NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Dr. James Bernstein is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Eniware LLC based in Washington, D.C. A physician trained in thoracic, vascular and transplantation surgery, Bernstein has been the CEO of health care companies Noxilizer, Informax, Age Wave and General Health Inc. He was a senior researcher in the laboratory of Jonas Salk and served as chairman of President Carter’s health policy advisory group.
Dr. John B. Sampson is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He serves as the director of anesthesia for the Johns Hopkins Global Surgical Initiative’s Collaborative for Surgery, Obstetrics, Anesthesiology and Public Health and is also executive director of the Johns Hopkins Austere Anesthesia Health Outcomes Research Group. A neuroanesthesiologist, Sampson is founder and president of Doctors for United Medical Missions (DrUMM) and has taught and practiced medicine in eight countries outside of the U.S. He earned his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School, completed anesthesiology residencies at Howard University Hospital and the University of Mississippi Medical Center and also performed a critical care medicine fellowship at Florida’s Mayo Clinic Hospital.