Dr. Milana Boukhman Trounce
United States
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine; Founder and Director of BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience and Response

Breakout Session: Navigating the Perfect Storm

Dr. Milana Trounce currently serves as Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, as Director of BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience at Stanford, as well as Chair of BioSecurity of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). She advises nationally and internationally to businesses, investors and governments.

A teacher and innovator in the field of BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience since 2004, she directs Stanford BioSecurity, which facilitates the creation of interdisciplinary solutions by bringing together some of nation’s most eminent experts in biosecurity, pandemic resilience, public health, epidemiology, medicine, disaster management, policy, engineering, technology and business. She also founded and directs a diversity-focused Healthcare Leadership course at Stanford since 2016.

Previously, Dr. Trounce served as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco where she was the Medical Director of Disaster Response and served as a spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Trounce also served as a faculty member at Harvard University Medical School. She directed and oversaw execution of BioSecurity related international programs on behalf of the US State Department and worked closely with heads of international research and development organizations.

Dr. Trounce graduated from UC Berkeley where she was honored as the top undergraduate woman, received her MD from the University of California San Francisco and her MBA from Stanford. She completed her emergency medicine internship and residency at BI Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard and a fellowship in Disaster Medicine and Bioterrorism Response at Harvard.