Advisory Board

The Medical Tourism Association™ will be made up of 4 working councils starting in February 2010. Each Council will be made up of an elected Chairman, Vice Chairman and named Charter. Upon your invitation to the Council, you will be honored to an 18 month term. Each council will be given a predetermined budget to assist in the progress of Council projects and objectives.

Regional Advisory Council

The Regional Advisory Council will be made up of Ministers, Under-Secretaries and invited honoraries from around the world, coming together to support and develop Medical Tourism globally. Their goal is to communicate the development of global healthcare initiatives in their region to the MTA.

H.E. MR. NASSER AL BUDOOR, Direct-International Affairs and Minister's Office, Ministry of Health, United Arab Emirates Member of the Executive Board of Health Minister's Council for Gulf Cooperations Council (GCC Countries)

CYNTHIA L. CARRION, Assistant Secretary, Philippines Department of Tourism; Philippines 

DR. FAWZI AL-HAMMOURI, Chairman of the Private Hospitals Association; Amman Jordan

KURT WORRALL-CLARE, Advocate, Hospital Association of South Africa; South Africa

LEE CHIEN EARN, MD, Senior Director, Healthcare Performance Group Ministry of Health; Singapore

DR. SHIN-HO LEE, Executive Director for Industry Support for Korea Health Industry Development Institute; Seoul, Korea

Innovation Council

The Innovation Council will be a working group whose goal will be to identify and develop new business opportunities, programs and events in the Medical Tourism Industry for the Medical Tourism Association™ to participate in. The Council may identify regional experts to assist in the development of programs in respective regions and these experts will be part of a committee on regional development.

ROSANNA MORENO; Texas, USA

SJANNIE HULSMAN-LOUWERS; Germany

BRAD COOK, International Patient Department Director at Hospital Clinica Biblica; Costa Rica

ALEX PIPER, President of OneWorld Global Healthcare Solutions; USA

RENEE MARIE STEPHANO, Esq., President of the Medical Tourism Association; USA

JONATHAN EDELHEIT, CEO of the Medical Tourism Association; USA

ELIZABETH BOULTBEE, London, United Kingdom

CAWE MAHLATI, South Africa

MOSHE STEINER, Chief Executive Officer, MTA Israel

NATHALIE STEINER, Marketing Representative, MTA Israel

GUILLERMO GONZALEZ-PRIETO, SubSecretary ~ National Ministry of Health & MTA Strategic Development Officer; Argentina

GLAUCO FONSECA, Regional Representative for MTA; Porto Alegre, Brazil

KYUNGWON JANG, Ph.D and General Director of MTA Asia; Seoul, South Korea

JAMES BAE, KHIDI and Strategic Development Officer of MTA Asia

DR. BEN FONG, Regional Representative for MTA; Hong Kong

EMIN CAKMAK, Chief Executive Officer of MTA Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey

ALBERTO CHERPAK, Regional Representative for MTA; Recife, Brazil

ATHANASIOS TRIANTAFYLLOPOULOS, Regional Representative for MTA; Athens, Greece

Legal Council

The Legal Council will be a working group made up of legal members of the Medical Tourism Association. This Council will work on Alternate Dispute Resolution, Legal Development and Education Programs, CLE, and Patient Advocacy Programs. The Council will be chaired by a legal expert in medical tourism.

SCOTT A. EDELSTEIN, Esq., Partner at Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP; Washington D.C.

RENEE MARIE STEPHANO, Esq., President of the Medical Tourism Association; USA

STEPHEN M. WEINER, Esq., Chairman of the Health Law Practice of Mintz, Levin, Cohn Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.; Boston, Mass.

Healthcare Quality Council (HQC)

The Healthcare Quality Council will be a working group whose goal is to provide overall transparency in global healthcare quality. They will also work on the Quality Indicator Project (QIP). This project seeks to create a single set of quality indicators that may be used universally, a single methodology and validation method. The goal is to create indicators understandable to the consumer. The Council will evaluate existing programs and assist in the finalization of the QIP. This Council will be chaired by a healthcare quality expert.

DR. B.K. RANA, Deputy Director, National Accredition Board of Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH); India

THOMAS HORSTER-MOLLER, Hospitalscout.com, VIVAI AG; Germany