Board of Advisors

The Trinity School of Medicine has enlisted the services of a distinguished group of medical educators and practitioners to provide oversight and guidance as we develop and deliver a medical education program that reflects the best thinking of our faculty, as informed by national and international trends and experts.

H. E. Sir Frederick Ballantyne, G.C.M.G., MD

His Excellency Sir Frederick Ballantyne bridges the relationship between the Trinity School of Medicine campus location (for the basic sciences) , the Island Nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, where the native Vincentian serves as Governor General, and the clinical campuses in the United States where our students will complete their clinical clerkships and enter into residency – and where Dr. Ballantyne completed his medical degree at Syracuse University School of Medicine and his internship, residency and fellowship in internal medicine/cardiology at the Rochester General Hospital in NY. His appointments and positions have included: Founder and President of the St. Vincent Heart Association; President of the Caribbean Medical and Educational Foundation, Inc., Assistant Director of the Windward Island Research and Education Foundation. His government appointments include: Chairman of the St. Vincent Medical Board; Member of St. Vincent Government Mercy Committee; and appointment by her majesty, Elizabeth II, the Queen of England, as Governor-General of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Other medical positions held during his career include: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostatis; Chief Medical Officer, St. Vincent; Assistant Dean of Clinical Studies, St George's University School of Medicine; Chief of Medicine and Medical Director, Milton Cato Memorial Hospital. Dr. Ballantyne also bridges the fields of medicine, government and business. His business enterprises include: Chairman and Co-owner of Young Island Resorts; Chairman of Ballantyne Enterprises, Limited; President of Dimethaid International Inc., The Barbados subsidiary of Dimethaid Research Inc., - a Canadian Pharmaceutical Company, and former President of the St. Vincent Cooperative Bank.

Dr. Ballantyne has been recognized and selected for honors through selection to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (G.C.M.G.) and he is currently a fellow of the International Academy of Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostatis.

Dr. Roy Schottenfeld

Dr. Roy S. Schottenfeld received his MD degree from the Medical College of Georgia Hospitals. Postgraduate training included an internship at the Medical College of Georgia Hospitals, a research fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at The John Hopkins Hospital. He was also a clinical fellow and instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology at The John Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Schottenfeld has received several awards for his research including the Stipend Award to Academy for Research in Otolaryngology and first prize from the Maryland Society of Otolaryngology Research Forum. He is a published author and has been in research on the efferent auditory system since 1985.

Dr. Manuel Suarez

Dr. Manuel Suarez represents a model for the successful Trinity School of Medicine graduate – himself a successful U.S. trained international medical school graduate (IMG). His clinical training, internships and fellowships have taken place in some of the best medical centers in the U.S., including St. Michael's Medical Center in Newark, NJ, the University of Miami Affiliated Hospitals: Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Miami and Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach. Dr. Suarez's unique life experience and understanding of the IMG provides special insight for the Trinity student. He brings with him board certifications in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care Medicine as well as certification in Age Management and radiologic technology. He has over 15 publications in prestigious journals including JAMA, Chest, and Archives of Internal Medicine.

As a member of the Program Advisory Board, Dr. Suarez brings more than 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. He employs a common-sense practical evidence-based medical approach, which we will impart to the successful Trinity student. It's an approach that will make the Trinity graduate competitive with any medical graduate in the world.

In addition to serving on the Program Advisory Board, Dr. Suarez has been selected to serve as the Dean of Clinical Sciences for Trinity – a position that will be fully operational in 2010, as the first cohort of students proceeds into the 3rd and 4th years of the medical curriculum. Dr. Suarez will lead the development effort of the new clinical curriculum – which will bring the art of medicine and the “best of the past” into the new electronic age of medicine as it is practiced today.