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Dr. Himansu Basu MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCOG (UK) is a highly-recognized Senior Obstetrician/Gynaecologist with expertise in Maternal & Child Health (MCH) as a clinician, educator, researcher, innovator, & global strategist. He is a member of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management, and has served over 3 decades in executive roles at the Royal Society of Medicine (President, Obstetrics and Gynaecology section), Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Royal College of Surgeons, and the General Medical Council.
His academic research was focused on the complications of haemorrhages during pregnancy. He has been recognized by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the University of Liverpool, the Welcome Foundation and the British Medical Association. He is passionate about elimination of preventable maternal and newborn mortality through structured training of health professionals and health awareness programmes. He has been a Rotarian now for 45 years, and has led as District Governor, in Rotary International Intercountry Contact Committee, WASRAG, Rotarian Doctors Fellowship, Rotary Action Group of Reproductive Maternal Child Health, RI Global Networking & Services Committee, Rotary Foundation Cadre Coordinator in MCH and as a Rotarian partner of the WHO STAGE group in MCH. He is Founder/Programme Director of CALMED – a Global Grant Vocational Traning Team for service Rotary Foundation. He has been recognized with many international awards, including the Service-Above-Self award, Rotary Champion-of-Change award, and the Times Sternberg prize. He is collaborating at various levels for North/South solidarity with the Technical Expert Networking Alliance in MCH based on “global thinking, local action”.
Dr. Md. Mozibur Rahman, MBBS, DCH, FCPS (Bangladesh) is a renowned neonatologist, who leads the newborn intensive care services at the Institute of Child and Mother Hospital (ICMH), Matuail, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a pioneer of neonatal care in Bangladesh and founded the Royal Children and Mothers' Hospital in Dhaka. He is a key member of the ICMH team that is recognized to this day for its efforts to change social perceptions that were needed for acceptance of the first religiously-compliant, modern Human Milk Bank in the region. The efforts show how we can continue with strict adherence to religious traditions and yet bring about the social change needed to save lives.
He received his medical degree from the Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College/Chittagong University, a Diploma in Child Health (DCH) from Dhaka University, and a Fellowship in Neonatology from the Bangladesh College of Physicians & Surgeons (BCPS). He is a Member of the Skill Development Sub Committee of BCPS and has served in the board of directors of Global Newborn Society (GNS) since its inception. He is a key member of the national pool for the quality improvement committee in Bangladesh and is a renowned teacher and supervisor of newborn-focused postgraduate training programs. He has led projects to promote kangaroo mother care at the ICMH, which again required significant social and educational efforts. He has served on the editorial board of the newborn, the official journal of Global Newborn Society and the ICHM journal.
Professor Ola Didrik Saugstad MD, PhD is a Norwegian pediatrician, neonatologist and neuroscientist noted for his research on resuscitation of newborn children and his contribution to reduce child mortality. He is a Research Professor at Oslo University Hospital and Professor of Neonatology at Northwestern University in Chicago. He is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Oslo and was Director of Pediatric Research at Oslo University Hospital from 1991 to 2017.
Saugstad is a globally-recognized expert in neonatal medicine, particularly in birth asphyxia and related hypoxia-reoxygenation injury to the brain. In 2010, the international guidelines for newborn resuscitation were amended based on his team’s recommendations. This work has been cited over 30,000 times in scientific literature, and is believed as helping save the lives of 200,000 newborn infants each year. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization on child mortality.
His efforts for public education are recognized globally; the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK has described him as "the most internationally recognized and most widely-cited Norwegian pediatrician of all times". He received the 2012 Nordic Medical Prize, is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and became a Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 2010. His 2019 book Kampen om oksygenet ("The War Over Oxygen"), which was released by former Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, described the overuse of oxygen during newborn resuscitation as "one [of] the greatest scandals" in the history of medicine. He has changed our thinking all over the world.
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