MBBS (S’pore), MPH, MRCP (UK), DAvMed (Lond), FRCP (Edin), FAMS

Assoc Prof Gan Wee Hoe is Chief Executive Officer of Eastern General Hospital, a 1,000-bed acute general hospital in Singapore slated to open in 2029. 

As an active clinician, he practises Occupational Medicine at the Singapore General Hospital and Aviation Medicine at the Changi General Hospital, Singapore. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Duke-NUS Medical School, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (National University of Singapore), Lee Kong Chien School of Medicine (National Technological University, Singapore), and the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (National University of Singapore). 

Among Assoc Prof Gan’s additional public service roles include serving on the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore’s Medical Board, Singapore’s Ministry of Health CareShield Life Council, the Boards of several voluntary welfare organisations in Singapore, as well as being a Visiting Consultant to the Singapore Armed Forces. He is the Immediate Past President of the College of Public Health and Occupational Physicians under the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. 

Before joining the public healthcare sector, Assoc Prof Gan served in the Singapore Armed Forces, with his last appointments being Chief Air Force Medical Officer and Assistant Chief of Medical Corps.

M.B.B.S., M.D. (Aerospace Medicine), DAvMed, M.AeSI

Sasirajan is working with Royal Air Force of Oman since 2012 as ‘Aviation Medicine Specialist’ at an air base as well as an ‘Aeromedical Instructor” at Aviation Medicine Training Centre, Muscat. Earlier served at Apollo Hospitals (Chennai) which is a DGCA empanelled Class I medical centre as AME and ‘Authorized Immigration Panel Physician’ for USA, Australia and Canada.

He is the recipient of ‘Aviation Medicine Scholarship Award 2008’ from the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM) and ‘Presidents Gold Medal 2009’ from the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine. He is an ‘Associate fellow’ of the Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM), ‘Academician’ of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM). He is a ‘Associate Fellow’ of Aerospace Medical Association and member of the Aeronautical Society of India.

M.D., M.S., SMNAI, FAAFP, FAsMA, FAAN(h), FRAeS

Dr. Sobel's career has emphasized technologies to support national security, counter- WMD, improved big data analytics and far forward medical care in extreme environments such as special operations, space, high altitude, and diving. She worked for over a decade helping operationalize counter WMD technology strategies in cooperation with the IDF.

She was a Distinguished Military Graduate from Princeton University's Army ROTC program, Distinguished Member of the Technology Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Graduate of Air War College and the Army Command and General Staff College. She was New Mexico Homeland Security Director and Deputy Secretary for Public Safety. She served as the Senior Assistant to the Chief, National Guard Bureau, (NGB), as well as the Chief’s Advisor for Civil-Military. She served in the US Army and taught combat medicine skills to SF Medics (18D) and PJs at Ft. Bragg and Pope AFB. She was a member of the first Forward Surgical Team and Senior Flight Surgeon for the 57th MEDEVAC, Ft. Bragg.

Support during and post-9/11, and the first Director of Intelligence (J2) for NGB, and supported Hurricane Katrina humanitarian response. In parallel, she was a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency's Scientific Advisory Board.

She was recipient of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Alumni Association visionary leadership award in 2023 and the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Public Service Award for conceiving and implementing the first nationally recognized interfaith First Amendment Working Group while serving as Director of Homeland Security in New Mexico. She was also awarded the Lubbock, Texas YWCA’s Women of Excellence (Government category) and the NATO award for lifetime service for understanding the threats posed by WMD. She is an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN), recognized internationally for her pioneering work in telemedicine implementation, having flown as crew on the first tele-medicine aeroevac demonstration in European Command and implementation in Antarctica. She served as Guest Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Bioscience Division.

Dr. Sobel was residency trained in Family and Community Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, and Wright State University’s Aerospace Medicine / human factors residency program.

She was a senior advisor to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where led an initiative for AFMIC to predict and counter global infectious disease challenges. She was part of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

BMBS, MPH, MA, Dip AvMed, FRACMA, FACAsM, FAsMA, FCDSS, FACHSM (Hon)

Professor Smart is a veteran, medical doctor, health leader, aerospace medicine specialist, and retired Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) senior officer. She is currently Professor, Military and Aerospace Medicine at the Australian National University (ANU), Interim Director of the ANU Defence Institute, and a Mission Specialist at the ANU Institute for Space. She served as the University’s COVID-19 Public Health Lead from 2020 to 2022.

Prof Smart’s 35-year RAAF career included several operational deployments, and leadership and command positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of Defence. She was twice Commanding Officer of the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine and undertook exchange tours with the Royal Air Force (UK) and the United States Air Force. Her career culminated at the two-star level in the dual roles of Surgeon General of the ADF and Commander Joint Health. She transferred to the RAAF Specialist Reserve in early 2020.

Apart from her ANU roles, Prof Smart is a non-executive Director of Goodwin Aged Care Services and the International Academy of Air and Space Medicine (IAASM); Chair of the ANZAC Research Institute Advisory Council and the Australian Football League Mental Health Steering Group; and a member of the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal. She is also an Honorary (Professorial Fellow) at the University of Melbourne, a frequent keynote speaker, and undertakes various consulting and advisory roles in aerospace medicine and military and veterans’ health.

Prof Smart is an Academician of IAASM, a Fellow of the Aerospace Medicine Association, a Founding Fellow (and former President) of the Australasian College of Aerospace Medicine, and a former Vice President of the Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine.

Medical Doctor, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1969.
Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of the Mexican Army and Air Force, 1980.
Basic Course in Aviation Medicine, Department of Aviation Medicine, DC Mexico and International Civil Aviation Centre and ICAO, 1974.
Continuing Medical Education Seminar in Aviation Medicine, CAMI FAA, 1979 to 2025.
Postgraduate degree in Aerospace Medicine. Division of Higher Studies, UNAN Mexico, 2023.
Course in Flight Safety and Human Factors. Centre for Accident Research and Prevention (CENIPA). Brazilian Air Force, 2003.
Master’s Degree in Higher Education, University of the Americas, Panama.
Member of the Aerospace Medical Association (FASMA), FFASHFA, Member of the International Airlines Medical Association, Founding Member of the Ibero-American Association of Aerospace Medicine.
Medical Examiner for the FAA, Aviation Medicine Canada, Civil Aviation Authority of Panama.

Dr. Roland Vermeiren has graduated from the Medieval University of Leuven, Belgium. He has specializations in many scientific and rule-making fields such as family, occupational, aviation, insurance and radiation protection medicine.

He has worked for 15 years as General Practitioner, 10 years as AME in the medical service of SABENA (former Belgian airline) and 27 years at EUROCONTROL where he was head of the Medical Service of EUROCONTROL and chair of the EUROCONTROL Medical Board.

He is also a cofounder and past president of ESAM, past president of AsMA, member of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine, member and past Vice Chair of the Inter-Institutional Medical Board of the European Institutions and Agencies, past chair of the Scientific Committee of this IMB, was member of the former JAA medical committee, and is representative of the aeromedical sector in the EASA SAB (Stakeholders Advisory Board), member of the EASA ATM Technical Committee, member of the EASA Medical Experts Group and chair or member of the EASA Rulemaking Groups of part MED aircrew, part MED ATCO, part MED ARA and ORA.

He's been as a presenter at many international aviation medicine congresses such as ECAM, ICASM, AsMA and others.

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Dr Brigitte GUIDEZ is specialist in aerospace medicine and occupational medicine.

After working as a GP and scientific consultant for 5 years, she became a medical expert for workplace accidents and injuries for the French Civil Aviation Authority.

She joined the medical teams at Air France in 1990 as occupational physician (in charge of Apprentice Training Centers, flight personnel, and ground maintenance personnel); she has been Coordinating Physician since 2002.

Her main fields of study and publications deal with shift work, asbestos hazard, airport air quality, chemical hazards related to aircraft paints, maintenance work in fuel tanks, and exposure to noise.  

She is the former vice president of ICAM 2022 in Paris, Past President 2019/2020 of SOFRAMAS (Société Francophone de Médecine Aérospatiale — Francophone Society of Aerospace Medicine); IAASM academician (International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine); member of AsMA (Aerospace Medical Association); member of SFMT (Société Française de Médecine du Travail — French Society of Occupational Medicine).