Martin Corbally is Professor and Head of the Department of Surgery at The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland — Bahrain, Chief of Staff and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain. Professor Corbally’s expertise in neonatal surgery, paediatric hepatobiliary surgery, paediatric surgical oncology, surgical education, hospital administration risk management is world-class. He maintains an active role in the teaching of undergraduates and postgraduate trainees in Paediatric Surgery. He has been actively involved, since 2003, in an outreach programme between the Children’s Hospital Number 2, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, the Royal College of Surgeons, Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin and the Christina Noble Foundation to provide skills enhancement for doctors and nurses in HCMC. In 2007 this programme was extended to Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Dr. Kilty is a Biotech Entrepreneur retired from executive functions ; managing a biotech investment portfolio and involved with two Angel Investment groups in Ireland. Dr. Kilty holds a PhD in Zoology/Biochemistry from University College Dublin. He carried out post doctoral research in protein chemistry and immunology at the University of Texas, Austin and UCD. In 1986 he was Director of R&D at Baxter Diagnostics, Europe, and in 1990 returned to Ireland to set up Biotrin Ltd., an infectious disease diagnostics company. When this was sold to Diasorin in 2008 he set up Argutus Diagnostics Ltd , a Biomarkers company which he sold to AIM listed EKF Diagnostics Ltd. He is Chairman of Connexicon Medical Ltd. and was Chairman of the Irish Bioindustry Association and a board member of NOVA UCD 2005-2007.

He was voted one of the top 100 influential Ireland-US business leaders by ‘Business and Finance’ in 2007 and 2008 and was awarded the U.S.-Ireland Biolink award for contribution to Irish Life Sciences in 2007. He is a former board member of the Irish Cancer Society where he also Chaired the Research Committee . He was awarded an Honorary D.Sc from UCD in 2011. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine and Medicinal Chemistry at UCD.

John Collins, Chairman Founder & Managing Partner at Beyonder.ie. John is an experienced chartered director, expert in market development, corporate governance, business technology and growth strategies. John is an active advisor and mentor across a number of industry sectors. His expertise in emerging markets is well established. He is the former Chair of Project Arts Centre, Ireland’s largest multi-disciplinary Arts enterprise; former NED at Keelvar, global leader in AI-based procurement solutions; former member of TSSG Advisory Board, and of Leadership Circle within DCU’s Educational Trust.

Naji received his medical degree from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Masters in Translational Research from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed an internal medicine residency and fellowship in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He then joined the faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania as an assistant professor in medicine. He moved to Bahrain in August 2018 as a senior lecturer in medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Medical University of Bahrain and as a consultant endocrinologist at King Hamad University Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism, and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. He is currently enrolled in a Master of Education for Health Professionals at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Alamuddin’s research focuses on the treatment of obesity, involving behavioral, pharmacological, and surgical approaches. Dr. Alamuddin was previously awarded an NIH K12 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program award. He has published in high impact journals inducting Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Obesity, and Obesity Surgery.

Dr. Jean Hughes is Director of Strategic Initiatives, in the President’s Office at Dublin City University. Having worked in information systems in banking and manufacturing, Jean has spent most of her career in higher education, in Ireland and the Middle East. Her experience comprises roles across academic, academic management and senior university management. When working for RCSI Bahrain, Jean worked closely with Prof Martin Corbally in establishing the Global Health Initiative to grow a culture of altruism amongst the student population through a strategic focus on a range of aspects of global health. Jean developed a mechanism to map the medicine curriculum to global health opportunities – through curricular, extra and co-curricular activities. Jean was also instrumental in establishing a global health exchange programme with the University of Pennsylvania in the US, which allows students from each campus to spend time in the summer engaging in global health research projects in the other campus.

Jean returned to Ireland in September 2020 and joined the board of Operation ChildLife (OCL) as a non-executive director. Jean manages the development of policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the Irish Charities Regulator and coordinates the strategic development of the charity. In September 2022, Jean delivered a talk about OCL at the UN Science Summit in New York, at their invitation and in October 2022, Jean delivered a similar talk at the launch of the Department of Global Health at the new Irish Children’s Hospital.

Jean holds a BSc. in Computer Science and an MBA from DCU, a Doctorate in Education from Queens University Belfast and a Graduate Certificate in Strategic Management from Harvard University.

Brendan is Consultant Paediatrician Anaesthetist and Intensivist at Crumlin Hospital, Dublin and is also a clinical lecturer in the Dept of Paediatrics in Trinity College Dublin medical school. Brendan was an integral component in the initial development of the programme and thus far has been involved in the care of over 200 children in Vietnam and Tanzania. Having been approached by the Christina Noble Foundation, he contacted Professor Martin Corbally with a view to pursuing a joint surgical/anaesthetic trip. Brendan took his first trip to Vietnam in 2004 where he and the team introduced new surgical and anaesthetic techniques for infants — they had not had exposure to invasive haemodynamic monitoring or infant epidurals pthoperatively before his visit, anaesthetic techniques that would be deemed essential for safe surgery.

Dr Paul Oslizlok is a consultant paediatric cardiologist at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Dublin and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). Paul qualified in medicine from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1979 and carried out his specialist paediatric cardiology training in the world-famous Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, in London in the UK, The Medical University of South Carolina, and The Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, in the US. With more than 30 years’ experience in paediatric cardiology Dr Oslizlok is currently Clinical Director at OLH Crumlin and Clinical Lead (Rep of Ireland) of the All Ireland Congenital Heart Network. He is one of Ireland’s foremost specialists in this area and his research has been widely published. Dr Oslizlok also served as President of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) from June 2008 to 2010.

Professor Otoom is a Physician and Clinical Pharmacologist. He has held various senior academic roles, currently he is President of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Bahrain. Prof Otoom had several Consultancies with 111. WHO projects in Syria, Jordan, Oman, UAE, Kenya, Iran and Sudan. He is an advisor to several Education and Health Councils in the region. He serves on different strategic boards and committees locally and internationally. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in London where his name is inscribed on its Wall of Honour, marking his contribution in transnational medical education.

Professor J Mark Ryan MB, BCh, FRCR (London), FFRRCSI, EBIR, FCIRSE is a Clinical Professor at Trinity College Dublin, and an Interventional Radiologist at St James Hospital Dublin.

He is a Fellow of the Cardiovascular Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (FCIRSE), and holds the European Board of Interventional Radiology (EBIR) qualification.

Professor Ryan graduated in Medicine from Trinity College Dublin in 1988, and trained in Radiology, obtaining Fellowship qualifications from both The Royal College of Radiologists in London (FRCR) and The Faculty of Radiology at The Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin (FFRRCSI).

He completed Specialist Fellowship Training in Interventional Radiology and Abdominal-Cross Sectional Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

He was an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina from 1998-2004.

Professor Ryan specialises in delivering minimally invasive oncological and endovascular treatments for many forms of cancer, portal hypertension, liver disease, and for bleeding and thrombotic disorders.

He has a particular interest in minimally invasive treatments for cancer including chemoembolization and ablation therapies. He has specialist clinical and research interest in the endovascular management of haemorrhage and thrombosis, and in performing treatments for the management of chronic urinary obstruction in the setting of gynaecological malignancy.

Professor Ryan has been actively involved in academics and clinical research for over 20 years, during which time he has published and presented more than 170 peer-reviewed scientific papers, editorials, articles, and book chapters with > 2700 citations in the medical literature (Google Scholar: h-index 27, i10 index 48).

Professor Ryan has lectured in Europe, Asia and the USA and has been on Faculty for international conferences for over two decades including The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), The International Symposium on Endovacular Therapies (ISET), The Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology Society of Europe (CIRSE),The European Congress of Radiology (ECR), Global Embolization Symposium and Technologies (GEST) and European (ECIO) and World Congresses of Interventional Oncology (WCIO).

Prof. J Mark Ryan MB BCh BAO FRCR EBIR FCIRSE FFRRCSI

Consultant Interventional Radiologist & Clinical Professor Trinity College Dublin

Interventional Radiology Division, St James Hospital & Beacon Hospital, Dublin

Eamon trained in Ireland, the U.K. and Canada. He worked as consultant anaesthetist and intensivist at Wexford General Hospital. He was then appointed Associate Professor of Critical Care at RCSI Medical University of Bahrain and Director of Critical Care Services at King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain. He made several trips to Muhimbili Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam and to Vietnam / Cambodia with OCL. He is now retired from clinical practice and is involved with OCL as an advisor and volunteer.

Danelle Hannan is the part-time Operations Executive at Operation Childlife.  She holds a degree in Business Studies from Massey University New Zealand and has extensive experience in administration and office management, particularly in the not-for-profit sector.