Kumar Alagappan, MD, FACEP
Associate Chairman, Emergency Medicine Program Director, International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Medical Director, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Dr. Kumar Alagappan is involved with the development of emergency medicine, both domestically and internationally. He had been residency director for 15 years when a resident asked to do an international elective. Dr. Alagappan arranged for this elective in India almost a decade ago. Since that time, more than 150 U.S. emergency medicine residents and students have traveled to India for this popular elective.
Dr. Alagappan has been the academic co-chair of 10 international emergency medicine conferences. ACEP endorsed all of these meetings, and also co-sponsored a November 2006 meeting in New Delhi. The conferences in India helped initiate a global movement to improve emergency care in India. At the November 2007 conference, the president of the national boards of India stated that he would recommend the recognition of emergency medicine as a specialty. Dr. Alagappan is immediate past chair of ACEP’s International Section, and is also the ACEP-appointed ambassador to India (2005) and Singapore (2007
Abdullah Saud Al-Hodaib, MD, MBBS, FRCP
Chairman, EMS Director, Royal Clinics of the Custodian of The Two Holy Mosques
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Al-Hodaib contributed to the establishment of the largest JCI-accredited state-of-the-art emergency department in the Middle East and the training of undergraduates and post-graduates. He is a co-founder of the Saudi and Arab Emergency Medicine Board Programs, which he helped to achieve Saudi Health Specialties Council accreditation. He also served and directed the Saudi Mission Humanitarian Disaster Relief Hospitals in Bam (Iran), Darfur (Sudan) and Kashmir (Pakistan).
Dr. Al-Hodaib remains active in the Saudi and Arab Boards and the Pan-Arab Society of Emergency Medicine. He was a former program director and country representative on the Arab Board. Dr. Al-Hodaib is active in establishing emergency medicine as a respected specialty in his country and the Middle East.