Global Health Catalyst summit 2019 speakers
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Chair USA House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Global Health,
Nobel Prize-winning Scientist and
Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine
Former NIH and NCI Director
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Radio and TV
C/O Carol Pearson,
Senior Health Reporter
Honorable Audley Shaw
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Jamaica
Calvin Johnson
Former NFL wide receiver widely regarded as one of the greatest wide receivers of all time
Honorable Dr Jane Aceng
Minister of Health, Republic of Uganda
Dr Riccardo Audisio
Professor of Surgical Oncology,
Editor of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Dr Eduardo Cazap
Professor, President of SLACOM, Past President of the UICC
Editor-in-Chief of eCancer
Dr Ahmed Elzawawy
Professor and Chair of the Harvard GHC win-win initiative
Mrs. Dorothy Nyong’o
Managing Trustee of Africa Cancer Foundation, First Lady Kisumu County, Kenya
H.E. Hon Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
Governor of Kisumu County, Kenya, Former Minister of Medical Services
Dr Paul Nguyen
Professor @ Harvard Medical School, Vice-Chair for Clinical Research, Department of Radiation Oncology
Co-Director of Harvard Global Health Catalyst
Dr. Beatrice Wiafe-Addai
President-elect, African Organization for Research and Training in Cancer (AORTIC), Chief Executive Officer, Peace and Love Hospitals, Ghana
Dow Wilson
President and CEO
Varian Medical Systems
Krish Suthanthiran
President and Founder of Team Best companies
Dr Julius Garvey
Surgeon and Son of Legendary figure, Marcus Garvey
First Lady of Ondo State
Chairperson, Ondo State Cancer Control Committee, Nigeria
Dr David kerr
Professor @ Oxford University.
Founder of AfrOX
Dr Twalib Ngoma
Professor and Chair of Clinical Oncology, MUHAS, Tanzania
Chair, Clinical Oncology
Dr Timothy Rebbeck
Professor, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Julius Thomas
NFL Player
H.E. Brylyne Chitsunge
Pan African Ambassador of Food Security, Phytomedicines Session Chair
Dr Gemma Alderton
Senior Editor, Science
AAAS Science International, Inc.
Michael Fitzgerald
Editor, The Boston Globe Magazine
Dr Lisa V Adams
Associate Dean for Global Health
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
Dr Liza Ekole
President and Founder
Collaborative Relational Intelligence™ Leadership, Inc
Dr Gary Strichtartz
Professor and Director of Pain Research Center,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
The hon. Henry Lowe
Executive Chairman
Environmental Health Foundation | R&D Group of Companies and Flavocure Biotech inc
Dr Madan Rehani
President of IOMP
Director of Outreach in Radiation protection, MGH, Harvard
Dr Frank Giordano
Professor and Chair of Radiation Oncology University of Heidelberg Mannheim, Germany
Dr Jonathan Schoenfeld
Professor @
Harvard Medical School
Adeola Fayehun
Journalist and Youtube personality
Dr Charlotte Moser
Clinical oncologist and part of Strategy leadership team of ELEKTA focussing on innovation&digital health
H.E. Carlos dos Santos
Ambassador of Mozambique to the USA
Dr. David Collingridge
Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, The Lancet Oncology, London
H.E. Mahamadou Nimaga
Ambassador of Mali to the USA
Dipl.-Ing.V.Steil
Head Physicist, Department of Radiation Oncology
Universitätsklinikum Mannheim GmbH
Joel Mangan
Global Health Initiatives Leader, IBM Foundation
Dr Rachel R Phillips
Consultant Radiologist
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Radiology, University of Oxford
Dr Dennis Plamer
Dean, Baptist Institute of Health Sciences. Mbingo Baptist Hospital
Cameroon
Kwanele Asante
African Health Equity Activist
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Taofeeq Ige
President of Federation of African Medical Physicists.
Dr Ross Berbeco
Professor @ Harvard Medical School, Director of Medical Physics Research, BWH/DFCI
Melvin Foote
President, Constituency for Africa
Dr Eric Ford
Professor, Radiation Oncology, Global Health PI, University of Washington
Dr Luca Incrocci
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Erasmus Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Dr Tom Randall
Professor @ Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr Mohammed Sulma
Professor at Purdue, University
Dr Scott Lovitch
Professor, Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Dr Rebecca Buecker
Radiation Oncologist, Germany
Dr Michael Jaklitsch
Professor, Surgery,
Harvard Medical School
Danny Burke
CEO of eCancer
Dr James Alaro
Program Director,
National Cancer Institute Center for Global Health
Dr Linda Grossheim
Radiation Oncologist, Michigan, USA
Dr Melissa Davis
Scientific Director, International Center for the Study of Breast Cancer Subtypes
Weill Cornell Medicine
Department of Surgery
Hue Jackson
Co-founder of Hue Jackson Foundation and former coach of the Cleveland Browns
Dr Golam Abu Zakaria
Professor, Chairman and Chief Medical Physicist, Klinikum Oberberg, Teaching Hospital of the University of Cologne, Germany
Dr Laurence Court
Professor @ MD Anderson, Cancer Center, Texas
Dr Kingsley Ndoh
Assistant Professor of Global Health at University of Washington
Dr Stephen Avery
Professor @ University of Pennsylvania
Dr Christian Ntizimira
Harvard GHC palliative care chair
Executive Secretary of Rwanda Palliative Care & Hospice Organisation
Dr. Suzana Manxhuka-Kërliu
Professor, Dean/Faculty of Medicine, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Kosovo
Head of Kosovo National Board for Cancer Control
Dr Shaban Memeti
Head of the National Institute of Public Health of the Republic of North Macedonia
Dr Ana Ugrinska
Head of the University Institute of Positron Emission Tomography of the Republic of North Macedonia
Dr Ilir Ismaili
Head of the Breast Cancer Department, Professor at the Medical Faculty, University of Tetova, Republic of North Macedonia
Dr. Gilberto Lopez
Editor-in-chief ASCO's Journal of Global Oncology
Dr Tommy Shavers
Co-Founder & CEO of NESTRE Health & Performance
Dr Erno Sajo
Professor and Director of Medical Physics, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Dr Hugo Aerts
Professor @ Harvard Medical School, Artificial Intelligence and Global Health session chair
Jennifer Dent
President, BIO Ventures for Global Health
Irini Albanti, DrPH, MPH, MA
Director at the Global Health Initiative (GHI) at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
Dr Leslie Lehmann
Clinical director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Dr Anthony Zietman
Editor in Chief of the Red Journal
Professor @ Harvard Medical School
Jessica Frichionne
Senior Commissioning Editor, IOP Sciences
Dr Fadelu Temidayo
Instructor in Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr Jonathan Celli
Professor @ University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dr Arif Ali
Professor in Radiation Oncology @ Emory University
Dr Mandar Bhagwat
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Dr Sarwat Hussain
Professor of Radiology
University of Massachusetts
Dr Alvaro Luongo
Professor and Director of INCA and Cancer control program
Uruguay
Dr Sumera Butt
Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital & Research Center Pakistan.
Daryl Thompson
Director of Scientific Initiatives
Global Research & Discovery Group, Florida, USA
Dr Ngeh Toyang
CEO, Flavocure Biotech Inc
Maryland, USA
Dr Krystyna Kiel
Professor at Rush University Medical Center
Dr Johannes Schweizer,
Chief Science Officer
Arbor Vita Corporation
Habib Nehme
Elekta, Executive Vice President (EVP)
Middle East and Africa
Dr Clare Thibodeaux
Director of Scientific Affairs
Cures Within Reach
CureAccelerator
Julie Chessell
Warrior Momma, Motivational Speaker, Ontario Canada