Congress Blog

The 2nd Annual World
Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress, the largest medical tourism
congress in the world, announces speakers, sponsors and record increase in
attendance this coming October 26-28th 2009 in Los Angeles, California.
http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com/ Over 60 countries confirmed
participation. Up to 5,000 private one-on-one networking sessions will be
arranged through special networking software, allowing each delegate to
schedule up to 80 meetings during the 3-day conference.

Deloitte estimates that 1.6 million American patients will travel to
other countries in 2010 for medical care and treatment, doubling the
numbers who traveled in 2007, and spending billions of dollars.

This Congress is the only event each year where the largest numbers of
Employers, Self Funded Health Plans, Insurance Companies, Governments, and
Medical Tourism Facilitators worldwide come to partner with international
hospitals.

Ministries of Tourism and Ministries of Health participate together
with up to 200 expert speakers, up to 2,000 attendees and 125 exhibitors
and sponsors. Monday night’s VIP cocktail reception open to Workshop
attendees is sponsored by a top US health insurance magazine, bringing in
up to 400 US Health Insurance Executives, Agents, and Brokers.

Some expert featured speakers include:

George Zahorcak, CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits,

Ana Andrade, Vice President, HealthNet Latino Programs

H. E. Mr. Nasser Al Budoor, Director International Relations & Health Affairs and Director of Health Minister’s Office – Ministry of Health, United Arab Emirates (UAE),

Laila Al Jassmi, Dubai Health Authority,

Michelle Lerow, Aetna Global Benefits,

Shady Nawar, Qatar Insurance ,

Edison Vallejo, BUPA Insurance,

Peter Hayes, Hannaford Brothers,

Missy Jarrott, Chatham Steel,

Matt Leming, Swiss Reinsurance,

Scott Leavitt, National Association of Health Underwriters,

Kemal Canlar, United Healthcare,

Jay Gieringer, Humana,

Paul Keckley, Deloitte,

Steve Cyboran, Sibson Consulting,

Dr. L. Casey Chosewood, CDC,

Alexander Domaszewicz, Mercer Health & Benefits Services,

Joseph Heyman, American Medical Association,

Alexandra Jung, Aon Consulting,

Vincent Vanderpool Wallace, Minister of Tourism Bahamas,

Sandra Berkowitz, Willis/HRH,

Cynthia Carrion, Undersecretary of Tourism Philippines,

Christine Leyden, URAC,

Dr. Mehul Mehta, Partners Harvard Medical International,

Ross Pendergraft, Los Angeles Association of Health Underwriters,

William Ruschhaupt, Cleveland Clinic.

The Diamond Sponsorship for the second year is the Council for Korea
Overseas Promotion and KHIDI. Gold sponsors include Colombia, Malaysia,
Turkey, and Mexico City.

The World Medical Tourism & Global Health Congress is the official
conference of the Medical Tourism Association (Global Healthcare
Association) http://www.medicaltourismassociation.com and is sponsored by
Medical Tourism Magazine, the official publication of the Medical Tourism
Association, http://www.medicaltourismmag.com.

For those of you not aware this year the MTA has invested in an advance networking software. This software will allow attendees to go online and create their own online profile for their company. Attendees can then login and search for companies they would like to network and meet with. Once they find these companies, they can send an invitation and schedule up to 80 private one on one networking meetings at the conference. It is very exciting and should really make scheduling networking meetings much easier than last year. It will also allow attendees to schedule significantly more meetings than last year’s conference. We have expanded our private networking rooms at this years medical tourism conference so that there are 2 networking rooms. It is very important though that people upload their profile now and start scheduling meetings because meetings must be pre-scheduled before the conference through the software and there is a deadline where after a specific date, attendees can’t schedule anymore networking meetings through the software.

See you in Los Angeles!

If you are planning to attend the MTA’s annual conference in Los Angeles this October please make sure to watch the networking video to learn how to get the most out of networking and how to schedule up to 80 private meetings at the conference.

www.medicaltourismcongress.com/networking_activities.php

Scoll down to the first video, hit play and turn your sound on! This new networking software is great!

H. E. Mr. Nasser Al Budoor, Director International Relations & Health Affairs and Director of Health Minister’s Office – Ministry of Health, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Board Member Executive Board of Health Minister’s Council for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC Countries)

and also Ana Andrade, Vice President, HealthNet Latino Programs. HealthNet is one of the largest health insurance companies in the US with millions of Americans insured. HealthNet was one of the first US insurance companies to create a cross border healthcare program between the US and Mexico.