#ISQua2018 Plenary Speakers
Confirmed Speakers for Kuala Lumpur
We would like to introduce you to our first four confirmed Plenary Speakers for ISQua's 35th International Conference, 23 - 26 September 2018, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr Uma Raman Kotagal
Uma Kotagal is the executive leader for population and community health; and Senior Fellow, of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Dr Kotagal was director of the neonatal intensive care units at the University Hospital and at Cincinnati Children’s for several years. While practising, Dr. Kotagal recognized that care and outcomes improvement were a system property. She completed additional training, receiving her Master of Science in clinical epidemiology and clinical effectiveness from the Harvard School of Public Health, and refocused her clinical efforts on quality transformation at a systems level. She was also a visiting scholar at the Center for Risk Analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health and a visiting professor at the Tufts New England Medical Center, in the Division of Clinical Decision Making, completing further training in the field of decision and cost-effectiveness analyses.
Dr Kotagal has published extensively in the field of neonatal outcomes research, including studies on neonatal cost models, and early discharge of newborns. She published the first landmark paper on early discharge programs in the NICU setting.
Dr Kotagal was born in Bombay, India, where she received her undergraduate and her MBBS from the University of Bombay. She did a rotating internship at the University of Bombay from 1970-1971 and another rotating internship at Detroit General Hospital from 1971-1972.
At Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Dr Kotagal completed her pediatric residency from 1972-1974 and went on to do a fellowship in neonatology from 1974-1975. She completed a fellowship in neonatal physiology at the University of Cincinnati from 1975-1977.
Dr Kotagal is a senior faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare. She also serves as chair of the quality steering team of the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, as a member of the advisory committee of the Toronto Patient Safety Center, as an associate editor of BMJ Quality and Safety and as a member of the Institute of Medicine.
Dr Kotagal is also a member of various local, regional and national committees in the area of child health.
Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, BA, MBA, MIR (Hons), PhD, FAIM, FCHSM, FFPH RCP (UK), FAcSS, Hon FRACMA is the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Health Innovation; Director of the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science; and Professor of Health Systems Research for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. His research examines the changing nature of health systems, particularly patient safety, standards and accreditation, leadership and management, and the structure and culture of organisations and their network characteristics, attracting funding of more than AUD$103 million.
Professor Braithwaite has published extensively (more than 630 referred publications and 800 total publications) and he has presented at international and national conferences on more than 900 occasions, including over 80 keynote addresses. His research has appeared in journals such as British Medical Journal, The Lancet, Social Science & Medicine, BMJ Quality and Safety, International Journal of Quality in Health Care, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and many other prestigious journals. Professor Braithwaite has received numerous national and international awards for his teaching and research. He has contributed to ISQua in various ways for many years including on Board sub-committees, by sharing his research widely, and as an ISQua Expert. Jeffrey is ISQua's current President-elect.
Dr Pawan Agrawal
Dr Pawan Agrawal is the Founder & President of Kamalabai Educational and Charitable Trust, Mumbai.
An International Motivational Speaker, Author, Educationist, Business Consultant and Successful Entrepreneur, he takes the story of the Dabbawala’s to corporate India and the world. He inspires and encourages people, making them realize their true potential. He delivers session on “Supply Chain Management of Mumbai Dabbawala and Mumbai Paperwala”- Inspirational real story, where deliverables or takeaways such as Time Management, Retention/attrition, Commitment, Leadership, Customer satisfaction, Quality, 100 %Execution, Logistics & Supply chain etc. can be shared.
Dr Agrawal was voted “Best International Motivational Speaker” by Business & Entertainment Global Award in 2016
Dr Rushika Fernandopulle
Rushika Fernandopulle is a practicing physician and co-founder and CEO of Iora Health, a healthcare services firm based in Cambridge MA whose mission is to build a radically new model of primary care to improve quality and service and reduce overall expenditures. In 2012 he was named an Ashoka Global Fellow, and is also a member of the Albert Schweitzer and Salzburg Global Fellowships. He was the first Executive Director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program for Health Systems Improvement, and Managing Director of the Clinical Initiatives Center at the Advisory Board Company. He is co-author or editor of several publications including Health Care Policy, a textbook for physicians and medical students, and Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity. He serves on the staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital, on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, and on the boards of Families USA and the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Care. He earned his A.B., M.D., and M.P.P. (Masters in Public Policy) from Harvard University, and completed his clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts General Hospital.