Sumeet S. Chugh, MD Cedar Sinai Hospital, USA Dr. Chugh is the Pauline and Harold Price Professor, Associate Director of the Smidt Heart Institute, Medical Director of the Heart Rhythm Center and Director of the Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles. He also serves as Director of the Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in the Dept. of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai. The Heart Rhythm Center at the Smidt is a clinical, teaching, and research operation that involves over 100 staff, trainees and personnel.

Dr. Susianto Tseng Doctor of Public Health Nutrition Dr. Susianto Tseng is a Doctor of Public Health Nutrition (Universitas Indonesia). He is the President of World Vegan Organisation (WVO) & Vegan Society of Indonesia (VSI). Dr. Susianto is a popular vegan figure in Indonesia and Internationally, and has spearheaded the vegan movement in Southeast Asia’s largest nation. A nutritionist, educator, he is also a researcher and a successful businessman. Dr. Susianto is the first in the world to produce tempeh in powder form, which is marketed in Indonesia and other neighbouring countries.

Chin Lon Lin, MD CEO of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Dr. Chin Lon Lin has been the CEO of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation since 2008. Upon graduation from the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University in 1968, he served as a primary physician in the Chinese army from 1968-69. He then began his residency in internal medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital from 1969-70, and went on to rotate as an intern at the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens from 1970-71. He finished his residency in internal medicine training in Brooklyn from 1971-74. Then, he became a fellow in cardiology in the same hospital from 1974-76 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in New York in 1984. After his fellowship, Dr. Lin became an instructor in medicine at SUNY Stony Brook for a year. In 1977, he began as an attending physician at the Northridge Hospital Medical Center, and continued for eighteen years. His next endeavor led him to Vice President of the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan. While serving as Vice President, Dr. Lin became CEO for the Tzu Chi International Medical Association in 1998. Besides his medical expertise, Dr. Lin also has published over fifty articles on topics in medicine.

An Liem Liong, MD, Ph.D., FIPP Maastricht University,UM · Pain Management Dr Liem was born in Leiden, The Netherlands. He graduates from the Free University College of Medicine in Amsterdam. He completed his residency in anesthesiology, intensive care, and pain management at the St. Antonius Hospital in Utrecht. He is board certified in anesthesiology as well as pain medicine by the Dutch Society of Anesthesiology. Dr. Liem is a Fellow of International Pain Practice according to the World Institute of Pain and was the founder and president of the Benelux Neuromodulation Society. He has been Treasurer of the International Neuromodulation Society and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Neuromodulation. He has been the principal investigator on several clinical trials and is participating in international consensus and appropriateness boards on pain and spasticity. In 2010, Dr. Liem received the Sam Hassenbusch Prize in Budapest. Over the last years, he has focused on completing his scientific work on stimulation of the dorsal root ganglion for the treatment of chronic pain and obtained his Doctorate of Philosophy at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam in January 2016.

Dr. Ruth Oni Anggraini, MARS TIMA Indonesia Dr. Ruth graduated from Tarumanagara University in Jakarta, Indonesia. She has joined Tzu Chi and TIMA since 2002, and she’s currently actively involved in Tzu Chi’s social service, especially if there’s a natural disaster. She serves in TIMA as a Coordinator of Social Services, Disaster and Incidental Emergency.

Ir. Budi Gunadi Sadikin, CHFC, CLU Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia Born in Bogor on May 6, 1964, Budi Gunadi Sadikin was appointed as Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia on December 23, 2020. Previously, he served as Deputy Minister of State Owned Enterprises since November 2019. As a Deputy Minister whose in charge of State Owned Enterprises (BUMN) in Health and Pharmaceuticals, he was actively involved in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic by opening international networks and mobilizing domestic resources to procure PCR test kits, COVID vaccines along with vaccine delivery and distribution systems, as well as procurement of therapeutic drugs of COVID-19. He also plays an active role in handling COVID-19 by monitoring and managing 70 state-owned hospitals. Budi Gunadi Sadikin earned his bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Physics from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 1988, University of Washington, Chartered Financial Consultant (CHFC), and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) Certification from the Singapore Insurance Institute in 2004.

Sugianto Kusuma CEO of Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Indonesia Sugianto Kusuma currently serves as CEO of Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Indonesia as well as Vice Chairman of The Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Indonesia. He was born in Palembang, on January 10, 1951, Sugianto has successfully managed several projects in Indonesia. Starting from housing, offices, and apartments, to commercial and industrial areas, he has succeeded in developing them into new economic centers that support the surrounding areas. In the beginning, he was invited to support Tzu Chi’s plan to build houses for residents living on the banks of Kali Angke which were affected by the flood and were about to be relocated. As an entrepreneur in the property sector, this house construction plan sounded very easy to him, so Sugianto immediately agreed. When he went to meet Master Cheng Yen with other Indonesian Tzu Chi volunteers, he always answered “No problem” to the various tasks that were put to him. So he was known as “Mr. No Problem”.