Medical Tourism Association Announces 1st Latin America Medical Tourism & Health Tourism Congress – April 26-28th, 2009

West Palm Beach, FL, February 14, 2009 --(PR.com)-- 1st Latin America Medical Tourism & Health Tourism Congress – April 26-28th, 2009.

The Medical Tourism Association and Monterrey Healthcare City have partnered together to create the 1st ever Medical Tourism and Health Tourism Conference for Latin America, which will take place April 26-28th, 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico.

The Medical Tourism conference will feature over 50 speakers and up to 400 attendees and 20 exhibitors.

The medical tourism conference and health tourism conference will focus on opportunities in medical tourism and health tourism to Latin America. Millions of Americans and Canadians are traveling to Latin America for high quality health and dental care.

The Speakers for the conference include:

Dr. Enrique Ruelas Barajas, Undersecretary Innovation and Quality Ministry of Health Mexico

Jose Natividad Gonzalez Paras, Constitutional Governor State of Nuevo Leon

Nubia Stella Martinez, VP for Tourism Proexport Colombia

Ing. Alejandro Paez Aragon, Secretario de Desarrollo Economico del Gobierno de Nuevo Leon

Jorge Woodbridge Gonzalez, Minister of Competitiveness Republic of Costa Rica

Dana Citron, Global Health Analyst with American International Group

Kemal Canlar, United Healthcare

Matt Leming, Swiss Reinsurance Company

Massimo Manzi, Executive Director, ProMed

Kimberly Smith, Assurant Health

Dr. Jesus Horacio Gonzalez Trevino, President Monterrey Healthcare

Dr. Jorge Cortes Rodriguez, Hospital Clinica Biblica

Ernesto Dieck-Assad, Hospital San Jose

Juan Brothers, Aero Mexico

Renee-Marie Stephano, Medical Tourism Association

Jonathan Edelheit, Medical Tourism Association

Saroja Mohanasundaram, Healthbase

Ross Pendergraft, LAHU

Luis Diego Osborne, Homewatch CareGivers

Wouter Hoeberechts, WorldMed Assist

Alex Piper, One World Global

Jeff Carter, Patients Without Borders

Brad Cook, Clinica Biblica

Thomas O’Hara, Surgical Trip

Jerry Turney, US Now

Mauricio Gojman, Nurses Now International

Dr. Rafael Lorenzana, El Salvador Medical

Jim Arriola, Sekure Healthcare

Peter Lozier, CMN

Cecile Billiet, Spa Med Holiday

Guillermo Gonzalez Prieto, Medical Tourism Association

Hector Xavier Martinez Sanchez, Sonora

David Vequist, University of the Incarnate Word

Jim Krampen, Seven Corners

Dr. Carlos Ramos Hinds, El Salvador

Chad Holloway, Global Health Solutions

Shai Gold, Global Triage

Stephen Weiner, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo

Irving Stackpole, Stackpole and Associates

The Medical Tourism Association is the first international non-profit association made up of the top international hospitals, healthcare providers, medical travel facilitators, insurance companies, and other affiliated companies and members with the common goal of promoting the highest level of quality of healthcare to patients in a global environment. Our Association promotes the interests of its healthcare provider and medical tourism facilitators members. The Medical Tourism Association has three tenets: Transparency, Communication and Education.

The Medical Tourism Association seeks to provide transparency in both quality of care and pricing. Every day we see more and more that the globalization of healthcare has created a very flat world. We exchange technology, information, communication, physicians and patients. In order to ensure patient safety, it is our goal to create a transparency about the quality of healthcare that can be found in each country. With this, it is increasingly important to create a transparency in pricing as well so patients traveling overseas for care can be sure of what they are receiving without hidden costs or unforeseen expenses. The Medical Tourism Association is also working on the Quality of Care Project, which will change the way we look at the reporting of global healthcare statistics and the quality of care available at hospitals around the world.

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