Milana Boukhman Trounce, MD MBA, serves as the Founder and Director of BioSecurity and Pandemic Resilience and Response at Stanford University, where an interdisciplinary program has been established to tackle BioSecurity and resilience challenges. Milana teaches popular courses in BioSecurity and Healthcare Leadership and leads the COVID-19 Response Innovation Lab, mentoring students and faculty in developing solutions for pandemics. Milana is also a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and an expert in Risk and Resilience for the World Economic Forum. Previous experience includes leadership roles at the American College of Emergency Physicians, Harvard Medical School, and the United States Department of Defense. Milana holds an MBA from Stanford, an MD from UCSF, and has a BA from UC Berkeley, complemented by early training at the Odessa Ballet Academy.