Jennifer Ahearn
Chief Officer, Ministry of Health

Jennifer Ahearn was appointed Permanent Secretary/Chief Officer of the Ministry of Health, Environment, Youth, Sports and Culture in 2009. Her public-service career began in the Planning Department in 1997 as a long-range planner, followed in 2003 as Assistant Director (Operations and Administration) of the Mosquito Research and Control Unit. Three years later, Ms Ahearn was appointed Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of District Administration, Planning, Agriculture, and Housing.

Ms Ahearn is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and has a bachelor of science in zoology, a masters of science in environmental planning and a masters of science in public policy and management. She is also a professionally qualified fitness instructor.

Her unique range of qualifications make Jennifer well-suited to manage the demands of a Ministry that has the responsibility for a healthy environment, an active population, and the nation’s health as critical components of a sustainable future for the Cayman Islands.

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Hon. W. McKeeva Bush, OBE, JP
Premier, Minister for Financial Services, Tourism and Development, Cayman Islands

First Elected Member for West Bay

McKeeva Bush has represented the district of West Bay in the Legislative Assembly continuously since 1984. He is the longest-serving member and is often referred to as the “Father of the House”.

Mr. Bush has served on Executive Councils (renamed Cabinet in 2003) as the Member (Minister) for Health and Human Services between 1992 and 1994; as the Minister for Community Development, Sports, Women’s and Youth Affairs and Culture between 1994 and 1997; as Minister for Tourism, Environment and Transport between 2000 and 2001; and as Leader of Government Business and Minister for Tourism, Environment, Development and Commerce between 2001 and 2005.

In November 2001 he was a founding member of the United Democratic Party.
A self-employed businessman, Mr Bush is married to Kerry. The couple has two children.

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Mervyn Conolly
Superintendent, Health Insurance Commission

Mervyn Conolly holds a bachelor of science in biology and a masters degree in health services administration.

The Director of the Department of Health Regulatory Services and Superintendent of Health Insurance since 2003, Mr Conolly is a qualified health services administrator with more than 25 years of experience in the health care industry. Prior to his current position with the Health Insurance Commission, he was Hospital Administrator, Director/CEO of the Cayman Islands Health Services for more than 14 years.

Mr. Conolly has served on several government boards and committees including the Civil Service Association, the Cooperative Credit Union Board, the Health Insurance Advisory Committee and the Health Services Authority Board.

He is a member of the Association of Inspectors General and a member of the American Hospital Association.

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Scott A. Cummings, J.D
Chairman – CINICO Board

Scott A. Cummings, J.D. is the Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the International College of the Cayman Islands (ICCI). He holds a doctor of jurisprudence and a bachelor of arts, with a major in government, from the University of Texas. Mr. Cummings practiced law in Texas for 12 years and was a partner in a Fort Worth law firm that principally focused on insurance defense work, while his practice mainly consisted of commercial general liability, medical malpractice liability and insurance contractual coverage. Mr. Cummings has worked in the healthcare field for paramedical companies as a customer-service representative, private investigator and medical testing/collections officer.

Mr. Cummings is Chair of the ICCI’s Program and Curriculum Review Committee, the Institutional Effectiveness Team and the Academic Grievance Council. His other memberships include the Kiwanis Club of Grand Cayman and the Knights of Columbus (3rd Degree).

Simon Dickson
Attorney at Law, Mourant

Simon Dickson graduated from Durham University and was called to the Bar of England and Wales as a Harmsworth Scholar in 1998. He joined Mourant Ozannes in 2002. Mr Dickson’s practice includes complex commercial litigation and defending professional negligence actions. He has received instructions from the Medical Protection Society since 2002. He is ranked by Chambers Global as the associate to watch in Dispute Resolution.

Presentation - Medical Malpractice

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Dr. Christine Goeschel, RN, MPA, MPS, ScD
Director, Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Ms. Goeschel is director of Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, and Manager of Operations for The Johns Hopkins University Quality and Safety Research Group, is a clinical instructor in the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and associate faculty in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

An executive with more than 20 years of acute-care experience, Ms Goeschel has worked in both pediatric and adult critical care as an RN, chief nursing officer, chief operating officer and chief compliance officer.

In 2000, she created a non-profit division at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, dedicated to quality and patient-safety improvement. A major project with ICUs across Michigan was conducted in collaboration with Johns Hopkins patient-safety leader Dr. Peter Pronovost, yielding lead articles in The New England Journal of Medicine and The New Yorker magazine, and generating ongoing national and international projects.
Ms. Goeschel has served on a variety of state and national nursing and health care leadership boards, and was a national Patient Safety Leadership Fellow in 2003-2004. She holds a doctorate from the Health Systems Management at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Presentation - Medical Ethics: Escalating Emphasis I & II

Presentation - Quality and Patient SafetyA Leadership Imperative

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Dr. Greg Hoeksema
HSA Medical Director

Dr. Greg Hoeksema has been Medical Director of the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority since November 2007. He is certified in both family and sports medicine. Before joining the authority, Dr. Hoeksema served in the US Navy for 22 years as a doctor and medical executive, leaving the service as Executive Officer (Chief Operating Officer) of the United States Naval Hospital in Yokosuka, Japan.

Dr. Hoeksema is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University. He is married to Mary-Theo and they

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Dr. Delroy Jefferson
Acting Chief Medical Officer - Ministry of Health

Dr. Delroy Jefferson is a consultant anaesthesiologist and intensivist, coordinator of critical care and pain medicine at the Health Services Authority (HSA), and acting Chief Medical Officer of the Cayman Islands.

He earned a BSc with honours in biochemistry and physiology from the University of the West Indies, gaining both his primary and postgraduate medical training and a doctorate of medicine in anaesthesia and critical care.

He followed his residency at the University Hospital of the West Indies with fellowships in anaesthesia, critical care and pain at McGill University, University of Cambridge and University of London, where he gained a masters degree in public policy and management. He is now completing a doctorate of business administration from the Swiss Management Institute.

Dr Jefferson is the former Medical Officer at Cayman Brac’s Faith Hospital and Deputy Chair of the HSA Board. He is a member of the European Society of Anaesthesia, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the National Association of EMS Educators and the International Policy Governance Association.

Presentation - Final Conference Wrap Up

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Dr Anna Matthews BSc., MB, BS, MSc., MPH
Acting Medical Officer of Health

Dr Anna Marleene P. Matthews is the Cayman Islands’ general practice coordinator, Acting Medical Officer of Health at the Health Services Authority (HSA) and the national focal point for chronic non-communicable diseases.

Dr. Matthews graduated from the University of Toronto with a B Sc. in physiology, and from the University of the West Indies (UWI), where she received her medical training and qualification, gaining her MSc. in family practice and an MPH.

She has lectured at the UWI in the Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, serving as course coordinator in the undergraduate programme, and as a tutor, course writer and preceptor in the post-graduate family-medicine programme. She was also partly responsible for initiating pre-hospital emergency training for medical technicians in Jamaica, and has worked as an emergency-room and family physician in Jamaica and in the Cayman Islands.

Dr Mathews, frequently published in the West Indian Medical Journal, has a special interest in chronic non-communicable diseases and helped create a pilot programme for surveillance of such diseases in the Cayman Islands. She has worked extensively in the area of diabetes mellitus, and is the coordinator of HSA public-education courses on patient empowerment.

Presentation - CAYHEALTH Initiative

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Dr. Jean Marie Rwangabwoba
Pan American Health Organization

A medical doctor and epidemiologist, Jean Marie Rwangabwoba joined the World Health Organisation in 2001 as technical adviser for disease prevention and control, for both communicable and non-communicable diseases.

At PAHO/WHO Jamaica, Dr. Rwangabwoba is responsible for disease prevention and control in general, and epidemic preparedness and response in particular, advising the Ministry of Health and other health-sector stakeholders in the design, implementation and evaluation of health promotion for both communicable and non-communicable disease programmes. His duties include development of policies, strategic plans, guidelines and capacity-building for such topics as food-based dietary guidelines, food labeling, chronic-disease management and promotion of healthy lifestyles, including population-wide physical activity and workplace programmes, and tobacco control.

Prior to his 2007 assignment to Jamaica, Dr. Rwangabwoba worked in Swaziland, southern Africa, assisting the Ministry of Health in the reorganisation of the Health Statistics Unit in charge of data collection, data analysis and publication of disease trends. He also aided design and implementation of epidemiological research including an HIV seroprevalence survey, a world-health survey, a non-communicable disease risk-factor survey, a directly observed treatment short-course implementation survey and an assessment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis patterns.

Presentation - Why Health Promotion and Health Prevention Matter

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Dale Sanders
Chief Information Officer, Cayman Islands Health Services Authority

Dale Sanders has served as chief information officer for the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority since Sept, 2009. Previously, he was chief information officer for Chicago’s Northwestern University Medical Faculty Foundation associated with the Feinberg School of Medicine where, in fewer than three years, he led the turnaround of a severely ailing IT organisation, playing a critical role in completing implementation of Epic and Cerner electronic medical records for more than 5,000 clinicians and the MyChart Personal Health Record for more than 20,000 patients.

He was the strategist and visionary behind Northwestern’s Enterprise Data Warehouse, which serves the analytic needs of more than 300 clinical-research and quality-improvement projects.

From 1997 through 2005, Mr Sanders was the Director of Medical Informatics for Intermountain Healthcare’s largest care-delivery area, Salt Lake City, supporting 8,000 clinicians and 1 million patients, and was chief architect of Intermountain’s Enterprise Data Warehouse, winner of five national awards for contributions to healthcare quality and innovation.

A Captain and CIO in the US Air Force between 1983 and 1989, Mr Sanders has held information- technology leadership and consulting positions for a variety of organisations including the US National Security Agency.

Presentation - Transforming Healthcare

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J. Mark Scotland, JP
Minister for Health, Environment, Youth, Sports, & Culture

Recently returned as First Elected Member for the Bodden Town in Grand Cayman, the Honourable Mark Scotland is Minister with responsibility for Health, Environment, Youth, Sports, and Culture.

Minister Scotland attended the University of Miami where he received his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, returning to Cayman to work as a roads engineer for the Public Works Department. During his 15-year career with at the unit, Minister Scotland rose to Head of the Roads Section, prior to leaving government in 2004 to start his own civil-engineering consulting firm and road-construction company.

Minister Scotland is married to Cindy. They have three children.

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Dr. Devi Shetty
Naryana Cayman University Medical Centre

Dr. Shetty, educated and trained at London’s Guy’s Hospital, is among India’s leading cardiac surgeons. In 2001, after finishing in London, he founded Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore, Southwest India, The group today has more than 5,000 beds across various cities including Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Jaipur with more under construction. New facilities are planned elsewhere, including Ahmedabad, Bhuvaneshwar, Siliguri and Mysore.

Dr. Shetty plans a 2,000-bed super-specialty tertiary hospital in the Cayman Islands, the Naryana Cayman University Medical Centre, that will include a medical school, and assisted living for patients who are either uninsured or underinsured. With procedures priced at least 50% lower than the US. the new facility will offer low-cost tertiary healthcare to Caymanians.

Dr Shetty was Mother Teresa’s personal doctor during the latter part of her life, and has received numerous awards including the prestigious “Padma Sri” from the government of India in 2004 and the Schwab Foundation Award in 2005. Dr. Shetty is not only a renowned heart doctor, but is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Presentation - Healthcare global scenario

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Zahida Anwar
Staff Physician, Health Services Authority

The head of the Ethics Committee at the Health Services Authority (HSA), Dr Anwar, gained her M.B.B.Ch from Cardfiff’s Welsh National School of Medicine, University of Wales, in 1981, and her Diploma Fellowship from London’s Royal College of Anaesthetists in 1990.

Principally responsible for the specialty of anaesthesia throughout the United Kingdom, the Royal College ensures the quality of patient care through the maintenance of standards in anaesthesia, pain management and intensive care.

With a speciality in anesthetics, Dr Anwar holds a 1994 certification from the Royal Homeopathic Hospital, London (UK) in acupuncture; is a Pediatric Advanced Life Support instructor at the HSA, and was named Doctor of the Year in 2008.

Her hobbies include health and fitness, swimming, art, painting, ceramics and traveling. She speaks English, Urdu and some Spanish.

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William K. Brown LFACHE, BSF, M.Ed. MSHA
CEO, Chrissie Tomlinsion Memorial Hospital

Employment
Carolinas Healthcare system (fourth-largest public healthcare system in the US): Charlotte, North Carolina 1986 -2006

During Mr. Brown’s tenure with the Carolinas HealthCare System he held the following positions:
Administrator of county mental health services in Charlotte, North Carolina. The facility was the largest mental health facility for both inpatient, outpatient, and chronically mentally ill patients in the region (three years)

Vice President for Corporate Planning which included managed-care contracting and overall corporate-development activity (three years)

Administrator of the largest substance-abuse facility in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the region (three years)

Administrator of Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville: A very active medical-surgical facility in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina (10 years)

Prior to the Carolinas HealthCare system Mr. Brown held various positions in large tertiary-level medical centres and had exposure to medical-rehabilitation programmes.

Education
Bachelor of science, forestry: University of Georgia
Master of education: University of Georgia
Master of hospital and health administration: University of Alabama-Birmingham

Military Experience
Served in the US Navy as a surface line officer with the rank of Lieutenant

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Karen Clayton-Babb

Acting Chief Nursing Officer

Karen Clayton-Babb completed her nursing training in Jamaica and Canada. The major part of her practice has been in primary health care and she now works as the Nurse Manager for primary health care services with the Cayman Islands Health Services Authority. She is pursuing a master of science degree in international primary health care.

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Wil Pineau
CEO of the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce

Wil Pineau, CCE, serves as Chief Executive Officer of the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, a position he has held since 1994. Mr. Pineau is the Caribbean’s only Certified Chamber of Commerce Executive (CCE) and one of only 700 Chamber professionals worldwide ever to receive the designation. He has served on numerous public and private sector advisory boards and committees over the years including Vision 2008, National Youth Commission, Public Sector Review, Investors In People, Scholarship Review, Chamber Pension Plan, St. Ignatius Catholic School and the Negotiating Team for the recent Constitutional Review. Mr. Pineau was appointed to the Constitutional Commission in December 2009. A journalist by profession, Mr. Pineau is the current President of the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Central.

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Bruce John
Charitable Trust

Bruce John, Centre Director Wealth Management

Besides being a Director of Scotiabank & Trust (Cayman) Ltd., Bruce is responsible for managing the daily operations of Scotia Private Client Group and brings with him 26 years of experience in banking ie. private, corporate and commercial, and retail banking experience, and three years in the investment industry. Bruce has held a number of senior management positions with Scotiabank, is a senior career banker and holds a Bachelors of Commerce Degree. He is a member of the Canadian Securities Institute and Society of Trust and Estate Planners. Bruce is a Director of Rotary Sunrise, and has been a Rotarian since 2004, and is the founder of the Caring For Life Foundation which he serves on the Board of Advisors. The Caring for Life Foundation was established in 2010 to raise money to improve the quality of heath care for all people of the Cayman Islands through the purchase of medical equipment, plant and equipment, training and certification of medical staff, and research.

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