Dr. Eugene Tuyishime is currently a Simulation Fellow at OhioHealth and an Anesthesiologist at the University of Rwanda. He is also the Founder of the Simulation for Health Africa Initiative and the CEO of the Institute of Medical Education and Global Health (IMEGH) providing low-cost courses for healthcare providers in low resources settings in Africa. He has earned his Medical Degree from the former National University of Rwanda in 2013, his Master’s Degree in Global Health Delivery in 2017 from the University of Global Health Equity; and his Master of Medicine (MMED) in Anesthesiology in 2019 from the University of Rwanda.

Dr. Tuyishime’s initiatives have reached more than 800 healthcare providers in the last 2 years from more than 15 hospitals impacting more than 80,000 patients. Dr. Tuyishime has won multiple grants totalling more than $75,000 and has co-authored multiple publications.

Mike Nsubuga is an IT Specialist at the African Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Sciences (ACE) within the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Uganda, where he also serves as the IT specialist responsible for managing High-Performance Computing infrastructure & Software Development Operations. He is undertaking a Bioinformatics Graduate Training in preparation for his MSc. In Bioinformatics where he focuses on the use of computational approaches to understand biological data. He is passionate about programming and specializes in cloud computing, web, mobile, and virtual reality(VR) application development. He has recently worked as a programming intern with Statistics for Sustainable Development(Stats4SD), Reading, UK (2020).

He is a recent graduate from Makerere University(2019) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology(with Greatest Distinction - “Summa cum laude”). In his final undergraduate year of study(2019), before joining IDI, he volunteered as a junior Linux Systems Administrator at the College of Computing and Information Sciences(COCIS) for one year.

Dr. Sergio M Navarro is a resident physician in training completing his general surgery residency with the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his Bachelor in Science in Mechanical Engineering and History from Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT), MBA from the University of Oxford Said Business School, and medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr. Navarro was a VP of Finance at Goldman Sachs in the Finance Division and had led multiple financing initiatives in Latin America, specializing in optimization analytics. At Baylor, he was a Global Initiatives research fellow developing a rapidly deployable mobile medical unit for Emergency Disaster Settings to be used in Liberia, winner of the USAID Ebola Challenge. He has also spent time in clinical settings in Zimbabwe with CURE International, Cuba, and Nepal with Rotary International.

Dr. Navarro has co-founded two start-up companies, AUGMENTx, a healthcare technology company utilizing augmented reality to deliver rehabilitation therapy, and Trinity Analytics, using machine learning to pre-operatively improve patient outcomes.