Administration | GHEF

Tayeb Al-Hafez MD, FACP, Founder and President
Eduardo Missoni MD, MSc, Scientific Coordinator
Peter Gollnow Treasurer
Mazen Kherallah MD, FCCP, Syrian International Coalition for Health
Andrei Issakov MD, MPH, PhD, Operations Manager

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Summary of Organization

Tayeb Al-Hafez

Tayeb Al-Hafez MD, FACP, Founder and President

Tayeb Al-Hafez, MD, is a practicing physician and healthcare strategist. He has served as Regional Medical Director while working with a healthcare delivery organization. He fostered communication and knowledge-sharing among medical directors in several hospitals, and provided mentoring and coaching that helped them excel in their leadership positions. His work helped them improve their relationships with their hospitals and affiliated physicians. Dr. Al-Hafez has experience leading successful inpatient hospital programs in non-profit, for-profit, and academic healthcare settings. He takes on a wide range of responsibilities for improving care and controlling costs. He has practiced in North Carolina, Alaska, Hawaii, South Carolina, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and California. Dr. Al-Hafez is continuously working to share his knowledge and expertise in the areas of strategic planning and policy development through active participation in global forums and initiatives in health care.

Eduardo Missoni

Eduardo Missoni MD, MSc, Scientific Coordinator

Eduardo Missoni, MD, MSc (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) with a Specialization in Tropical Medicine (Rome La Sapienza University), is a professor at the Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) and at its Post-graduate Management School (SDA-Bocconi). His teachings and research activities include Management of International Institutions and Non-profit Organizations, and Global Health and Development. Since 2001, he also holds a Global Health course at the Faculty of Sociology of the Bicocca University in Milan (Italy), and in the years 2009-2010 was visiting professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where he held a course in Ethics and International Organizations. From 1987 to 2002, he was an Adviser to the Directorate General for Development Cooperation in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the same period he acted as the liaison officer with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO), and represented Italy at international meetings (including WHO Executive Board and World Health Assembly) and expert groups (including the G8 health group, which he chaired in 2001).

Peter Gollnow

Peter Gollnow Treasurer

From the headquarters in Geneva, Peter Gollnow serves as CEO for Global Healthcare Advisory SA, a company he founded. Gollnow is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Global Health Equity Foundation. Prior to this assignment he was founder and CEO of GenevaServicesGroup, a consulting firm specializing in service audits, customer satisfaction measurement, total quality management with business process reengineering, and service business development. Gollnow taught the first customer satisfaction measurement course in the TUV academie in Munich, Germany. As a consultant, Gollnow served as certified services auditor in the telecommunications industries for central Europe and the Middle East, as well as FDI development for the Canton and State of Geneva (responsible for Germany and Eastern Europe). As European Services Operations Manager for Digital Equipment Corporation in Geneva, he was responsible for the IT service operation in seventeen countries. During his time at Digital Equipment, Gollnow founded the Swiss chapter of the USA based Association for Service Management International (AFSMI). Gollnow is certified as an Informatic Engineer and holds the MBA for service operation.

Mazen Kherallah

Mazen Kherallah MD, FCCP, Syrian International Coalition for Health

Dr. Mazen Kherallah received a medical degree from University of Damascus in 1987. His education in Damascus was followed by an internal medicine residency at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and infectious disease and critical care medicine fellowships from University of Illinois in Chicago, University of Chicago, the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Wayne State University. He has been certified by the American board of Internal Medicine in his three specialties since 1995. Dr. Kherallah has worked as an infectious disease and a critical care consultant at several facilities in the USA and abroad. He is currently a critical care and infectious disease consultant at Sanford Health System in Fargo, North Dakota, and at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh. Dr. Kherallah has worked with the World Health Organization office in Syria as STC since 2009, providing consultations and conducting workshops related to health care matters in the fields of infectious disease and critical care medicine. His research has been focused on quality, safety, and management in critical care units, severity of illness scoring systems for ICU patients, and the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.

Andrei Issakov

Andrei Issakov MD, MPH, PhD, Operations Manager

Andrei Issakov has worked in clinical practice, medical education and public health for over 40 years. Before joining the World Health Organization in 1985, he has occupied a number of clinical, academic and administrative positions at the Russian Medical University and Children’s Teaching Hospital in Moscow. Working as Program Manager and Unit Head with WHO Headquarters in Geneva in 1985-2009, he has focused on development and strengthening of health systems, health sector reform, health policy and systems research, organization and management of health service delivery, quality of care, patient safety, health technology assessment and management. After leaving WHO, he established a private consulting firm Health Systems and Technology (HS&T) International Consulting based in Geneva, therefore continuing his active engagement in international health work. He is also a Health Systems, Services and Technology Adviser to the Geneva-based company Global Healthcare Advisory SA, and is engaged with several international non-governmental organizations serving as a Coordinator and Member of Executive Board of Swiss-Russian Health Forum; Member of Honorary Members Circle of International Hospital Federation; Member of Board of Directors of Commission for Advancement of Health Technology Management in Asia. He is a member of some 25 international and national professional associations, has been honored with several national and international professional awards and recognitions, and has over 50 publications – books, book chapters, articles and conference abstracts on a wide range of public health issues.