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	The Right Hon. Lord Swinfen. Director Member of the House of Lords, Upper House of the United Kingdom Parliament, (elected hereditary peer) Takes an active interest in the work of Parliament, and now sits on Hybrid Bills Committee of the House of Lords, and Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills, United Kingdom Parliament 2010. Founded the Swinfen Charitable Trust, Reg.Charity no. 1077879 in 1998 and is a Director of the Trust, with his wife. Hon. research fellow of the Centre for Online Health (COH), the University of Queensland, Australia. 2002-2010 Co-author of a number of papers on telemedicine in the developing world. Member of the steering committee of the Catastrophes and Conflicts section of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. 2001- 2012 Member of the first MOET team (Management of Obstetric Emergency Trauma Team ) to visit Iraq in April 2004. Member of the board of directors of the American Telemedicine Association 2009-to date Member of the SIG (Special Interest Group [telemedicine outreach] of the American Telemedicine Association) 2008-to date United Kingdom patron of World Orthopaedic Concern. United Kingdom patron of the KunDe Foundation. United Kingdom patron of Char Bhanjyang Tamu Samaj UK. All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health. The Lady Swinfen, MBE Director Registered nurse (Retired) Co-founder and Director of the Swinfen Charitable Trust. Systems operator. Member of the steering committee of the Catastrophes and Conflicts section of the Royal Society of Medicine, London. 2001- 2012 Hon. research fellow of the Centre for Online Health (COH), the University of Queensland, Australia. 2002-2011 Co-author of a number of papers on telemedicine in the developing world. Member of the first MOET team (Management of Obstetric Emergency Trauma Team ) to visit Iraq in April 2004. Member of the SIG (Special Interest Group [telemedicine outreach] of the American Telemedicine Association) 2008-to date Awarded membership of the order of the British Empire (MBE) in the new year honours list, 2006 for services to Telemedicine overseas. United Kingdom patron of the KunDe Foundation. United Kingdom patron of Char Bhanjyang Tamu Samaj UK.
	Charles M H Colchester Trustee Born into a diplomatic family in 1950, educated at Dragon School, Radley and Magdalen College, Oxford ( BA Hon.). Charlie has lived in Turkey, Switzerland, Greece, France, Bahrain and London, UK. He is married to Serena, a GP , and they have six children. Charlie has had a business career in the Middle East and the UK sine 1972; he co- started CARE in 1983, one of the UK's leading social action and education organisations in which he worked for 25 years. In 2005 he founded the Office of International Diplomacy which operates globally. Charlie has been a Church Warden for various London churches for 35 years. He and his wife founded the Dolphin School Group of schools in Wandsworth in 1985. He is a Governor of the Doha International Family Institute, part of the Qatar Foundation.
	Charles Cox, OBE, TD, FRCS(Ed), FRCOG Trustee Is a full time practicing Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in the West Midlands and formerly a member of the military reserve with operational tours to Iraq and Afghanistan and shorter tours in Bosnia and Kosovo. He has taught emergency obstetric training in various countries including The Netherlands, the Baltic States and Russia, Iraq, Haiti, Bosnia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi and is joint author of three books on emergency obstetrics and gynaecology. Recent overseas obstetric assessments have been carried out in the Gambia and the Panjshir valley of Afghanistan.
	The Hon Mrs Katherine Davies Trustee Katherine trained at Edinburgh College ofArts, gaining a BA (Hons) in Drawing and Painting and has gone on to have a successful career as an Artist under her maiden name of Swinfen Eady. She specializes in Landscape and Still life, winning the William and Mary Armour Prize from the Paisley Art Institute in 2007. Katherine is married to a serving Army Officer and is a Settlor and a Trustee of the SCT since its inception in 1998 being involved on occasions with both fundraising and overseas work in Bangladesh for the charity.
	John V Dent, MBE Trustee Thirty year career in the Army, followed by positions as Director of Administration with two of Scotland's leading legal practices; eleven years with Dundas & Wilson, followed by four with Maclay Murray & Spens. Thereafter, an Independent Business Adviser specialising in providing support to small businesses through hand-holding and guidance in developing better management processes, focus on business issues and delivery. Company Director, Trustee of charities.
	The Hon. C R P S Eady Trustee A previous Chairman of the SCT for some years and currently based in Hong Kong. Charles Eady works in the Human Capital Consulting industry with a specific focus on the Insurance Sector in the Asia Pacific Region and Greater China. He has been involved in the Trust from it's inception and has travelled on behalf of the Charity to Bangladesh and Uzbekistan.
	Sir Anthony Figgis KVCO, CMG Trustee HM Diplomatic Service 1962-2000 (Ambassador to Austria 1996-2000). HM Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 2001-2008. Chairman, Royal Over-Seas League since 2009. Governor, Goodenough College for Overseas Graduates since 2004. President, Children and Families Across Borders (formerly International Social Service) 2001-2008.
	The Hon. Mrs C E A Mayo Trustee Major The Hon Mrs Arabella Mayo is a serving Army Officer specialising in Human Resources. Married to Lt. Col. Charles Mayo, also in the British Army. In a previous life she set up and managed a succesful equestrian centre and currently juggles service life with caring for her husband and two teenage children and competing in equestrian competitions as often as possible. She has been involved with the Trust from it's inception and has travelled on behalf of the Charity to Nepal.
	Professor Karen Rheuban Trustee Dr. Karen Schulder Rheuban serves as Professor of Pediatrics, Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs and Continuing Medical Education and Director of the Center for Telehealth at the University of Virginia. As a pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Rheuban provides care to patients with congenital and acquired heart disease. Dr. Rheuban is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Telemedicine Association. She is listed in the "Best Doctors in America" database, and was profiled in the National Library of Medicine's exhibit "Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians." Dr. Rheuban is a past President of the American Telemedicine Association, a board member of the Center for Telehealth and E-Health Law, and she is the President of the Virginia Telehealth Network. She is a trustee of the Swinfen Charitable Trust and consultant to the Trust. She has previously presented Congressional testimony regarding telehealth before the US House of Representatives. Appointed to the board of MEDICAID in the U.S.A by the Governor of Virginia, December 2012.
	Professor Jim M Ryan OBE, OStJ, MB, BCh, BAO, MCh, FRCS, DMCC, Hon FCEM Trustee Jim Ryan was the first Leonard Cheshire Professor in Conflict Recovery at the Department of Surgery, University College London, serving in that capacity from 1995 until 2007. In 2002 he was appointed International Professor of Surgery at the United Services University for the Health Sciences in Maryland, USA. In 2007 he was further appointed Emeritus Professor to the newly established Centre for Trauma, Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine at St George's University of London. He is tasked with advising on the establishment and evolution of the new Centre at SGUL.
	Major General Dr Duncan L Macphie Hon Medical Adviser to the Trust Executive Director of St. John's Ambulance 1994-95. Regimental Medical Officer, 1st Bn The Royal Scots 1958-61. Commanding Officer, British Military Hospital Dharan Nepal 1970-72. Comdr Medical British Army of the Rhine 1987-1990.
	Sharon Checksfield Fundraiser/Administrator Previous to working for SCT I have been a Department Retail Manager in BHS, Debenhams and Ricemans. I held a position of Retail Fundraising Manager for Barnardos for almost 10 years. In taking time out to have my two children I achieved A RSA NCVQ Assessor Award, A Distinction in ABC Computer Literacy and Information Technology Award and a Diploma in OCR Level 1 Bookkeeping. I joined SCT as a Fundraiser/Administrator in 2007 and was part of the team that help set up the new medical clinic in Khalte Nepal.
	Mrs Anne Pontuso Systems Operator, USA I have 40 years experience as a registered nurse. I recently retired from University of Virginia Medical Centre, Charlottes Ville, where I worked as a nurse for 33 years. Most of my career was spent in critical care with a specialty in cardiology. I teach and lecture on EKG interpretation. I spent 6 weeks with Project Hope in Kazakhstan teaching cardiac monitoring. I am a member of the Preventative Cardiovascular Nurses Association. I am now working part time doing Anaesthesia Screening and working for SCT as a systems operator.
	Mrs Robyn Carr Systems Operator, New Zealand Robyn Carr, in New Zealand, a retired nurse with many years working in Nurse Informatics – Past World President of the International Informatics Association – is one of our three Systems Operators on duty 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. One referral she handled from a remote part of Papua New Guinea provided the referring medic with specialist advice in just 9 minutes.

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