Speaker Bios

Lauri Berger de Brito
Global IVF, Co-Founder

Presentation: Global IVF Panel-Using Technology to Build an International Practice

Lauri Berger de Brito is a former television producer, director and writer who spent 6 ½ years trying to create her family. After countless miscarriages and infertility treatments, she had her children through the help of a gestational surrogate and egg donor. As co-director of the long-standing and reputable Los Angeles based company, Agency for Surrogacy Solutions, Inc., Ms. Berger de Brito channels her former professional skills into assisting clients world-wide in creating their own families. Ms. Berger de Brito now jokingly says she 'produces' babies instead of television shows… and is proud of every single one!

Taking a cue from the growing global fertility trend, Ms. Berger de Brito with her business partner, Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos, created the immediately successful informational website – GlobalIVF, Inc. - specifically directed at patients looking to travel cross-border for fertility treatments. Because of their expertise in the global IVF market and specifically how clinics can better promote themselves to attract and keep international clients (whether travelling to or from the United States), the two women have become highly sought after consultants by many IVF clinics and medical tourism companies around the world.

Ms. Berger de Brito is a proud member of PVED (board member), ASRM, ESHRE, RESOLVE, AFA and EDSPA. Ms. Berger de Brito (along with her business partner) have become the "go-to" experts for fertility travel in the United States and abroad - appearing on ABC World News Tonight and numerous radio shows including Voice of America Network, Surrogacy Law Radio, Conceive Radio and "Dare To Dream" on KYHY 92.5FM. Ms. Berger de Brito has travelled extensively and, along with Ms. Kaycoff-Manos, continues to research and explore fertility options/companies/clinics worldwide. Her abstracts on cross-border travel for US residents pursuing surrogacy and egg donation abroad were recently featured at ESHRE in Rome.

Glenn Cohen, JD
Harvard School of Law, Professor of Law

Presentation: Liability & Malpractice for Global Care: What is the Legal & Regulatory Environmnet?

Glenn Cohen, JD is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School and Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Prof. Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics (sometimes also called "medical ethics") and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, Professor Cohen has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world and his work has been covered on PBS, NPR, in the Boston Globe, and several other media venues.

Prof. Cohen's current projects relate to reproduction/reproductive technology and to medical tourism – the travel of patients who are residents of one country, the "home country," to another country, the "destination country," for medical treatment. His past work has included projects on end of life decision-making, FDA regulation, research ethics, and commodification.

His award-winning academic work has appeared in the journals such as the Stanford, Southern California, Minnesota, Iowa, and Hastings Law Reviews, the Harvard Journal of Law and Negotiation, the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Food and Drug Law Journal, the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and the Hastings Center Report.

Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Cohen served as a clerk to Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He also served as an appellate attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate staff, where he acted as lead counsel in over 12 Circuit Court cases and represented the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, in conjunction with the Solicitor General's office. Immediately before joining the faculty he was a fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center.

Nathan Cortez, JD
Southern Methodist University, Professor of Law

Presentation: How will Health Reform Affect the Cross-Border Market?

Professor Cortez teaches and writes in the areas of health law, administrative law, food and drug law, and the legislative process. His scholarship focuses on emerging international markets in health care and biotechnology, and he has become one of the leading legal scholars on patient mobility and cross-border health care. Professor Cortez has also published on the preemption of state and local immigration laws, and has works-in-progress on the uninsured after health reform, administrative agencies' use of adverse publicity, and the First Amendment implications of FDA regulations. Professor Cortez has provided legal commentary to a number of media, including CNN, National Public Radio, and the Associated Press.

Before joining the SMU faculty, Professor Cortez practiced with the Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter, where he represented clients on health care regulatory matters, with a special emphasis on fraud and abuse, FDA enforcement, privacy, and the Medicare and Medicaid programs. While at Arnold & Porter, Professor Cortez litigated pro bono cases with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and was a Board Member of the D.C. Hispanic Bar Foundation. In 2006, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers-Camden Law School.

Matthew Feschbach
CEO, Okyanos Heart Insititute

Presentation: The Okyanos Story: Building a Global Care Facility with Stem Cell Research

Matthew Feshbach is CEO and co-founder of Okyanos Heart Institute which brings a new standard of care and quality of life to patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), utilizing a European-Union approved cell processing device. Based in Freeport, The Bahamas, Okyanos Heart Institute is a Center of Excellence (CoE) adhering to U.S. surgical center standards.

Prior to the creation of Okyanos Heart Institute, Matt's career spanned more than 30 years as an investor. Extensive research led Matt to believe that stem cell therapy could provide an answer to the largest unmet healthcare need in the Western world: heart disease.

Along with Manuel Vianna, Matt founded Okyanos Heart Institute to provide stem cell therapy for people with CAD who had exhausted all available options from the current standard of care. The Greek god of rivers, "Okyanos" symbolizes the primary mechanism of action that these adult stem cells have on ischemic (lack of blood flow) heart tissue, the result of the plaque deposits in the coronary arteries. The cells, derived from a person's adipose (fat) tissue, create new blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis. The cells facilitate blood flow in the heart and improve heart function, as measured by a rigorous clinical trial known as the PRECISE trial.

Maximizing quality of life for patients and their families is the singular focus of Matt and his team.

Ilan Geva, MA
Ilan Geva & Friends,Founder

Presentation: The Right Way to Build a Brand in Global Healthcare

Ilan is an international branding expert, who teaches, practices and implements all brand touchpoints. He joined Ogilvy & Mather as Design Head and Creative Director in Johannesburg, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Later he held senior creative positions with Leo Burnett and Frankel & Co. (now ARC Worldwide) his other positions were: VP Exec. Creative Director at Kragie/Newell (now Integer) Des Moines, and VP Creative Director Gage Marketing, Minneapolis. He currently runs Ilan Geva & Friends, a brand communications consultancy in Chicago, and serves as the U.S. Narrator of the European firm brandstory.

His specific tourism, travel and hospitality experience includes: Israel Ministry of Tourism, Turkey Tourism, South African Tourism, British Tourist Authority, Mexico Tourism Board, State of Iowa Tourism, Lisbon Convention Bureau, United Airlines, Korean Air, Alitalia, Sheraton Hotels, King David Hotel, Doubletree Hotels, Avis, American Express Travel Services, and more.

He currently teaches Branding at the University of Chicago, and Advertising, Branding, Consumer Behavior, and copywriting and advertising at DePaul University. He taught Introduction to Design at the School of Hospitality Management at Kendall College, Integrated Marketing Communications, Interactive advertising and International Advertising at Columbia College Chicago, Brand Planning & Message Strategy at Roosevelt University and Packaging Design at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago.

David Hom, MBA
ScioInspire, President

Presentation: Value Based Benefit Design as an Option in Global Healthcare

David Hom is an internationally-recognized expert in the field of Value-based Benefits and Employee Wellness. He joined Solucia after more than 25 years with Pitney-Bowes Corporation, where he was responsible for introducing their leading-edge programs in value-based wellness, responsible for reducing medical trend to half of the industry average over a number of years.

Dave received his undergraduate degree in economics from the State University of New York at Albany and his MBA degree from Hofstra University.

Dave has co-authored 2 books. The first was released in 2006, Total Value Total Return: Seven Rules for Optimizing Employee Health Benefits for a Healthier and More Productive Workforce. Released in 2007, BeneFIT Design- the 7 Steps to Value Based Designs contains a forward written by former CMS Director, Mark McClellan. More than 100,000 copies of have been distributed to human resources professionals.

Jamil Hussain, PhD
International Quality Indicator Project, VP Global Markets

Presentation: Moving Beyond Patient Testimonials-Global Care Metrics and Patient Satisfaction

Dr. Jamil Hussain comes to Press Ganey with a wealth of experience in the BioPharma and health care markets and has held executive positions in sales, marketing, and business development with extensive experience in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and North America. He has worked with such companies as Informa, MicroStrategy, Reed Elsevier, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline. Dr. Hussain has 20 years combined experience in sales, business development, and marketing at executive level. He also holds a PhD in Pharmacokinetics.

Bradley Jacobs MD MPH
Integrative Medicine Practitioner, Author, & Senior Health & Wellness Executive

Presentation: The Future of Integrative Medicine for Global Care

As an experienced integrative medicine practitioner and senior health and wellness industry executive, Bradly Jacobs MD MPH has broad-based experience in healthcare services and health information technology in academic and corporate settings. He also has a long and deep commitment to caring for patients using a patient-centered, individualized, and whole person approach.

Dr. Jacobs is focused on developing innovative clinical models and research methods to help people live healthier, happier and more productive lives that are environmentally sustainable. To this end, he spends his time conducting research, and building technology platforms and decision-support tools at Mytrus Inc and caring for patients in his integrative primary care clinical practice at Cavallo Point Lodge. Dr Jacobs is senior author of "The ACP Evidence-Based Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine".

Dr Jacobs is co-founder, SVP Clinical Affairs, and Senior Medical Director of Mytrus Inc., a clinical research organization dedicated to providing technology and services for remotely-conducted direct-to-participant clinical trials. This technology reduces the time and cost of conducting clinical trials, as well as their environmental impact. Dr Jacobs has a private practice located at Cavallo Point Lodge nestled in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Sausalito, California. His practice offers integrative medicine primary care, second opinion and retreats such as life enhancement healthy living programs, and executive heath assessments.

Dr Jacobs was Senior Medical Director for Revolution Health Networks (RHN), ranked among the top 3 health destinations on the internet with over 12 million monthly unique visitors in 2008. Dr. Jacobs was the founding Medical Director of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Osher Center for Integrative Medicine where he held the Osher Foundation Endowed Chair and was full-time faculty from 1997-2006. Dr. Jacobs leads workshops nationally, and has published books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles.

Bradly is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed his residency and clinical research fellowship at UCSF. He holds a Master's degree of Public Health (MPH) in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from UC-Berkeley. Dr. Jacobs is trained in Internal Medicine and has studied acupuncture, nutrition, herbal medicine, stress management, yoga and martial arts.

Sherry Kaufield, MA, FACHE
Joint Commission International, Executive Director

Presentation: Role of Accreditation in Quality

Sherry Kaufield joined Joint Commission Resources in 2004 with over 30 years of experience in health care. Sherry oversees JCI international consulting and education services with past or present projects in over 90 countries. She collaborates regularly with JCI Regional Managing Directors in Singapore, Dubai, Milan, and Ferney-Voltaire, France.

Sherry has advised both domestic and international. healthcare organizations in the areas of standards compliance, accreditation readiness, patient safety and quality improvement. She has traveled extensively and worked with multiple clients in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Clients include individual organizations, healthcare systems, Ministries of Health, health authorities, third party payors and professional healthcare bodies. Sherry regularly serves as a faculty member at international practica and other educational events. She is a consulting editor and contributor for the publication, "Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started" and many other publications. Sherry serves on the JCI Health and Safety International Response Team, and holds a Yellow Belt in Robust Process Improvement™ utilizing effective change management tools and techniques.

As a former Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Compliance Officer of a 400 bed tertiary Medical Center and Level I trauma center, Sherry has broad expertise in operations, business development, public relations and marketing, and in the development and implementation of multi-hospital performance improvement and strategic planning initiatives. Her background also includes an appointment as CEO of a large non-profit healthcare organization, and prior to her work with JCI, provided expert consultation to numerous healthcare and other organizations in the areas of board governance and strategic planning.

Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos, MA
Global IVF, Co-Founder

Presentation: Global IVF Panel-Using Technology to Build an International Practice

Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos, MA is a leading expert in the field of surrogacy, infertility and traveling for treatment. However, prior to helping hundreds of other people become parents, she suffered through more than 4 years of her own infertility problems. She eventually succeeded and became a mother with the help of a gestational surrogate and egg donor. After her first-hand experience with infertility, Ms. Kaycoff-Manos gave up her career as a TV producer and formed Agency for Surrogacy & Fertility Solutions, Inc - a globally recognized surrogacy agency based in Southern California.

Soon after, she saw an increasing need in the fertility community for global options and information, and together, with her business partner, Lauri Berger de Brito, developed a unique fertility-related web-venture – www.GlobalIVF.com. GlobalIVF.com brings free information, articles, videos, personal journeys, directories of clinics/IVF tourism companies and related services directly to a very targeted audience, fertility patients interested in traveling for IVF and IVF-related treatments. Ms. Kaycoff-Manos and Ms. Berger de Brito's expertise in the global IVF market gives them a unique perspective in which to help clinics better promote and market themselves to attract and keep international clients (whether travelling to or from the United States). The two women have become highly sought after consultants by many IVF clinics and medical tourism companies around the world.

Ms. Kaycoff-Manos recently appeared as an expert on NBC's "Today" show and has been quoted as a fertility/surrogacy expert in the Los Angeles Times, Parenting Magazine, Conceive On-Line, Iparenting and numerous books. She has also contributed articles to and been an expert speaker for RESOLVE, the American Fertility Association, Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED), Voice of America Network, Surrogacy Law Radio, Conceive Radio and "Dare To Dream" on KYHY 92.5FM. Ms. Kaycoff-Manos and Ms. Berger de Brito contributed two abstracts at ESHRE 2010 on cross-border travel for US residents pursuing surrogacy and egg donation and continue to do ongoing original research on cross-border travel for fertility treatments - specifically on egg donation and surrogacy. Ms. Kaycoff-Manos is a member of numerous fertility-related organizations including PVED (board member), RESOLVE, ASRM, EDSPA, AFA and ESHRE.

Nicholas P. Krut, MSEE, CNE, CSSA
Red Team USA, Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Presentation: Best Practices for Securely Transferring Information through Cyber Space

Mr. Nicholas P. Krut is the senior cyber security engineer for Colorado's leading MSSP, Red Team USA, in Denver. He is a leading innovator in the area of cyber security for the legal and financial sectors. Mr. Krut began his Scientific & Engineering career by graduating from Youngstown State University with a BSEE (Electrical Engineering).

Upon graduation, Nick worked as an Advanced Research & Development Scientist at the Air Force Avionics Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB. One of the projects he helped to develop was the "Forward-looking Infrared System" (FLIR) technology used on today's fighter aircraft. Additionally, he led a team of computer scientists to develop "one of the most automated electro-optical sensor evaluation facilities in the country" - the Air Force Targeting System's Characterization Facility. Concurrently, he earned a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University. Nick was promoted to be the project engineer for the Instrumentation and Flight Safety System of the MX ballistic missile at the Air Force Plant Representative Office at Lockheed Martin.

Nick next turned his visionary efforts toward developing systems in the emerging office and professional computer industry. Nick formed and operated PC Systems, Inc. The firm designs and implements secure computer systems for a number of Denver's law firms. Other clients included Blue Cross/Shield and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Mr. Krut has helped to develop proprietary procedures that his cyber security company, Red Team USA, implements in its subscription-based Cyber Protection Services. Nick's current focus is creating secure stationary and portable data platforms for the medical industry. Nick has co-authored scores of "cyber security best-practices" videos that are viewed internationally at www.RedTeamWorldwide.com. He is a member of the FBI's Infragard Program.

Jeremy Lack, JD
Attorney & ADR Neutral, Geneva, Switzerland

Presentation: Cross Border Perspectives on ADR

Jeremy Lack is an independent lawyer and ADR Neutral, certified by the International Mediation Institute (IMI). He is a JAMS International Panelist and specializes in international commercial dispute prevention and resolution processes. He qualified as an English barrister in 1989 and as a US Attorney-at-Law in 1990 (New York state, various federal courts, and the US Patent and Trademark Office). He is also a Door Tenant with QUADRANT CHAMBERS in London, counsel to PEARL COHEN ZEDEK LATZER LLP in New York, and was a partner with ALTENBURGER LTD legal + tax in Switzerland. He is an adjunct professor with the Universities of Neuchatel and Geneva and also teaches at the EPFL in Switzerland. Jeremy has an MA (Oxon) from Lincoln College, Oxford, in Jurisprudence and Physiological Sciences and postgraduate diplomas in EU competition law and comparative copyright laws from Kings College, London. He handles mediations, conciliations, arbitrations, litigations and mixed ADR hybrid processes in a wide range of fields. Jeremy has particular expertise in intellectual property, life sciences, joint ventures, private equity, family businesses and trusts. He is used to working with a wide range of parties in civil law as well as common law jurisdictions, particularly in cross-border or cross-cultural disputes involving complex commercial matters. He worked as an associate attorney with FISH & NEAVE, as in-house counsel for BECTON DICKINSON & CO, as CEO and General Counsel for MEDABIOTECH SA and NOVIMMUNE SA and currently serves on the boards of several start-up companies. Jeremy has been accredited by several mediation institutions in Europe and in the USA (e.g., IMI, WIPO, ICC, INTA, SCCM, CMAP, CEDR, IPOS). He also serves on several ADR committees, including the Independent Standards Commission of IMI, as Co-Chair of the International Committee of the American Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section (ABA), as member of the Professional Standards and Practices Committee and as Chairman of the Mediation Subcommittee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), and on the regional advisory boards of the International Center for the Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts (CPR), the Swiss Chamber of Commercial Mediation (SCCM), the Swiss Chambers of Commerce and Industry as well as the Board of Directors of the Global Negotiation Insight Initiative. Jeremy is a partner in www.neuroawareness.com, a website for sharing knowledge and insights into how recent discoveries in neurobiology may assist ADR professionals in gaining a better understanding of their roles in negotiations, conflict prevention and dispute resolution. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International School of Geneva, of which he is a graduate. He has Swiss, British, Israeli and US citizenships, and lives with his wife and two daughters in Geneva, Switzerland

Victor Lazzaro, Jr, MBA
BridgeHealth Medical, CEO

Presentation: Self Funded Insurance Groups for Domestic and Global Healthcare

Mr. Lazzaro is a Managing Director with Volante Capital, LLC private equity firm with headquarters in Denver. He also is CEO and cofounder of BridgeHealth Medical and Senior Advisor of Signum U.S. Healthcare. With over 20 years of senior management experience in the health and managed care fields, he has held positions responsible for marketing, finance, administration and healthcare delivery. Previously, Mr. Lazzaro was president and CEO of United Healthcare Corporation - Mountain States (UHC). Mr. Lazzaro is an active board member of a number of community and business organizations. Mr. Lazzaro holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. Mr. Lazzaro has been interviewed by PBS Nightly Business Report, PBS American Health Journal, Fox Business Channel's Happy Hour with Rebecca Diamond, HR Executive, USA Today, Business Week and Modern Healthcare. He has also authored articles on the subject of medical travel for California Broker, CDHC Solutions, The Self Insurer, Business Insurance, Employee Benefit Plan Review and National Underwriter Life and Health, and served as a speaker at the Self Insurance Institute of America (SIIA) and U.S., European, and Middle Eastern Medical Travel and Insurance Conferences.

Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA
Professor and President for Society Physician Entrepreneurs

Presentation: What is the Present Status of Global Care?

Arlen D Meyers, MD, MBA is an award-winning professor of Otolaryngology (Ear Nose and Throat Surgery) ,Dentistry and Engineering at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical campus and a bioentrepreneur. He is the cofounder of 3 companies, including www.medvoy.com , a healthcare information platform for those seeking information to find global quality care at an affordable price, and www.careconnectix.com a global healthcare social networking site. He is an advisor to several companies and an advisor to the healthcare group at www.headwatersmb.com , a Denver based investment bank.

Dr. Meyers is also the founding CEO and President of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Medical Tourism Research and the International Board of Medicine and Surgery. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a former Harvard-Macy Fellow.

Emily Michelman
Global IVF, Director Web Development

Presentation: Global IVF Panel-Using Technology to Build an International Practice

Emily Michelman has always been interested in family building and reproductive rights. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, where Ms. Michelman's academic work as a Women's Studies Major focused on family rights and reproductive technologies. Working at Family Equality Council in Boston, Massachusetts, Ms. Michelman saw many loving LGBTQ families who were able to grow thanks to reproductive technologies. Ms. Michelman continued her work with families—teaching kids in the Los Angeles community. Serving as a tutor and mentor through Americorps' City Year Program, Ms. Michelman worked in a sixth grade classroom. She was excited to start helping families in a new way, and to combine her love for online development and social networking with her passion for family rights. Now the Director of Web Development at Global IVF, Inc. Ms. Michelman enjoys hearing from clients looking to build their families and share their stories. She also loves learning about new international clinics and helping keep the Global IVF community up-to-date on recent fertility news through Global IVF's facebook page, blog, and website. Originally from the Washington DC area, she looks forward to staying out in the Southern California sun and helping to ensure that all intended parents are able to access information about family building.

Dennis R. Moreau, PhD
RSA Security, Office of the CTO, Senior Technology Strategist

Presentation: Barriers and Opportunities to Addressing Privacy and Security in Global Healthcare

Dennis is specialist in the application of leading edge technologies to the solution of complex problems in information systems management and security domains. His primary focus is in developing solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for service, systems, security, compliance and configuration management/optimization. He works actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Mitre Corporation on the development of security information standards.

Dennis has over than 35 years of experience in designing systems and security management solutions. Prior to joining RSA, he was a founder and the CTO for Configuresoft and CTO for Baylor College of Medicine. He holds a doctorate and has held research and faculty positions in Computer Science, conducting research programs under the sponsorship of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine, and Bell Laboratories. He speaks regularly at IT management and security conferences worldwide.

Jay H. Sanders, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.A.A.I
Global Telemedicine Group, President & CEO

Presentation: How Telemedicine will Effect the Global Healthcare Industry

Jay H. Sanders, M.D., is the President & CEO of The Global Telemedicine Group, Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Founding Board Member and President Emeritus of the American Telemedicine Association. Known to many as the "Father of Telemedicine", he developed the first State wide telemedicine system, the first Correctional telemedicine program, the first tele-homecare technology, called "The Electronic House Call", and the first telemedicine kiosk. His consulting activities have included NASA, DOD, HHS, the FCC, State Governments, WHO, and multiple academic institutions and Fortune 500 companies. During the Clinton Administration he represented the USA to the G8 nations for telemedicine, and was appointed by former HHS Secretary Leavitt, to the Chronic Care Workgroup Committee. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School, magna cum laude, a member of AOA, and did his residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital where he became Chief Medical Resident. In 1970, he developed and started the first Division of General Medicine in the country at the University of Miami where he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of Medicine at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Other academic appointments include being Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia, where he was Director of the Telemedicine Institute, and Visiting Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Visiting Professor at Yale University School of Medicine.

Frank Strack
CIBER, Global Mobility Practice Manager

Presentation: M Health and Global Healthcare

Mr. Strack is CIBER's Global Mobility Practice Manger, which focuses on driving business strategies and objectives leveraging mobile devices such as tablets and smart phones.

Mr. Strack has more than 15 years of experience in working with business organizations to understand their needs and to identify technology solutions that help them achieve their objectives. The majority of that time spent focusing on software application development and maintenance in the enterprise environment. Mr. Strack brings strong business acumen to finding technical solutions to business needs.

He has worked in the private and public sectors and in both for-profit and non-profit environments. Key industries of expertise include the Software Industry, Education, Publishing, Banking, Energy/Utilities, Public Health and Healthcare.

Farhan Taghizadeh, M.D.
Lifestyle Lift, Medical Director

Presentation:How Do I Build a Global Practice?

Dr. Taghizadeh earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, and a medical degree from the Penn State College of Medicine. He completed an intensive residency in Otolaryngology (head and neck surgery) at the University of Rochester (New York), and then a fellowship at the University of Bern, Switzerland, through the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is double board-certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and the American Board of Otolaryngology, which includes a Facial Plastic Surgery specialty.

Dr. Taghizadeh currently serves as Medical Director for Innovation for Lifestyle Lift.

Dr. David G. Vequist IV,PhD
Director, Center for Medical Tourism Research

Presentation:How Does Retirement Tourism fit into Global Healthcare?

Dr. Vequist was one of the first academic researchers to focus on Medical Tourism and now boasts a robust slate of research on the business and markets of Medical Tourism. His experience includes: keynote speaker at conferences worldwide; a featured author with many papers and articles about medical tourism trends; interviews in a variety of media around the world; founder and co-Editor of the first academic journal devoted to Medical Tourism (starting this year); Chair of the first ever Medical Tourism Research conferences; and leading researcher on several projects for countries, regions, facilities, and providers. In the past, Dr. Vequist was an executive with HCA managing the human resources for a large subsidiary (Methodist Healthcare) in San Antonio, Texas, USA and prior to that was a consultant with Ernst & Young LLP. Dr. Vequist is currently expanding his research on the impact of Health, Wellness, Dental, Medical and Retirement Tourism.

DR. MARY WONG LAI LIN, CEO MHTC

Presentation: An Overview of the Development of Malaysian Healthcare Towards Medical Tourism

Dr. Mary Wong Lai Lin is the CEO of Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council (MHTC). MHTC has been set up under the Ministry of Health as the primary agency to develop and promote the healthcare travel industry and to position Malaysia as the healthcare destination of choice.

Dr. Mary Wong has wide experiences in healthcare management and planning, having served in various capacities in the Ministry of Health Malaysia, both at state and federal level. At the Ministry level, she was involved in planning, implementing and evaluating of health policies and programs.

Dr. Mary Wong has a law degree from the University of London, a master's degree in Health Services Management from the University of Manchester, UK and she earned her doctorate in Health Policy, Economics and Financing from the National University of Singapore.

Robin Yurk, MD, MPH Senior Medical Advisor, Wallcott Holdings, LLC

Presentation: A Quality Strategy for Emerging Nations.

Robin Yurk, MD, MPH is a Senior Medical Advisor for Wallcott Holdings and its 4 Programs(www.wallcottholdings.com). She has worked with National Quality Organizations and Committees as a Senior Research Associate for developing quality infrastructure and testing the feasibility of quality measures for acute and chronic disease management. She participated in the Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program for Healthcare delivery improvement. She is an author of peer reviewed articles in the area of quality. Her healthcare clinical practice experience is with the Bureau of Primary Healthcare Clinical Programs-the Health Center Program. Her medical training has included completion of a GIM Fellowship from Johns Hopkins Hospital, a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a doctor of medicine from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.