Professor Abraham is a PACES coordinator and began the first PACES centre for the South Asia region in Chennai, India, in 2007. He has supported the federation of colleges in establishing other centres in India and neighbouring countries.

Georgi has received several regional and international recognition awards in nephrology and general medicine and supports fellowship candidates from India.

Professor Akram served on several key positions including vice chancellor of the University of Health Sciences Lahore and Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University Islamabad and principal of the Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore.

In recognition of his services, Professor Javed Akram has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Gold Medal for research on Parkinson’s disease, Best Research Award by National Academy of Medical Sciences, Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (2011) by the President of Pakistan, Lifetime Achievement Award (2022) by the Government College University, Lahore and Presidential Award for his services in Diabetes Care in Pakistan by the President of Pakistan.

He is the national focal point of IHR and a member of the IHR review committee, convened by the WHO director general.

Seif has an interest in medical education, was lead examiner for the MRCP examination in Oman until 2015, and chairman of the governing council of Oman medical college for four years. Currently a member of the governing council of the National University of Science and Technology, he is an associate editor of medical journals.

He did his training in internal medicine in the United Kingdom at Kent and Canterbury hospital. He was awarded the diploma of membership of the Royal College MRCP (UK) 1992, and the fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London 2003 FRCP (London). He is a member of many professional national and international bodies, the previous president of the Jordanian Rheumatism Society, and a member of the higher scientific committee of the Jordan Medical Council. 

His main interest is connective tissue diseases and vasculitis, and he has published many related articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Currently a senior consultant physician at Bahosi Private Hospital Yangon, Zaw has served as professor/head of department of medicine at the University of Medicine Yangon for over 15 years. He is also involved in medical education seminars as a speaker.

For the past 12 years, he has been taking responsibilities as in charge of on-call as consultant physician and professor of medicine.

Active in both public and private sector healthcare, Bruce has championed early and comprehensive screening and risk mitigation to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in his country.

He is committed to helping Caribbean junior doctors access Medical Training Initiative programmes in the UK and avidly promotes the Specialty Certificate Exams as a valid means for local physicians to demonstrate evidence of advanced training.

He then did a residency in internal medicine at the University of Virginia (Roanoke) and a clinical research fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, he is a professor of endocrinology and metabolism in the Department of Medicine at the University of the West Indies and an honorary consultant at the University Hospital of the West Indies.

His academic interests include the roles of nutrition and hormones in the developmental origins of diabetes.

Dr. Chan initially specialised in critical care medicine, before subsequently developing his role in geriatric medicine and patient safety. He received training at Addenbrooke's Hospital, focusing on MDT and POPS.

He has a particular interest in medical education. He was awarded Exemplary Teachers’ Awards twice. He actively participated in teaching in Crew Resources Management and simulation training.

He has been appointed in numerous fellowship roles, served as an advisor to the WHO, and is a member of the IHR roster of experts in acute respiratory syndrome and influenza.

Akbar has an interest in medical education and improvement, has been involved in multiple research projects, and has been published extensively. Dr Chaudhry was awarded the president gold medals in 1999 and 2002 and has been on the International advisory board of Kumar & Clark's clinical medicine from the 6th edition onwards.

Dr Chia is a hypertension specialist of the European Society of Hypertension and much of her clinical work and research is in this area.

Since joining Sunway University, Dr Chia initiated a postgraduate training programme in geriatric medicine for primary care doctors. With the help of the Malaysian Society of Geriatric Medicine, the programme was launched in January 2020.

For forty years, he has pursued his passions of improving outcomes in patient care in challenging environments, researching diseases that impact the developing world disproportionately and building human capacity in health research in Africa.

He is the founder and president of the Africa Research Excellence Fund. A charity that provides support to talented emerging postdoctoral African health researchers, at the most vulnerable point in their careers, with the knowledge and soft skills to win funding for their research and to remain in Africa.

He is the international editor of Clinical Medicine, and his research and clinical interests include medical humanities, clinical ethics and diabetes. Arosha is a past president of the Ceylon College of Physicians and the Galle Medical Association.

Currently, Christos practices as a consultant paediatrician at Ygeia Polyclinic and TPM hospital Akrotiri with British Forces. He also practices general medicine and paediatrics under the National Health System of Cyprus.

He is involved in undergraduate training and postgraduate lectures and presentations with the main interest being strengthening the links between the UK and Cyprus.

After training in internal medicine and gastroenterology, Innocent has been a member of the College of Health Sciences since 1989. He also holds a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene.

Professor Gangaidzo is president of the East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Physicians, and has held several grants from international bodies. Innocent has published over 40 original articles in international journals and is currently editor-in-chief for the central African journal of medicine.

Peter's medical interests include general endocrinology and type 1/type two diabetes. He received his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1995 and completed his training in Internal Medicine in 2000. He served as a specialist registrar in endocrinology and diabetes, and as an NHS consultant for six years, also serving as royal college tutor.

He was medical director at the University of Arkansas for medical science from 2012 – 2019 and received a $2million PCORI grant to improve diabetes education in the underserved.

He has been the chair of the Hepatology Interest Group of the World Gastroenterology Organisation, member of the Governing Council of WGO, member of the Executive Council of the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) from 2006-2010 and has chaired the WHO Guidelines Development Group for Hepatitis C in 2015, 2017 and 2021. He sits on advisory committees of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination (CGHE) and the Hepatitis Fund.

His main research interests are viral hepatitis and liver failure

Dr Hakim has taught and examined medical students in the final OSCE and is a current PACES examiner at the RCP. Upon retirement, he was a joint recipient of the ‘Educator of the year’.

Dr Hakim founded the South Sudan medical journal which has been published for the last 13 years and he is currently associate editor. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund, a charity supporting postgraduate training for Sudanese students.

He then trained as a gastroenterologist and conducted research leading to a PhD in Edinburgh. Dr Hasan taught gastroenterology in Bangladesh and set the foundation for the specialty. As a former vice-chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, he was also elected as president of the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Twice elected president of Bangladesh Medical Association and president of Bangladesh Medical Research Council, Dr Hasan received the National Award of Ekushey Padak in 2017. The President of the country appointed him National Professor in 2021.

Having graduated from the United Medical School of Guy’s and St Thomas' Hospital, Dr Yeo completed her specialist training in rheumatology and general internal medicine with the London Deanery. She was Honorary Clinical Associate to the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong 2006-2013.

Currently, at Singapore General Hospital she is department director of clinical services, chairman of the pharmacy and therapeutics committee, and core faculty to the rheumatology residency programme. Dr Yeo supports multiple Medicine schools, holding clinical teacher and senior lecturer posts.

Dr Iyer is currently the programme director for nephrology and renal transplant fellowship programmes at his institution and an MRCP PACES examiner. His special interests include approaches to expanding living donor renal transplantation such as positive cross-match and ABO incompatible transplantation, paired kidney exchange and desensitisation protocols.

Professor Kalamangalam earned a research doctorate in mathematical biology from Oxford before returning to clinical training in the NHS.

He was fellowship trained in clinical neurophysiology at Cleveland Clinic. He was briefly a consultant neurologist in Glasgow before moving to an academic career path in the USA. Giri’s work is devoted to clinical care and research in epilepsy. More generally, he is interested in healthcare models and training in epilepsy and neurology in international settings.

After obtaining board certification in internal medicine, he joined the faculty at Washington University. In 2003, he moved to David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to head the Hospitalist Section.

He is currently associate chair of the division of general internal medicine and serving a five-year term as governor of the Southern California Chapter of the American College of Physicians. His main academic focus is teaching clinical skills.