Contributors

Dr. Eduardo S. Eseque

Dr. Gunnaphon Anamnart

Dr. Gunnaphon specializes in Family Medicine Profession, currently he works at Bangkok Hospital Rayong (BRH), member of BDMS, for 4 years. He has developed Predicting Center for mass NCD patients prediction and Academic Center to support the Center of Excellent (CoE) focusing on the area of trauma, cancer and occupational health. With his knowledge and capability, during Thailand pandemic he sucessfully operated "Telemedicine System" to monitor populous COVID-19 patients in hospitels, therefore, BRH nominated and later on appointed Dr. Gunnaphon as Chief of Wellness Center and Chief of Academic Center respectively.

Dr. Huma Naz

Dr. Huma Naz is an internal medicine specialist with over two decades of experience leading and transforming healthcare systems in complex academic and tertiary care settings. Her professional interests span healthcare quality, digital health, innovation, and business process redesign, with a strong focus on making healthcare more efficient, patient-centered, and future-ready. 

Over the years, she has worked extensively on quality improvement, operational transformation, and system-wide initiatives that bridge clinical care with strategy and innovation. She is particularly passionate about rethinking traditional healthcare models through technology, smarter processes, and collaborative leadership.

Dr. Khoo Chow Huat

Dr. Khoo has 26 years of strategic, operational and investment management experience, including 18 years in healthcare; leading healthcare operations, healthcare investment, planning and development of facilities, service excellence and business development, spanning across Singapore, Malaysia and China. 

As the Managing Director of Hospital & Healthcare Operations, Dr. Khoo leads the development, operations and coordination of existing hospitals as well as other healthcare facilities of Sunway Healthcare Group, ensuring a seamless network of integrated health services and programmes designed to meet the needs of patients, doctors, customers and employees.

Prior to that, Dr. Khoo was Chief Executive Officer, Healthcare of Perennial Holdings, where he was responsible for the healthcare business of the Group including both hospitals and eldercare services. Before Perennial Holdings, Dr Khoo was the General Manager of Raffles Hospital Chongqing under Raffles Medical Group, and prior to that, he was the Deputy Managing Director of Sunway Group Healthcare Services and Chief Executive Officer of Sunway Medical Centre from 2016 to 2018.

Dr. Khoo had also held various other positions including Group CEO of Orange Valley Healthcare, one of the largest eldercare operators in Singapore with six nursing homes and more than 1,000 beds, and CEO of Mount Alvernia Hospital and Assisi Hospice. He was also previously with the Singapore Administrative Service, and held various senior positions in the People’s Association, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Information and the Arts.

Dr. Khoo graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) in Chemistry.  Dr. Khoo is also a Chartered Management Accountant with Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (CIMA).  He further obtained a Master of Business Administration jointly awarded by Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Management) and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology before obtaining his Doctorate in Business Administration from Manchester Business School.

Dr. Neil Wang

Dr. Num Tanthuwanit

Num has extensive experience in clinical, operational, executive and strategic board roles in the health sector. He assists tertiary hospitals in improving the patient experience and service standards; procurement operations; cost management; business strategy and innovation; physician recruitment as well as quality assurance, improvement and accreditation.  
 
He also helps them to develop new clinical programs and services as well as assess and implement new technologies.  
Num was previously Group CEO of a leading hospital in Indonesia and the CEO of a major private health care facility in Thailand. He also practiced as a specialist rehabilitation physician in Australia’s and Thailand’s public and private sectors.  

Num is a Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He holds an MBBS from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and an MSc in Management from Stanford University, US.

Dr. Rodolfo Borromeo

Dr. Shibu Vijayan

Dr. Shibu Vijayan is the Chief Medical Officer – Global Health at Qure.ai, where he leads initiatives to integrate artificial intelligence into public health systems to improve early disease detection and strengthen health delivery across low- and middle-income countries.

With over 25 years of experience in global public health, he has worked extensively with governments,  NGOs, and international agencies including WHO, MSF, and PATH, where he served as Global TB Technical Director. 

His work has contributed to national policy development and the implementation of AI-driven innovations in TB care, lung health, maternal and child health, and pandemic preparedness. 
 

Dr. Stephanie Allen

Dr. Suebsakul Tonjang

Suebsakul Tonjang, Ph.D., is an innovative sustainability manager at Bangkok Dusit Medical Services PCL (BDMS), one of the most prestigious healthcare networks in the Asia-Pacific region. He leads the innovative sustainability department, innovation direction of organization, and strategies to develop healthcare innovation. He has utilized a repertoire of skills including innovation management, healthcare management, and operational analysis to create high-value sustainable innovation in BDMS. His accomplishment includes developing an innovation ecosystem that increases the number of healthcare innovation projects and improves sustainable innovation management performance. He has received the Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering in 2021 from Chulalongkorn university, Bangkok, Thailand. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom. His research focuses on healthcare quality and innovation management to develop the integrated quality and innovation management model in healthcare affecting sustainability.