Dr. Ralph MacKinnon is the Chairperson and Founding Member of The Smart Hospital Alliance. Ralph is also a visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, Faculty of Health, Psychology & Social Change, a Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist & Paediatric High Dependency Care Physician, particularly interested in Simulation Education at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester Foundation Trust. Ralph founded the North West Simulation Education Network, a leading high-quality NHS workforce education and development program of inter-professional initiatives for NHS hospitals. He co-founded the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research and Education (INSPIRE). INSPIRE is a global community that catalyses discoveries and promotes collaboration in simulation-based research, scholarship, and innovation. Ralph has authored books and at least 55 peer-reviewed publications and has been the recipient of multiple awards and multi-million pounds of research grants.

Dr. Sanghoon Jheon, the founder of the Smart Hospital Alliance, has been a professor at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital since 2003. Dr. Jheon founded an organization for educating young thoracic surgeons, the “Asia Thoracoscopic Surgery Education Platform (ATEP),” 2011. The ATEP has hosted educational workshops on advanced VATS techniques, international scientific conferences, and outreach programs for developing countries. Dr Jheon is currently the Chair Professor of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine, and he also serves as the president and CEO of Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He also holds positions on several editorial boards and has been a reviewer for numerous scientific journals. He is one of the founders of the Asian Thoracic Surgical Club and currently serves as the Korean Society for Thoracic Surgical Oncology president.

Dr. Todd Chang is a board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician who held faculty positions at George Washington University / Children’s National Medical Center (Washington, DC) and now at the University of Southern California / Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. He works closely with medical students, residents, and fellows, as well as students in other healthcare disciplines, developing, teaching, and utilizing the most current educational technologies and techniques. His research interests in medical and educational technology and increasing expertise in distance learning/e-learning have brought him as a Director of Technology within the International Simulation research network INSPIRE, an invited International speaker on distance learning, and the Faculty Advisor for PEMNetwork. He is the Associate Fellowship Director with Dr. Deborah Liu for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at CHLA.

Dr. Carlos Gómez-Restrepo is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. He was previously the director of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a professor of medicine at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Dr. Gómez-Restrepo was also the director of the Colombian Journal of Psychiatry and, since 1999, a Quality Advisor of World Health Surveys and Terminology at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. He is a principal investigator for the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Developing Psycho-social Interventions. Dr. Gómez-Restrepo’s current research work includes therapeutic communities as an alternative for the treatment of addiction problems, a study for genetic markers of the Dopamine receptor and the serotonin transporter in bipolar cases, and others.