The NHCQA encourages its international members to join the NHCQA International Advisory Panel!

Our current panel includes:

Denmark: Kristian Kidholm, PhD
Dr. Kidholm is a Consultant for Lisberg, one of Scandinavia's best-known management consulting firms. A former Assistant Professor at the Center for Health and Social Policy at Odense University, in Odense, Denmark, Dr. Kidholm received a PhD in Health Economics after conducting theoretical and empirical studies on the estimation of willingness to pay for health care.

Poland: Tomasz Kosieradzki, MD
Dr. Kosieradzki is a resident in Anesthesiology at the Brodnowski Hospital in Warsaw, Poland, and a postgraduate student in Health and Medicine Economy at the Warsaw School of Economics. His thesis (in progress) consists of research in cost analysis for the intensive care unit.

Mexico: Ernesto Guerra
Sr. Guerra is a Professor and Manager of Educational Projects at Universidad de Ocidente in Sinaloa, Mexico. He is a consultant to more than 50 firms in Quality Management, Strategic Planning, and Finance Engineering.

Mexico: Eugenis Jimenez Corona, MA
Sr. Jiminez has a Master's degree in epidemiology and works with the Comision Nacional de Arbitraje Mexico (CONAMED), which was created in 1996 to investigate quality of health care in Mexico.

Turkey: M. Ugur Yilmaz, MD
Dr. Yilmaz is a surgeon at the Social Security Administration Hospital in Antalya, Turkey, where he has done research in public health, health and social security, and productivity and quality in medical care within the Turkish healthcare system.

Austria: Christopher Gonano, MD
Dr. Gonano is an Anesthesiologist at the University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria. He is particularly interested in quality management, and is preparing an article for CQ (the NHCQA's official publication) which will describe the European health care system.

India: Gail Gannon
Ms. Gannon works in both the U.S. and India, currently focusing her attention on program evaluation of adolescent and family health and social services for both private and not for profit organizations in the U.S.

China: Ya Fang, MD
Ya Fang is an Assistant Professor and consultant for Tongji Medical University and is now working in the Netherlands as a visiting researcher.

Peru: Andres Hildebrando Moran Tello, MD
Dr. Moran is a Professor of Pediatrics at Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima., and the Coordinator of the Nacional del Programa Winay, a project dedicated to the health and nutrition of children under the age of five.

Brazil: Abel Fernanado Rech, MD
Dr. Rech is an anesthesiologist in Brazil, and is currently involved in the planning and construction of new maternity hospital.

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