Speakers

Invited Speakers

 

Keynote Speaker
	Emeritus Prof. Ann Sefton, Australia   Ann Sefton is now retired but remains active in educational development at the University of Sydney and is an elected  member of the University Senate.  She was for many years a well-cited researcher in visual neuroscience but has also been active in educational development in the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Science at the University of Sydney.  She was one of a team of three responsible for leading the planning for a new graduate-entry, problem-based, integrated  curriculum at Sydney, for which she received an Australian universities’ national teaching award.  After implementing the medical curriculum, she worked half-time in the Faculty of Dentistry to develop the first problem-based, graduate-entry dental program in Australia. Ann continues to contribute to aspects of the Sydney curriculum. She has led and contributed to a number of medical curriculum accreditation reviews through the Australian Medical Council as well as contributing to national reports on medical education.  Internationally, she has been invited as a speaker at a number of conferences and workshops. She has served as a member of review teams and as a consultant for medical programs in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Europe, USA, and Africa. Since 2001 she has been a member of the Council of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), responsible for educational activities which include contributing to teaching workshops in various parts of the world (most recently Africa), as well as symposia and activities at the four-yearly IUPS scientific meetings.  In science, she has published 47 papers and 4 book chapters. On teaching and learning, she has published 54 papers, 46 chapters and has  co-edited 5 books relating to education.
Plenary Speakers
	Prof. Geoff Normans, Canada         Geoff Norman, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University. He received a B.Sc. in physics form the University of Manitoba in 1965 and a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from McMaster University in 1971, and subsequently a M.A. in educational psychology form Michigan State University in 1977. He is the author of 10 books in education, measurement and statistics, and over 200 journal articles.             Dr. Norman’s primary research is in the area of expert diagnostic reasoning – how clinicians arrive at a diagnosis. His research has revealed that experts use two kinds of knowledge to do diagnosis – the formal analytical knowledge of signs and symptoms and physiologic mechanisms, and experiential knowledge based on the hundreds or thousands of patients they have encountered.             Following from this research is an interest in various aspects of how medical students learn. He has contributed to the theoretical foundation of problem-based learning. He is currently exploring the use of high fidelity simulation in clinical learning. He has also been involved in student assessment, and has developed and validated a number in innovative assessment methods, and  has made substantial contributions to assessment methodology.             He has won numerous awards, including the Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners in 1989, the Award of Excellence  of the Canadian Association for Medical Education in 1997, the Distinguished Scholar Award of the American Educational Research Association, Division I,  in 2000, the Award for Outstanding Achievement of the Medical Council of Canada in 2001. He presently holds a Canada Research Chair. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007.
	Assoc. Prof. Tracey Winning, Australia Tracey Winning is an Associate Professor in the School of Dentistry, The University of Adelaide.  She has been involved in implementation, development and evaluation of the Adelaide hybrid PBL-based Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) curriculum and has contributed to the development of PBL packages for the Bachelor of Oral Health curriculum. Currently, she co-ordinates the ongoing development and delivery of a range of PBL packages throughout the BDS curriculum as well as staff-development activities, particularly for PBL tutors.  Her current research interests involving post-graduate research students, include development and evaluation of PBL, analysis of student experiences and outcomes of PBL, self-assessment and laboratory-based psychomotor skill development.  This research has involved collaboration with colleagues in the Universities of Otago, and Sydney, and currently, Malmö University, Sweden.
	Prof. John Gilbert, Canada Dr. John Gilbert is Principal & Professor Emeritus, College of Health Disciplines, UBC. He serves on Health Canada’s National Expert Committee on Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient Centred Care. His many honours include a Fulbright Scholarship; a David Ross Research Fellowship; a Medical Research Council Post-Doctoral Scholarship; the Outstanding Alumnus Award of the School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University; a Killam Outstanding Teaching Award; a 50th Jubilee Medal from the Faculty of Medicine, and The Distinguished Service Award of the British Columbia Institute of Technology.  He is President, International Association for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice, and iFaculty Advisor, National Health Sciences Student’s Association. He is a member of the Boards of the Michener Institute, the Victorian Order of Nurses, and the B.C.Women’s Hospital Foundation. He is Chair of the Board of the Women’s Health Research Institute and Project Lead, the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative, funded by Health Canada. He has recently be named Co-Chair of the WHO Study Group on Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice.
	Professor Vanessa Burch, South Africa Vanessa Burch is Professor and Chair of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. After completing her clinical training as a specialist rheumatologist she became involved in health professions education. She went on to obtain her PhD in medical education from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. Her research interests include the development and implementation of assessment practices in resource-constrained settings in the developing world.
	Prof. Sidigdo, Indonesia   Sudigdo Sastroasmoro was born on May 6, 1947 in Pekalongan, Central Java, Indonesia. He earned his Medical Doctor degree in 1972, then served as a general practitioner in a small hospital 5 years before joining the Paediatric Training Program at the Department of Child Health, University of Indonesia where he earned the degree as paediatrician in 1980. He served the community as a general paediatrician in Kupang, East  Nusa Tenggara for 3 years, then he joined the Division of Cardiology, Department of Child Health, University of Indonesia in 1983. He was awarded a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the Royal Children’s s Hospital, Melbourne from 1985-1987. Upon returning to Jakarta he concentrated in clinical work and became the head of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology (1993-1997). In 1998 Dr. Sastroasmoro earned his PhD degree at the University of Indonesia (tittle “Effect of Dobutamine on Premature Infants with Hyaline Membrane Disease”) after which he did not wait too long to be inaugurated as Professor of Paediatrics in 2000 (title inaugural lecture: “Logic in Medicine – from Hippocrates, Ibn Sina, to Evidence-Based Medicine”). Dr. Sastoasmoro has never had formal Postdoctoral training. Instead, he continued to study clinical epidemiology and evidence-based medicine by attending important courses in Oxford, Utrecht, Barcelona, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur. Over the last five years Dr. Sastroasmoro has dedicated most of his time to teaching research methods, clinical epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine for residents and PhD students.  He edited book on paediatrics, paediatric cardiology, research methods, wrote a guide for scientific writing, and guide for infant and child care for parent as well. Apart from teaching he is also the editor of several medical publications, including the International Editorial Board of Pediatric Cardiology (Chicago). He has been a Member, Advisory Committee on Health Research, WHO-SEARO (since 2001), and Chairman of Continuing Professional Development Committee of the Indonesian Pediatric Association since 2006. He is married with 5 children and (currently) 7 grand children.
Symposium Speakers  and Workshop Facilitators
	Professor C Y Kwan, Taiwan Professor Kwan is a basic research scientist specialising in cardiovascular sciences. His research interest spans over molecular pharmacology, cellular physiology and natural product research including Chinese medicine, with an emphasis on calcium and cell signalling process. He is founding member of the Smooth Muscle Research Program of McMaster University, Canada, as well as founding member of the Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. To date, Prof. Kwan has published nearly 350 full-length papers including 25 book chapters and proceeding papers (excluding meeting abstracts). Of these papers, 246 are listed in the ISI current content. He has served and is still serving on Editorial Advisory Board of several international journals. He is an external reviewer for manuscripts, research grants and academic promotions worldwide. Prof. Kwan is also a consultant in “Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in medical education. He served as a short term WHO consultant on PBL in the Philippines. He has been honoured with Visiting Professorship in 10 top medical Universities in China including the Medical Faculty at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore and two medical schools in Taiwan. He is currently in Taiwan on a senior position at the China Medical University in Taichung, where he is in charge of Faculty Development and International Affairs.
	Prof. Yosua Dambisya, South Africa Yoswa M Dambisya is a Medical Graduate of Makerere University, Uganda and a Clinical Pharmacologist (Chinese University of Hong Kong). He is a Senior Professor in the Pharmacy Programme, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, South Africa, and a Visiting Professor at Management & Science University, Malaysia. Prior to joining the University of Limpopo, he worked at the University of Transkei medical school in South Africa, the National University of Singapore and Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria. His research interests include health systems, education of health professionals, pain, natural products and rational drug utilization. He is part of the EQUINET-ECSA Human resources for Health program of work on health worker retention in east and southern Africa, with a special interest on the use of non-financial incentives for the attraction and retention of health workers. While at the University of Transkei, Prof Dambisya was coordinator for Phase II of the integrated PBL-CBE programme for the MB ChB course, and participated in the development of a new 5-year curriculum for the medical school. He is presently part of the team for the harmonization of the pharmacy course offered at the two campuses of the University of Limpopo, one of which is PBL while the other is traditional.
	Dr Charles Juwah, United Kingdom Dr Charles Juwah is a senior academic and international professional development consultant at the Department for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and Assessment (DELTA), The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. He has University-wide responsibilities for championing the use of pedagogy to promote effective cultural change in teaching, learning, assessment and research supervision. He also provides leadership for the initial and continuing professional development of academic staff leading to the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
	Prof. Rogayah Ja’afar, Malaysia Prof. Rogayah Ja’afar, Malaysiais the founding Head and Professor of Medical Education at the School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia. She obtained her MBBCh degree from University of Cairo, Egypt , her Masters of Health Professional Education (MHPEd) from the University of New South Wales, Australia and her Post graduate certificate as a Health Partner Fellow from the University of Illinois,USA. She spearheaded the Master of Science     ( Medical Education) programme since 2003 and teaches two modules in the course. She also teaches undergraduate and post graduate medical students subjects related to women and health as well as professional communications. She is currently the Chairperson of the Network: Towards Unity for Health (Network:TUFH) , an international NGO committed to the agenda of advancing education, training, services and policies in the medical and health sciences. She also serves as a board member of Global Health through Education, Training and Services (GHETS) which is a funding and administrative arm of the Network:TUFH. Her major areas of interest are in curriculum planning and evaluation, problem based learning, women and health and tobacco abuse. She has published more than 70 journal articles and sits on board a number of national and international editorial boards including Education for Health: Change in Training and Practice which is the Network:TUFH journal. She has also seved as a WHO consultant and advisor to Australia and Iraq, as an accreditation member of the Network:TUFH, a member of the Malaysian Qualification Agency and Malaysian Medical Council accreditation panel to review/endorse medical programmes both in Malaysia and overseas for the purpose of recognition of medical education sites for training.
	Prof. Francis I Achike, Malaysia Francis Ifejika Achike, BSc, MB; ChB, DA, PhD, FCP. is currently a Professor and facilitator of knowledge in Pharmacology & Therapeutics, and Clinical Skills.  A proponent of innovative medical education, particularly the problem-based learning (PBL) philosophy, he has addressed several national and international conferences on the subject.  He is a fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and a member of the editorial board of the CEPP, and the J. of Med Education (Taiwan).
	Prof. Christina Tan, Malaysia Christina Tan is a family physician by training, and is currently Director of the Medical Education & Research Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya.  She also heads the Clinical Skills Unit in the faculty, as well as being chief coordinator for the Objective Structured Clinical Examinations at 3rd and Final MBBS levels.   She was formerly Head of the Department of Primary Care Medicine, and continues to maintain a clinical practice in the Primary Care Clinic at the University Malaya Medical Centre.          She has a deep interest in medical education, particularly in curriculum development and assessment, and was twice awarded international fellowships in medical education, in 2000 (based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA) and 2005-6 (in Philadelphia, USA), and has on-going international links in USA and South Africa in training and mentoring medical educationists.  Since 2000, she has been involved in many faculty staff training workshops in Problem-Based Learning and PBL Case Design, as well as OSCE Examiner Training.
	Prof. Debra Sim, Malaysia Debra S.M. Sim is currently a professor at the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya.  She obtained her B.Sc. in 1980 and Ph.D. in Pharmacology in 1984 from the University of Liverpool, U.K., before joining the present university in 1984. Debra has played a pivotal role in the implementation of PBL tutorials in Year II of the university’s MBBS programme in 1999/2000, and has since been involved in the training of students and tutors for PBL.  She currently holds the Chair of the Faculty PBL Committee and has been actively involved in the curriculum reviews of both MBBS and BDS programmes in her university.  She is the Honorary Secretary (and now also Acting Vice President) of the Asia-Pacific Association on PBL in Health Sciences (APA-PHS) for 2006-2008, and is a 2007 Fellow of the FAIMER Institute based in Philadelphia. Debra’s research interests include pharmacokinetics, snake venom pharmacology, problem-based learning (PBL) and assessment.  She has published in both scientific and educational journals on the above subjects, and has won several awards both for her teaching and scientific work.
	Prof. Nabishah Mohamad, Malaysia