Tourism Association (MTA), the first international nonprofit trade asso- ciation for the medical tourism industry. She also serves as the associa- tion’s general counsel and editor of theMedical Tourism Magazine, a bimonthly journal that addresses all issues surrounding medical tourism. Ms. Stephano is considered an expert on legal issues of medical tourism. She helps countries and hospitals create strategic marketing plans and identify target markets to achieve their goals of attracting foreign patients and international insurance companies. She works with global health care providers to maintain transparency with respect to quality of care as they increase their flow of patients; she also works with medical travel facilita- tors to establish best practices to ultimately ensure patient safety.
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enée-Marie Stephano is a founder and president of the Medical