Video recording now available: Expert panel discussion on “Accessible Prosthetics in Gaza”.
Video recording now available: Expert panel discussion on “Accessible Prosthetics in Gaza”.
Founder of PCRF
Now on to building
Heal Palestine
Steve Sosebee is the founder of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund and ran the organization for more than thirty years. In January, 2024 he helped to start HEAL Palestine, a nonprofit dedicated to a holistic approach to the care of children in Gaza that provides them health, education, aid and leadership. He is married with four children and spends his time between Palestine and Ohio.
Director of MENA
International Medical Corps.
Dr. Ons Alkhadra is the Senior Director for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Affairs at International Medical Corps. In this role, Dr. Alkhadra works on business development with GCC governments, humanitarian agencies in the GCC, and philanthropists. Since assuming her role in 2014, she has initiated relationships with new partners and donors and raised over $60 million to support relief projects. Dr. Alkhadra has worked with program teams on project selection, design, and implementation to respond to humanitarian needs worldwide, including the Ukraine War, the COVID-19 pandemic, the crises in Gaza, Yemen, and Syria—including providing support to Syrian refugees in the Middle East—and the Nepal earthquake in 2015. In 2015, Dr. Alkhadra successfully negotiated with the GCC coalition to allow International Medical Corps to charter aid to Yemen during the blockade in April of that year. In addition, she successfully established a strategic relationship with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, the United Arab Emirates, and the government of Kuwait. Previously, Dr. Alkhadra supported the office of the Vice President for International Operations on the Middle East and Global Projects team. During that time, Dr. AlKhadra’s work focused on supporting International Medical Corps’ responses in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. She also supported the response to Typhoons Haiyan and Yolanda in the Philippines. In previous years, Dr. Alkhadra worked as an advisor at the Saudi Cultural Mission in the US, where she focused on capacity building of the dental workforce and creating collaborative agreements between the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education and academic institutions in the US. Dr. Alkhadra has a dental degree from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia and has an M.P.H. with a concentration in Global Health from George Mason University in the US. She was born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and lives with her husband and children in Amman, Jordan.
Major Trauma Director, Surgeon
Imperial College
Shehan Hettiaratchy is the Major Trauma Director at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College. He is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who specializes in all aspects of hand and wrist surgery and complex extremity reconstruction. He is a Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University.
Shehan studied medicine at Trinity College, Oxford, graduating in 1994 with prizes in both medicine and surgery and a blue in boxing. He underwent surgical training in London, USA and Australia. He obtained FRCS(Plast) in 2007 and has been on the GMC specialist register for plastic surgery since 2008. He has completed fellowships in microsurgery/extremity trauma reconstruction (Imperial), cosmetic surgery (Wellington Hospital) and hand/wrist surgery (Sydney). He has been a consultant at Imperial since 2009.
Shehan carried out a 3 year research fellowship in hand transplantation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, for which he was awarded a Doctorate of Medicine by Oxford University, a Hunterian Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Pulvertaft Prize by the British Society of Surgery of the Hand. He has authored over 100 papers, 2 textbooks and numerous book chapters and is lead for trauma research at Imperial. He spent four years as a Senior Lecturer at the Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defense Medicine.
Shehan was commissioned into The Parachute Regiment between leaving school and starting university. He has spent over 20 years as a reservist with the British Army, serving with Airborne Forces. He was deployed to Afghanistan twice and has also worked with civilian organizations in other war and disaster zones, most recently with UK-MED in Ukraine and Gaza. He set up and is National Clinical Director of NHS England’s veterans physical healthcare pathway, Op RESTORE and is NHS England’s National Specialty Advisor for Armed Forces.
Orthopedic Surgeon,
PCRF, Committee Head
Dr. AbdelRahman Marridi is a Palestinian orthopedic surgeon specializing in hand, wrist, peripheral nerves, and limb reconstructive microsurgery. He currently practices at the Multiple hospitals in the West Bank, Palestine. Dr. Marridi also serves as the head of the orthopedic committee for the Medical Advisory Board of the Palestine Children Relief Fund (PCRF). He is passionate about education and serves as a clinical lecturer in orthopedic surgery at Jerusalem University. Dr. Marridi is currently pursuing a diploma in upper and lower limb reconstructive microsurgery at the European School of Reconstructive Microsurgery at the University of Barcelona. Dr. Marridi has extensive experience and training in his field, having completed a fellowship in hand, peripheral nerve, and reconstructive microsurgery at Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, India. He has also trained with renowned surgeons in the United States and Europe. Dr. Marridi has been heavily involved in the management of war-related injuries in the West bank and Gaza for the last 13 years. He is an active member of the Palestinian Orthopedic Association, International Wrist Arthroscopy Society and International microsurgery club. He is a sought-after lecturer and has presented at conferences around the world. He is passionate about giving back to his community and has participated in volunteer medical missions to Gaza.
Co-Founder
Mafaz Medical
Ottobock Jordan
Co. Founder of MaFaZ for Prosthetics , Orthotics & Mobility Solutions
Exclusive Partner for Ottobock in Jordan
Bsc. Physical Therapist
MBA
National Clinical Specialist, CP
Bionic P&O
Anthony Gutierrez joined Bionic in 2015 and is committed to providing patients with prosthetic services that improve their mobility, limb health, and return to independence. He specializes in elevated vacuum prosthetic sockets to stabilize the limb and promote increased blood flow during prosthesis wear. In addition to his clinical practice, he is also involved with research on utilizing patient performance on functional tests to predict their activity level. He has presented this work at multiple national conferences and is currently collaborating with Rosalind Franklin University in North Chicago to explore this data further.
Tony lives in Crown Point and enjoys spending time with his wife, two daughters, and all other family and friends. He enjoys golfing, hunting, and cooking during his free time.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics Education from IUPUI, a Masters in Biomechanics from the University of Wisconsin, and he is a graduate of the Feinberg School of Prosthetics at Northwestern University.
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