medical Services, Calvary Health Care, Australia

Professor Erwin Loh is President Elect of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators and National Director of Medical Services for Calvary Health Care, with 10 private hospitals, 3 public hospitals and 80 aged care facilities. Prior to that, he was Chief Medical Officer at Goulburn Valley Health, National Chief Medical Officer and Group General Manager Clinical Governance for St Vincent’s Health Australia, Australia’s largest not-for-profit health provider, and Chief Medical Officer of Monash Health, Victoria’s largest health service.

He is qualified in both medicine and law, with general and specialist registration as a medical practitioner (medical administration specialty) and is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia. He also has an MBA, Master of Health Service Management, and PhD.

He is currently a director on the board of the Royal Australasian College of Medical Administrators, Healthshare Victoria and the Presbyterian Ladies’ College. He has previously been a director on the boards of St Vincent’s Institute, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Monash Health Research Precinct Pty Ltd, Australian Medical Association (Victoria) and Law Institute of Victoria. He is a Graduate and Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

He is Professor at Monash University, where he leads the Clinical Leadership and Management Unit at the Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. He is Honorary Clinical Professor with the title of Professor at the Department of Medical Education, University of Melbourne. He is Honorary Professor at Macquarie University at the Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research.

He teaches and carries out research in health law, health management and clinical leadership. He has been an invited speaker at local and international conferences, published on health law, medical management, and health technology, and is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, with an interest in medical futurology.

He received the Distinguished Fellow Award from RACMA in 2017 for “commitment to governance, research and publication”.