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Bonginkosi Chiliza

Associated Organisation:
The Africa Global Mental Health Institute

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Role:
CEO

Summary:
Bonginkosi Chiliza is a co-director of the Global Mental Health Institute as well as the Associate Professor/Chief Specialist and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He completed his medical degree and psychiatry specialization at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and his PhD at Stellenbosch University. His research interests include: - Schizophrenia - Consultation-liaison psychiatry - Health services - Medical education. Bonginkosi Chiliza is the Deputy Editor of the South African Journal of Psychiatry, as well as the President-Elect of the South African Society of Psychiatrists. Prof Chiliza has received a number of awards including the Hamilton Naki Clinical Research Fellowship and the CINP Rafaelsen Young Investigators Award. He has authored over 50 peer reviewed articles and book chapters. He has also served on a number of NGO Boards, including the SA YMCA and Life Choices. He is one of the Founding Directors of Harambee Medical Consulting and African Global Mental Health Institute.

David C Henderson MD

Associated Organisation:
The Africa Global Mental Health Institute

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Role:
CEO

Summary:
David C. Henderson is the co-director of the Africa Global Mental Health Institute. David is also the professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine as well as the psychiatrist-in-Chief at Boston Medical Center. Dr. Henderson previously served as Director of The Chester M. Pierce, MD Division of Global Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Director of the MGH Schizophrenia Clinical and Research Program, and Medical Director of the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. Dr. Henderson serves as Co-Director of the NIMH T32 MGH-BUSM Global Mental Health Clinical Research Fellowship. He has worked internationally for the past 21 years in resource-limited settings, and areas impacted by mass violence, disasters and complex emergencies. Dr. Henderson has conducted research and training programs in Bosnia, Cambodia, East Timor, Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, New Orleans, New York City, Rwanda and Peru, South Africa, and Somaliland among other places. His work has consisted of field studies, needs assessments, mental health policy development and strategic planning, quantitative and qualitative surveys, mental health capacity building programs for specialized and primary health professionals, and skill-transfer program evaluation. In the United States, he has conducted more than 30 randomized clinical trials in severely mentally ill populations. Dr. Henderson has also directed a schizophrenia research training fellowship, and mentored trainees and junior faculty who have progressed to K awards and secured other independent funding. He actively mentors 10 psychiatry residents and 4 postdoctoral fellows on data-driven international research projects

Gary Slagle

Associated Organisation:
Agile Health

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Role:
CEO, Founder / Co-Founder

Summary:
Gary Slagle is is a co-founder & CEO of Agile Health. Gary began his career in ​systems implementations and process reengineering in the hospital sector with KMPG Peat Marwick in the 1980’s. During the following decade, Gary led mergers, acquisitions, and post-merger integration in the behavioral managed care industry at Magellan Health Services. In the new millennium Gary focused on corporate development, mergers, acquisitions and post-merger integration in the prescription benefit management industry at CaremarkRx. He completed his tenure there as a Senior Vice President for Medicare, leading development of the multi-billion dollar business unit.

Marie Angele Abanga

Associated Organisation:
Global Mental Health Peer Network; Hope for the Abused and Battered

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Role:
Advocate, Ambassador / Champion, Carer, CEO, Chairperson, Community Member, Consumer

Summary:
Marie Angele Abanga (simplified to Marie Abanga) aka MAG likes to describe herself as a “Jacqueline of several trades”. She is an everyday woman and mother with a zigzag profile. Let’s give it a try! She is an Activist, an Author, a Coach, a Consultant, a Feminist, a Lawyer, a Lecturer, a Prince 2 Project Manager, a Psychotherapist, a Philanthropist and above all a spiritualist! She just loves to sum it up by saying she is a person of passions and a tale of talents. Her life’s journey has filled 7 books already and her three musketeers keep her busy at home. MAG is 41 and lives in Douala the economic capital of Cameroon MAG is also the founder and CEO of the association Hope for the Abused and Battered, and the Country Director of the Gabriel Bebonbechem Foundation for Epilepsy & Mental wellbeing. She is also the Global Mental Health Peer Executive representing Cameroon. The plethora of life's experiences and shenanigans she has lived through and learned from in 4 decades of existence, have equipped her with such an arsenal to coach, train and motivate just any and everyone. She is so charismatic, dynamic and full of life, going by her designed mantra of 3Ds: Determination; Discipline and Dedication. These sum her and her quest to be the best version of herself and impact others positively. She attributes all her wealth of knowledge to her conscientious attendance of both informal and formal school. Let's see what she got from formal school below ... Ms Abanga had her LLB Hons from the University of Buea, a Maitrise in Public Law from the University of Yaounde II, a higher Diploma in Transport and Logistics with distinctions from ODECI Cameroon, an LLM in International Law with International Relations from the University of Kent, a P2PM Foundation and Practitioner certification from the US, and a CBT Psychotherapy Diploma with distinctions from the UK. She is an eternal student, currently doing an MSc in professional practice in Leadership Management (healthcare) as a Commonwealth Scholar with the University of Lancaster. MAG can be contacted via her website at www.marieabanga.com and on whatsapp via +237698914754 Visit her association at: https://www.hope4abusedbattered.com/

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Trip Hofer

Associated Organisation:
Able To

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Role:
CEO

Summary:
Trip Hofer is the CEO of Able To, a technology-enabled provider of behavioral health care, with licensed practitioners in all fifty states. AbleTo analytics, coupled with our highly-trained engagement team, identify unmet behavioral health needs. Using a convenient and secure telehealth approach, we support individuals facing emotional and behavioral challenges brought on by medical events and life transitions. Trip Hofer is a highly accomplished and industry leading senior executive with extensive experience in corporate strategy, business development, organizational realignment, and client management and sales. A proven leader in both entrepreneurial and highly established organizations. Attributes include a decisive, energetic, charismatic leadership style with exceptional team building abilities, using established skills to ensure extraordinary results in productivity, performance and sales through analysis, collaboration and organization at all levels of the business.