Meet the editors

Stanislaw P. Stawicki, MD, MBA, FACS, FAIM, is Chair of the Department of Research of Innovation, St. Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Professor of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine. Dr. Stawicki has edited numerous books and book series on the topics of clinical research, medical education, medical leadership, patient safety, health security, and various other subjects. He is

a member of multiple editorial boards and has co-authored more than 650 publications. He served as the inaugural president of the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM) and directed its Taskforce on International Health Security. He has given a multitude of scientific presentations around the globe and is board certified in general surgery, surgical critical care, and neurocritical care.

Michael S Firstenberg, MD, FACC, FAIM, is a board-certified thoracic surgeon practicing adult cardiac surgery at The Medical Center of Aurora, Colorado, where he serves as Chief of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. He currently holds adjunct appointments in the Colleges of Medicine and Graduate Studies at Northeast Ohio Medical University and serves on the teaching faculty at Rocky Vista University, Colorado. He attended Case

Western Reserve University Medical School, received his general surgery training at university hospitals in Cleveland, and completed a fellowship in thoracic surgery at Ohio State University. He also obtained advanced training in heart failure surgical therapies at the Cleveland Clinic. He is an active member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (AATS), American College of Cardiology (ACC), and American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM), the latter for which he is a founding fellow and current president-elect. He currently serves as chairman of the American College of Cardiology Credentialing and Member Services Committee as well as an active member on several other national society committees. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. He has edited several textbooks on subjects such as medical leadership, patient safety, endocarditis, and extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, all of which include topics that he has lectured on worldwide.

Ricardo Izurieta, MD, DrPH, MPH, is Professor and Director of Global Communicable Diseases at College of Public Health and director of the Public Health Scholar Concentration at Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa. Dr. Izurieta received his MD from the Central University of Ecuador and carried out his postdoctoral training in Public Health and Tropical Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama

at Birmingham, Emory University, Atlanta, and Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Peru. In 1991, he faced the cholera epidemic that spread through Latin American countries as National Director of the Cholera Control Program in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador. In 1997, he was appointed Chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Director of the Vaccine Center of the Armed Forces of Ecuador. During his studies, he has been a USAID Thomas Jefferson Fellow, a PAHO Research Fellow, an ORISE/CDC Fellow, a Gorgas Memorial Institute Fellow, and a FUNDA-CYT Fellow. In 2003, Dr. Izurieta was elected vice president of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine and currently he is its Latin American Liaison. He has been a panel reviewer for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Wellcome Trust. He also served on the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM) Taskforce on International Health Security and as a consultant for the United Nations Global Water Pathogens Project as well as for the United Kingdom and the Brazilian Academies of Sciences.

Sagar C. Galwankar, MBBS, DNB, MPH, FAAEM, FAIM, graduated from Pune University, India, as a MBBS Allopathic Physician in 1995. He is residency trained and board certified in internal medicine and emergency medicine in India and the United States, respectively. He is a prestigious fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, UK, and completed a MPH with additional training in Business Management in the United States. His

Contents

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**Foreword III**

**Preface VII**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 69**

**Chapter 5 83**

**Chapter 6 105**

**Chapter 7 125**

*by Keith Conti, Shanaya Desai, Stanislaw P. Stawicki and Thomas J. Papadimos*

Health Security and the Refugee Crisis in Greece: The Refugee Perspective *by Thomas Papadimos, Scott Pappada, Michael Lyaker, James Papadimos* 

Introductory Chapter: International Health Security Expanded

*by Stanislaw P. Stawicki, Thomas J. Papadimos, Sagar Galwankar,* 

International Health Security: A Summative Assessment by ACAIM

*by Nicole K. Le, Manish Garg, Ricardo Izurieta, Sona M. Garg, Thomas J. Papadimos, Bonnie Arquilla, Andrew C. Miller, Abbas M. Khan, Tamara Worlton, Michael S. Firstenberg, Sagar Galwankar, Sunil Raina, Harry L. Anderson III,* 

*Rebecca Jeanmonod, Donald Jeanmonod, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, Kristiana Kaufmann, Juan A. Asensio and Stanislaw P. Stawicki*

The Impact of Systems of Care on International Health Security

The Evolving Interplay between Social Media and International

Ransomware and Academic International Medicine *by Andrew C. Miller, Abbas M. Khan and Sophia Ziad*

*Ricardo Izurieta and Michael S. Firstenberg*

*by Nicholas Reis and James Cipolla*

Health Security: A Point of View

A Moral Perspective on Refugee Healthcare *by Tanaya Sparkle and Debanshu Roy*

*and Andrew Casabianca*

academic experience over the last two decades includes consistent achievements and innovative strategies that have led to the creation of organizations, publication of landmark papers, and commendation with prestigious citations and honors for his works that have impacted academic medicine globally. He has played a defining role in founding and building internationally recognized interdisciplinary indexed journals. He is the CEO of the INDUSEM Health and Medicine Collaborative and heads the World Academic Council of Emergency Medicine (WACEM). Additionally, he serves as the Global Executive Director for the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM). He is the Director for Research in Emergency Medicine at Florida State University (FSU) and serves as a core faculty for the FSU Emergency Medicine Residency Program, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Florida.

Thomas J. Papadimos, MD, MPH, FCCM, FAIM, is Professor of Anesthesiology and Director, Anesthesiology Clinical Research Fellowship at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Papadimos co-authored hundreds of high-impact publications and co-edited several books on patient safety, leadership, medical education, and ethics. He also serves on several prestigious editorial boards. His multiple leadership

roles include active involvement in undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate medical education, as well as the vice presidency of the American College of Academic International Medicine (ACAIM). He is among the top US leaders in immersive medical simulation. He is a member of the Ohio State University Center for Ethics and Human Values and was awarded the 2020–2021 Fulbright Scholarship.
