Prof. Sheila Tlou is the Chancellor of Botswana Open University and has been recognized by Avance Media as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Africa. She co-chairs the Global HIV Prevention Coalition and serves as a special ambassador for the African Leaders Malaria Alliance. She is a champion of the Nursing Now Challenge, a trustee of the Florence Nightingale Foundation, and a board member of the Society for AIDS in Africa and the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program.
From 2010 to 2017, she directed the UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa. A former Member of Parliament and Minister of Health in Botswana, she has also been a professor of nursing and the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Development in Primary Health Care for Anglophone Africa.
Prof. Tlou has played a significant role in HIV/AIDS response in Botswana since 1985, enhancing community awareness and training volunteers in home-based care. She founded the Botswana chapter of the Society of Women and AIDS in Africa and facilitated the formation of the Students Against AIDS Society at the University of Botswana.
With a PhD in Nursing Sciences and multiple degrees in nursing, she has numerous publications and has consulted for major health organizations. Prof. Tlou has received many prestigious awards, including the Botswana Presidential Order of Honor and the Florence Nightingale Medal.
Dr. Abiola Fasina-Ayoola, MD, MSHP, DTM&H, FASTMH, FMCEM, is an emergency and critical care physician and health policy consultant in Lagos, Nigeria. She began her journey in emergency medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, and furthered her skills with a two-year POCUS fellowship and a Master’s in Health Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Fasina-Ayoola practices clinical emergency and critical care medicine in Nigeria and has been instrumental in developing emergency medicine and POCUS education. As a board member and foundational fellow of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, she helped draft the national emergency medicine curriculum. Internationally, she is a board member and fellow of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Her research focuses on building emergency health systems in low and middle-income African countries, with work experience in Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zanzibar. In 2019, she founded Emergency Healthcare Consultants (EHCON), training over 380 clinicians in emergency resuscitation, care, and POCUS. EHCON opened a training center in Yaba, Lagos, in September 2020.
Professor Simon Carley MB ChB, PGDip, DipIMC (RCS Ed), FRCS (Ed)(1998), FHEA, FAcadMed, FRCEM, FTACC, MPhil, MD, PhD is a Consultant in Adult and Paediatric Emergency Medicine at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust. He is also a Consultant in Enhanced Pre-Hospital Care with North West Air Ambulance, a BASICS doctor with North West Pre-Hospital Critical Care Charity and a MERIT doctor with North West Ambulance Service.
He is a Professor at the Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (University of Manchester) and visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-founder of the BestBets website, St.Emlyn’s social media learning platforms and the MSc in emergency medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is on twitter as @EMManchester.
Kate Curtis has been an Emergency Nurse since 1994, is Director of Emergency Research Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD, Professor of Emergency and Trauma Nursing at the University of Sydney. Kate’s translational research program focuses on improving the way we deliver care to patients and their families and has attracted more than $20 million funding.
Kate is the world’s most published author in the field of Trauma and Emergency nursing, has mentored more than 70 clinicians in research projects and was the 2019 Australian nurse of the year. She is an expert at leading change and implementation in complex clinical environments.
A/Prof Peter Hodkinson is a full time academic in the Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cape Town. He has spent over a decade in academia, convening a masters program (MPhil in EM) offering one of the only distance, online masters in EM on the continent with a spread of graduates around South Africa and Africa, many now in leadership positions in the speciality. His interests are diverse, but primarily around emergency referral pathways and access, which includes prehospital care and high quality in hospital emergency care.
As of 2023, Peter is also the Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Emergency Medicine, and leads a capable team from around the continent in encouraging and disseminating emergency care research through this upcoming journal which is now internationally recognized with increasing impact metrics.
Doctor Patrick PORTECOP Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine Hyacinthe BASTARAUD University of the Antilles Regional Coordinator DES in Emergency Medicine and lecturer University of the Antilles Coordinator and lecturer in disaster medicine capacity and DU in health disaster Lecturer in medical ethics DFGSM2
Member of the Regional Joint Commission of PH Guadeloupe
Co-Head of DU Vital Emergencies and Medical Air Transport University of the Antilles Head of Critical Care Unit CHU Guadeloupe Head of SAMU SMUR CESU 971 department
Medical Coordinator Emergency Department of CH Sainte Marie (Marie-Galante)
Former Head of the Emergency Reception Service at the GUADELOUPE University Hospital Specialist in Emergency Medicine Graduate in Disaster Medicine Full-Time Hospital Practitioner
Vice-President of the Guadeloupe Hospital Federation Expert with the Bordeaux Administrative Court of Appeal and the administrative courts of the jurisdiction Knight of the National Order of Merit Interior Security Medal bronze level Irma 2017
Dr. Nako-Phuthego is a distinguished medical professional with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Rostov State Medical University and postgraduate training in Aerospace Medicine from the Royal Air Force Centre of Aviation Medicine (RAF-CAM) and King’s College London, where she earned an Advanced PGDip and a Master’s Degree in Aerospace Medicine. With a decade-long medical career, her passion for aviation, particularly military aviation, has driven her to specialize in Aerospace Medicine.
Dr. Nako-Phuthego is the founder and Director of Aeromed Prime Solutions PTY LTD, a pioneering consultancy based in Gaborone, Botswana, offering advanced Aerospace Medicine services to military and civil aviation organizations. She served as a Military Doctor at the rank of Captain for seven years in the Botswana Defence Force’s Air Arm, where she established and led the Aeromedical office as Chief Flight Surgeon.
Currently, Dr. Nako-Phuthego is a Consultant in Aviation Medicine at Aeromed Prime Consultancy, registered with the Botswana Qualifications Authority. She is also the Consultant Aero-Medical Assessor for the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana, overseeing Aerospace Medical matters for the Authority and ICAO. Her notable contributions include a feature in the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Black History Month in 2020, co-authoring a paper in the Journal of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance in February 2023, and introducing an Aerospace Medicine course in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Authority of Botswana.
Dr. Nako-Phuthego is dedicated to research in Aeromedical retrievals and collaborates with the Emergency Medicine Department at the University of Botswana. She is also actively involved in Aviation Mental Health with PsychoTech Consultants, guiding on matters related to aviation mental health in Botswana.
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