Event: What the pandemic taught us that could help medics in Ukraine

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Sangeeta Bhagawati
  • DAUK News
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What the pandemic taught us that could help medics in Ukraine

Date and time:
Wed, 22 February 2023, 19:00 – 20:00 GMT, Online

As we mark the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine, this webinar will explain the remarkable story of how the lessons of the PPE crisis of the early stages of the COVID19 pandemic in 2020, helped us design novel ways of arranging medical supplies.

Frontline Live is a U.K. charity set up by entrepreneurs and medics with a mission to help deliver medical supplies to our colleagues in Ukraine in the most efficient manner way possible. Come join the webinar to hear an inspiring story born of the pandemic and now crystallised in helping those most in need in Ukraine.

This event is open to both Doctors Association U.K. members and others.

The fabulous speakers for this event are –

David Nicholl is the Clinical Lead for Neurology at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust where he has worked for over 20 years and is a committee member of the Doctors Association UK. He is the only medic amongst the Trustees of Frontline Live, and got involved when Frontline saw what they had learned from the first wave of the COVID pandemic. We looked to see where the same methods could be used in a different medical context, and then the war in Ukraine happened. he is a former winner of the BMJ Editors award for ‘Speaking Truth to Power’ Twitter @djnicholl

Katz Kiely is an award winning pioneer, digital transformation expert and culture architect. Over a 20 year career, she has world with the worlds biggest companies through lasting change including designing the first open innovation platform for HP, rearchitecting the way a UN agency works and prototyping a city scale behaviour change platform with Intel. She is now CEO of beep: a platform that embeds the mindsets and behaviours that drive customer centricity by unlocking the problem solving potential of people. She believes doing good is good business, is Chair of Trustees for Frontline.Live and a proud ambassador of the Burning Man Foundation.

Sacha Bunatyan is an advertising and marketing professional with over 20+ years of career in Global Publishing and Media businesses.Bunatyan is passionate about advancing the Ukrainian Victory by transporting humanitarian aid to support people on the ground in Ukraine and by assisting Ukrainian families here to assimilate while they are sheltering here in the UK.

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