Speakers
The conference will host a number of internationally renowned speakers as well as many regional and local healthcare speakers who will present, moderate sessions or hold workshops at the Forum. Information about some of our international speakers from our Forum partner Planetree is included below. More speakers will be added as they are confirmed.
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Dr. Dia Hassan
Dr. Dia Hassan received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from
the American University of Beirut and her PhD in Health Services
Administration from the United States.
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Dr. Dorothea Wild
Dr. Dorothea Wild is an experienced physician, physician leader,
teacher, and researcher.
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Hanneke Peeters
Hanneke is the General Manager of ‘&happy’, a young company
started by Games for Health and Stichting Sensire, a large
elderly care organization in The Netherlands.
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Ilkay Baylam
Assistant Director, Planetree
Ilkay Baylam joined Planetree in May 2017, providing
consultation to key stakeholders on the implementation of
Planetree’s relationship-centered model of care and
international designation criteria as well as organizational
assessments.
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Jill Golde, MS
SVP, Market Development
Jill Golde brings over 25 years of experience as a
mission-driven consultant and trainer for a broad range of
private and public sector organizations.
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Judith John
Judith John’s career spans all aspects of communications,
marketing and public affairs, with an extensive background in
arts, culture, not-for-profit, health and social services.
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Karin Jay, MA
Karin Jay joined Planetree in June 2011, where she is working
to expand the network of Planetree Affiliates internationally,
and provide consultation to key stakeholders on the
implementation of Planetree’s relationship-centered model of
care and international certification criteria.
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Lawrence G. Smith, MD, MACP
Executive Vice President & Physician-in-Chief, Northwell
Health
Dean, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
As physician-in-chief, Dr. Smith is Northwell Health’s senior
physician on all clinical issues. He previously served as
Northwell’s Chief Medical Officer.
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Lisa Allen, PhD
Lisa Allen, PhD. joined Johns Hopkins Medicine and The
Armstrong Institute in September 2014 as the first Chief Patient
Experience Officer for the system.
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Maria Hale, PsyD, MBA
Maria Hale is the Associate Executive Director of Northern
Westchester Hospital, a 245 bed community hospital in Mount
Kisco, New York.
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Marita Bossers-Nabben
Marita Bossers is the Executive Director of Planetree in both
the Netherlands and Belgium.
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Patrick A. Charmel
Patrick A. Charmel, President and CEO of Griffin Health, has
been associated with Griffin since 1979, when he served as an
undergraduate intern while attending Quinnipiac University.
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Shawna Pandya
Dr. Shawna Pandya is a physician, scientist-astronaut
candidate, speaker, martial artist and adventurer. As a
scientist-astronaut candidate with Project PoSSUM, she has
tested commercial spacesuits in micro-gravity and flown over 100
parabolas to date.
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Susan B. Frampton, PhD
Dr. Frampton is the President of Planetree International, a
non-profit advocacy and membership organization that works with
a growing network of healthcare provider organizations in 28
countries to implement comprehensive person-centered models of
care.
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Ms. Alma De Guia Carmen
Ms. Alma has worked more 13 years in service at Hamad Medical Corporation and is a licensed Occupational Therapist and a Registered Nurse by profession.
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Ms. Amanie Gaus
Amanie Gaus is a Staff Nurse of Enaya long-term care facility at Rumailah Hospital for more than 4 years. Currently an active member of Wound Care Nurse link and Infection Control link.
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Mr. Ashok Bhagat
Ashok Bhagat graduated in Occupational Therapy from India. He has vast experience in Mental Health.
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Ms. Ayat Alsmadi
Ms. Ayat is a pediatric head nurse in Al Wakra Hospital. She obtained her BSc. of Nursing from Jordan 2010 and she had joined HMC on April 2012 as a staff nurse in AWH-NICU.
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Dr. Daniel Coffey
I have been a General Practitioner/Family Physician since 2000. I have a strong interest in Mental Health in the Community, Mind-Body Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.
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Dr. Emad Edeen Al Duhirat
Dr. Emad is currently a Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery Clinical Fellow, prior to this post; he also served as chief resident of the Otolaryngology Department in HMC.
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Ms. Fatima Moodzna Ali-Alawi
Fatima Moodzna Ali-Alawi is a graduate of Ateneo de Zamboanga University, Philippines, with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
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Mr. Gary Kenward
A senior nurse with a breadth of managerial, research and clinical experience. Joined HMC in Jan 2018 after a full career in the British Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2017.
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Dr. Hanan Saleh A Alyazeedi Alyafei
Dr. Hanan Saleh Alyazeedi A Alyafei earned her Medical degree in 2000 and Doctorate in 2002 from Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain and served residencies at Hamad Medical Corporation in 2003.
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Ms. Justine Veronica Plaaties
Justine has been working in Community Health Settings for more than 20 years. She has a 4-year Nursing Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery.
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Dr. Maha Othman
Dr. Maha Othman is a patient experience expert, health improvement project manager, researcher and dentist.
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Dr. Mahmoud Ali Zirie
Dr. Mahmoud A. Zirie is a Senior Consultant and Head of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Department of Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation.
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Ms. Manal Musallam Othman
Manal is the Director of Diabetes Education for Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).
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Dr. Mani Chandran
Dr. Mani Chandran -Senior Consultant-Geriatric Specialist in Hamad Medical Corporation with 24 years of clinical experience in psychiatry.
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Ms. Michelle Dano
Ms. Michelle Dano has more than 12 years of experience as staff nurse and nurse in-charge in Middle Eastern countries since 2006.
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Dr. Muna Al Maslamani
Dr. Muna Al Maslamani is the Medical Director of Communicable Disease Center and Assistant Head of Infectious Diseases Division–Medicine Department at Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar.
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Ms. Mona Nasr Abdelazim Mohamed
Mona holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Ain Shams University in Egypt and a Master’s Degree in Healthcare and Management from the Royal College Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI).
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Ms. Refa Hanish B Z Bakhit
Ms. Refa is a Qatari nurse at HMC with 14 years healthcare experience between clinical, managerial, education and training.
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Dr. Sufia Athar
MBBS, DNB, Fellow in Minimal Invasive Surgery, Fellow Indian College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists.
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Ms. Veronica P. Ferrer
Ms. Veronica is a pediatric staff nurse in Al Wakra hospital. She obtained her BSc. of Nursing from Philippine 2007 and she had joined HMC on June 2014 as a staff nurse in AWH-Pediatric inpatient.
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Dr. Yehia Elkhawly
Dr. Yehya is a Clinical Pharmacist in Al Wakra Hospital since 2012 and an Adjunct Clinical Lecturer (College of Pharmacy – Qatar University) since 2015.
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Dr. Bridget Javed
Dr. Bridget Javed graduated with her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy in USA.
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Dr. Monica Zolezzi
Bachelor of Pharmacy and Biochemistry degree from the Catholic University Santa Maria in Arequipa, Peru.
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Mr. Romeo Miguel Alonzo
A nurse with a Master's Degree by profession, started my career as an ICU nurse then moved to being a quality specialist with a combined experience of 10 years in the healthcare field.
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Mrs. Arti Jain
A writer, blogger, teacher. Stumbled upon the opportunity to volunteer at the PRC by chance in November 2018.
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