Khalil Ahmad Mohmand, President of Max Global Consulting Services (MGCS) in Afghanistan

At this year’s 6th World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress in Las Vegas, a panel of healthcare buyers will discuss outbound medical tourism from the Middle East and Gulf Region.  Panelists will discuss what patients from the region look for when deciding on a healthcare provider and what a healthcare provider needs to do in order to best meet the needs of these patients.

One of the panelists will be Khalil Ahmad Mohmand.  He is the president of Max Global Consulting Services (MGCS) in Afghanistan.  The MGCS is a Kabul based consulting firms that facilitates medical tourism for those Afghan patients who seek care outside of Afghanistan.  From his experience, Afghan patients seek a variety of different medical procedures abroad including, treatment of cardio-vascular disease, cardiac surgery, orthopedics, general surgery, spine surgery, renal diseases/procedures especially kidney stones removal, oncology, dental procedures, cosmetic surgery and infertility treatments. To read more about his extensive experience, PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ HIS FULL BIOGRAPHY.  To hear his presentation on outbound medical tourism from Afghanistan, you can register for the Congress by clicking HERE.

Clinical organ transplantation has been recognized as one of the great medical advances of the century. However, they have raised many ethical, moral and societal issues regarding supply, the methods of organ allocation, and the use of living donors including minors. It has also led to the practice of organ sale as transplant tourism in some parts of the world. Prof. Dr. E.F.Ehtuish will address the many ethical questions associated with organ transplantation, organ trafficking, and transplant tourism at this year’s 6^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress to be held this November 3-5 in Las Vegas.

Prof. Dr. E.F.Ehtuish is the Director of the Libyan National Organ Transplant Program.  He has written many books in both Arabic and English including one on the topic of the ethics of organ transplantation.  To read more about his extensive experience including his many administrative and academic appointments, PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ HIS FULL BIOGRAPHY or visit his website, www.ehtuish.net.

Organizational initiatives often fail not because they are inadequate but because the organization’s cultural operating system claims to uphold certain written values and cultural rules while operating on quite another. Influential leaders succeed where others fail because they understand unwritten cultural rules guide employee behavior and influence the bottom line. This November at the 6th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress, Joseph Grenny, four-time bestselling author and cofounder of VitalSmarts and Mike Rognlien,  Learning & Development Manager at Facebook will deliver an engaging keynote presentation and share a special case study of how Facebook created a culture of candid dialogue to increase its capacity for brilliant innovation and execution.  Join the up to 2,000 attendees in Las Vegas to learn these crucial skills to create a high performance cultural operating system at your organization.

Prof. John Connell
Featured Keynote
Author of:
Medical Tourism

John Connell, Author of the book Medical Tourism and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sydney will give a keynote address during the 6th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress to be held this November in Las Vegas.

The rise of medical tourism emphasizes a number of contemporary themes including the privatization of health care in post-industrial economies, the growing dependence on technology, uneven access to health resources, the accelerated globalization of health care and tourism, rampant consumerism and cherishing the body beautiful. Based on his book Prof. John Connell will look at the background and rise of health tourism, new emerging facets of the sector, and examines how health related travel fits into a tourism framework. John Connell has been a consultant to the WHO, the South Pacific Commission, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. Click here to see to who else is confirmed to speak.

It all begins with Steve McQueen.  When it comes to Hollywood and cancer, it always begins with Steve McQueen…He was the movie star who wouldn’t say “die.” Stricken with terminal lung cancer a generation ago, he traveled to Mexico for unconventional treatments, including laetrile, the “natural cure,” in an attempt to save his life.  Steve McQueen did not survive. But decades later, Hollywood’s royalty still refuse to take “death” for an answer.  And they continue to bypass the American medical establishment in favor of alternatives to conventional treatments that can be as punishing as the disease.

The difference is that now, the alternatives work.  These new experimental treatments are not carried out by charlatans with quack cures, but by world-renowned, pioneering MDs, combining various protocols and philosophies for proven results.

Now you can have the opportunity to hear a story of celebrity medical tourism told first-hand by a Hollywood player whose life was saved by medical tourism.  This November at the 6th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress, Brett Hudson will share his inspiring story of how he traveled thousands of miles in order to defeat cancer, proving that even celebrities can benefit from medical tourism.  Brett starred on the CBS prime-time series, The Hudson Brothers Show, the summer replacement for The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour that put them on the map and began a friendship with Cher that flourishes to this day.  In 2007, he was diagnosed with Stage Four throat cancer.  After struggling with cancer treatment in the US, his friend Cher referred him to a doctor in Germany.  He was joined in Germany by Farrah Fawcett, who he lovingly refers to as his “cancer buddy”. They traveled and were treated together, shooting video along the way in order to use the experience to help others.  Click here to register!

Dr. Marty Makary will answer this question during his keynote presentation at the 6^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress this November in Las Vegas.  Based on his New York Times bestselling book, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care, Dr. Makary will provide attendees with a behind-the-scenes view on how U.S. hospitals are changing for the better and for the worse. He’ll point out how hospitals are becoming giant corporations while patients blindly walk into a dangerous marketplace they can’t study or evaluate. Attendees will learn the shocking truth about modern medicine, including its hazards and heroes.  Dr. Makary is a gastrointestinal surgeon, researcher, and associate professor of health policy & management at Johns Hopkins University.

Sign up today to hear Dr. Makay and the other “rockstar” speakers at this year’s 6^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress taking place November 3-5 in Las Vegas.

Zappos.com has dramatically grown their sales and received great recognition from other business leaders because they place great emphasis on company culture and core values. Jon Wolske, the Cultural Evangelist for Zappos Insights will share with attendees these groundbreaking insights so that they can learn how to improve company culture, how to engage their employees and how to knock the socks of their customers.

Jon Wolske began his career with the Zappos Family in the Customer Loyalty team. After a year and a half of wowing customers, Jon moved into Zappos Insights. His first role with Insights was presenting to groups of visitors and leading a team of ‘Culture guides’ that host tours of the corporate offices. With a welcoming and knowledgeable attitude, Jon has helped the tours grow to an average of over 1200 visitors each month. Jon currently speaks to companies with a focus on culture and customer experience and why it is an important area of focus for business today. Jon has presented at meetings and conferences for companies from around the world, including Samsung Electronics, Eli Lilly, the Professional Beauty Association and the BAI Retail Delivery conference.

Come learn how to Zappos creates fun and a little weirdness all while being profitable at the 6^th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress this November in Las Vegas.

Our learning, understanding and knowledge are developed in participation with others. In conference education sessions, attendees receive information and outside the education rooms, attendees start to socially construct their own understanding.

Through the sponsored educational sessions at the 6th World Medical Tourism Congress, industry players will be able to create engaging discussions among attendees that will generate excellent business opportunities.

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Engage your customers through active participation and start the conversations that will create knowledge and develop long lasting business relationships. There is a limited number of sponsored sessions available. Contact us to reserve your spot today!

The first Medical Directors Summit was held on October 26th at the 5th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress. The Summit was a collaboration platform for medical directors from top U.S. & international hospitals and insurance companies.

“With this Summit, we saw the opportunity to facilitate learning and collaboration. We have relationships with medical directors from all over the world, many who have the same challenges or who have figured out a successful solution, we simply provided the platform and they naturally formed a productive discussion,”said Renée-Marie Stephano, president of the Medical Tourism Association® (MTA).

All Summit attendees were able to collaborate and network regarding the challenges in providing quality healthcare and insurance to local and international patients.  The medical directors discussed programs with their peers regionally and in other countries, they were also able to learn from some of the successful case studies presented.  This roundtable meeting facilitated conversations to strategically improve an organization’s planning.

Prior to the roundtable discussion, attendees listened to the following presentations:

● Dr. John Kenagy, author of Designed to Adapt: Leading Healthcare in Challenging Times, shared with the audience various aspects of research he conducted at Toyota, a company world leader in quality revolution in car manufacturing and sales and how it can be applicable to medical hospitals.

● Manuel Llorens from Perceptive Software from Lexmark, shared the role process & Enterprise Content Management (ECM) play in the healthcare, government and insurance revenue-cycle & ROI, by reducing risk and ensuring future flexibility.

● Dr. Pratiksha Gandhi, founder chairperson, IPC Health Care Center/ Institute of Preventive Cardiology Foundation,  discussed prevention of non-communicable diseases with a open discussion about a hands on approach for the hospitals to start health promotion departments to increase their revenues and contribute positively to the community by reducing mortality and morbidity of heart diseases and cancer.

● John Casey, director of international benefits at Google shared innovative ways of how Google promotes health amongst its employees. The important message was constant reinforcement of health messages through pictures, office decor and healthy foods in the cafeteria which will inwardly motivate employees to choose healthy behaviors.

● BJ Fogg, professor at Stanford University, demonstrated to the audience of how tiny positive habits can help you change your behavior. How to prioritize the changes you want to make which will positively impact your lifestyle.

“I had a stimulating and enriching experience at the Medical Directors Summit which will help me to better apply myself at work back home in India,” said Dr. Pratiksha Gandhi. “Thanks to the MTA for conducting such a knowledgeable and enhancing business networking summit which we surely cherish for this year and for years to come.”

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Next year the 6th World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress will host the 2nd Medical Directors Summit at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, November 2-6, 2013.

Kerry Weinger- Partner of Baker & McKenzie LLP

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