DR. BOONCHAI KIJSANAYOTIN
Chair (Thailand)

Dr. Boonchai Kijsanayotin earned his medical degree from the Chulalongkorn University and Board Certified Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine from Thai Medical Council.

He spent 15 years working at rural public hospital as an internal medicine clinician. While he was working as a clinician in the hospital, he was also responsible for the Hospital Information System (HIS) and oversaw the hospital telemedicine station, one of Thai Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) Telemedicine project. In 2008, he received his MS. & Ph.D. in Health Informatics from University of Minnesota, USA.

Currently, he is the health informatician and research manager at Thai Health Information Standards Development Center (THIS), an affiliated agency of the Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI), Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. He is also the chair of the Asian eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), vice president of Thai Medical Informatics Association (TMI), International representative of TMI for International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), member of Thai Medical Council and Royal College of Physicians of Thailand.

His working areas and research interest include eHealth in developing country especially Thailand, National health data standards and interoperability, Health Information Exchange (HIE), Electronic Health Records (EHR), Socio-technical aspect of Health Information Technology and Health/biomedical informatics education in Thailand. His current work is the development of Thai Medicines Terminology (TMT), the semantic standard for Thai pharmaceutical products.

JAI GANESH UDAYASANKARAN
Executive Director (India)

Jai has over 20 years of experience in planning, procurement, implementation of a wide spectrum of enterprise digital health solutions including web-based Hospital Information Systems (HIS), Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS), telemedicine, tele-education, and chronic disease management portals.

He is a member of the Board of Global Digital Health Network (GDHN), Expert Committee of Global South eHealth Observatory from Fondation Pierre Fabre, Policy Circle of Transform Health Coalition, Task Force on Telehealth and Virtual Care (TVC) Standards of International Standards Organization (ISO), Health Informatics Sectional Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). He is an adjunct faculty at the Department of Health Information Management from Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India.

He has been a resource person for national Health Information Systems (HIS) strengthening and Digital Health Convergence Workshops facilitated by Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) together with the Ministry of Health and partners in South and South-East Asian regional countries.

DR. ALVIN MARCELO
Treasurer (Philippines)

Dr. Alvin Marcelo is a general and trauma surgeon by training who is currently the director of the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) and the managing director of the Standards and Interoperability Lab for Asia (SIL-Asia).

At the University of the Philippines Manila, Dr. Marcelo held various posts such as director of the National Telehealth Center and Chief of the Medical Informatics Unit. He co-established the Master of Science in Health Informatics program and conducted local and international research in the field of eHealth and health information systems development.

He took his postdoctoral fellowship in medical informatics at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland with research interests in telepathology, mobile computing, and bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE content. Dr. Marcelo is certified in the governance of enterprise IT (CGEIT), The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Archimate, and COBIT5 Implementation. Dr. Marcelo has previously held executive posts at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation and St. Luke’s Medical Center.

DR. FAZILAH SHAIK ALLAUDIN
Board Member (Malaysia)

With over 25 years of experience in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Fazilah is presently the Penang State Health Director. She is responsible for all health-related matters in the State from strategic planning, implementation of policies, monitoring, surveillance, and enforcement. Prior to this, she was the Senior Deputy Director of Planning Division. She has also held various leadership roles in MOH and hospital. A significant portion of her career has been in policy & strategy for health system transformation agenda, and project management mainly Hospital Information Systems.

For over a decade, she has been leading digital health & innovation strategies and collaborations both locally and internationally. She often represents Malaysia at regional and global platforms in digital health including ASEAN and WHO. She is also the general council member for Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN) for more than 10 years.

In her previous role, she led the nationwide EMR project and the national agenda of Lifetime Health Record. Additionally, she drove policy and regulatory framework development in digital health & innovation.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fazilah led multiple teams in infection prevention & control, occupational safety & health, patient safety and mortality review. She too advanced the digital agenda within the nation’s COVID-19 response.

Since Jan 2024, Dr. Fazilah is an elected member of the Malaysian Medical Council for a period of 3 years.

Dr. Fazilah holds an M.D. from the National University of Malaysia and an MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Toledo, Ohio. She is professionally certified in Enterprise Architecture (TOGAF 9.0) and in Governance & Management of Enterprise IT (COBIT 5.0).

ANIS FUAD
Board Member (Indonesia)

Anis Fuad is public health researcher and academician with strong interest on e-health. He has been involved in various projects, research and consultancies related to health informatics development and evaluation in Indonesia. He is affiliated to the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing of Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta. He is also the working council member and among the founders of AeHIN (Asia eHealth Information Network).