Conference Speakers

Patricia O’Sullivan

Patricia S. O’Sullivan is Director, Research and Development in Medical Education, Center for Faculty Educators at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She co-directs the Health Professions Education Pathway, the Teaching Scholars Program and provides leadership for the master’s and doctoral programs in health professions education. She leads faculty development for those interested in education and educational research. The faculty development program received the international 2016 ASPIRE for Excellence award from AMEE. Dr. O’Sullivan has led the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Section of the AAMC, the RIME Program Planning Committee and the Division for Professions Education of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She is a Fellow of AERA and has received the 2011 Merrill Flair Award of the AAMC, 2014 Distinguished Career Award from AERA Division I, 2018 Career Achievements in Medical Education Awardee from SGIM, and 2018 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Awardee from UCSF.

Vishna Devi Nadarajah

Prof Vishna is an experienced medical educator and biochemist at the International Medical University in Kuala Lumpur. A graduate of 3 universities across 3 countries, she values diversity as a strength in any institution. She leads the educational strategies, new programme development and international partnerships at IMU as Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Institutional Development. She is very fortunate to work with a collaborative, committed and talented multidisciplinary team at IMU, and would like to emphasise that it’s the values of its people that will carry forward an institution during this unprecedented time.

She has over 20 years of teaching experience in the medical, dentistry and pharmacy education. She has published and presented research papers in both biomedical sciences and medical education, supervises research students and reviews for indexed and international journals. Her areas of research in health professions education is in Faculty development, Assessment and Innovative Teaching Learning methods. Prof Vishna has shared her experience and expertise in health professionals education via invitations to speak at conferences, conducting faculty development workshops and collaborative research, appreciating that she has also learnt very much from these collaborative sessions with other educators.

Brian Hodges

 

Professor Hiroshi Nishigori, MD, MMEd, PhD, (Kyoto University,  Japan).

Dr. Hiroshi Nishigori is the Professor at the Center for Medical Education, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, and Visiting Program-Leading Professor at the Medical Education Center, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. He graduated from Nagoya University School of Medicine in 1998 and became a Fellow of the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine (2004) and a Diplomat in Primary Care of the Japan Primary Care Association (2011). He obtained a Masters Degree in Medical Education from University of Dundee (2008). His research interests include BUSHIDO and medical professionalism and Hypothesis-driven physical examination (HDPE). He is working as an editor of the Journal 'Medical Education (Japan)', and a co-chair of the APME-Net (Asian Pacific Medical Education Network).

Prof. Mary Jo Good (Harvard Medical School, USA).

Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, PhD, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (1983 – 2019, emeritus July 2019), is a comparative sociologist and medical anthropologist who received her graduate education at Harvard University (MA 1969, Ph.D 1977). She is a faculty associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and co-chairs the university seminar on Culture, Psychiatry and Global Mental Health. Professor Good has served on the Asia Center Faculty Council and the executive committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Beginning as a Fulbright Senior Scholar to UGM in 1996, she established ongoing collaborations with University of Gadjah Mada medical faculty and the Center for Bioethics, focusing on studies of the culture of medicine and medicine’s modernist projects. She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at UGM/FKPHN, and was appointed a World Class Professor to collaborate on a study of clinician experiences with end of life care. From 2006-2011 she was a co-PI for the International Organization for Migration post-conflict project in Aceh on Community and Mental Health Revitalization. In 2010-2014, she was co-PI on USAID funded “Interuniversity Partnerships for Strengthening Health Systems in Indonesia: Building New Capacity for Mental Health Care” with UGM (Java) and Syiah Kuala University (Aceh) faculty; and co-PI in 2015-2019, Building Comprehensive Mental Healthcare In Primary Care in Yogyakarta, with Harvard- Dubai Grant Fund (GHSM/HMS).

Prof. Byron J. Good (Harvard Medical School, USA).

Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.  He serves as Honorary Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Psychology and the Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.  Since 1996, Professor Good has focused research, teaching, and collaboration on studies of psychotic illness and its treatment in Indonesia. His work addresses critical issues concerning the effects of cultural and social processes on onset and recovery from mental illness, strengthening mental health services, as well as on studies of Javanese psychological experience or subjectivity.  Dr. Good worked with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on assessing the mental health effects of the conflict in Aceh and developing post-conflict mental health services. This work served as one model for efforts to develop innovative approaches to mental health services for Yogyakarta.

Dr. Good’s work has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation/American Indonesian Exchange Foundation, Freeman Foundation, National Science Foundation, International Organization for Migration, Fogarty International Center, USAID, and the Harvard Center for Global Health Delivery Dubai.  His c.v. lists 12 books and 120 published articles. Prof. Good received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology for his studies of culture and mental illness.

Dr. Dujeepa D Samarasekera MBBS, MHPE (NUS, Singapore).

Dujeepa Samarasekera is the Director, Centre for Medical Education (CenMED), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine Singapore. He is a visiting professor and external faculty to Tzu Chi University, Semey State Medical University, University of Maastricht and Aga Khan University. He is the Course Director of the Masters and Certificate program in Health Professions Education – Singapore. At regional and international levels Dujeepa is a member of the ASPIRE for Excellence panel in the European Association for Medical Education (AMEE) and Co-chair the Asia Pacific Scholar Network (APMENet) in medical education. He is the present President of the Western Pacific Association of Medical Education which is the regional branch organisation of the World Federation of Medical Education. Dujeepa is the Editor-in-Chief of The Asia Pacific Scholar (TAPS) journal and serves on the editorial advisory boards of many other journals in medical education.

Prof. Achir Yani S. Hamid, MN.,DNSc (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Indonesia)

Prof. Yani is a professor in Mental Health & Psychiatric Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia. She obtained her DNSc from the Catholic University of America and is an expert and has been actively involved in disaster nursing preparedness and responses since 2004. Her research interests include disaster nursing management, family with special needs, and health policy. Her works in these areas have been published in both national and international peer-reviewed journals and widely disseminated through esteemed academic events. Currently, she serves as the Head Professor of the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia, along with her other professional appointments as the Founder of World Society of Disaster Nursing (WSDN), a member of the Editorial Board of the Health Emergency Disaster Nursing, as well as Visiting Professor and fellow researcher at the University of Hyogo, Japan. She is also a nurse educator, was the president of INNA (Indonesian National Nurses Association) for 2 terms (2000 to 2010), and was the short-term Nursing Consultant of WHO, WB, and European Union Commission for nursing education development.

Prof. Dr. dr. Herkutanto, Sp.F.,S.H.,FACLM (Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia)

 

Prof. dr. Marcellus Simadibrata, Sp.PD-KGEH.,Ph.D (Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia)

 

Prof. Dr. dr. Nancy Margarita Rehatta, Sp.An.,KIC.,KNA (Faculty of Medicine Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)

 

Prof. dr. Ova Emilia, M.Med.Ed.,Ph.D.,Sp.OG(K) (Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)

Dr Thomas V Chacko - Director PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute and Dean Medical Education & Professor, Dept of Community Medicine, Believers Church Medical College, Thiruvalla, Kerala, India

Professor Thomas Chacko was awarded an International Fellowship in Medical Education (IFME) in 2002 which he completed with distinction at the Department of Medical Education  UIC Chicago and the two-year (2004-2006)  Educational Leadership Fellowship "The FAIMER Institute" at Philadelphia by the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education & Research (FAIMER) and was subsequently invited to serve as the Global Faculty Advisor for the FAIMER Institute program in Philadelphia.

Since the past 15 years he is the Director of the PSG-FAIMER Regional Institute that administers the two-year FAIMER INSTITUTE Fellowship program for Faculty in medical schools in the South Asia region He was also the Secretary-General of WFME’s South-East Asian Regional Association for Medical Education (SEARAME) for six years & is now the Director of its Student Electives exchange program (SEARAMEx) and the President of the Academy of Health Professions Educators, India during 2017.

He is often invited to be member of the WHO Expert committees to recommend improvement in teaching of Public Health in the South-East Asia Region. He has also been invited to conduct tailor-made workshops for capacity-building of health professionals and educators in several national and international conferences. His areas of interest in medical education include Academic Leadership , curriculum planning, program evaluation, competency based and community based medical education and educational change management towards improving teaching in Medical Schools and improving Global Standards in Medical Education.

Prof. dr. Gandes Retno Rahayu, M.Med.Ed.,Ph.D (Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia))

Prof. Gandes currently serves as the Vice Dean for Academic and Student Affairs at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) Faculty of Medicine in Indonesia. Before her appointment as Vice Dean, she was Head of the Department of Medical Education and Director of the Master Program in Medical Education. From 2010 until 2016, she was selected to serve as an executive committee member for the LINQED international educational network, based in Belgium. She is also ambassador for the Indonesian region for the Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE).

After completing her Medical Doctor degree at UGM in 1997, Pr.of Gandes earned her Master degree in 2001, graduating with distinction from the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. She later earned her PhD in Medical Education from the same institution. Prof. Gandes began her career in Medical Education as a lecturer and went on to become the head of the Committee of Student Assessment at the UGM Faculty of Medicine. She also served as Chair in the division of Examination Development, National Committee of Competency Examination for Indonesian Medical Students.

Prof. Gandes is a speaker at hundreds of national seminars, workshops, and conferences. In 2008, she was awarded an Endeavour Executive Fellowship from the Government of Australia. She is a 2013 Fellow of the FAIMER Institute and a member of the editorial board of the Indonesian Journal of Medical Education. She has supervised and served as examiner for numerous Master and PhD theses.

Professor Suttipong Wacharasindhu - Assistant Secretary General, Thai Red Cross Society Executive Senior Member, School of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University Thailand

Prof Suttipong Wacharasindhu graduated from Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Medicine in 1985. He had a postgraduate training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology from the United Kingdom. He was elected to be a membership of the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom, MRCP(UK) and a fellowship of the Royal College of Paediatric and Child Health, FRCPCH. After coming back from UK, he started his career as a lecturer of Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology in medical school. His research interest is in the area of growth and puberty. He has been elected as a dean of Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and a director of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital  during 2015 - 2021. He also took a position of the president of Asian Pacific Pediatric Endocrinology during 2016-2018. At present, he has been appointed to be an Assistant Secretary General of Thai Red Cross Society and Executive Committee Member to drive the School of Global Health at Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.

Dr. Fatma Sylvana Dewi Harahap, SST.,MA.Kes (IAIN SAS Bangka Belitung)

Fatma Sylvana Dewi Harahap is Doctor of Islamic Studies with concentration Religion and Health. She achieved Diploma 3 from Midwifery Academy Healthy Department of Republic of Indonesia (2001) and Diploma 4 from Health Polytechnic Jakarta III Ciptomangunkusumo Jakarta (2008). Her magister and Ph.d achieved from Graduate School of Islamic State University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta (2014 and 2017).

As a health practitioner she was a midwife in maternity hospital in Cilegon, Independent Practice Midwife in Bogor (2009), Nurse supervisor for Insurance and Quality Performance Clinic of Saudi Arabian Airlines Jeddah Saudi Arabia (2004).

As an academician she has experience as a lecturer in Diploma 3 and 4 for midwifery academy, health high school, health institute in Kota Bogor, Kabupaten Bogor, Depok, Pamulang and Medan Indonesia (2008-2020)

She also served as structural leader in health institutions as assistant director, dean for faculty of health and pharmacy, head of research institute and community service, head of planning and development cooperation in midwifery academy and health institute in Depok and Medan Indonesia (2008, 2017, 2019 and 2020).

Prof. Drs. K.H. Yudian Wahyudi, B.A., B.A., M.A., Ph.D

Prof. K.H. Yudian Wahyudi, M.A., Ph.D. is the executive chairman of Pancasila Ideology Development Agency of Republik of Indonesia (BPIP RI). Also, He is a Professor from Faculty of Syari’a and Law UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, (Former Rector of UIN Sunan Kalijaga and President of Asian Islamic Universities Association). He completed Bachelor of Arts (B.A) from UIN Sunan Kalijaga (1982-1987) and Faculty of Philosophy Universitas Gadjah Mada (1986), then he continued his Master (1993) and Doctoral degree (PhD) (2002) in Mcgill University, Montreal Canada. Prof. Yudian also a member of American Association of University Professors and taught Islamic Studies at the Comparative Department, Tufts University, USA.

Prof. Yudian create an accomplishment as the first lecturer from a State Islamic Higher Education (PTKIN under The Ministry of Religion’s Republic Indonesia) to successfully penetrate Harvard Law School as a lecturer in the United States (2002-2004). Throughout his career, Prof. Yudian has written more than 53 books and journals in Arabic, English and French, one of them were published by Oxford University Press. Until now, he is still actively writing about national ideology (Pancasila) and also Islamic Studies.