Date: Friday, Sept 16th

Venue: 1616 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20006

Time: 2pm - 5pm ET

Onsite Only: Day One training will not be streamed

SESSION ONE: advancing your Government relations

Moderator: Bruce Degn

Time: 2pm – 3pm

Panelists:

• Brian Scarpelli - Senior Global Policy Counsel at ACT, The App Association

• Tim Robinson - Congressional Liaison, National Endowment of Humanities

SESSION TWO: Making Friends & Building Coalitions

Moderator: Bruce Degn

Time: 3pm – 4pm

Panelists:

• Mary Ann Gomez Orta - President & CEO, The Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute

• Eric Rasmussen - Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs, Sunovion Pharmaceuticals

SESSION Three: the U.S Census: The power & process of obtaining ethnic categorization

Speaker: John Gore, Partner, Jones Day Law Firm; Former Acting Assistant Attorney General,

Civil Rights Div., U.S. Depart. of Justice

Time: 4pm – 5pm

ADJOURN UNTIL SATURDAY – NETWORKING

Time: 5pm

• Refreshments, drinks, light hors d'oeuvres

Venue: 1616 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20006

Date: Saturday, Sept 17th

Time: 8am – 1pm ET

Event Format: Onsite Roundtable with Live Feed

Admission: No Charge ▪ Donations Accepted

SESSION ONE: Drivers of Change: Covid, Digital Transformation, Remote Simulation Training and Learners’ Demands

Moderator: Dr. Tomas Salerno - Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Time: 8am – 9am

Panelists:

• Dr Mariano E. Gimenez - Professor of Surgery, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Strasbourg, France

• Dr. Islam Massad - Consultant Cardiac Anesthesiologist; President, Yarmouk University, Irbid-Jordan

• Dr Paul Sergeant - Emeritus Professor, KU Leuven - Belgium

• Dr Heiko Spallek - Professor, Head of School & Dean, Sydney Dental School, Sydney, Australia

• Dr. Mark Caridi-Scheible - Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine

SESSION TWO: The REsidents IN Training Panel: Impact of Covid on Medical Education

Moderator: Dr. Omar M Lattouf - Professor of Surgery/Cardiovascular/Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital

Time: 9am – 10am

Panelists:

• Dr. Bilal Abou Al Ardat - Re-visiting The Flexner Report

• Dr. Ali Dakroub - Influence of COVID-19 on Graduate Medical Education

• Dr. Noah Newman - The SARS-Cov-2, and the Challenges Faced by US-based Undergraduate Medical Students

• Dr. Jason Greenberg - Survey of Deans of US Medical Schools on Impact of Covid and Medical Education

• Dr. Joe Wu - The Self-directed Medical Student Curriculum

SESSION THREE: healthcare education & Practice: reimagining & reingineering

Moderator: Dr. Hani Shennib

Time: 10am – 11am

Panelists:

• Dr. Nadine Rouphael - Professor of Medicine, Emory University

• Dr. Charles Grodzin - Assistant Professor of Medicine & Distinguished Physician , Emory University

• Dr. Naji Bou Zeid - Research Fellow, University of Illinois, Chicago

• Dr. Seth Perry - Associate Professor, Office of the Dean, SUNY Upstate Medical University

• Dr. Imad Sabbagh - President of National Arab-American Medical Association

SESSION FOUR: Making Our Future: Mapping Next Steps

Moderators:

• Dr. Alaa M. Omar - Lead Fellow for Cardiovascular Research. Mount Sinai Morningside

Time: 11am – Noon

Panelists:

• Dr. Mark Caridi-Scheible - Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine

• Dr. Basim Dubaybo - Professor of Medicine & Associate Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine

• Dr Shadi Hamouri - Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Associate Professor, Al Balqa Applied University - Al-Salt, Jordan; Consultant of Thoracic Surgery, King Abdullah University Hospital

• Dr. Adnan Hammad - President & CEO, Global Health Research, Management and Solutions

• Dr. Omar M Lattouf - Professor of Surgery/Cardiovascular/Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital

• Dr. Salah Zeineldine - Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut

SESSION FIVE: Winning IN THE AGE OF INFLUENCE

Time: Noon - 12:30PM

Guest Speaker: Aaron Sherinian, Global Communications and Public Relations

ADJOURN – LUNCH

Time: 1pm

• Networking & Lunch

Disciplines & topics

• Cardiovascular

• Communicable Diseases

• Pulmonary & CCM

• Anesthesia

• Dential & Oral Health

• Public Health

• Allied Health

• Technology

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Medical School Faculty

• Healthcare Professionals

• Medical Students

• Health System Leadership

• Government Ministries

• Supplier & Sponsors

gLOBAL EXPERTS

• North America

• Sounth America

• Africa

• Europe

• Middle East

• Asia

• Australia & New Zealand