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Professor Isaac Ashkenazi (MD, Mac, MAP, MONS) 
Professor Ashkenazi is an international expert on disaster management and leadership with both extensive professional and academic experience. He is considered one of the world's foremost experts in medical preparedness for complex emergencies and disasters. Ashkenazi is the Director of the Urban Terrorism Preparedness Project at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint program of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is also a Professor of Disaster Medicine at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and a consultant to Harvard University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and other national and international agencies. Ashkenazi is the former head of the Medical Services and Supply Center for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and served as the Surgeon General for the IDF Home Front Command. Dr. Sagar Galwankar (MBBS, DNB, MD, MPH, Diplomat. ABEM) 
Dr Sagar Galwankar is the Chief Academic Officer for the INDO-US Emergency and Trauma Collaborative. He oversees academic operations and directs strategies for the INDO-US Collaborative which involves education, research and treatment initiatives by and between 50 + partner academic institutions both in the US and in India. Dr Galwankar also is the Founder and Executive Editor for the Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock and the Journal of Global Infectious Diseases. With over 100 publications and presentations to his credit Dr Galwankar is a part of the vibrant Faculty of Global Health at the University of South Florida. He also holds additional responsibility as the International Program Officer for a National Institutes of Health -Fogarty International Center Program project involving the University of South Florida and Vadodara Medical College in Gujarat. Dr. Vikas Kapil 
Associate Director for Science for the Division of Injury Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. In addition, he provides scientific oversight and coordination for the Indo-U.S. Collaboration on Environmental and Occupational Health and Injury Prevention and Control. He received his medical degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan and a Masters in Public Health (M.P.H.) from The University of Michigan. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at POH Medical Center in Pontiac, Michigan and in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His research and academic areas of interest include injury prevention and control and environmental and occupational health problems in low income countries and environmental pulmonary disease. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and in Occupational Medicine. Dr. Kapil is a Fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Associate Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Scott Sasser (MD) 
Dr. Scott Sasser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine and in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Sasser is the Associate Director for International Programs for the Center for Injury Control, works as a consultant in the Division of Injury Response, in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and directs the department's International Health Fellowship. Dr. Sasser was the lead editor on the World Health Organization's (WHO) publication Prehospital Trauma Care Systems, a monograph designed to assist decision-makers in low and middle income countries develop basic prehospital trauma care systems; as an extension of this project, he currently sits on the WHO Trauma and Emergency Care Advisory Committee. Dr. Sasser is currently involved in projects in Kenya, Rwanda, and India, and is currently the recipient of funding from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health to provide injury focused public health training to physicians in Mozambique and from the United States Agency for International Development to develop emergency medicine and emergency medical services in the Republic of Georgia. Maj Gen (Dr) JK Bansal, VSM 
Maj Gen (Dr) JK Bansal, VSM is the Senior Consultant (CBRN) in National Disaster Management Authority, Govt. of India. Prior to this he served in Army Medical Corps and Defemce Research & Development Organization. He is a medical doctor with specialization in Thyroid diseases. He is the pioneer of Radiation Disaster Medical Management centre, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, Delhi. He established NBC Mitigation Division and NBC Training Centre at Defence Research & Development Establishment, Gwalior. He underwent extensive professional training in Nuclear Biological Chemical mitigation and environmental health in Australia, Canada, Japan, Sweden, Holland & Russia. From 8 to 12 Jun 2009 he attended Fifth International Basic Course on CW assistance and protection conducted by Serbian Armed Forces - NBC Training Centre Krusevac, Serbia. He has got wide experience for NBC protection, detection, decontamination and medical management. He visited many countries like Holland, Sweden, USA, Japan, Australia to share his experience in the field of NBC, occupational health and thyroid. In June 2008 he visited Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna Moscow, where he got himself acquainted and updated about Nuclear Disaster Management. He delivered many invited lectures and demonstrations during various NBC training courses. Recently he presented Indian Perspective on Bioterrorism Prevention & Response during Interpol Workshop on "Bioterrorism Prevention". He contributed significantly during Natural Disasters like Tsunami, Gujarat Earthquake and Orissa Super cyclone. For his outstanding contribution and distinguishes services His Excellency President of India decorated him with Vishist Sewa Medal (VSM). Biswanath Dash 
Biswanath Dash works at National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India as an Assistant Professor. He earlier worked at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie specializing on Incident Command System (ICS) and has been involved with ICS adaptiation in India in various capacities. He has also served at UNDP in Chennai during post Tsunami Recovery Program and has undertaken many studies in disaster management. Dr. Nobhojit Roy 
Dr. Nobhojit Roy trained as a trauma surgeon from LTM General Hospital (a Level-1 trauma Centre) and qualified as a surgeon with the first rank from the University of Bombay. He also holds a Masters in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the Head of the department of Surgery, at the BARC Hospital, a community health care provider to 100,000 people in Mumbai. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is the apex institute for Nuclear Preparedness in India. Dr. Roy is a Visiting Professor of Public Health at the Jamshedji Tata Centre of Disaster Management which affiliated to the deemed university, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. This centre for Disaster Management conducts a two-year master's course in disaster management in the developing world context for professionals from various academic backgrounds. His courses include Public Health in Disasters and Ethics in complex humanitarian emergencies. He is on the board of Directors of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) and has their Michael Moles Fellow in Disaster Medicine (2005-2007). He is on the WHO-SEARO roster as a Disaster Expert in the region. |
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