International Faculty

Dr Cliff Reid

Emergency Physician and Lead for Resuscitation, Northern Beaches Hospital in Sydney Prehospital & Retrieval Medicine Specialist, New South Wales Ambulance Consultant in Intensive Care, Dubbo Health Service

A/Prof Anthony Joseph

Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Sydney.
co-founder of the Australian and New Zealand Trauma Society.

A/Prof Sally McCarthy

Works at Prince of Wales Hospital ED Sydney as a senior emergency physician, and as an independent expert for the Coroner, Medical Board and in emergency care systems.

Prof dr Patrick Van de Voorde

Associate professor in EM at Ghent University. A board-certified paediatrician and intensivist.
Medical director of the Emergency Dispatch Centre 112 for Eastern- and Western-Flanders

DR. JESUS DANIEL LOPEZ TAPIA

EM specialist Master in research Master in educational sciences Master in Business administration Past President of Mexican Society of EM and Latin American Federation on EM Regional representative of Latin America in IFEM

PROF. SA’AD LAHRI

Head of the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stellenbosch University and President of the College of Emergency Medicine of South Africa.

DR. NADARAJAH PRASANNA

Consultant Emergency Physician, National Hospital of Sri Lanka General Secretary, Sri Lanka College of Emergency Physicians

Dr. Brian Kloss

Board certified Emergency Medicine Physician from Syracuse, New York, USA
Doctorate in medicine and law

Dr. Kate Douglass

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health at George Washington University.
Master of Public Health

DR.MANU MADHOK

Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) physician. active member of Society of Simulation in Healthcare, International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS), International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, & Education (INSPIRE) and PediSTARS

DR. SUNIL KUMAR AHUJA

Chairman, Emergency Department Committee
Chairman, Quality Assurance Committee
at Church Hospital.
Chairman, Emergency Department Committee at Sinai Samaritan Hospital

DR. SUSAN OWENS

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Kentucky
Global Emergency Medicine fellow
Masters in Public Health.
Core faculty for the MEM program from George Washington University.

DR. TANIA AHLUWALIA

Director of Global Pediatrics and Associate Fellowship Director of the Global Emergency Medicine and Public Health Fellowship at the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University
Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician - Children’s National Hospital.

DR. JOHN ACERRA

Associate Professor of EM at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York. He directs the Global Emergency Medicine Program at LIJ Medical Center and North Shore University Hospital. He is the international course director for the MEM program at The Mission Hospital in Durgapur, India.

DR. GIRISH BOBBY KAPUR

President, AHN Emergency Medicine Management
System Chair, AHN Emergency Medicine Institute
Professor of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of Medicine
Certified Physician Executive (CPE)

DR. SALEH FARES AL-ALI

President of the
International Federation for Emergency Medicine
Founder and former chairman of the Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of
Abu Dhabi and the founder and past president of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM)

DR. JAMES KWAN

Senior EM Consultant at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore, with academic roles at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. He holds leadership positions in the IFEM & the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. Served as Academic Head of EM at Western Sydney University, Australia.

DR. Divyansh Gulati

Senior Consultant in EM (FRCEM) at Milton Keynes University Hospital. Held roles as Clinical Fellow at Oxford University Hospitals, and Attending Consultant at Max Super Speciality Hospital New Delhi, and is skilled in rapid resuscitation of critically ill patients, ED flow management.

DR. ARIF ISHTIQ MATTOO

Currently Chief Specialist in Emergency Medicine at Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.A FACEE, certified EQuiP from Harvard Medical School, and was named a HIMSS Future50 Clinical Leader while contributing to IFEM’s Quality and Patient Safety group.

DR. CHERRI HOBGOOD

MD, FACEP, FIFEM. A physician executive and professional coach with over 30 years of leadership in healthcare and academia—serving as medical director, associate dean, department chair, and practice plan board president—and has chaired the ACEP Board, led SAEM, and been Executive Secretary of IFEM.

DR. Eddy Lang

Professor, Clinical and academic department head - EM - University of Calgary | Rockyview General Hospital. Scientific director of the Alberta Health Services Emergency Strategic Clinical Network, and co-chair of the ICEM 2025 - Montreal. Chair of Academic Section at CAEP. and IFEM’s ICEM committee and is Deputy Editor for the Canadian Journal of EM.

Professor Peter Cameron

Chair of EM for Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar He has recently completed a term as Academic Director of the Emergency and Trauma Centre at Alfred Health and Monash University in Melbourne Australia Past President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine and the Australasian College for EM

Professor Mark Hannaford

Founder of World Extreme Medicine. Recognitions - special achievement awards from NASA’s Astronaut Office, the Explorers Club of New York. Fellow of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Current project - Nabataean Traverse Expedition (Petra to AlUla), with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.

Dr.Temesgen Beyene Abicho

Associate Professor of EM, Consultant in EM and Critical Care. He previously chaired the EM at ATikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital. A graduate of Harvard Medical School’s Global Clinical Scholars Research Training Program, a Global Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies and a Stanford African Scholars in Global Health scholar. Chair of Quality and Patient Safety SIG at IFEM.