Speakers
Our distinguished speakers
Key Note Address ; Dr Asela Gunawardena – Director General of Health Services, Sri Lanka
Key Note Address ; Dr Asela Gunawardena – Director General of Health Services, Sri Lanka
Dr. Amit Gupta is currently working as Professor at the Division of Trauma Surgery & Critical Care, JPN Apex Trauma Center, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Medical and Dental Sciences, Comprehensive Patient Care, Acute Critical Care and Disaster Medicine
Hassan Al Thani, MD, FACS, MBA, MBBch, CABS, FRCSI/C, is the Head of Trauma and Vascular Surgery Sections of Hamad General Hospital.
Dr Tashi Tobgay is the Regional Adviser for Disability, Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation at the WHO-South-East-Asia Regional Office, Delhi, India. His portfolio includes supporting eleven WHO-South-East Asia member states on Road safety, Drowning Prevention, Injury prevention, Rehabilitation, Disability inclusion and sensory functions. Prior to his assignment at WHO, he has worked in Ministry of Health and Medical University of Bhutan in the areas of public health, health systems and non-communicable diseases for more than 20 years. Over the past two years, Dr Tashi Tobgay has contributed towards the global status road safety report and worked extensively in the developing the regional road safety status report and Injury prevention.
Dr David Meddings was born in Canada where he obtained his degree in Medicine and subsequent Canadian Fellowship in Community Medicine. He has earned several awards including the S. Stewart Murray Award and a Fellowship from the Medical Research Council of Canada. His clinical work in humanitarian contexts began in Sudan in 1989 and included a series of missions in conflict areas with the International Committee of the Red Cross, where he ultimately served as Chief Epidemiologist at the ICRC Headquarters in Geneva.
In 2002 he was recruited by the World Health Organization where he currently oversees prevention of unintentional injuries apart from road traffic injuries, as well as leading capacity building efforts for injury and violence prevention. Dr Meddings is Executive Editor of a range of WHO global assessments and technical guidance publications on drowning prevention, provides technical support to drowning prevention efforts supported by WHO in a range of countries, and leads the efforts of the WHO called for in the first ever UN General Assembly and World Health Assembly Resolutions on drowning to coordinate actions on drowning prevention within the UN system. Dr Meddings is also Executive Editor of WHO’s first-ever technical package on falls prevention and management across the life course, and coordinates WHO’s work on burn prevention.
I am a Consultant Anaesthetist attached to National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) since 2015. I have been working as a consultant anaesthetist more than 20 years. Education FRCA (England) -2003 MD (Colombo) - 2001 MD (USSR) - 1991 Work Experience I am working as a consultant anathetist in various fields such as general, head and neck, plastic and burns, genito urinary surgeries and gastrointestinal surgeries. I also am working in the intensive care on a weekly based rotation. Skills and certifications Instructor in ERC BLS, ILS and ALS, Member of workshop on Anaphylaxis An examiner for post graduate students Board member of clinical Nutrition Delivered many lectures in the field of anaesthesia, resuscitation and Nutrition Professional Memberships Member of college of Anaesthesiologists and Intensivists Member of Sri Lanka Medical council (SLMA) Member of the resuscitation council (Sri Lanka) Member of Sri Lanka Sepsis Alliance
