Professor Engineering and Public policy, Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Rahul Tongia is a Senior Systems Scientist (faculty member) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore, India . His professional interests are interdisciplinary spanning technology, policy, economics, and regulation. He has focused on issues of infrastructure and development for many years, and much of his effort in the last 10 years has focused on how to overcome the digital divide and on broad issues of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for sustainable development. He recently published a book on ICT for Sustainable Development: Defining a Global Research Agenda, based on work for NSF, the World Bank, and UN. He is on the Technology Advisory Board for a major US utility deploying a smart communications and control network, and was previously Vice-Chairman of the UN ICT Task Force Working Group on Enabling Environment (formerly Working Group on Low-Cost Connectivity and Access).   He is also Assoc. Director of TechBridgeWorld, CMU's initiative on global development through advanced technologies and partnerships. He holds a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jorge Briones

Partner, Deloitte Mexico

Mr. Briones is a partner in Deloitte Mexico in charge of the Technology Practice for Healthcare Providers in Mexico . He has over 12 years of experience implementing Technology projects in several industries. In the last 3 years he has been in charge of several technology projects in the Healthcare Industry, including an ERP implementation for the largest private Hospital Network in Mexico along with the implementation of the first Digital Hospital in Latin America.

Ian G. Rawson

Board Chair-Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti

Ian G. Rawson, Ph.D., CHE serves as chairman of Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) Haiti . The hospital is a model for health care organizations in developing countries, and provides health care and community health and development for more than 300,000 people in Haiti 's central Artibonite Valley . Dr. Rawson previously served as president of the Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, president of AmeriNet Central, and as a senior manager with Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation and Allegheny General Hospital . He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and three other Pittsburgh area universities and serves on numerous community health organization boards. Dr. Rawson holds a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in political science from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He also attended the Harvard University School of Public Health's executive program in health planning and management.

Atif Mumtaz

Research Fellow and Project Manager (Stanford Telehealth care, Reuters Digital Vision Program)

Mr. Mumtaz is a Pakistani entrepreneur promoting ICT technologies in the developing countries. Currently, he is one of the fellows at Reuters Digital Vision Program at Stanford University (http://reuters.stanford.edu). Mr. Mumtaz has previously worked with social development organizations, including COMSATS (www.comsats.org.pk) and United Nations (www.unido.org).

In 2002, Mr. Mumtaz successfully launched an Internet startup, Cogilent Solutions (www.cogilent.com) which currently manages and runs the largest job hunt portal in Pakistan called, BrightSpyre (www.BrightSpyre.com). In 2004, he received the "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" Award for his services through Shell Corporation.

His present project entails internet technology-based infrastructure for Tele-health in rural areas to assist doctor diagnosis and patient treatment. They will launch a web portal for communication between hospitals and patients and will support a biometric-ready Patient Medical Record Management System. This system would enable any number of hospitals to provide Tele-health services to patients worldwide.

Rizwan Naeem MD

Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Naeem is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pediatrics and Pathology, Section of Hematology-Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine. He also holds positions as a Director of the Cytogenetics/Molecular Laboratory at the Texas Children's Hospital and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.

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