Marc Matthews graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency training at the Mayo Clinic. His first task at Mayo was to redesign a community health clinic around the community’s definition of health, and this work led to a deeper understanding of how the healthcare system is not very aware of what it means for a community to be healthy. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Office of Population Health Management and an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. In these roles, he focuses on rethinking the way large healthcare organizations deliver care.

Health Management

Clive Tobutt is a Registered Nurse (Adult & Mental Health Nursing and Practice Educator). I completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Addiction Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry, London University and an MSc in Sociology (Health & Illness) from London South Bank University. I completed my PhD at the University of Winchester. I am a teaching Fellow (Mental Health Nursing) at Surrey University.

Mental Health and Drug Use Disorders

Nasseer A Masoodi is a Senior Consultant and Vice Chair for General Internal Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha (Qatar). Prior to his arrival in Qatar, he was a primary care physician at The Villages Health System, The Villages-FL (USA), and Vice President of Health service and Chief Medical Informatics Officer for ACV Inc. Dowling Park-FL (USA). He was a Member of Medical Informatics Committee of American College of Physicians. He also served as a Member of PMC (performance measures committee) of American College of Physicians from April 2009-April 2013. In this multifaceted role, he focused on reviewing, commenting, and voting on many different performance measures that were developed by organizations such as the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), the National Committee on Quality Assurance, AHRQ, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, other specialty physician organizations, and Quality Improvement Organizations.

Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care

Gill Hood has been involved in diabetes care since qualifying as a nurse in 1984 and from 1997 began working in diabetes research. She managed the NE London Diabetes Research Network from 2007-2013 increasing patient recruitment 5 fold during this period and conducting her own research into fasting during Ramadan for people with diabetes, how older adults manage diabetes over time, and improving the patient-doctor consultation in diabetes. Gill is also an original member of the EU funded Diamap study which aimed to project diabetes research milestones for the next ten years.

Diabetes Research and Primary Care

Brian Littlechild, PhD, is Research lead in the Department of Nursing and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. A qualified and registered social worker, he worked in hospitals and in the community with particular mental health needs before working in universities. He has published 44 books/book chapters/monographs, and 28 refereed journal articles. He has carried out 20 qualitative and mixed methods research projects, and published widely on, amongst other areas, mental health issues for young and adult offenders, mental health and risk assessment, and on violence from parents in child protection work.

Nursing and Social Work

Tochi Iroku-Malize is a Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at Northwell Health (formerly North Shore LIJ Health System). She received her medical training at the University of Nigeria, did her internship in Trinidad & Tobago, completed her Master’s in Public Health at Columbia University and her Master’s in Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts. She is board certified in both Family Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Care. She has developed a curriculum for global health and has been involved in Academic Medicine and Primary Care for two decades. She has presented and published on multiple topics internationally.

Academic Medicine and Primary Care

Richards qualified in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London in 1981, he undertook a period of research looking at the effects of cyclosporine A on endothelial function at St Thomas’ Hospital London prior to being appointed as Consultant Physician and Nephrologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in 1992. During his time in Birmingham he was actively involved in the development of an electronic patient record with associated drug prescribing system. He went into medical management as Clinical Director, Divisional Director and finally Director of Operations in Birmingham before leaving the NHS and taking up the position of Medical Director for the UK and Ireland for Fresenius Medical Care in 2004. He moved to his current position as the CEO and CMO of SEHA Dialysis Services in 2012. He remains actively interested in clinical research particularly in relation to epidemiology and prevention of chronic kidney disease. He has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Clinical research particularly in relation to epidemiology and prevention of chronic kidney disease.

Jawahar Jay Kalra, an educator, researcher, and quality health care advocate, is a Professor of Pathology in the University of Saskatchewan and has served as Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is recognized for his many contributions as a clinical scientist, academic leader, and health system administrator. He has been a pioneer in establishing guidelines for thyroid-function testing, quality assurance program and contributed nationally and internationally in the area of total quality management. He has published extensively and is the author of the book “Medical Errors and Patient Safety: Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patience safety.”

Quality management

Andrew W. Gottschalk, M.D. trained in sports medicine at both Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. His extensive experience includes treating athletes of all levels of competition, including those in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NCAA Division I. As the Ochsner Health System’s Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine, Dr. Gottschalk serves as Head Medical Team Physician for the NBA New Orleans Pelicans. Dr. Gottschalk is also an avid writer, his multiple publication projects include his regular newspaper column, “The Sports Medicine Doctor.” Dr. Gottschalk is the current Musculoskeletal Health Editor for the medical journal Evidence-Based Practice.

Sports medicine

Paweł Nachulewicz is a Pediatric Surgeon, Transplant Surgeon and a General Surgeon. Since 2010, he is the Chief of Pediatric Surgical Clinic at Medical University of Lublin, Poland. From 1998, he focused in laparoscopic and thoracoscopy surgery in children. He is the author and co-author of more than 190 publications, congress reports and books chapters.

Paediatric Surgery and Traumatology