Biography: President Bhooplapur has worked in the insurance industry for over 25 years and is Founder & CEO of Vision Financial Services, New York. He has been awarded many industry awards and entered into “Hall of Fame” of insurance for his outstanding commitment & service to the industry. Ravi is a board member of numerous charities, hospitals, and businesses. He is the founder of the “Gift of Life, India” and has been instrumental in saving over 1500 children’s lives to date by providing heart surgery to children under the age of 15.
Ravi has worked with many hospitals and physicians nationwide (through his work with “Gift of Life, India”). He became the President of Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba almost 8 years ago. He is a very active member of Rotary International and was installed as District Governor of Rotary International July 2, 2009. The Rotary Foundation has awarded Mr. Bhooplapur:
He is a Hall of Fame Member at the Rotary Foundation and his portrait was installed at world headquarters in Evanston, Chicago in 2005. Mr. Bhooplapur was recognized by the United States Congress and presented an award by Congressman Gary Ackerman, for his outstanding contributions to local & international humanitarian causes.
Biography Dr. Arun Kumar Dubey is a Physician, Clinical Pharmacologist, and an administrator by training. After completing M.B.B.S. degree from Guwahati Medical College in India, Dr. Dubey completed three years Residency in Clinical Pharmacology from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE). For the past 15 years, he has been involved in teaching Clinical Pharmacology to medical students in India and abroad. Dr. Dubey has also been involved in key administrative roles at different levels in medical schools for the past 10 years. Dr. Dubey joined Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba in August 2008 and went on to become Dean of Student Affairs and then Dean of Basic Sciences in 2010. Dr. Dubey’s principal role is providing leadership in all aspects of Medical Education in Basic Sciences at XUSOM, Aruba. Dr. Dubey takes keen interest in recent developments and challenges in Medical Education and has been instrumental in taking the leadership to implement an integrated Organ System-Based Curriculum at XUSOM, Aruba. His main area of research includes different aspects of Medical education and “Ginkgo biloba”. He has published more than 60 research articles in indexed journals.
Biography: Dr. Pestell received an M.B.B.S. from the University of Western Australia, an F.R.A.C.P. (Endocrinology and Oncology training), an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, an F.A.C.P. (Fellow American College of Physicians), and an M.B.A. from New York University. He has been in executive leadership at USA Universities and Medical Centers since 2002.
He completed Post Doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was subsequently faculty at Northwestern University Medical School, Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University and Associate Vice President at Georgetown University Medical School. He has previously Executive Vice President of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He has served as Director of two NCI-designated Cancer Centers (Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, 2002-2015), founded two biotechnology companies and is the author of multiple issued patents.
He is concurrently Distinguished Professor, Translational Medical Research, and the President of the Pennsylvania Cancer and Regenerative Medicine Research Center at the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute.
He has received a number of awards for his work in clinical activity, research and education in Medicine including elected membership to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Western Australia, Doctorus Honorus Causa Medical Science from University of Melbourne, RD Wright Medallion, and the Eric Sussman Prize.
Dr Pestell’s work has more than 56,700 citations and an H-index of 129, i10 index 413 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RYlsfBQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). He is top ranked by Google Scholar for his areas of research including: cell cycle (#1), prostate cancer (#1), Oncology (#6) and Breast cancer (#7)
Rahaf M. Omar
Jurina Lanoy Maduro Richard George Pestell, MB, BS, MD, PhD, MBA, FRCP, FACP, FRS (Medicine), FAAAS
Biography: Dr. Pestell received an M.B.B.S. from the University of Western Australia, an F.R.A.C.P. (Endocrinology and Oncology training), an M.D. and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, an F.A.C.P. (Fellow American College of Physicians), and an M.B.A. from New York University. He has been in executive leadership at USA Universities and Medical Centers since 2002.
He completed Post Doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was subsequently faculty at Northwestern University Medical School, Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Chairman of the Department of Oncology at Georgetown University and Associate Vice President at Georgetown University Medical School. He has previously Executive Vice President of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He has served as Director of two NCI-designated Cancer Centers (Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, 2002-2015), founded two biotechnology companies and is the author of multiple issued patents.
He is concurrently Distinguished Professor, Translational Medical Research, and the President of the Pennsylvania Cancer and Regenerative Medicine Research Center at the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute.
He has received a number of awards for his work in clinical activity, research and education in Medicine including elected membership to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Western Australia, Doctorus Honorus Causa Medical Science from University of Melbourne, RD Wright Medallion, and the Eric Sussman Prize.
Dr Pestell’s work has more than 56,700 citations and an H-index of 129, i10 index 413 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RYlsfBQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). He is top ranked by Google Scholar for his areas of research including: cell cycle (#1), prostate cancer (#1), Oncology (#6) and Breast cancer (#7)
Michael Light, MD Biography: Dr. Michael Light qualified at Guy’s Hospital, London in 1967. Following residency he spent 3 years in Europe in adult medicine in 4 countries before joining the Brompton Chest Hospital, London. There he did the equivalent of a fellowship in pediatric pulmonary and critical care. In 1973 he was invited to develop a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the University of Hawaii and inherited at the same time the Neonatal ICU. The next 16 years in Hawaii he was the pediatric pulmonologist, and the 1970’s was mostly spent directing and developing the NICU, and the 1980’s directing the PICU. He was awarded the resident teaching award on 3 occasions.In 1989 he joined the University of California, San Diego and for 8 years directed the pediatric pulmonary program. He was director of the cystic fibrosis center and managed both pediatric and adult CF patients. He was involved in clinical research and participated in consensus panels for both Pulmozyme (human recombinant DNAse) and aerosolized tobramycin (Tobi), which were approved by the FDA in the mid-1990’s as treatments for cystic fibrosis. The next 11 years from the year 2000 were spent at the University of Miami, 8 years in the pediatric pulmonary and 3 years in the adult pulmonary division. He continued his interest in clinical research particularly in the development of aerosolized antibiotics and other inhaled agents in cystic fibrosis. He was a member of the lung transplant team at UCSD, and this interest continued at the University of Miami. During his time with the adult pulmonary division he did clinics weekly at the University of Miami, at Boca Raton and St. Mary’s Hospital, West Palm Beach. Dr. Light was chairperson of the pulmonary section of the American Academy of Pediatrics from 2004 to 2006 and one of the tasks of the committee was to develop a Handbook of Pediatric Pulmonology. This was published in 2011 and Dr. Light was editor-in-chief. He also authored “Clinician’s Guide to Pediatric Chronic Illness” which was published in 2001. In 2011 Dr. Light joined Ross University Medical School (RUSM) in the Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies and was asked to improve the student health services on campus. For the next 3 years he was medical director of the student health clinic which involved upgrading the clinic and developing emergency services on campus. At RUSM and St. James Medical School in Anguilla he taught introduction to clinical medicine. Dr. Light joined the faculty of the University of Florida (UF) in July 2015 in the division of Pediatric Pulmonology. From April 2016 to the present he has been chief of pediatric pulmonology at UF. During his time with UF the division has improved 11 places to 22nd nationally in the World News medical school rankings.
Madhu Rangraj, MD, FACS
Parvez Mir, FACP, FCCP
Ronald Brenner, MDBiography: Dr. Patel graduated from B.J. Medical College in Ahmedabad, India and completed his residency in Pediatrics with Kings County Hospital Downstate University in Brooklyn, New York. He is General Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Board certified. Dr. Patel has been published in peer review journals. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics as well as the Infectious Disease Committee at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center.
Cory Sussman, M.Ed
Milly Woodward
Jeane-Betsy Irausquin-Mackintosh
Farida A. Hamad
Sarah Kailani
Erika Lasso
Ada Emperatriz Ortiz Cordova
Yoyer Reyes
Hilda Statia
Barry Adunmo
Andrew Sheldon
Nancy Schaefer
Rebecca Brelsford
Yvette Aal
Soleil Greaves 
Ahmad Abazid, MD