With over 30 years of international experience, Kerry Weinger advises multinational employers on the tax, social security, employee benefits, compensation, employment law, and other legal issues related to the cross-border transfer of employees.  He represents and advises employers and management in a variety of international human resources matters such as implementing global stock plans, implementing global work force reductions, preparing cross-border employment and related agreements in tandem with international benefits and tax counseling.

Mr. Weinger will be leading the session The Mobile Employee: Navigating and Weathering the Global Laws Impacting Employee Mobility. It will be presented at the 5^th World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress and will also crossover with the Global Benefits Conference on October 24^th-26^th 2012.

Through the use of real life examples, this session will provide guidance for the multinational employer on recognizing and addressing the key global mobility issues presented in the international assignment of personnel, including who will be the employer, which employee benefits will apply, which employment laws will apply and the related tax planning and compliance.

Kerry is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), OneWorld International Benefits Group, National Association of Stock Plan Professionals, Forum for Expatriate Management, International Fiscal Association, Bar and CPA Associations and past member of the Global Advisory Council of Worldwide ERC and the Executive Committee of the International Personnel Association.

Kerry practiced abroad for two and a half years in Brussels, Belgium.  He has lectured extensively before professional organizations around the world and has written several articles on international benefits, employment, tax, payroll and compensation issues.  Kerry also authored a book entitled U.S. Employees Abroad, published by Little, Brown & Company and Commerce Clearing House, co-authored the publication Employee Downsizing in Japan, and is a contributing author to the Thomson/West International Human Resources Guide.

Mr. Weinger graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelors of Science degree in Accountancy, received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University, and a Master of Laws degree in taxation from the John Marshall Law School.

To read Kerry’s full biography and for more information about the event including the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

 

Presented by the author of the book, the session Love Your Patients: Improving Patient Satisfaction with Essential Behaviors That Enrich the Lives of Patients and Professionals will teach you the words and actions that healthcare workers should use in order to enhance any patient’s healthcare experience.

It will focus on the importance of love in healthcare as it is comprised of compassion, respect and humility. It will also provide examples to illustrate how good caregivers can be offensive when behaving without love and how to avoid these situations. Finally, it will address the scientific basis of admonition. The workshop will be presented at the 5^th World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress. The event is held in Florida on October 24^th-26^th 2012.

Dr. Diering is a practicing emergency medicine physician, who also gives lectures and workshops on patient satisfaction. He founded Love Your Patients! Inc. to make the world a better place.

He currently lives and works in western Maryland. Previously, Dr. Diering worked in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where he was hospital media spokesperson, wrote and hosted the hospital’s TV segments, and was county Medical Society president.

Before attending medical school at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Dr. Diering practiced as a clinical psychologist. He earned his Master’s Degree in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Dr. Diering grew up in New Jersey, and graduated from Rutgers College in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1983. He still has many friends and family in New Jersey, and his New Jersey roots are easily seen in his language and mannerisms.

To read Dr. Diering’s full biography and for more information about the event including the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

Aging population, funding of social security, tax treatment and rising labor cost are all challenges of the benefit market environment in China. In a changing society, to design and manage a benefit program can be a very challenging task. Challenges and Trends – An Overview of Benefit Market in China is an educational session which will be presented at the 5^th World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress and will also crossover with the Global Benefits Conference. The workshop will first give an overview of the benefit market in China, explain the dynamics of the current market and teach solutions for China related benefit issues.

Jeffrey Chen is the founder and CEO of Insupro and will be leading this topic. He has 17 years of experiences in insurance underwriting, brokering and risk & benefit consulting. Jeffrey will explain how to design and implement the benefit program in China and the solutions to the challenges he’s faced.

Headquartered in Beijing, Insupro is a leading provider of comprehensive employee benefit solutions in China. Since inception in 2002, Insurpo has provided many well-known companies in China with whole-process services including employee benefit consulting, benefit/insurance brokering, employee experience improvement and benefit administration outsourcing.

Jeffrey is interested in the topics of global benefit, benefit technology and outsourcing.  He graduated from China University of Politics and Law and Shanghai Maritime University.  He was admitted as a member of Health Insurance Association of America.

To read Jeffrey’s full biography and for more information about the event including the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

Carolyn Nye, Director of Digital Interactive Group USAData Inc. (along with Kate O’Neill, Founder and Creator of [meta]marketer), will lead the session “Persuading Through Caring: Connecting with Patients on a Personal Level”.  She will be explaining the magnitude of “Triggers & Targeting” marketing to receive the best outcomes and genuine interest from prospective clients.

She is Email Marketing Manager for USAData, providing businesses with consulting, data and technology solutions. Previously, she was Marketing Manager for S&S Worldwide, a direct marketer of arts & crafts and educational supplies for over five years. Carolyn is responsible for the planning and implementation of email marketing programs and has developed a wide variety of highly successful triggered and transactional email campaigns designed to engage customers, drive sales, improve service and overall customer satisfaction.

This session will be emphasizing that delivering the right message to a prospect at the right time can have a powerful impact on the effectiveness of your online marketing campaigns. Carolyn will explain how to leverage on-site behavioral triggers and segmentation to create highly customized and targeted messages in both your outbound email efforts and on your website. Attendees will learn how to increase conversions by identifying valuable visitor segments, serving customized content based on each segments’ characteristics and needs, and remarketing to your prospects with a series of right-timed messages that prompt them to come back for more.

Carolyn holds a BS in Marketing from UMass Dartmouth and is currently pursuing an MBA in E-Commerce and Global Marketing from the University of New Haven. She is an occasional speaker and contributor at industry conferences, featured in trade articles and webinars.

To read Carolyn’s full biography and for more information about the event including the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

 

Kate O’Neill, Founder and Creator of [meta]marketer, along with Carolyn Nye (Director of Digital Interactive Group USAData Inc.) will lead the session “Persuading Through Caring: Connecting with Patients on a Personal Level”.  She will be explaining the importance of creating a relationship with the patient/customer so they can have good faith in your services or products which will lead to their loyalty for a long-term business partnership.

Kate has an extensive resume, have past experience working for various companies such as Netflix, HCA, Omniture and Magazines.com which has polished her expertise in the interplay of content, experience, strategy, and profit.

In early 2009, Kate launched [meta]marketer, a marketing optimization agency that focuses on helping its clients use web marketing more effectively, primarily by focusing on strategy, analytics, and usability to achieve long-term profitability. [meta]marketer provides direct services in searcher acquisition, analytics, and conversion optimization.

Kate is active in her local community, an avid supporter of the development of Nashville as a technology and marketing center.

To read Kate’s full biography and for more information about the event including the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

Robert DiCianni will be leading the session “Benefits in the AnCeCa (Andean, Central American, and Caribbean) Region” at the 5^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress which crosses over with the Global Benefits Conference.

Mr. DiCianni oversees all the International Operations for Pan-American Life.  He is responsible for driving growth in the corporation through the design and implementation of strategies and policies pertaining to sales, operations, and human resources.

Mr. DiCianni has close to 25 years of experience in the insurance industry, almost 20 years of which have been focused in Latin America. He has extensive experience in local, regional, and home office roles. He has been a CEO of insurance companies in three different countries in Central and South America and Mexico, with diverse experiences ranging from starting a green field operation to successfully manage a turnaround situation.

Prior to joining Pan-American Life, Mr. DiCianni served as Vice President with MetLife International, managing MetLife’s corporate business throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. His past experience, he was with ALICO/AIG for over 20 years, where he had a track record of consistently delivering profitable growth. He had extensive experience in group underwriting, TCN/Expatriate business, and Multinational Pooling before concentrating in the Latin America region. Mr. DiCianni began his career as a Group Underwriter with Prudential.

His session will be a quick trip around AnCeCa, explaining current Employee Benefits trends, focusing on insurance benefits.  It will also attempt to provide insight as to new, emerging trends, and how Benefits plans are addressing the needs of employers, employees, and evolving out-of-country treatment alternatives. The learning objectives will include: learn the standard benefit plan designs in this region, get input as to how these designs may be evolving in the future and also learn how employers, providers, and insurers are responding to the varying levels of service and/or treatment that may be available in these countries.

Mr. DiCianni will cover a description of benefit plans in the markets, identification of challenges in the markets with these plans and how they’re responding and how quality-of-care issues and Medical Tourism are affecting benefits plans.

For more information about the event and to view the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

A pioneer in medical tourism in Georgia founding the first medical tourism company, Dr. Ratiani works in Berlin providing consultation regarding the Russian consumer markets. He has been successful in the last seven years developing medical tourism in these markets and is one of the most advanced medical tourism player in Eastern Europe and former USSR.

His company, MedNet Georgia, sends about 20-50 patients per year from Georgia. He also works in Berlin, Germany (Mednet Berlin) where he attracts many more patients from all over the former USSR region, using his web marketing tool, medical portal: www.berlinhospitals.ru. By this portal they interact with tens of patients daily.

Dr. Ratiani will be leading the topic “Understanding the Russian Speaking Patient” at the 5^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress. In this session, he will walk attendees though:
•     Defining the Russian speaking market
•     Russian patient characteristics
•     Russian Market SWAT analysis
•     How to make a successful marketing campaign
•     Figuring out the most efficient procedure
•     Learning the importance of Russian language and mentality

 

For more information about the event and to view the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

 

P. Mona Khanna, M.D., MPH, FACP is a triple board-certified physician and Emmy award-winning medical journalist who serves as the Medical Contributor to Fox Chicago News and Visiting Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois. Her extensive career has included reporting for the Wall Street Journal and serving as a medical expert for the Dr. Oz Show, CBS, CNN, Good Morning America, and The Early Show.

Dr. Khanna is the only medical doctor alumna inducted into the Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement at Northwestern University. After completing three medical specialty residencies, she worked her way up as a medical reporter, from the 161^st largest television market of Palm Springs, CA, to the 5^th largest television market of Dallas-Fort Worth before returning to her hometown of Chicago, the 3^rd largest television market. For her leadership in educating and empowering people across the globe through television, radio, magazine, newspaper and online heath reports, Dr. Khanna has received almost 50 honors this past decade, including 5 Emmy Award nominations. Most recently, she is the recipient of the 2010 Illinois Woman’s Press Association Reporting Award, the 2010 Communicator’s Award of Distinction, and the 2010 Walter C. Alvarez Award for Excellence in Communicating Health Care Developments to the Public.

Dr. Khanna will be leading the Medical Tourism Media & Press Training Workshop at the 5^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress. This skill-building session will teach media skills from a real medical journalism professional.  She will share her experiences in front of and behind the camera and offer practical guidance to help individuals reach the media with important health stories, be camera-ready, and get their message across. Because Dr. Mona currently holds a position at the intersection of medical education and media, she will teach how to recognize and overcome common pitfalls in communicating health information to general audiences, with tips on everything from appearance to effectively framing messages.

For more information about the event and to view the complete conference agenda, please visit http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com

American Express’ Healthy Living & Wider Benefits Program has won several European and International awards and has received much public praise as an industry gold standard. The MTA is elated to announce that Breckon Jones will be a keynote speaker at the 5^th World Medical Tourism Congress and his presentation will crossover with the Global Benefits Conference.

Jones is the Director of Health and Benefits at American Express and is responsible for the (EMEA) region which includes Europe, Middle East and Africa. He joined American Express from Unilever, where he held the role of Employee Health and Wellness Manager, pioneering an innovative model for workplace health enhancement and culture change which influenced the UK Government’s policies on employee health. He has previously worked with major blue-chip companies in the Asia Pacific region as a corporate consultant, designing and developing health, safety and wellness initiatives.

His presentation will make a comment in favor of increasing investment in employee benefits, in particular health and wellness programs, in a climate of economic uncertainty in Europe. American Express health and benefits strategy will be highlighted as a case study where investment to promote greater awareness and appreciation of benefits can attract and retain top talent, increase engagement and drive up customer service excellence.

Jones was recognized in 2012 by Employee Benefits Magazine as one of the ‘Hot 100 Benefits Professionals’ in the United Kingdom and is the only Reward professional to have won the European Employee Benefits Most Effective Healthcare & Wellbeing Strategy award two years in a row and for two different employers. He lives in London and cycles to work most days.

The 5^th World Medical Tourism Congress  will take place this year on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale/Miami on October 24-26^th. The event is a platform for healthcare leaders, governments, employers, providers and academics to network and work together for the greater good of the international healthcare industry.

The MTA is proud to announce that Dr. Peter Carmel will be a keynote speaker at the 5^th World Medical Tourism Congress. The event will take place this year on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale/Miami on October 24-26^th. The event is a platform for healthcare leaders, governments, employers, providers and academics to network and work together for the greater good of the international healthcare industry.

Dr. Carmel is a committed researcher and advocate for neurological research. He previously served as chairman of the National Coalition for Research in Neurological Disease and Stroke, and subsequently as chair of the National Foundation for Brain Research.  In this capacity he helped launch the Decade of the Brain initiative.  This initiative raised millions of dollars in new research money for neurological diseases and stroke.

Previously serving in numerous positions in both the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), was inaugurated in June as the 166th president of the American Medical Association. For 17 years, Dr. Carmel was a CNS representative in the House of Delegates, the AMA’s primary policy-making body and he received the AANS Distinguished Service Award 2008.

Dr. Carmel has served on the AMA Board of Trustees since 2002 and has a distinguished record of service and leadership in organized medicine. He served on the Council on Long Range Planning and Development and chaired this influential advisory committee from 2006 to 2007. Dr. Carmel served as president of the AMA Foundation and is on the Foundation Board.