Speakers


 
Hon. Chris Fearne
Minister of Health, Malta
Co-Chair, Commonwealth Healthcare Business Group, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council
  Hon. Dr. Rajitha Senaratne
Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Sri Lanka

 
Right Honourable Baroness Patricia Scotland
Secretary General of the Commonwealth
  Right Honourable Sir Anand Sathyanand
Former Governor General of New Zealand, Chairman, The Commonwealth Foundation

 
Lord Marland of Odstock
Chairman, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council
  Sir Michel Marmot
President, World Medical Association

 
Dr. Joanna Nurse
Director, Health and Education Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK
  Dr. Sulaiman Juman
President, Commonwealth Medical Association

 
Professor Alan Lopez AC
University of Melbourne Laureate Professor, Rowden-White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement, Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Dr. Vinton G. Cerf
Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer

 
Dr. Oheneba Owusu-Danso 
Secretary General, Commonwealth Medical Association, Consultant Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgeon, Head, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit, Directorate of Surgery, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Ghana
  Professor S. Arulrhaj
Past President, Commonwealth Medical Association (2007-2010), President, Commonwealth Medical Trust, UK

 
Mr. Gordon Caruana-Dingli
Senior Lecturer, University of Malta
Past President, Commonwealth Medical Association (2010-2013)
President, Medical Association of Malta
Deputy Chairman Department of Surgery and Head of Breast Unit, Mater Dei Hospital, Malta
  Professor Vajira H. W. Dissanayake
President Designate, Commonwealth Medical Association, President, Sri
Lanka Medical Association (2012), President, Health Informatics Society of
Sri Lanka

 
Dr. Iyanthi Abeywickrama
President, Sri Lanka Medical Association
  Dr. Palitha Maheepala
Director General of Health Services, Sri Lanka

 
Mohamed Abidally
President Rotary Club of Colombo
  Dr. Anuruddha Abeygunasekera
Co-Editor, Ceylon Medical Journal, Sri Lanka

 
Dr. Pamod Amarakoon
Medical Officer in Health Informatics, Nutirition Division, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
  Professor Sujeewa Amarasena
Past President, Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians, Professor in Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka

 
Senake Amerasinghe
Rotary District Governor, Sri Lanka
  Paul Biondich
Co-Founder & President @ OpenMRS

 
Professor Jørn Braa
Professor, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway
  Paul Braunschweiger
General Director, CITI Programme, University of Miami, USA
   
Hildah Mulenga
Better Health Diaspora
African Diaspora Initiative
  Dr. Chris Maher
Polio Eradication Manager, World Health Organization
   
Professor Sinclair Stockman
Chair, Connected Health Innovation Centre
UK
  Professor Ian Coombes
Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, University of Queensland, Australia
Director of Pharmacy, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Queensland, Australia

   
Judith Coombes
Senior Pharmacist/Conjoint Lecturer, Princess Alexandra Hospital, University of Queensland, Australia
  Dr. Anoop Singh
Chief Operating Officer, Commonwealth Institute for Infrastructure Investment, UK

 
Sioux Cumming
Programme Manager Journals Online, INASP, Oxford, UK
  Dr. Buddika Dayarathne
Medical Officer in Health Informatics, Medical Statistics Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

 
Savini Senadheera
Lecturer (Pharmacy), Department of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
  Dr. Padmal De Silva 
Head, Department of Research and Evaluation, WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Workforce Development, National Institute of Health Sciences, Kalutara, Sri Lanka

 
Dr. A. Pubudu De Silva
Consultant Community Physician, National Intensive Care Surveillance, Ministry of Health,
Sri Lanka
  Dr. Ramya De Silva
President, Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians

 
D. G. Tharindu Dushyantha
Head of Clinical Skills Department, International Institute of Health Sciences, Sri Lanka
   Judith Diment
Chair, Rotary International Polio Advocacy Task Force

 
Stephen Dory
Health Adviser (Hub Coordinator), Health and Education Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK
  Dr. Emad El Dukair
Founder and CEO, The Care Group, USA and Senior Advisor, InterHealth, Canada

 
Dr. Kithsiri Edirisinghe
Deputy Chairman and Director (Academic), International Institute of Health Sciences, Sri Lanka
  Darren Brown
Head of Business Development, iGene Global

 
Oliver Evert
Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, London, UK
  Dr. Mohamed Fahim
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

 
Dr. Takashi Fujita
Associate Professor, Trauma and Resuscitation Centre, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
  Adriane Gelpi
University of Miami Institute of Bioethics, USA

 
Denis Gilhooly
Executive Director at the Global He@lth 2030 Innovation Task Force
   Professor Athula Ginige
Professor, Deans Unit School of Computing, Engineering & Math, University of Western Sydney

 
Shiluka Goonewardene
Principal, KPMG, Sri Lanka
  Professor Kapila Gunawardane
Past President, Sri Lanka College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

   
Dr. Saman Gamage
Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Dr. S. K. Mishra
Professor and Head, Department of Endocrine Surgery, Nodal Officer, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute Telemedicine Program, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow

 
Dr. Roshan Hewapathirana
CEO, Health Informatics Society of Sri Lanka
  Dr. Pravin Hissaria
Clinical Immunologist and Immunopathologist, Royal Adelaide Hospital; Clinical Advisor to the National Blood Authority, Australia

 
Professor Robert Heddle
Chief Pathologist, SA Pathology; Head, Clinical Immunology Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital; Member of the National Allergy Strategy Research and Data Working Group, Australia
  Associate Professor Girija Chetty
Faculty of Education, Science, Technology & Maths, University of Canberra, Australia

   
Dr. Kapila Jayaratne
National Programme Manager, Maternal & Child Morbidity & Mortality Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
  Angshuman Sarkar
Principal Consultant, ThoughtWorks, India

 
Nadeeka Jayasinghe
Deputy Head of Nursing, International Institute of Health Sciences, Sri Lanka
  Professor Saroj Jayasinghe
Professor of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
http://www.med.cmb.ac.lk/index.php/clinical-staff?id=190

 
Professor Rohan Jayasuriya
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
  Dushyantha T. Jayaweera
Executive Dean for Research and Research Education, Professor of Medicine, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA

 
Linus Jeganathan
Director (Projects & Procurement), Hemas Hospitals (Pvt) Ltd.
  Dr. Oommen John
The George Institute for Global Health, Australia; Indian Association for Medical Informatics, India

 
Rabin Yaghoubi
Chief Commercial Officer, Babylon Health, UK
  Suranga Kasthurirathne
Regional Community Manager (Asia-Pacific) @ OpenMRS

 
Dr. Sampath Kulathilaka
Medical Officer in Charge, eHospital Dompe Project, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
  Mark Landry
Regional Advisor, World Health Organisation

 
Shelley Lipon
Customer & Stakeholder Engagement Executive and Lead for the Americas, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, IHTSDO, Denmark
  Sergio Litewka
CITI Program International Director, University of Miami Institute of Bioethics, USA

 
Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo
Executive director
Asia eHealth Information Network
  Michael McGovern
Chair, Rotary's International PolioPlus Committee

 
Dr. Lene Mikkelsen
Senior Technical Advisor, Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Jane Millar
Collaboration Lead, International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, IHTSDO, Denmark

 
Nobuko Miyairi
Regional Director, ORCID, Asia Pacific, Tokyo, Japan
  Dr. Shinji Nakahara
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Japan

 
Dr. Kamal Perera
Head of Department of Ayurveda Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics, Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  Dr. BJC Perera
President, Sri Lanka Forum of Medical Editors

 
K. M. Gopakumar
Legal Advisor and Senior Researcher, Third World Network (TWN), Malaysia
  Dr. Rasika Rampatige
Bloomberg Data for Health Initiative, University of Melbourne, Australia

 
Dr. Ravi Rannan Eliya
Director, Institute of Health Policy, Sri Lanka
  Professor Sundeep Sahay
Professor, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo, Norway

 
Dr. Nithushi Samaranayake 
Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
  Professor Hemantha Senanayake
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Chairperson, Ethics Review Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

 
L. G. T. Shanika
Lecturer in Pharmacy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
  Dr. Dileep Silva
Consultant, Health Economic Cell, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

 
Elyse Summers
Chief Executive Officer, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programmes, USA
  Shaluni Tissera
President, Scientific Committee, International Institute of Health Sciences, Sri Lanka

 
Dr. Christina Torres
Co-ordinator, Forum for Ethical Review Committees in Asia and the Western Pacific (FERCAP)
  Professor Chandani Wanigatunge
Chairperson, Forum for Ethics Review Committees in Sri Lanka (FERCSL)

 
Rukshan Widyalankara
Chartered Architect, President, Commonwealth Association of Architects
  Dr. Deepal Wijesuriya
Medical Officer in Health Informatics, Non Communicable Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

 
Dr. Rohan Samarajiva
Founding Chair, LIRNEasia
  Victoria Rutter
Executive Director, Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA)

 
Ray Anderson
President, Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
  Dr. Pankaj Shah
Assistant Dean; Professor & Head of Department of Community Medicine, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India

 
Professor Gita Fernando
Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
  Professor Chen I-Cheng Mark
Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Head of Research, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

 
Dr. Nicholas J. Kassebaum
Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, USA
  Dr. Tom Achoki
Clinical Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, USA

 
Callum Bir
Director, Health & Social Services (Asia Pacific), Microsoft, Singapore
  Dr. Kushlani Jayathilake
Consultant Microbiologist, Sri Jayewardenepura General Hospital, Sri Lanka

 
Glenda Whiting
Principal Lecturer- Health, TAFE South Australia
  Matt Elliot
Principal Investment Officer, Healthcare and Education, South Asia, International Finance Corporation

 
Dr. Elvis Eze
Assistant Health Officer, Commonwealth Secretariat, London
  Dr. Krisantha Weerasuriya
Independent Health Care Consultant – Medicines, Sri Lanka

 
Dr. Narendra Gupta
Founder and Executive Board Member, Prayas, India
  Shailly Gupta
Deputy Head (India), Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, India

 
Dr. Harsha Jayakody
Founder, mydoctor.lk
  Dr. Kusal Wijayaweera
Chairman, Ethics Review Committee, HISSL

 
Prof. Chandrika N Wijeyaratne
President Elect, Sri Lanka Medical Association Chairperson, Nirogi Lanka Project
  Dr. Susan Miller
Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA

 
Dr. Asiri Rodrigo
Co-Editor, Sri Lanka Journal of Psychiatry, Consultant Psychiatrist, Teaching Hospital, Kandy
  Dr. Markus Mayer
Programme Manager, South and South East Asia
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Panjan Navaratnam
Executive Director
Sunshine Healthcare Lanka Ltd.
  Professor Diane Skiba
Chairperson, Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group, International Medical Informatics Association
Professor and Project Director, I-TEAM (Interprofessional Technology Enhanced Advance practice Model), University of Colorado College of Nursing, USA

 
P. L. Jayawardene
Head of Nursing, International Institute of Health Sciences, Sri Lanka
  Professor Tony Sahama
Information Security Discipline, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

 
Dean Newman
Operating Department Practitioners Course Director, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Department of Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare Practice, Coventry University, United Kingdom
  Dr. Kasia Bail
Professor in Nursing, Health Research Institute, Synergy Nursing and Midwifery Research Centre, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Australia

 
Dr. Anil Jasinghe
Deputy Director General, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka
  Dr. Achala Jayatilleke
Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

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