Anne Matlow MSc MD FRCPC is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Toronto‘s Temerty Faculty of Medicine where she is Faculty Lead, PG Leadership. Her passion for systems improvement in care quality and patient safety has been realized throughout her career, including leadership positions locally, nationally (Board of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute; surveyor with Accreditation Canada; Patient Safety Systems Educator with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)) and internationally (founding member of the Pediatric International Patient Safety and Quality Collaborative). Her current focus is on leadership education as a key lever for systems transformation; she co-directs a Leadership Certificate Program at the University of Toronto, and led the RCPSC’s team in partnership with the Canadian Society for Physician Leaders and LEADS Global in developing a leadership simulation game, SimuLEADerShip. She has co-chaired the Planning Committee of The International Summit on Leadership Education for Physicians (TISLEP) and is a past co-Chair of Sanokondu, an international community of practice fostering leadership education for healthcare professionals. Her purpose is to equip physician leaders of today and tomorrow with the knowledge and skills needed to work collaboratively to create and nurture a culture of quality, safety and wellness for providers and patients alike.

Dr. Vijay Agarwal is the secretary general of the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organization. He was responsible for setting up Max Saket and Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospitals. He is Hony Advisor to Global Association of Physicians of India (GAPIO). Dr. Agarwal has played a central role in creating strategies for national programs of global importance such as the Pulse Polio program. He was a member of the Delhi Pollution Control Committee, Delhi Government, and has been instrumental in introducing and implementing the concept of Centralized Hospital Waste Management Scheme in Delhi. He is the Founder President of Society For Child Development which works with children with special abilities.

Peter B. Angood is the chief executive officer and president of the American Association for Physician Leadership; the only professional organization solely focused on leadership education and management training for the physician workforce, present in over 45 countries.

Previously, Dr. Angood was first chief patient safety officer and a vice president for The Joint Commission where he oversaw the National Patient Safety Goals and other enterprise-wide, international patient safety initiatives. He also completed a two-year engagement with the National Quality Forum and National Priorities Partnership as Senior Advisor for Patient Safety before assuming the role of Chief Medical Officer with the Patient Safety Organization of GE Healthcare. During these engagements, Dr. Angood continued intermittent work with the World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety initiative after helping lead the early development of the WHO Collaborating Center for Patient Safety Solutions.

Earlier in his career, after initially practicing with hospitals of the McGill University system, Dr. Angood was subsequently recruited to surgery faculty and hospital administrative positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, and Washington University in St. Louis. He completed his formal academic career as a Full Professor of Surgery, Anesthesia, and Emergency Medicine. Dr. Angood is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada), the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine, which also recognized him as a Master of Critical Care Medicine. He has a history of active involvement with numerous professional organizations and served as president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Angood’s research interests have addressed leading-edge problems; he has authored nearly 200 publications and is a well-recognized international speaker on the host of issues related to physician leadership. Dr. Angood is also a Fellow of the Explorers Club in New York City.

Dr. Neale Fong has more than 35 years’ experience in medical, health care and aged care leadership roles. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Bethesda Hospital, Chair of the WA Country Health Service Board, President of the Australasian College of Health Service Management and a Non-Executive Director at the Digital Health CRC. He was formerly Project Director for the establishment of the Curtin Medical School, the Director General of the WA Department of Health and Chief Executive Officer of St John of God Hospital Subiaco. He currently consults widely through Australis Health Advisory to a number of key health clients in Australia. He holds Bachelor Degrees in Medicine and Surgery, a Masters in Theological Studies and a Masters in Business Administration.

Prof Dr. Marleen Temmerman is a well-recognized global leader in women, adolescent and child health and rights. She brings academic, technical, political, governance, management, and leadership skills to the table as well as diplomacy, advocacy, fundraising, training and clinical expertise. She has a strong track record of working with governments, multilateral organisations, academia, professional bodies, development agencies, private sector, civil society, non-governmental and faith-based organisations, in a global and changing world. She is known for strategic partnership building and communication skills and has the ability to build relationships and influence at the highest levels. She is a charismatic leader, a trust-builder with diverse groups of stakeholders, leading to innovation, creativity and strong partnerships.

At present she holds the position of Associate Director of the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University (AKU) East Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Previously, she served as Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi as well as Director of the Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR) at the World Health Organization (WHO), HQ Geneva. She was elected Senator in the Belgian Parliament (2007-12) where she served as a member of the Commission on Social Affairs, and Chair of the Commission on Foreign Affairs and Defence. In that capacity, she was a member of the European Parliamentary Forum and Chair of the HIV/AIDS Advisory Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

She is the Founding Director of the International Centre of Reproductive Health (ICRH) at Ghent University, Belgium, with offices in Kenya and Mozambique and member of a large global collaborative academic network (28 universities globally). ICRH is a WHO Collaborating Centre on Reproductive Health since 2004, and a UNFPA preferential partner.

She has a strong academic background with over 500 peer reviewed publications and books in the area of women, adolescents and children health and rights, family planning, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases, and health systems (Scopus H-index 65). She supervised over 50 PhD students and won several awards and honours. She is Professor-Emeritus OB/GYN at Ghent University, Belgium, has an Honorary Professorship at the University of the Western Cape, South-Africa, the Free University in Brussels, Belgium and National Institute Family Planning Research, China.

Former important affiliations/memberships include: 1) the UN  iERG (independent expert review group) created in 2012 to report regularly to the United Nations Secretary-General on the results and resources related to the Global Strategy for Women, Adolescent and Child Health– 2) the EWEC (Every Woman Every Child) platform created to catalyze a political movement to advance the health and well-being of women, children and adolescents everywhere; 3) the FP2020 Reference group, FP2020 is a global partnership to empower women and girls by investing in rights-based family planning; 4) the Guttmacher-Lancet Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the post-2015 world; 5) the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health, 6) Scientific Advisory Committee of the EDCTP (European and Developing Countries Trial Partnership), 7) Chair Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition; 8) Senior advisor for the WHO Cluster ‘Families, Women and Children’; 9) Senior Fellow in the Institute for Global Health Diplomacy in Geneva, as well as member of several professional bodies. 

Ezequiel Garcia Elorrio MD MSc MBA PhD is founder and board member of the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Argentina, where he also leads the Department of Health Care Quality and Patient Safety.

Dr. Garcia Elorrio still practices medicine as general internist and is currently Professor of Public Health at CEMIC and holds a lecturer position at the University of Buenos Aires.

Has worked extensively in Quality of Care and Patient Safety research, education, and implementation projects in Latin America. Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia funded by NIH, USAID, PATH, URC, IADB, WB, WHO and the B&M Gates Foundation among others.

He is an active collaborator of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement as faculty and facilitator in the LAC region as well active member of International Society for Quality in Healthcare  -ISQua  –  to promote improvement globally. He has recently been appointed President Elect of ISQua from 2023. Since 2020 he became Office Director of Planetree for the south region of Latin America

In 2018 he was part of the Lancet commission on Quality in Developing Countries -HQSS- that contributed with a renovated vision of the field of Improvement and measurement. That report led to the creation of the QuEST network to improve health systems quality in LMICs, and he is Co-PI of the Latin-American Center of this endeavor.