Pan American Academy
For Advancing Executive Women Leaders in Academia
Academy Chair
Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes, MD, MBA,
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Chief of Clinical Compliance , Director Clinical Trials Programs,
President Executive Cortex Consulting, LLC, President Sports for Healthy Kids, Inc.
Academy Co-Chair
Rebecca MacMillan Fox, Ph.D.,
Chief of Staff for University of Miami President Donna E. Shalala
Dean of the Division of Continuing and International Education
ADVISORY BOARD
- Eugene Anderson, Dean Business School, UM
- Pascal Goldschmidt, Dean Medical School, UM
- Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD, Chair Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director Center of Aging
- Elaine Van Der Put, PhD, MSPH, Chief Strategy Officer, UM
- Maria Currier, JD, Partner in Business Law Section , Holland and Knight Law Firm
- Aldo Defilippi, Executive Director, Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America
- Maria Lamas Shojaee, MBA, Director Special Projects, Trustee, UM
- Liane Ventura Guerra, Senior Vice President, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, International Business Development & Leadership Programs, Executive Director, Greater Miami Foreign Trade Zone
- Donna Arbide, UM Alumni Office
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
- Pedro Ruiz, MD, President, WPA, Vice-Chair of Clinical Psychiatry, University of Miami
- Sheri Keitz, MD, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Associate Vice President for Human Resources
- Linda Neider , Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Management , School of Business Administration
- Sylvia Gaviria, MD, Chief Department of Psychiatry, CES University, Medellin, Columbia
- Sherri L. Porcelain, Senior Lecturer, Global Public Health, Department of International Studies & Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami
- Patricia Abril, JD, Associate Professor of Business Law
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Nilda P. Peragallo Montano,
Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies
- Patricia D. White,
Dean and Professor of Law, UM
- Katy Sorenson, President & CEO, Good Government Initiative
- Celeste Schenk, President American University in Paris
- Ana Viamonte-Ros, MD, MPH, Director Medical Staff Development, Baptist Health International
- Penny Schaffer, Market President, BCBS
- Marta Rondon, MD,
President IAWMH
- Frances Sevilla-Sacasa,
CEO, Itau PrivateBank International
- Gabriela Cora, MD, MBA, Executive Health & Wealth Institute
FACILITATED EXPERT PANEL & WORKSHOP FACULTY
- Judith Schaechter, MD, MBA, Interim Chair Dept. of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine
- Sylvia Daunert, Ph.D., Pharm.D., M.S, Professor and Lucille P. Markey Chair, Associate Director, JT Macdonald Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UM
- Anita Cava, JD, Director, Business Ethics Program, Co-Director, Ethics Programs, Professor, Business Law
- Ana Campo, MD, Associate Dean for Student Affairs
- Hilit Mechaber, MD, FACP, Associate Dean for Student Services
- María-Teresa Lepeley, President, Global Institute for Quality Education, USA -Chile América Latina
- Aymee Valdivia, JD, Holland and Knight
- Onelia Lage, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Director of Adolescent Medical Education and Community Health
Florida Board of Medicine Member and Past Chair
- Merce Jorda, MD,Ph.D, MBA, Professor of Clinical Pathology, Medical Director CLS
- Zena Leah Harris, MD, Division Director, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine
- Sandra Upegui, Esq., Assistant General Counsel
- Tere Blanca, CEO, Blanca Commercial Real Estate
- Auza Yolanda, CEO, Unisys
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
- Jared Abramson, MBA, ViceChair of Administration, Department of Psychiatry
- Edison Sabala, MBA, MPH, Director Research Education
- Magaly Abreu, Finance Director, International Education
- David Lecon, Director Executive Education Programs, UM Business School
- Nanette Vega, Director of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
- Erica Arroyo, Senior Director, Alumni Programs, Office of Alumni Relations
- Shawn Rosen-Holtzman, Operations Manager, Baptist Health
- Desiree Young, M.P.A., Executive Director, Office of Professional Advancement- DCIE