The PACE MD Advisory Board
Our board is comprised of members with extensive experience negotiating with the Mexican Government, and health specialists who have led successful global health ventures.
They are:

Dr. Judith Tintinalli (World renowned emergency medicine textbook author and leader). Professor and Emeritus Chair of Emergency Medicine, University Of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Policy & Administration, School of Public Health; Lecturer, Medical Journalism, School of Journalism & Mass Communication. Founder and first President, Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. President: American Board of Emergency Medicine, 1989-1990 President: Association of Academic Chairs in Emergency Medicine, 2007 – 2008. Editor in Chief : Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, ACEP, 1980; McGraw Hill, eds 1-4, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1995, 2000,2004 Editor in Chief : Access Emergency Medicine, 2005 Editor-in-Chief, Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine, McGraw-Hill, 2004, 2009 Senior Advisor and Editorial Board, US division, People’s Medical Publishing House, Beijing, China 2008-Editorial Board, Australasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2008-Editorial Board, Emergencias (Spanish Society of Emergency Medicine), 2008-

Dr. Robert Suter, DO Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern is past president of both the American College of Emergency Physicians and the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. Dr. Suter has a long history of service to emergency medicine on a state, national, and international level. He was president of EMRA in 1991 – 1992, was elected to the Board of the Government Services Chapter, participated in numerous state and national committees, and served as ACEP liaison to several organizations. Immediately following residency, he was the physician co-chair of the federal project EMS Agenda for the Future. In 1998 Dr. Suter was given the Founders Award, EMRA’s highest recognition of service to emergency medicine and emergency medicine residents. He served as a member of the ACEP Council from 1991 through 1999 when he was elected to ACEP Board of Directors. He also served the College as a member of the Board and was the 2004-05 president. In 2006, he served as President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine. Dr. Suter has practiced emergency medicine in a variety of geographic and practice settings for over 15 years. In addition to being involved in academic medicine throughout his career, his practice experiences include being one of 60 partners in Greater Houston Emergency Physicians, a large democratic group, and as a Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. He has a long-term commitment to clinical excellence, teaching, and research in emergency medicine.

Dr. Renate Savich MD (Director of Neonatology Section, American Academy of Pediatrics).
Dr. Savich, a world-renowned neonatologist at The University of New Mexico has been funded for several National Children’s Study formative research studies funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is the principal or co-investigator on at least 8 different projects related to the environment’s affect on children’s health. She is also an international instructor for Neonatal Resuscitation and Helping Babies Breath, where she has conducted dozens of courses in China, Africa, and Latin America.

Dr. Portia Jones, MD MPH (International Liason for ALSO in Latin America) Family Practitioner with 22 years of experience. Practices Family Medicine, Adolescent Medicine, and Obstetrics. She is a Faculty Director for AAFP and has traveled throughout Latin America as a Course Director for the ALSO International Program.

Dr. Don Bader, MD MBA (Emergency Specialist and Entreprenuer) – Specializations: healthcare system integration, healthcare globalization, healthcare collaboration, operations, quality, clinical emergency medicine, hospice and palliative care.

Dr. Angel Rafael Braña, MD MPH (Public Health) – Primary health care systems: grants, planning, development, outcome evaluations and training in areas of: public health and preventive medicine, global health, HIV/AIDS care and treatment, electronic health records, cross-cultural medicine, health policy and health care entrepreneurship, and all-hazards preparedness and response.

Maria Laura Casalegno, (Ashoka Young Maternal Health Champion) – PACE Maternal and Neonatal Programs project coordinator.
Winton Churchill (Marketing and Sales Consultant) – Designs, builds and executes self-funding sales and lead generation systems that produce predictable and reliable streams of revenue in complex or difficult sales cycles. Founding director of Barefoot Consultants.

Dr. Terrance Mulligan, (International Emergency Medicine Sub-Specialist) Focused on developing emergency medicine, ambulance, trauma and acute care systems around the world. He is on the Board of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and is an Editor of Emergency Physicians International.

Pete Peters, (Attorney and Health Care Administrator) – Experienced senior level healthcare administrator with extensive experience managing integrated physician networks, hospital owned networks, management services organizations, and medical group practices and free standing emergency departments.

Logan Plaster, (Publisher) – Editor and publisher of Emergency Physicians International (www.epijournal.com) and the founder of Portmanteau Media, a Brooklyn-based new media company specializing in global health and international affairs.

Bob Sweeney, (CEO of Challenger Corporation) -Challenger is the largest repository of online Continuing Medical Education/professional development materials in the world.

Michelle Hellums, Senior Financial Analyst, Goldman Sachs. Former US based representative for the PACE MD Medspanish Global Health Program.

Nishant Kishore, (mHealth Expert) – mhealth product specialist, with experience building mobile applications in Nicaragua, Mexico and the US that reinforce the chain of survival.