Chair: Dr David Powell

Medical Adviser, IATA

Dr Elizabeth Wilkinson

President, IAMA

Elizabeth (Liz) Wilkinson is an accredited Specialist in Occupational Medicine and General Practice in the UK and has been involved in Aviation Medicine for almost 25 years.

She enjoyed the world of full-time aviation medicine with British Airways for 22 years, becoming Head of Health Services in 2010. She made the difficult decision to retire from her role there as Chief Medical Officer in 2019.

She is a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, former member of IATA MAG, and immediate past-Chair of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee.

Liz is now co-Editor of Ernsting’s Textbook of Aviation and Space Medicine, President of The Association of Aviation Medical Examiners (UK), and President of the International Airline Medical Association (IAMA, formerly AMDA).

Dr Isaac Bogoch

University of Toronto

Professor John Nicholls

Dr Paul Wynn-Hatton

Callington

Dr. Guido Verbeck

University of North Texas

Dr. Guido F. Verbeck, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is an expert is mass spectrometry, specifically instrument design and development.  Dr. Verbeck received his PhD as a Proctor & Gamble fellow in chemistry at Texas A&M University. Dr. Verbeck has developed mass spectrometers over the past 20 years, and has been a member of the analytical community for 25 years. His appointment is at the University of North Texas where he continues to design novel ion optical devices for miniaturization, preparative, and analytical mass spectrometry, and is the Director for the Laboratory of Imaging Mass Spectrometry.  In this appointment Dr. Verbeck has received $5M in external funding, 85 peer reviewed publications,  10 awarded patents and 8 applications, and graduated 20 graduate students in instrument development. Guido Verbeck was awarded a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the University of North Texas Early Career Award for Research Creativity.  Dr. Guido Verbeck continues to develop new mass spectrometers specifically for single-cell analysis for cancer biomarkers, nanoparticle development for pharmaceutical and toxicological biochemical effects, and determining the biological mechanisms for biomolecular condensates.

John Redmond

InspectIR

Dr Jim Chung

Air Canada

Dr. Jim Chung has been Air Canada’s Chief Medical Officer since 2016.  In this role, he has oversight for
both employee and passenger medical regulatory issues including first aid training, onboard medical
procedures and pilot medical certification.
Dr. Chung is a graduate of the University of Toronto Medical Program and undergraduate studies at
McMaster University.
Following completion of his residency in Family Medicine, he served in the Canadian Forces in various
roles while stationed at CFB Petawawa. Dr. Chung also deployed to Bosnia on Canada’s NATO SFOR
mission and to Turkey with Canada’s DART team in response to a major earthquake in 1999.
Dr. Chung attained his flight surgeon training through the Canadian Forces and also received his Master
in Aviation Medicine and Post graduate diploma in Occupational Medicine through Otago University.
Dr. Chung also completed his emergency medicine training and certification at the University of Toronto
following his retirement from the Canadian Forces, practicing as an emergency medicine physician in
Toronto prior to joining Air Canada in 2009.

Jean-Claude Manguerra

Institut Pasteur

Neil King

Lifeworks

Neil King is President, Integrated Health Solutions and Executive Vice President. His portfolio includes the overall management of the LifeWorks EFAP and wellbeing businesses globally. Mr. King joined the Company in 2009 and was previously U.S. Chief Commercial Officer. While working in the Employee Support Solutions business, Mr. King helped lead the Company to become one of the largest employee and family assistance program providers in the world and to significantly increase customer satisfaction. Prior to joining LifeWorks, Mr. King held senior international sales leadership roles at Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. King holds an Honours degree in Business from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. He is active in the community and within LifeWorks where, for the last 10 years, he has been a key contributor to the Company’s Kakuma initiative to build a technology centre and high school for girls in a refugee camp in northern Kenya.

James Wiltshire

Assistant Director, External Affairs, IATA

James Wiltshire is Assistant Director External Affairs, a position he took up in January 2019. In this role he is responsible for developing global policy for IATA across a broad range of topics. As part of his role, James is the assistant to IATA’s Medical Advisor and has therefore been at the forefront of developing IATA’s policy response to the Coronavirus pandemic and its engagements with UN agencies such as ICAO and WHO.

James is a professional economist by background and joined IATA’s Economics Department in 2013. He also has government and regulatory experience having worked for over 10 years within the UK Government Economic Service and the Civil Aviation regulator. James has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with Hispanic Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland.

Tobias Dingwerth

Lufthansa Group

Since 2017 physician at Medical Services & Health Management Lufthansa Group. Specialist in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Task Force Lead, Member of the crisis team Coronavirus of the Lufthansa Group. Several years of clinical work in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Infectiology as a resident, specialist and senior physician until 2017 and as a physician in humanitarian aid and medical crisis management in various countries in Africa.

Dr Frederico Guanais

OECD

Frederico Guanais is Deputy Head of the Health Division at the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), and an international expert in primary care, global health, and health systems strengthening. At the OECD, he has responsibilities in the areas of primary health care, people-centred health systems, health statistics, and the development of the Patient-Reported Indicators Survey (PaRIS), the first ever OECD international benchmarking of the results of health systems from the perspective of patients treated in primary care settings.

Prior to joining the OECD, Frederico was Principal Health Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank, first in Washington, DC then in Lima, Perú. He led the approval of over 1.2 billion US dollars in loan operations to strengthen health systems and improve health care services in Latin America and the Caribbean. He was also the principal investigator of projects on primary health care, integrated healthcare networks, and patient-reported indicators.

Born and raised in Brazil, Frederico is a dual Brazilian and Italian national. He has held senior managerial positions in the Brazilian federal government, in the area of social policy. He is a Civil Engineer by training, and has a Ph.D. in Public Administration with emphasis in health policy, from the New York University (NYU).

Dr Sanjay Pooran

Geneva Centre for Security Policy

I am specialist public health and infectious disease physician. I am a fellow at The Geneva Centre for Security Policy as well as public governor for University College London Hospital (UCLH/NHS).I  have spent my career as a public heath physician  focusing on infectious diseases and health system strengthening working in  Latin America ,The Caribbean, Hong Kong and the UK

My approach to global public health focuses on a multi-sectoral and interdisciplinary approach towards effective health security provisions and sustainability. Most recently served as public health lead for Athena medical centre for Ukraine following the Russian invasion as well as serving the Latin American region.

Linda Ristagno

Assistant Director External Affairs, IATA

Tim Sprott

Senior Medical Officer, Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand

Dr Frederic DeHais

Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'espace

Frédéric Dehais is a professor at l’Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE) at l’Université de Toulouse. He defended his PhD in 2004 at ONERA (Office National d’Etude et de Recherche Aeronautique) on the topic of modeling cognitive conflict in pilots’ activity. He held a 2-year postdoctoral position funded by Airbus applying the research developed during his PhD. Since 2006, he has been leading the Human Factors and Neuroergonomics team at ISAE, which works on academic and industrial projects for providing real-time assistance to human operators.

Professor Dehais was co-chair of the first International Neuroergonomics Conference, held in Paris, France in 2016. Neuroergonomics is an emerging scientific field that applies neuroscience to study performance. Its aim is to look at human skill and brain function in order to design systems for safer and more efficient operation.

Dr Paulo Alves

MedAire

Paulo M. Alves, MD, MSc, provides technical guidance and analysis for MedAire’s MedLink medical advisory service, as well as is a member of the MedAire Medical Advisory Board.

Dr. Alves is also MedAire’s liaison with civil aviation regulators and industry associations on all matters interesting airline medicine.

A cardiologist and aerospace medicine specialist, Dr. Alves previously was the General Medical Manager for Varig Brazilian Airlines, where he worked for 23 years, 10 of which in that capacity. He was a member of the IATA Medical Advisory Group from 2002 to 2006.

Dr. Alves is a member of the International Academy of Aerospace Medicine, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), and a Fellow of the Civil Aviation Medical Association

Dr. Alves is a past-Chair of the AsMA’s Air Transport Medicine Committee.

He is a member of the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) Safety Committee.

Dr. Alves is currently the president of the Ibero-American Aerospace Medical Association, a past president for the International Airline Medical Association (IAMA) and past-president of the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

Dr Richard Pleus

Founder, CEO, Chief Toxicologist, Intertox

Founder, CEO, Chief Toxicologist

RICHARD C. PLEUS, Ph.D., heads Intertox Inc., the scientific research and consulting company he founded in 1995. Within Intertox, he brings deep knowledge of toxicology to assist in protecting public health. To date, he has performed more than 600 toxicological assessments and has analyzed the impact of hundreds of chemicals on human health for aviation and space travel, medicine, medical products, consumer products, air, soil, water, food and waste.

Dr Samir Jebbad

Royal Air Maroc

Dr. Samir Jebbad

Moroccan

Born in Casablanca, 42 years old

Certificate and graduation :

• medical degree from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 2005
• University Certificate of Occupational Health and Prevention of Occupational Hazards from Hassan II University of Casablanca in 2009
• Qualification as a specialist doctor in Occupational Medicine in 2012
• University diploma in diabetology from Paris 13 University in 2012
• Aerospace medicine capacity from Paris Descartes University in 2017
• Inter-University Diploma in Travel Medicine – Passenger Health at Paris VII University Denis Diderot in 2019

Professional path :

• From 2006 until 2015: occupational health physician in the mining and chemical industries (phosphate industry)
• Since 2015: Occupational Medicine Manager at Royal Air Maroc

Fanny Levy MD

President & Co-Founder MyReVe

Professor Henri Marotte

Dr Mohammad Razin Kamarulzaman

Malaysia Airlines

Mohammad Razin Kamarulzaman graduated from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1994. He has post-graduate qualifications in Aviation and Occupational Medicine from King’s College London and University of Otago. He served the Malaysian Armed Forces Health Services from 1994 until 2018. He presently leads the Corporate Safety Oversight department in Malaysia Airlines overseeing the airline’s safety and health programs.

He enjoys running, reading, and travelling.

Dr TJ Doyle

Medical Director, STAT-MD

TJ Doyle MD MPH is the Medical Director for UPMC Communications and Aviation Consultation. He is also the Medical Director for the STAT-MD Ground Based Airline Medical Support Service. Dr. Doyle has been providing Airline Medical Consultation services for 16 years. He is also one of the Medical Directors for the STAT MedEvac critical care helicopter service.  This service provides rotary wing transport services to 8 US states using 17 base sites. Dr. Doyle is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Subspecialty Board Certified in Emergency Medical Services. Dr. Doyle is a member of the Airlines Medical Director’s Association and the Aerospace Medical Association. Dr. Doyle is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine.

Anabela Jorge

MD, UCS TAP Air Portugal Health Services

• Anabela Jorge is currently the chairperson of the board of UCS – TAP Air Portugal Health Services, responsible for the management of this healthcare unit, medical certification and occupational safety services, providing advisory to the airline’s management on health related issues, quality and safety programs.
• Anabela is a specialist in General Practice/Family Medicine and Occupational Medicine, holds the competence in Aviation Medicine and further studies in Travel Medicine and Healthcare Management. She is also an Authorized Medical Examiner (AME) by the Portuguese Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC).
• Anabela is a member of the Portuguese Aerospace Medicine Association (SMAPor) and Occupational Medicine Portuguese Society (SPMT) , as well as a member of the Aerospace Medicine Association (AsMA).

Dr Russell Brown

Qantas Health Services