Dr. Sharma is a lifelong activist and campaigner for “appropriate technology for health- care in developing world” with many of his 324 publications focusing on Global Surgery/ low-cost surgical solutions to achieve health equity for underserved populations. Dr. Sharma feels truly blessed to be able to “make a difference” and do God’s work, even though he doesn’t wear a Priest’s collar. He has learned during my travels as Honorary Visiting Professor/ Guest Faculty for teaching a course to many universities in developed and developing countries that the key to Global Surgery is not only the spirit of ‘Noblesse oblige’ shaping the roadmap for innovations for low-cost affordable surgery but also collaborative internationalism; because ‘Global means together’.

Professor Jean O’Sullivan is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Tallaght Hospital and a lecturer in Emergency Medicine at Trinity College Dublin. In 2008 Prof O’Sullivan founded an international organisation, Global Emergency Care Skills (www.globalemergencycareskills.ie) which provides skills based training in trauma care, major incident management, ultrasound use, acute paediatric and adult medical emergencies. GECS has run courses in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia over the past 14 years. In 2021 Prof O’Sullivan was awarded the William Rutherford Humanitarian Award by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Prof O’Sullivan is the Global Health lead for both the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, and the Irish Committee on higher specialty training at RCSI. Prof O’Sullivan is the vice Chair of the Global Health Committee of the Forum of Postgraduate Training Bodies in Ireland and is currently creating a national curriculum on Global Health for all doctors in training working in Ireland. 

Originally from Montreal, Dr. Joos completed her medical school at McGill University where she obtained her M.D.C.M degree. She then underwent general surgery residency at Laval University, in Quebec city, from 2007 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 she completed a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care fellowship at University of Southern California/Los Angeles County Hospital. She then joined the group of trauma surgeons at Vancouver General Hospital. She completed a Masters in Global Health Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2019. She has been working with Médecins Sans Frontières since 2015 and was deployed several times in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2017 she completed her Emergency Response Unit training with the Canadian Red Cross and is now on the roster for deployment. Dr. Joos is the Associate Director of the UBC Branch for Global Surgical Care and the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Fellowship program director.

Dr. Wake is an Anaesthesiologist in Papua New Guinea with interest in medical education, paediatric anaesthesia, regional anaesthesia, pain and global health. 

Dr. Ainhoa Costas-Chavarri, MD, MPH, FACS trained in General Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Hand Surgery at the Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery. As a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Clinical Fellow, she obtained an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and worked in Haiti for Partners In Health. Dr. Costas-Chavarri came to Rwanda as part of the Human Resources for Health Rwanda Program. Currently she is a full-time consultant surgeon focusing on surgical oncology and breast surgery at Rwanda Military Hospital. Her clinical and research interests include global surgical oncology and surgical education in low resource settings.

 Sherry Wren MD, FACS, FCS (ECSA), FISS is a Professor of Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine, Director of Global Surgery at the Center for Innovation and Global Health, and Director of Surgery at the Palo Alto Veterans Health Care System. She is current Secretary of the American College of Surgeons, Professor Extraordinary at the Centre for Global Surgery, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, former Honorary Professor in the Centre for Trauma at the London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, and Adjunct Professor at Uniformed Health Services University in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Wren is a member and in the leadership of numerous national and international organizations and has served on the boards of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, and other surgical societies. She is an editorial board member of JAMA Surgery, and associate editor of the World Journal of Surgery and East and Central African Journal of Surgery. Clinical focus is gastrointestinal malignancy and surgical robotics. Research interests are in surgical outcomes, robotics, cancer, and global/humanitarian surgery. Dr. Wren has also worked with Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières.

Lillian Mwape is a Perioperative Nurse working with the SADC TEWG as a Focal Point Person for Zambia. She is also the former Chairperson for Clinical Practice for ECSACON Zambia Chapter. She is currently working at National Heart Hospital as a Principal Nursing Officer. In addition, she has been instrumental in formulation of Hospital systems. She has vast experience in managing operating theatres in the country with notable success in opening the first ever Emergency Obstetric theatre in the country 

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Dr. Jackie Rowles is President of the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists (IFNA), and a former President of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA). She is board certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner and also in Nonsurgical Pain Management. Dr. Rowles is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director of the Advanced Pain Management Fellowship at Texas Christian University's School of Nurse Anesthesia (Fort Worth, TX). She is a highly sought out speaker/educator internationally and with over 10 years experience working at the global level.  

Rahel Nardos, MD, MCR Dr Nardos is an associate professor in the division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery and the inaugural director of global women’s health at the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, UMN. Dr Nardos was born and raised in Ethiopia. After completing her medical training in OBGYN in the US, she returned to Ethiopia to serve as a staff surgeon at the Addis Ababa Hamlin Fistula Hospital. She later completed a fellowship training in urogynecology and a master’s in clinical research, and served in various leadership roles including Division head of Urogynecology at Kaiser Permanente NW and Director of Global Health in OBGYN at Oregon Health and Science University. She has served in various humanitarian service roles including board member and programming chair of Worldwide Fistula Fund which supports obstetric fistula partners in five different countries. She is cofounder and vice chair of Global Perm NW and co-chair of the women and girls work group at the G4 Alliance. Dr Nardos has been engaged in many local and international pelvic floor health capacity building projects with partners in many countries focusing on training healthcare teams in comprehensive pelvic floor care and contributing extensively to research to advance the care of women with pelvic floor disorders.