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Ana Paula Ribeiro is a graduate in Physical Therapy and has completed his Ph.D by the University of Sao Paulo, School of Medicine, Sao Paulo/SP, Brazil, which also is conducting Post-Doctoral studies at the same University. She is a Researcher and Professor, Program of Post-Graduation in Heath Sciences and Professor at the School of Physiotherapy, University Santo Amaro, SP, Brazil, and Coordinator of the Laboratory of Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Musculoskeletal with emphasis on research in the areas: Orthopedics, Sports injuries, Running and Gait Biomechanics, musculoskeletal disorders of the knee, ankle and foot (plantar fasciitis, knee osteoarthritis), and Corporal Posture and biomechanical changes in pregnant.

Physiotherapy

Tamaki Nakano received his BSc (1986), MSc (1988), and PhD (1991) degrees from Osaka University, Japan. He joined Nagoya University as an Assistant Professor (Prof. Yoshio Okamoto’s group) in 1990 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1998. During his appointment at Nagoya University, he also served as a visiting scientist at Cornell University Sogah, 1993–1994). In 1999,he moved to Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) as an Associate Professor. He was appointed as a Professor of Hokkaido University in 2006 and is currently supervising his research group at Institute for Catalysis.

Catalysis

Dr. Seungryong Cho is an Associate Professor of the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering in KAIST, Korea. He is in charge of departmental education and research of radiation applications in medical imaging and radiation therapy. He graduated from The University of Chicago in 2009 and received his doctoral degree in medical physics from the Committee on Medical Physics.He received Dean’s fellowship, Viborney Journal Club Award, and Hodges Research Award from The Univ. Chicago, a DOD predoc trainee fellowship from the US Department of Defense, Trainees Awards from several communities such as AAPM, IEEE, and SPIE during his PhD study.He received Best Lecture Award from KAIST in 2013, one of the top reviewers award from PMB in 2014.

His research interests include radiation applications in medical imaging and radiation therapy.

Jose Costa, M.D., is Professor of Pathology and Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. A graduate of Barcelona Medical School, Dr. Costa trained in Anatomical Pathology at Colorado University (G.B. Pierce) and Washington University (P. Lacy; L.V. Ackerman). He went on to do research as a Fogarty International Fellow (1973) in the laboratory of A.S. Rabson at NCI, were he stayed to eventually become the Anatomical Pathology Branch Chief at the Clinical Center, NIH Bethesda, MD. Elected to a Chair in Pathology at the University of Lausanne (1982), he directed between 1983 and 1993 the Institut Universitaire de Patologie, developing a program of advanced diagnostics and collaborating both with the ISREC and the Lausanne Branch of the Ludwig Institute.

Bone Neoplasms; Medical Oncology; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Orthopedics; Pathology; Molecular Diagnostic Techniques; Translational Medical Research

Diploma in Laparoscopic Surgery: University of Paul Sabatier –Lille / France in year 1998 Diploma in General Surgery: American University of Beirut in year 2001. Member in the EAES in the year 2003. Clinical Instructor in the Arabic University of Beirut since year 2005. Diploma in Hepato-biliary and transplant surgery : University of Paris -6- / France in year 2003 Fellow in the American college of Surgeons since year 2011

Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, Endoscopic Surgery

He received his B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University; MBA from Bilkent University; and Ph.D. in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has been active both in academic and professional fields for several years as a project manager in overseas; as a strategic planning and business development director; and as an operations improvement program manager. During the same periods, he has been lecturing in the Business Schools and/or Industrial Engineering Departments of well-known Universities. Currently, he is acting as the affiliates of several US companies in industrial management and engineering consulting and training fields. Additionally, he is the president of Institute of Industrial Engineers – Turkish professional chapter; and board member of Institute of High Performance Planners in Kansas City. During his career path, he has participated in several projects. Plus, he has several publications and books (especially in Operations Management and Improvement and Strategic Planning).

Operations Management and Improvement and Strategic Planning

Prof. Syed Imtiaz Ali Shah (a nationally and internationally well known scholar/researcher of Pakistan origin) was born on 1-1-1959 at Larkana, Sindh, Pakistan. Qualified MBBS with distinction in 1980 from Chandka Medical College/ University of Sindh, Pakistan. He passed Fellowship Examination of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan and was elected as Fellow in Ophthalmology (FCPS) in 1987. He has 40 published research papers and numerous scientific presentations to his credit. He is author of well known textbook of Clinical Ophthalmology "Concise Ophthalmology for Medical Students" (ISBN: 978-969-637-001-7). He is inventor of instruments like "Imtiaz zigzag device" for visual acuity testing of preverbal children. He has added new physical signs like "Imtiaz sign in Vitamin A deficiency" in clinical ophthalmology. He has described new clinical entities and has modified some operative procedures like phaco, entropion with better prognosis. He has received several National and International Awards including OSP (Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan) Gold Medal, Noval Christy Gold Medal and Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology's (APAO) Award 2010 for outstanding services in Prevention of blindness in Asia Pacific region. He is member of editorial boards of numerous internationally reputed journals of ophthalmology. He has acted as scientific evaluator of international conferences representing Pakistan. He is examiner of postgraduate examinations (Membership, Fellowship and Masters) in Pakistan and Southeast Asian countries. He has chaired seats of Dean Faculty of Surgery and Allied Sciences and Director Academics at SMBB Medical University Larkana, Pakistan. Presently he is working as Professor of Ophthalmology at SMBB Medical University Larkana, Pakistan.

clinical entities like phaco, entropion with better prognosis.

Adnan Sabir is currently employed by Kowa Pharmaceuticals of America, leading QA CMC activities. Previously he was a Principal Consultant and Founder of his business “Pharma Consulting Services, Inc. (PCS)”. He has more than 30 years of hands-on and management experience and a proven track record for formulation and process development for brand and generic products approved by FDA and other agencies globally.

Quality by Design (QbD), Process Analytical Technology (PAT), Quality Risk Management (QRM), and establishing Design Space.

Dr. Lucio Maci did his Diploma in High School Calasanzio of Campi Salentina (LE) Later his Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Padua. After completion of Bachelor’s he did Master’s Specialization in Otorhinolaryngology in the same University with the score 70/70 and praise. After his Master’s he worked as Consultant O.R.L. Centres Medico-Legal I.N.A.I.L. Brindisi and Lecce. Later he worked at Consultant O.R.L. A.S.L.LE/1. In his professional career he attended as Speaker at 12 National Congresses and 1 in France. Due to his enthusiastic nature and interest in research has authored and published numerous articles devoted mostly to accidents and occupational diseases to the district ORL.

Otorhinolaryngology

Dr. David Clark specializes in treating critically ill newborns and premature babies. His areas of focus include treating infections, perinatal difficulties, congenital anomalies, and consultation of high-risk fetuses.

Neonatology

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Dr. Willingham graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2001. He works in Atlanta, GA and specializes in Gastroenterology. Dr. Willingham is affiliated with Emory University Hospital.

colonoscopy, endoscopy,gallbladder disease,gastroesophageal reflux, gastrointestinal bleed, gastrointestinal motility, gastrointestinal tumors

Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Novi Sad, Honorary Member For International Sunflower Association.

Agricultural engineering , genetic plant

Head of Urology , nephrology and Dialysis Departments in Ajman Speciality General Hospital - UAE

Urology , Nephrology and Dialysis

Graduated in Mechanic Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará UFC in 1985, Master degree in 1990 and DSc in 1994 in Materials Science and Engineering at the Federal University of São Carlos, SP/Brazil (UFSCar). Became associated professor at the Chemical Engineering Department at Federal University of Paraná in 1995 and Full Professor since 2016. Coordinator of the Surfaces Electrochemistry and Corrosion Laboratory – LESC and of the Environmental Technology Laboratory - LTA

Materials Science and Engineering

Dr. Ravid Doron is a Senior lecturer at the Education and psychology department in The Open University of Israel. He joined the faculty in October 2019. Prior to this appointment, He was a Senior lecturer in the Academic college of Tel Aviv Jaffa in Israel in addition to the position of Courses Coordinator of Honor student in Psycho biology and psychology and behavior that held since 2001 in the Open University. His current laboratory focuses on develop novel herbal treatments for depression and anxiety disorders based on herbal medicines. We use animal models, and investigate the behavioral, peripheral and brain biological mechanism underlying depression and anxiety. My overall goal is to pursue research that aims to deepen our understanding on the development of psychiatric diseases, in order to generate a significant impact through translating ideas into clinical reality.

Develop novel herbal treatments for depression and anxiety disorders based on herbal medicines; Deepen our understanding on the development of psychiatric diseases, in order to generate a significant impact through translating ideas into clinical reality; Using animal models, investigate the behavioral, peripheral and brain biological mechanism underlying depression and anxiety.

Dr. Salah Rubayi is the Chair of Surgery and Chief of Pressure Ulcer Management Program at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and International College of Surgeons (FICS) and member of all the spinal injury organizations in the United States and Europe. At the University of Southern California, Dr. Rubayi is a Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and the Division of Plastic Surgery at UCLA. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. He has published many articles in regards to the plastic reconstructive surgery of pressure ulcers in spinal cord injury patients, including a textbook in reconstructive surgery of pressure ulcers, which was published in 2015 by Springer. His research interests include spinal cord injury and pressure ulcer management & prevention.

Plastic Surgery,Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery

Qiuping Zhang has her expertise in nesprin family research in cardiovascular biology field, specifically on understanding the complex roles of nesprin-1 and -2, family members of multi-isomeric scaffolding proteins, in regulating normal and pathological processes in the heart and muscle. She has extensive studies on the role of nesprins in myoblast differentiation and function as well as mutations in nesprin-1 or -2 in association with Emery Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy. Her current research is focusing on defining the roles of nesprins in cardiac cell function by determining the functional significance of novel nesprin-1 and -2 mutations on the linker of nucleoskeleton-and-cytoskeleton complex that connects the nuclear envelope to the actin cytoskeleton, and also identifying novel roles for nesprins in the sarcomere. This may reveal novel pathways that contribute to the development of cardiac cell dysfunction and cardiomyopathy.

cardiovascular biology, cardiomyopathy, nesprin

Antonio Bevilacqua is a Senior Researcher in Microbiology in the laboratory of Predictive Microbiology, Department of the Science of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Foggia (Italy), and Lecturer in Food Microbiology and Biotechnology in the same Department. He got a MSc in Food Science and a PhD in Food Biotechnology. His research topics include Predictive Microbiology and Applied Statistics, use of antimicrobials and non-conventional approaches to prolong the shelf life of foods and control pathogens, isolation and characterization of starter and probiotic cultures from foods (yeasts and bacteria), bioremediation and reduction of harmful compounds by mean of microorganisms. He was awarded as the Best Italian Researcher in Agro-Food Microbiology in 2016 and is member of the Editorial Board of some WoS journals.

Senior Researcher in Microbiology

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Structural and functional studies of antiviral drug toxicity Antiviral drugs based on nucleoside analogs are effective inhibitors for viral reverse transcriptase and RNA polymerase, thus have been successfully used in treating HIV and HCV infections. With prolonged patients life span, the success of the drugs now has to be balanced with their drug toxicity. One of the major target of nucleoside analogs is human mitochondrial DNA polymerase, Pol Y. Because drug efficacy is not completely correlated with drug toxicity, we believe there is exploitable difference in designing potent, low toxic antiviral reagents. To reveal the structural differences between viral target protein and human adverse reaction target, we embarked on structural and functional studies of replicating human mitochondrial DNA polymerase or stalled by antiviral drugs. My laboratory determined the first crystal structures of human Pol Y holoenzyme. Recently, we determined structures of ternary complex of Pol Y-DNA with a substrate or an antiHIV reagent, zalcitabine, lamivudine or emtricitabine. These structures provided unprecedented insight in Pol Y mediated antiviral drug toxicity. As Pol Y mutations are associated with multisystem disorders, the structures have been widely used by basic scientists as well as clinicians to understand the detrimental effects of the mutations.

Tony Velkov is a principal research fellow & NHMRC CDF Level 2 Industry fellow. He is currently pursuing his research as an associate professor in Pharmacology & Therapeutics in the University of Melbourne.

From breast cancer to antimicrobial: Combating extremely-resistant Gram-negative superbugs using novel combinations of polymyxin B with selective estrogen receptor modulators

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He spent the past 6 years developing Cold Therapy: a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with dozens of volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

Personality disorders

Dr.Rudolf SCHIESSEL has been a Professor of Surgery at Österreichische Gesellschaft für Chirurgie, Organisation Located at Austria

Pathophysiology of the gastrointestinal tract, Surgical Oncology,Sphinktererhaltung and Sphinkterersatz in rectal

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1. Biomaterials 2. Tissue Engineering 3. Nanomedicine 4. Drug and Gene Delivery 5. Biomedical Nanotechnology 6. Biochemical Engineering

Vincent C. Hascall, Jr. was born in Burwell, Nebraska in 1940. He attended the California Institute of Technology and earned a B.S. in 1962. After graduating he enrolled at Rockefeller University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1969. While at Rockefeller, Hascall met Alan Kapuler who had won a Westinghouse Prize in high school for using a new method for meristem cultures on an orchid species. As a result Kapuler was taken to Bogota, Colombia to learn how specimens were collected and preserved.Hascall is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a position he has held since 1995. He also received the NIH Merit Award in 1979, was President of the Society for Complex Carbohydrates in 1987, and was awarded the Karl Meyer Award for Glycoconjugate Research from the Society for Complex Carbohydrates in 1992.

His research area includes Chemistry and metabolism of macromolecules,Proteoglycans and Orchids,Proteinpolysaccharide Complex from Bovine Nasal Cartilage and Aggregation of Cartilage Proteoglycans.

Vincent C. Hascall, Jr. was born in Burwell, Nebraska in 1940. He attended the California Institute of Technology and earned a B.S. in 1962. After graduating he enrolled at Rockefeller University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1969. While at Rockefeller, Hascall met Alan Kapuler who had won a Westinghouse Prize in high school for using a new method for meristem cultures on an orchid species. As a result Kapuler was taken to Bogota, Colombia to learn how specimens were collected and preserved.Hascall is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a position he has held since 1995. He also received the NIH Merit Award in 1979, was President of the Society for Complex Carbohydrates in 1987, and was awarded the Karl Meyer Award for Glycoconjugate Research from the Society for Complex Carbohydrates in 1992.

His research area includes Chemistry and metabolism of macromolecules,Proteoglycans and Orchids,Proteinpolysaccharide Complex from Bovine Nasal Cartilage and Aggregation of Cartilage Proteoglycans.

Yong-Xiao Wang has been a Full Professor in Albany Medical College (USA) since 2006. Dr. Wang has had extensive research experience in basic, translational and drug research concerning pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiac arrhythmia for over 30 years. As the Principal Investigator, he has/had numerous NIH R01 research awards, AHA Established Investigator Award, and various other grants, for which he often holds/ held NIH R01 grants with other awards each year. As the corresponding author, first author and key contributor, he has had numerous publications in highly peerreviewed journals including Antioxid Redox Signal (impact factor: 8.209), Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (9.432), Nature (34.480), Circ Res (9.214), etc. Dr. Wang has been the editor of academic books in the field including one entitled by “Redox Signaling in Health and Disease Pulmonary Vasculature” that was published by Springer (New York) last fall. Dr. Wang has also served as the editorial board member and/or section editor for the Clinical and Translational Medicine, Pulmonary Circulation and several other journals.

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiac arrhythmia

Dr. Ashish Khanna has expertise in Teaching, Entrepreneurship, and Research & Development with specialization in Computer Science Engineering Subjects. He received his Ph.D. degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra in March 2017. He has completed his M. Tech. in 2009 and B. Tech. from GGSIPU, Delhi in 2004. He has completed his PDF from Internet of Things Lab at Inatel, Brazil. He has around 70 accepted and published research papers and book chapters in reputed SCI, Scopus journals, conferences and reputed book series including 33 papers in SCI indexed Journals of Springer, Elsevier, IEEE, Wiley Journals. Additionally, He has authored, edited and editing 19 books for some of the top publishers like Springer, Wiley, Elsevier and many more. He is Series Editor in a top publishing house De Gruyter (Germany) of "Intelligent Biomedical Data Analysis" series. Furthermore he has served the research field as a Faculty Resource Person/Session Chair/Reviewer/TPC member in various conferences and journals. He has received the best paper award in a Springer international conference. He also has been invited as Keynote Speaker. His research interest includes Distributed Systems and its variants (MANET, FANET, VANET, IoT), Machine learning, Evolutionary computing and many more. He is currently working at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, under GGSIPU, Delhi, India. He is convener and organizer of ICICC-2018, 2019 and 2020 Springer conference. He played key role in the origination of a reputed publishing house “Bhavya Books” having 250 solution books and around 60 text books. He is also originator of a research unit under the banner of “Universal Innovator”. He has designed question papers for multiple government organizations. He has also played the key role in promoting Smart India Hackathon at MAIT. He also serves as guest editor in various reputed International journals of Wiley, Inderscience, IGI Global, Bentham science and many more. He is also currently editing some books of Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press and Wiley which will be published soon. His Cumulative Impact Factor (CIF) is around 90

Distributed Systems and its Variants, Fault tolerance, Distributed Computing, Ad hoc Networks, VANETs, Sensor Networks, Cloud Computing, Sensor Networks, Grid computing, Peer to peer Networks, Machine learning, Big Data, Data Mining

Prof. Dr. Adriaan S. Luyt started his academic career in 1984 as a Senior Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at the Potchefstroom University (now the University of the North-West) in South Africa. In 1991 he moved to Vista University in South Africa as an Associate-Professor, and in 1993 he accepted a post as Professor at the Qwaqwa Campus of the University of the North (now part of the University of the Free State), also in South Africa. During 2014 he joined Qatar University as a Research Associate-Professor, and in 2017 he was promoted to Research Professor at the same university. His research focuses on the morphology-property relationships of polymer blends, composites and nanocomposites, and he successfully supervised 46 masters and Ph.D. students and 11 postdoctoral research fellows, and currently he supervises four PhD and two masters students. He published 225 papers in international journals and four book chapters. His publications have been cited more than 4000 times, and he has an h-index of 34. He and his students presented their work at numerous conferences across the world. In 2018 he received the Qatar University Research Excellence Award in the Sciences and Engineering category.

Morphology-Property Relationships of Polymer Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites

Dr Jens M Warnecke is a Senior scientist at EUROIMMUN AG, an international provider of medical laboratory products for the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases, infections and allergies, and for molecular analyses. He is responsible for planning, set-up and conduct of validation studies for newly developed products in the field of infectious diseases. As a Senior Scientist he is responsible for scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and scientific presentations in the field of infectious diseases.

Dr Warnecke received his degree in Biochemistry from the Free University of Berlin in 1993 with a Diploma thesis in experimental oncology. He continued his academic training by investigating the enzymatic mechanisms of catalytic RNA molecules in Berlin and Lübeck and finished his PhD thesis with distinction in 1998. He spent his postdoc time at the private University Witten/Herdecke, investigating RNA-Protein interactions. After a second postdoc with Altana Pharma he was appointed as lecturer for molecular tumour biology in the Master degree course Molecular Life Sciences at the Medical University of Lübeck. With his research group he entered the field of tumour diagnostics, exploring the possibilities and functions of extracellular nucleic acids in body fluids. In 2008 he left academia to work as responsible Project Manager in phase II clinical trials in the field of oncology until end of 2013 before joining EUROIMMUN AG. Jens Warnecke has profound experience as a peer reviewer of scientific journals and is author of many scientific publications. He has a strong background in reviewing and designing pivotal studies.

Dr Russo is cardiac surgeon and a health care executive. Currently, is the Sr VP, Medical Affairs at HVH Analytics. In addition he is Consultant for One Home Care Solutions, managing 500,000 lives (Human delegation) in South FL and seats on the advisory board of several companies, including Datycs (www.datycs.com) that offers advanced NLP and ML solutions From November 2017 to June 2019 he was the CMO at BehaveCare (www.BehaveCare.us), a Population Health Management Organization that manages high cost, high risk, high need patients, From 6/2016 to 11/2017 I was VP of Health Services and Medicare Designated Medical Director at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Boston, responsible for medical cost management (including developing bundles) and oversight of UM, network medical management, medical policies, advanced disease management programs. He was also Lecturer at Harvard MS and Council Chair and Board member of the MHQP (http://www.mhqp.org/). He designed an advanced disease management program for HPHC/ Medicare members (care at home, comprehensive medication management, remote monitoring, virtual visits, and palliative care). He supported two "Hospital at Home" programs and collaborated with several Informatics team in developing predictive analytics to facilitate risk adjusted interventions. From October 2007 to March 2016, he was Medical Director at IBC, Philadelphia, where he also designed a DM program for HF, (predictive analytics, RPM, and bundled payments for SNF). From 1988 to 2007, Dr Russo held academic, clinical and administrative leadership positions in CT surgery and Heart Transplantation in Philadelphia and at the University of Missouri, and he taught a health management course for an MBA program offered by WSB/ISB. Dr Russo, is author a coauthor of more than 55 peer publications and more than 100 meeting abstracts.

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Monica BUTNARIU is a chemist, a graduate of West University of Timisoara, has completed his PhD with title “Researches on the heavy metals content in the Banat’s soils and the consequences on the environment” and postdoctoral Studies: "Formulation and evaluation of dermato–cosmetic products". She is the habilitated doctor of the University of Cluj Napoca. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals (41 publications in journals with Impact Factor and indexed in Thomson Reuters from Web of Science Core Collection) and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Biotechnology,Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry, Food Sciences,

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Bologna, Italy Diploma of specialization in Orthopaedics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Bologna Diploma of specialization in Biomedical Technology at the same Faculty From January 18th to March 14th, 1988 Full-time internal medical doctor working in public assistance in the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the G.B.Morgagni Hospital in Forlì, Italy From June 21st 1988 to January 6th 1991 Full-time confirmed internal medical doctor working in public assistance in the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the G.B.Morgagni Hospital in Forlì, Italy From January 7th 1991 to December 12th, 1994 Full-time confirmed internal medical doctor working in public assistance in the Spine Surgery Department of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy From December 20th, 1994 to December 19th, 1995 Full-time locum manager, 1st level, in the Spine Surgery Department of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy From December 20th, 1995 to April 2000 Full-time confirmed manager, 1st level, in the Spine Surgery Department of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy From April 5th, 2000 to September 30th, 2002 Locum Head of the Spine Surgery Department of the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy From November 1st, 2002 to November 2008 Manager of the Hospital Unit “Spinal deformities in pediatric age associated with rare diseases” of the Spine Surgery Dept. at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna, Italy. From May 2008 so far Head of a highly specialized outpatient surgery unit, dedicated to the study and treatment of severe spinal deformities associated with rare diseases. From December 2008 to June 2009 Locum Head of the Spine Surgery Department at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute as of December 1st, 2008 From June 2009 so far Confirmed Head of the Department of Spinal Deformity Surgery at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute.. December 9th 2014 has been appointed “deputy director” of Orthopedic and Trauma Specialist Department Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute.

Her main field of interest is the study and treatment of spinal deformities.

Graduated in DMD 1994 from faculty of medicine, Tel-Aviv university. Postgraduate in endodontic specialist course 1994-2000. Chairman and Assistant Profesor of Endodontic and Dental Trauma Department, Director of Post-Graduate Program in Endodontics in Rambam hospital. Assistant Profesor in faculty of medicine, Technion.Member of the Endodontic Specialty Committee, Scientific Council. Author of more than 70 international scientific articles in dentistry.

Dental traumatology – epidemiology, treatment and prevention of dental trauma. Bacterial infection – influence of disinfection and medicine on root canal and dentinal tubules. Oral surgery – preventive medicine in oral surgery and avoidance of unnecessary short- and long-term complications.

Dr. Chaitanya U. Kshirsagar received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a dissertation on modeling and fabrication of low power devices and circuits using low-dimensional materials. He obtained the degree of Master of Science in ECE from University of California Santa Barbara with a dissertation on electronic transport properties in graphene, and the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and telecommunication from the Government Engineering College, Aurangabad. He also has industry internship and collaborative research experience involving leading technology companies like IBM, Agilent Technologies, and Global Foundries. His technical expertise is focused on semiconductor device design, fabrication, simulation, modeling and characterization. Currently he is working as a research scientist at Peregrine Semiconductor. His work has been cited in wide range of fields such as nanoelectronics, microelectromechanical devices, semiconductor devices, applied physics, measurement science, photonics, smart materials, sensors, computational electronics and circuit design. He serves as a reviewer for various Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Institute of Physics (IOP) journals. He is member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), full member of Sigma Xi-The Scientific Research Society, and member of American Chemical Society (ACS).

Semiconductor device design, fabrication, simulation, modeling and characterization.

Dr.Mukesh Singh Sikarwar is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Aimst university, Malaysia. His research interests includes Herbal Antidiabetics and Herbal Antihyperlipidemics, Novel drug delivery in Herbal drugs, Formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs. He is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Dr.Mukesh Singh Sikarwar is the member of many international affiliations. He has successfully completed her Administrative responsibilities. He has authored of many research articles/books related to Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

His current area of research is herbal antioxidants, antidiabetics and antihyperlipidemics, novel drug delivery in herbal drugs, formulation and evaluation of herbal drugs and food safety.

Talented, Multilingual International Physician. Visited and Traveled to 50+ Countries. Trained in the United Kingdom as a Critical Care Physician. Worked in Several Universities Hospitals with International Exposure. Immigrated to the United States in 1995. Passion for Travel which started as a Teenager led to a Career twist towards Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. Currently dedicating clinical time towards Precision Medicine, incorporating integrative medicine with genomic mapping, traditional as well as nutritional and lifestyle management geared to the individual patient. Holding Titles of Consultant to Several entities: 1. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. 2. International Society of Travel Medicine. 3. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 4. The Department of Transportation. Experienced Medical Advisor and Expert Witness for Several Leading Law Firms specializing in Industrial Medicine and Workman compensation cases.

Technology Applications Advocate in every possible aspect. Blockchain Enthusiast with a vision that it will improve healthcare delivery, administration, utilization and outcomes. Possess superior knowledge of Software Planning, SEO, API Integrations, XML, JSON, Drupal and Webservice.

Bachelor and Master in Clinical and Health Psychology at Aveiro University (Portugal) and internship in Coimbra Hospital University Centre (e.g., Intervention in Sleep Disorders and Pain Disorders). Later, worked as a psychologist and neuropsychologist. Also performed a research project in Biofeedback/Neurofeedback by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Is currently working with the Institution of Solidarity Projecto Homem / Braga in the additions field. In parallel, also conducts outpatient consultations in various psychological disorders. Concomitantly, made several national and international communications in various Congress as Guest Speaker in the field of Neuroscience and Editor – Journal of Neurology & Stroke (JNSK); ISSN: 2373-6410 Author of several articles in peer review journals. At the moment, is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca – Neurosciences Institute of Castilla y León.

Experimental Psychology, Neuropsychology and Biological Rhythms, particularly in: Assessment and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Drug Abuse and Addiction, Behavioural Neuroscience, Behavioural Management, Biofeedback/Neurofeedback, Sleep Disorders, Pain Disorders.

Taosheng Chen completed his Ph.D. from the University of Vermont, and postdoctoral studies from the University of Virginia. He is an Associate Member (Associate Professor) and Director of the High Throughput Bioscience Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Prior to joining St Jude, Taosheng was a Senior Research Investigator at Bristol-Myers Squibb, and a Research Scientist at SAIC-Frederick, National Cancer Institute. Taosheng serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals, and on NIH Grant Review Panels. He has authored more than 80 publications. His research laboratory studies the roles of nuclear receptors in therapeutic efficacy and toxic effects

Regulation of PXR and CAR in drug toxicity, drug resistance and human diseases Regulation of PAX3-FOXO1 and muscle differentiation in the development of rhabdomyosarcoma Development of drug discovery technologies High throughput screening (HTS) and high content screening (HCS)

Dr. T.T. Chow received his PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He is currently the Associated Professor and Director of the Building Energy and Environmental Technology Research Unit at the City University of Hong Kong. He has 400 academic publications, including over 130 SCI journal articles and with over 3,000 Scopus citations. He has been serving as members of many journal editorial boards, such as the Journal of Building Performance Simulation. He also contributes to many reputable international conferences as committee members and invited speakers. He holds fellow membership in many professional institutions, such as FASHRAE and FCIBSE.

Building Energy and Environment

Abdolrahman Shams Nateri completed his doctrate degree on the genetic engineering of Picornavirus, human Parechovirus 1,at the Essex Univ.Later,in the year 2001 he joines as a member of Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) London Research Institute (previously known as ICRF),where he carried out his fundamental basic research into the links between transcription, MAPKs signaling & diseases,including the cellular/molecular biology of cancer and also rewarded with publications in top research journals. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the UoN, where he started as a lecturer, and was promoted as an a Associate Professor.His endless passion in cancer-biology and excellent achievements boasted publications in Nature, Science, etc and more recently J Exp Med & Stem Cells.

Cancer Genetics, Transgenic Murine Technology, Stem Cells, Reprogramming of Cancer Cells and Links between Signalling, Transcription and Disease, Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders (both neoplastic & non-neoplastic) ,intestinal stem cell components in crypt reproduction, the clonal architecture & the lineage relationships of normal and neoplastic intestinal crypts (in both benign & malignant disease),New "drug-gable" compound(s) that selectively target cancer stem cells from the bulk cells in the tumor.

Andrea Romani, obtained his medical degree from the University of Siena, Italy and his PhD from the University of Turin, Italy. Upon completing his postdoctoral studies under Dr. Scarpa, he joined the faculty in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, where he is currently Associate Professor. Dr. Romani has published almost 90 peer review articles in high profile journals together with numerous invited reviews and book chapters. He is currently serving as an Editorial Board Member for Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Magnesium Research, World Journal of Gastro-Intestinal Physio-Pathology among others.

Obesity

Rosy I M A Ribeiro obtained his Postgraduate degree from the University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Pathology. She is an associated professor of Cell Biology at Medicine Department of Federal University of São João del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Biotechnology Graduate Program of UFSJ. Her research and publications are about the action of both synthetic and natural products on pathological processes such as wound healing and cancer.

pathological processes,Cell Biology

Dr Omid Panahi has completed his Graduation at Centro Escolar University as Doctor of Dental Mediciene and MSc in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of ISI journals.

Oral Surgery, Oral Implant, Regenerative Dentistry

Dr.Haydar H.Al Sahtout is currently directore of director of Arabian Shrimp co

Aquaculture & Fisheries

Charles is Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, Lincoln University responsible for the development of research themes in food science and nutrition, collaborative research with national and international companies. He is also Director of the Centre of Food Research and Innovation at Lincoln University and the Director of the Lincoln University Postgraduate School. He currently serves on the board of directors of New Zealand Food Innovation Network (South Island) and is Editor in chief of the International Journal of Food Science and Technology, Food Processing and Preservation as well as the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He is an internationally recognized researcher having written over 200 scholarly works and a H index of 26.

His current research projects include the effect of carbohydrates on diabetes and Alzhiemers disease, optimization of food wastes to improve sustainable food production, utilization of extrusion technologies for the delivery of bio-active components in functional foods, novel engineering solutions to the optimization of food processing.

Passionate about the improvement of animal welfare through the generation and dissemination of evidence-based scientifically valid knowledge. Skilled in knowledge transfer between academics and the wider animal-related community.

Animal Welfare, Equine Behaviour and Reproduction

Biography DR. MANUEL VELASCO STUDIES: HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE: Liceo Francisco de Miranda, Los Teques, Venezuela, 1962 UNIVERSITY: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, 1968 POSTGRADE STUDIES: Intern IN Medicina Interna (CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY), Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., USA. Fellowship IN Medicina Interna (CARDIOVASCULAR CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., USA Julio 1972 – Diciembre 1974. DOCTORATE IN MEDICAL SCIENCES: Universidad Nacional del Zulia, Maracaibo, Estado Zulia, Venezuela, 1979. POSITIONS: Jefe de Catedra de Farmacología, Escuela de Medicina Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela, 2001-2003 Jefe de Departamento de Ciencias Fisiologicas, Escuela de Medicina Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela, 2001-2003 Coordinador General, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, 2002-2004 Director, Unidad de Farmacología Clínica, Hospital Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela, desde 1976 Director, Unidad de Hipertensión, Hospital Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela, desde 1985. Director, Unidad de Farmacología Clinica Cardiovascular y Respiratoria, Escuela de Medicina Vargas, Caracas, Venezuela, desde 2002

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Methodology in Radioisotopes, Advance course of Biostathistics, Medical course in Radioisotopes, Advance course of clinical pharmacology.

Mirjana Menkovska is full Professor at the Department of Food Technology and Biotechnology at the Institute of Animal Science, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Macedonia. She graduated at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in Skopje in 1976, she took M.S. Degree in Instrumental Analysis at the same University in 1982, and Ph.D. degree in Food Technology at the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1993. She was research visiting scientist at many known research centers in the world such as Grain Marketing research Center in Manhattan, Kansas, USA and Cereal Research Institute in Detmold, Germany and other. She published more than hundred thirty papers in domestic and foreign scientific journals; and participated at more than sixty scientific meetings in the country and abroad. She was leader of many domestic and international scientific projects. She is author of a scientific book and she has translated three books from English into Macedonian language, and has reviewed two books. She is senator at the University Senate of the University in Skopje and was its Rector candidate in 2012. Her field of expertise is food technology-cereal science and technology, food processing and new products developing, functional food, quality and safety of food and feed and food instrumental analysis. She was awarded for scientific book in 2004 and got Recognition for contribution to the Eu/ICC Cereal Conference 2002 “ECC 2002-ERA”. She was for a long time member of AACC, RACI and ICC National Delegate, as well as of many other world scientific associations and member of many Scientific and Organizing Committees at international and domestic scientific conferences.

Food Technology, Food Biotechnology and Animal Science

T.Theivasanthi of Kalasalingam University doing research in nanomaterials / nanotechnology; has 15 years of teaching experience; published many research articles/ books and h-index 10; life member of Indian Science Congress Association and Magnetics Society of India; member of International Association of Advanced Materials; serving as Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals; lead editor in JNNN special issue (SAGE Publications, UK); achieved many awards/ honours/ recognitions including - Madurai Women Achievers Award - 2013, Motivational Award - 2015 and 2015 Women’s Day Award of St.Annes College; achieved World Record in LIMCA Book of Records-2015 for nanotechnology invention “World’s first superparamagnetic plants materials” – named “Santhi Particles”, World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection. Govt. of India shows interests to develop her inventions for the benefits of public; since Dec-2014, she has delivered lectures (more than 120) in International / National scientific conferences, foreign countries and renowned institutes like National Institute of Technology, Anna University, Central University of all over India; she delivered Motivational Lectures for women, students and staff of institutes / Multi-national corporate companies (Cognizant Technologies); Artha Nyana Academy (Malaysia), Intelligent Society of Malaysia etc. NanoDigest, Economic Times and Telegraph have published news about her research; Thanthi TV, All India Radio, Minnal FM (Malaysia) and Bernama TV (Malaysia) have broadcasted her interviews.

Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection

Charles is Professor of Food Science and Nutrition, Lincoln University responsible for the development of research themes in food science and nutrition, collaborative research with national and international companies. He is also Director of the Centre of Food Research and Innovation at Lincoln University and the Director of the Lincoln University Postgraduate School. He currently serves on the board of directors of New Zealand Food Innovation Network (South Island) and is Editor in chief of the International Journal of Food Science and Technology, Food Processing and Preservation as well as the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. He is an internationally recognized researcher having written over 200 scholarly works and a H index of 26.

His current research projects include the effect of carbohydrates on diabetes and Alzhiemers disease, optimization of food wastes to improve sustainable food production, utilization of extrusion technologies for the delivery of bioactive components in functional foods, novel engineering solutions to the optimization of food processing.

Zofia Slonska , PhD, sociologist, Assistant Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Epidemiology, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Institute of Cardiology and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, Centre of Postgraduate Education. Executive Board member of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology (ESHMS) since 2010, an expert of the European Commission, and a current member of the Polish Government Population Council since 2006. In 1991, employed as a consultant for health promotion and education in the World Health Organization, European Office for Europe. In 1993-2002 a national health promotion WHO counterpart for Poland and from 1995 to 2002, a member of the European Committee for Health Promotion Development, set up by the European Office of WHO. Former and current member of the editorial Polish and foreign scientific journals e.g. Health Promotion International (1998-2010)

Sociology of health and medicine and public health including health promotion. Author and co-author of more than 30 national and international research projects, including the recently awarded a European Health Award ‘the European Health Literacy Survey (HLS-EU)’. Author or co-author of about 90 peer-reviewed Polish and foreign scientific publications, including monographs, collective works and articles in scientific journals. Former adviser to the Minister of Health.

Dr Martins completed his undergraduate Science degree at the University of Western Australia in 1984, then completing a MSc in Clinical Biochemistry in 1986. In 1987 he commenced a Ph D studying the role of high density lipoprotein (HDL) in diabetes (Hackett Scholarship). In 1993 he was awarded a Saw fellowship from the University of Western Australia to conduct studies relating to the metabolism of chylomicrons and their remnants and the influence of size and composition on their clearance from blood and its importance to atherosclerosis. The publications between 1988-2000 have shown that Dr Martins has made a valuable and solid contribution to the field of atherosclerosis and heart disease. His work has concentrated on understanding the role of dietary cholesterol rich particles and the subsequent clearance and metabolism from the blood plasma and their potential risk for the development of heart disease. These research studies have shown that the type of dietary fat and increased consumption are important risk factors for heart disease.

Anti-Aging, Global Health and Chronic Disease,QUALITY CONTROL (plasma/sera samples)

POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH CHANDIGARH MASTER OF SURGERY, General Surgery Residency Program · (1994 - 1996) Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research MCh, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery · (1996 - 1999) IGMC SHIMLA MBBS Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.), Medicine st edwards high school shimla

Specialties: Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass in Acute Myocardial Infarction ,Ischemic Heart failureMinimal Invasive and Cosmetic approaches in Cardiac Surgeries ,Complex Thoracic Surgery including Resection of Mediastinal Tumours,Lung Resection

Pedro Nahoum has 46 years old and grew up on a farm, growing native plants since his early age. Studied botany at USP and became a Bachelor of Ecology at UFRJ. Is a Biodiversity Management specialist by the National School of Tropical Botany – IBAMA / MMA. Since 1989, when started his own plant germplasm bank, has been working on conservation and genetic improvement of native species, focusing on Neotropical families and CAM metabolism species. Has been working for over 25 years in the segment of conservation, cultivation, propagation and genetic improvement of native plants, mainly in the families’ Bromeliaceae and Cactaceae, especially at the genera Ananas (Pineapples) and Cereus (Mandacarus). Is one of the authors of the `National Strategy for Cactaceae Conservation´, published in 2011 by the Brazilian Ministry of Environment (MMA), and the main author of the chapter `The use of Plant Genetic Resources in Landscaping`, in the book `Plant Genetic Resources - The basis of sustainable agriculture in Brazil` (UFV, 2015). Pedro Nahoum is the founder and the CEO of the Botanica Pop Ltd., a company established in the year 2000 that is specialized in conservation and use through innovative breeding and propagation of CAM metabolism plants. Pedro Nahoum CEO Botanica Pop Ltd. Contact: +5521996735855 https://issuu.com/botanicapop/docs/botanica_pop_-_media https://br.pinterest.com/botanicapop/ www.linkedin.com/in/pedronahoum/pt www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008984010154 http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=43060

Climate Change, Food security, Semi arid-agriculture, Biodiversity conservation and management

Gunn-Tove Minde is an associate professor in the department of social relations at UiT Norway's Arctic University.

Social Relations

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Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass in Acute Myocardial Infarction ,Ischemic Heart failure , Minimal Invasive and Cosmetic approaches in Cardiac Surgeries ,Complex Thoracic Surgery including Resection of Mediastinal Tumours,Lung Resections.Vascular anastamosis in Liver and Kidney Transplant and peripheral vascular surgery. Invited Faculty in various International Conferences . Visiting Surgeon Department of Robotic Surgery and Advanced Coronary Interventions University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore Washington US.

Specialties: Off Pump Coronary Artery Bypass in Acute Myocardial Infarction ,Ischemic Heart failureMinimal Invasive and Cosmetic approaches in Cardiac Surgeries ,Complex Thoracic Surgery including Resection of Mediastinal Tumours,Lung Resections

Dr Duijf obtained a PhD degree in Human Genetics from the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His postdoctoral studies at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, NY, USA focused on how chromosome instability, the missegregation of chromosomes during cell division, contributes to cancer development and progression. In 2013, Dr Duijf established his independent research group at the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute and the Translational Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. With an interest in breast and other cancers, his group studies chromosome instability in mouse models in order to develop new strategies to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Group Leader The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Australia

Marie Trad is an Executive Medical Director, acting currently as the Medical and Scientific Drug Development lead in Neurosciences within the CNS Therapeutic Delivery Unit at Quintiles. Trad is a board certified Neurologist and qualified Neuroradiologist from the Pierre and Marie Curie University of Paris, France. She has over 25 years of CNS experience of which 11 years as a clinical Neurologist/Neuroradiologist and 14 years of pharmaceutical industry, focusing on clinical trial management, providing medical, clinical and global strategic support related to Neurology and Psychiatry trials.

Executive Medical Director
Medical & Scientific Drug Development Lead,Neuroscience
Quintiles, France
Quintiles

Prof. Ben Zhong TANG is Stephen K. C. Cheong Professor of Science, and Chair Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interests include macromolecular chemistry, materials science, and biomedical theranostics. He is spearheading the research on aggregation-induced emission (AIE), a topic ranked no. 2 in the areas of Chemistry and Materials Science by Thomson Reuters in its report on Research Fronts 2015, and also 2016. Prof. TANG received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from South China University of Technology and Kyoto University, respectively. He conducted postdoctoral research at University of Toronto. He joined HKUST as an assistant professor in 1994 and was promoted to chair professor in 2008. He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Prof. TANG has published more than 900 papers, which have been cited more than 40,000 times, with an h-index of 101. He has been listed by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher in both areas of Chemistry and Materials Science. He received a Natural Science Award from the Chinese Government and a Senior Research Fellowship from the Croucher Foundation in 2007. He is now serving as Editor-in-Chief of Materials Chemistry Frontiers (RSC & CCS).

Macromolecular chemistry, materials science, and biomedical theranostics.

Xiao-Lian Zhang has completed her PhD of Biochemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong in 1997. Now she is the Chairman of Immunology Department, Director of Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology Professor of State Key Laboratory of Virology and Medical Research Institute Wuhan University School of Medicine. She has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals.

Immunology

Yuxin Miao got his Ph.D in Soil Science/Precision Agriculture in 2005 from University of Minnesota and he did two year’s postdoc research at the Precision Agriculture Center, University of Minnesota. He joined China Agricultural University in 2007 as an Associate Professor of Precision Agriculture and Nutrient Management. In 2017, he joined University of Minnesota as Associate Director of Precision Agriculture Center and Assistant Professor of Precision Agriculture and Nutrient Management. His research focuses on remote sensing and crop growth modeling-based precision nitrogen management of major crops.

Precision nitrogen management, Precision Agriculture, Remote Sensing

Dr. Michael Nova is the Chief Innovation Officer and founding team member of Pathway Genomics. He is the inventor of all wellness genetic tests, and also the Pathway-IBM/Watson mobile application: OME. His scientific career began at the Salk Institute with Nobel Laureate Roger Guillemin, researching the genetics of growth factors. Michael was the founder/CEO of wireless drug discovery company Discovery Partners Inc. (Nasdaq: DPII; $150M IPO). Dr. Nova is an IBM and Metagenics Advisory Board Member; the 2005 World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneer Award Winner; and the physician of record on the first person to have their entire genome sequenced by Illumina (2009). He has 35 issued patents, and likes to surf in Indonesia.

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are complex disorders that constitute major public health problems. The evidence for familial aggregation of both T2D and obesity is substantial. To date, more than 150 genetic loci are associated with the development of monogenic, syndromic, or multifactorial forms of T2D or obesity; many within lipid and carbohydrate metabolism pathways. SNPs located in or near FTO, MC4R, MC3R, POMC, LEP, LEPR, PLIN1, APOA5, LIPC, FABP2, INSIG2, IRS1, GIPR, ADBR2, ADRB3, UCP1, RETN, ADIPOQ, IL6, PPARG, TCF7L2, and CLOCK, among others, are implicated in both diabetes and obesity gene networks, pleomorphic with nutritional and metabolic traits. A personalized nutritional approach, based not only on phenotypic traits but also on genetic make-up, may help to control body weight and obesity. Recent advances in nutrigenetics, bioinformatics and genome-wide association metabolomics studies are set to unleash a revolution in personalized nutrition. In this symposium, we discuss the evidence concerning the genetic contribution to individual risk of T2D and obesity, and explore the potential role of nutritional and environmental mechanisms. We also explain how genetics, epigenetics, and environment are likely to interact to define the individual risk of disease; through analyzing the results of a number of recent human clinical trial studies that use genetics to personalize treatment plans for obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes management. The aim of these studies was to determine the impact of a targeted, precision treatment program on reducing a patient’s future risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS).

Dmitry Maximovitch Gitman done his PhD and Doctor in Sciences in Physics and Mathematics. He was Chief Researcher at, I.E. Tamm Theory Division, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia. He is a Senior Professor, Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has Published more than 300 articles in International Physical Journals and he published 8 books. His Research interest focuses on Quantum Electrodynamics, Quantum mechanics and Quantum field theory.

Quantum Electrodynamics, Quantum mechanics and Quantum field theory

Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and the Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ans nd the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Bhushan came to OSU in 1991 after a 15-year career in industry, working primarily for IBM Almaden Research Center. A professor with diverse interests, Dr. Bhushan’s works in biomimetic interface science, surface engineering, nanotribology, and materials research. His research has focused on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. Dr. Bhushan spent the 2013-2014 year working as an ASME Science Fellow in Congress. His work there focused on policy and funding of various scientific government agencies, setting science and engineering goals for the country, and STEM education. Dr. Bhushan is a prolific author (h-index – 76+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), influencing many different fields. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, nearly 900 scientific papers, and 60+ scientific reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents.

Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques

Dr Lee Sam Goo is the CEO of 239bio Inc., which is located at Southern part of JeonBuk Province, South Korea. He has successfully accomplished the research related for “Regeneration of Pancreatic Beta-Cells Destroyed” using ‘D&D’ in T1DM. Dr. Lee showed this revolutionary efficacy on Diabetes from 14 groups of 180 T1DM rats induced by Streptozotocin. Those scientific revolutionary regenerationof beta cells destroyed was conducted by AAALAC at ChonBuk National University in Republic of Korea and proven scientifically every biomarkers such as C-peptide, Insulin secretion, Bax, Bcl-2, Cleaved caspase-3, HbA1c, no side effects in Liver and Kidney included, FBG, PP2, ITT andGTT etc.,. Dr. Lee’s researches are not limited to non-clinical trials, but made a much better achievements in human trials. Even T1DM patients showed remarkable recoveries from the worst cases of DM and became normalized of their C-Peptide and Insulin levels after 1 year of D&D trials.

Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders

Kaja is an experienced neurobiologist with a long-standing research track record in academia and the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. Kaja currently serves as Associate Director of Preclinical Research at the Vision Research Center at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Medicine. He is the Director of Microscopy of the imaging core facility at the Vision Research Center and also holds an appointment to Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology. His NIH-funded research program focuses on human neurological and neurodegenerative diseases, visual disorders and inflammation. Kaja obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Durham University, UK and holds a Ph.D. degree in Medicine/Neuroscience from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Missouri - Kansas City, he has performed postdoctoral work at The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) and the University of North Texas Health Science Center (Fort Worth, TX). In addition to his academic work, Dr. Kaja has worked and consulted for a number of pharmaceutical companies, incl. Novo Nordisk A/S, Bayer AG, Neuromed Pharmaceuticals Inc., and NeuroSearch A/S. He is CEO and co-founder of K&P Scientific LLC, a scientific consulting company headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Pathophysiological mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative, neurological and visual disorders.

Carmela Saturnino, professor in Medicinal Chemistry University of Basilicata. 1989 University L. Pasteur in Strasbourg (F) (.DEA - Pharmacologie et Pharmacochimie, option = Pharmacochimie. Supervisors prof.C.G.Wermuth and J.J.Bourguignon. 1991-1993: Fellow of the pharmaceutical industry -Servier in Paris and later the University of Caen (F). Co-autor: 112 (publications, 6 Patent, ecc.)

Carbazoles, Metalocines, Pyrazoles, suzuki reaction, Design, Synthesis and biological studies and understanding of the mechanisms of action of new therapeutic molecules for: cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, antimicrobial agents.

He is a professor emeritus since October 2007 . He was a Director of Scientific Computing Center at Ain Shams University (1984-1990).He is a Professor of Computer Science , since 1989 at Ain Shams University, Egypt. He has been involved in more than 400 international conferences and workshops as a keynote speaker, member of Scientific Program Committees, and Organizer and Session Chair. He is a member of many national and international informatics associations. He is a member of the editorial boards of many internal journals in the areas of ICT , Bio-medical Informatics and artificial intelligence. He has published around 350 papers in refereed journals and conferences

His research includes: intelligent computing, knowledge-based systems , data mining , knowledge engineering , bio-medical and health,informatics, e-government, intelligent e-learning and artificial intelligence technologies.

Dr.M.M.Shokry has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Cairo University He is the director Professor Emeritus of Vet.Surger & Anesthesia. He has published more than 75 papers in scientific journals and has many library books

Anesthesia, Veterinary Anesthesia, Surgery, Traumatology, Laparoscopic Surgery, General Surgery, Laparo-Endoscopic Surgery

Dr. Mohamad Miqdady is the Chief of Ped. GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Division at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in UAE and an Adjunct Staff at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio USA. He is American Board certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He completed his Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX, USA. He held the position of Assistant Professor at Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan for six years prior to joining SKMC. Main research interests include feeding difficulties, functional GI disorders, probiotics, picky eating, obesity, procedural sedation, allergic GI disorders and coeliac disease. He has authored several publications and book chapters including www.uptodate.com. On the Editorial Board of few journals including Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

Main research interests include feeding difficulties, functional GI disorders, probiotics, picky eating, obesity, procedural sedation, allergic GI disorders and coeliac disease.

Cornelia Witthoft is professor in food science at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. Her research is focussed on water-soluble vitamins, in particular folate. Within the context of food and nutritional sciences, her research deals with food composition, studies on nutrient retention, sensory and technological properties during food processing with the final aim to enhance the nutritional quality of food. Studies on nutrient absorption, metabolism and bioactivity and the evaluation of suitable status parameters have the aim to understand diet-health associations. She is member of the national expert panel for Nutrition and Public Health at the Swedish National Food Agency. Under the frame of the Nordic Council of Ministers, she was appointed as member and chairperson of the “Folate Expert Group” for the 5th revision of the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations. She is member of the editorial board of the journal of Food Chemistry and AIMS Agriculture and Food. By participation in several EC Framework research projects and the network of excellence EuroFIR she established a national and international network within academia and stakeholders.

Cornelia Witthoft research interest includes Food science, human nutrition, folate, food processing, food functionality, nutrient bioavailability

Dr. Pavel Rozsival is director of Ophthalmology Clinic in Charles University and Head of Department of Ophthalmology in School of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Charles University, Prague. He was born in Cheb, Czech Republic, 27th September 1950.Since 1993 he has been serving as Head of the department of Ophthalmology in Charles University, Prague. He have published 4l5 papers and presented over 750 lectures.He has published books like Modern Cataract Surgery in 1994, Trends of current ophthalmology IX in 2014 and more. He was awarded with Vanysek medal from Czech Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in 2010. Dr. Rozsival was the first in Czech Republic who implanted AlphaCor arteficial cornea. He was among those who introduced modern IOL implantation in Czech Republic. He has the membership with European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery,European Glaucoma Society,and American Academy of Ophthalmology. He was President of Czech Society of Ophthalmology during 1997 – 2005 and vice-president during 2006 – 2009.

Glaucoma Cataract and refractive surgery Vitreoretinal surgery Corneal transplant Retinal Detachment Intraocular implantations

Dr. Wilson has conducted pioneering research in the biological sciences for over 45 years. He retired from the USDA Agricultural Research Service after 36 years service in 2006 and established Wilson Associates International LLC, a worldwide consulting company to advise companies, countries, and research institution on the development of biologically-based technologies for the protection and preservation of food. Dr. Wilson is proficient in the development, patenting, and licensing of technologies for the protection and preservation of food. He has consulted and/or conducted cooperative research with the Clorox Company, Kraft Foods, DuPont, McDonald’s, Pactiv, Reynolds, BASF, Micro Flo Company, American Cyanamid, JCS (Japan), Anchor Yeast (South Africa), Biological Research and Development Corporation (BRDC), U.S./Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD), Volcani Center (Israel), EMBRAPA (Brazil), University of Bari (Italy), HortResearch (New Zealand); CSIRO (Australia), ARC Infuitec (South Africa), PPRI (Egypt), Universite de Nouakchott (Mauritania), and Corpoica (Colombia).

Postharvest preservation of food

Richard Visser present works as the CEO of VERA Health Group and the former minister of Health and sports Aurba. Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration, St. Michael’s College, Vermont, U.S.A., 1984 – 1988 Premedical Program, University of Colorado, U.S.A., 1988 – 1989 Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.), Palmer College of Chiropractic-West, Santa Clara, California, U.S.A., 1989 – 1993 His work has made vital contributions to a greater understanding of the biological, sociological, and psychological factors surrounding childhood obesity. Having written numerous articles on the subject for professional journals. Today Dr. Visser continues his innovative approach to healthcare by converging the exponential technological development going on right now with never before seen global connectivity.

Richard W. M. Visser DC, Ph.D. has focused on the pandemic of childhood obesity among various populations, working in consultation with other international experts. He studied the problem and implemented solutions from many perspectives: as a clinical researcher, academic and educator, activist and politician, entrepreneur, concerned citizen and parent.

Karyn Boyar is an educator and family nurse practitioner specializing in Neurology and long term care. She is Assistant Clinical Professor at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Dr. Boyar earned her DNP from Pace University in 2014 and has over 20 years’ experience in healthcare. Her background includes work on many Parkinson’s disease research trials. She has created comprehensive outreach initiatives for people with Parkinson’s disease that include community symposia, support groups and educational lectures and materials. She writes and reviews for a number of clinical journals and publications and has presented at regional and national nursing conferences on educational initiatives and caregiver concerns.

Primary care Home care Neurology

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 450+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. His most recent awards are 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems and 2019 Int. Microelectronic Packaging Society’s (IMAPS) Lifetime Achievement award for making exceptional, visible, and sustained impact on the microelectronics packaging industry and technology.

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Applied and Mathematical Physics, Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering,Materials Science and Engineering, Aerospace and Automotive Electronics and Photonics Design for Reliability (DfR) of Electronic, Opto-Electronic and Photonic Assemblies, Packages and Systems, Applied Probability and Probabilistic DfR (PDfR) of Electronic and Photonic Materials, Devices and Systems Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers, Thin Film Mechanics and Physics Shock and Vibration Analyses and Testing, Dynamic Response of Materials and Structures to Shocks and Vibrations, Thermal Stress Analysis, Prediction and Prevention of Thermal Stress Failures in Electronics and Photonics Solder Materials and Solder Joint Interconnections in Electronic and Photonic Engineering, Polymeric Materials in Electronics and Photonics.

Liang standard,"National Outstanding Youth Fund" winner. Any of the " Journal of Genetics and Genomics "editorial board. 2013 onwards to join Shanghai Ocean University, he served as Distinguished Professor doctoral tutor, " Exploration and Utilization of Aquatic Genetic Resources " Ministry of Education Key Laboratory.

Dr. Chen Liangbiao main research team led by innovative animal evolution and environmental genomics. Current research laboratories are: 1. Polar Fish Genetics and Developmental Biology Mechanism adapt to extreme environments; 2. Fish comparative genomics and molecular evolution; 3. mining and the use of fish genes resilience; 4. Biological Informatics. High-throughput genome sequencing, molecular biology, bioinformatics and cell biology research tools, elucidate the molecular and evolutionary mechanisms of the origin of new genes , the relationship between the molecular mechanisms of fish acclimatization, genome evolution and the environment.

'He is an Associate Professor in Medical Genetics, University of Ferrara, Italy.Lecturer on Immunology and immunoheamatology for the international PhD Public Health at program at Telavi State University (TeSaU), Georgia.

Monogenic and polygenic diseases including: Genetics of blood coagulation disorders, genetics of Hemophilias, inherited thrombophilia, molecular basis of hematological malignancies, Pharmacogenetics, molecular basis of cardiovascular diseases, Wound-healing, Myocardial infarction, genetics and molecular basis of Bio-scaffold and Heart remodeling.

Director, GI Oncology Program; Leader, Experimental Therapeutics; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine Dr. SAIF graduated in 1993 since then is practicing in medical field for about 22 years. Since 1993 no malpractice has been reported for this physician. Dr. WASIF SAIF is practicing in PRATT Medical Group, INC with other 246 doctors. Doctor and his group mates are now practicing in TUFTS Medical Center, INC., Boston – MA and other hospitals lited here.

Chemistry and pharmacology of folate antagonist, experimental therapeutics, clinical trial design (Phase I and II), cancers treated include pancreas, gall bladder, cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct), anal, colon (including Rectum), neuroendocrine (carcinoid), psedomyxoma peritonei, esophagus, gastroesophageal (including Stomach), liver, unknown primary, GIST, adrenal, peritoneum, phase I clinical studies of novel cancer drugs and/or combinations.

Irina Ermolina has completed her PhD from Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995, following by postdoctoral studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Glasgow University and Southhampton University. Currently, she is a senior lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, theaching the pharmaceutical technology, pharmaceutical material sciences and analytical techniques. She has published 45 papers in the peer reviewed journals and has been serving as a reviewer for several sceintific Journals.

Physicochemical and pharmaceutical properties of HEA-HEMA hydrogels

Sergio Ozan completed his studies from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an optician and contact lens specialist and having enriched experience in the manufacturing of ocular prosthesis. Dr. Sergio is also associated with scientific societies and currently he is a scientific advisor for ocular prosthesis in APO (Association Professional de Optometras in Argentina). He is the precursor and creator of multi-perforated orbital implants i.e. JUMAT, first prosthetic sclera lens and expander of orbit osmotic hydrogel filling for microphthalmia. He is the director of CEPROC along with Ocular Prosthesis Division in Perfect Vision, Santiago, Chile. Dr. Sergio Ozan also developed the one hour customized ocular prosthesis method which is unique in Latin America.

Contact lens, ocular prosthesis

Nabeel Martani was born in Iraq on 18th April 1973 Bachelor of Dental and Oral Surgery (B.D.S) from Dentistry / Mosul University.Master of Science in Conservative Dentistry (M.Sc.)from Dentistry / Salahaddin University.Doctor of Philosophy in Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics (PH.D.)from Dentistry / Beirut Arab University(lebanon)

Oral Rehabilitation Science,Conservative Dentistry

A Senior healthcare Executive, Graduate of AUB School of Nursing with a diverse background in Clinical nursing, quality management, Strategic & operational management in Healthcare for around 38 years, my career history includes leading hospital-wide initiatives in quality improvement, risk management, executing strategies, initiating innovative and transformative projects, and building performance excellence. Headed efforts to obtain JCIA accreditation and Magnet Accreditation at AUB Medical Center in Lebanon and International Medical Center in( KSA), and lately in Taiba hospital ( Kuwait), My current role as an Advisor to the CEO at Makassed General Hospital Lebanon, allows me to utilize my skills and abilities for the best outcomes.

Quality improvement, Risk management, Executing strategies

J. Michael Köhler is the head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Microreaction Technology at the Technical University of Ilmenau (Germany) since 2001. He studied Chemistry in Halle an der Saale and Jena, where he also habilitated in General and Physical Chemistry (1992). He led a research department at the Institute of High Technologies in Jena between 1991 and 2001. During this time, he also taught at the Universities of Wuppertal and Jena. Professor Koehler inter alias has edited books on microlithography, micro system technology and nanotechnology. His current research interests are focussed on nanotechnology, on application of droplet-based microfluidics in nanoparticle syntheses and bioscreenings and on physicochemical aspects of sustainable chemistry.

nanoparticle syntheses and bioscreenings and on physicochemical aspects of sustainable chemistry.

E Sacide Caglayan has completed her PhD in Medical Genetics from Afyon Kocatepe University in 2010 and worked as a Visiting Scholar in Ruohola-Baker Lab, Institute of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington. Presently, she is working as an Assistant Professor in Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Faculty of Health Science, Department of Nutrition in Ankara, Turkey.

Stem cell Genetics

Giulio Tarro graduated from Medicine School, Naples University (1962). Research Associate, Division of Virology and Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital (1965-1968), Assistant Professor of Research Pediatrics, College Medicine (1968-1969), Cincinnati University, Ohio. Oncological Virology Professor, Naples University (1972-1985). Chief Division Virology (1973-2003), Head Department Diagnostic Laboratories, (2003-2006). D. Cotugno Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Naples; Emeritus, 2006 -. Since 2007 Chairman Committee of Biotechnologies and VirusSphere, World Academy Biomedical Technologies, UNESCO, Adjunct Professor Department Biology, Temple University, College of Science and Technology, Philadelphia, recipient of the Sbarro Health Research Organization lifetime achievement award (2010).

His researches have been concerned with the characterization of specific virus-induced tumour antigens, which were the "finger-prints" left behind in human cancer. Achievements include patents in field; discovery of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in infant deaths in Naples and of tumor liberated protein as a tumor associated antigen, 55 kilodalton protein overexpressed in lung tumors and other epithelial adenocarcinomas.

Lobna Karoui received the Master Degree on “intelligent systems” from the University Paris Dauphine in 2004. Then, she started her PhD research in the University Paris-Sud Orsay and in the Electrical Higher School in Paris, France. She obtained her PhD in 2008. Based on the Information technology background and Artificial Intelligence Research, she works on applied research to help companies on developing Artificial Intelligence projects for their business and customers such as semantic analysis in different functional domains, knowledge discovery, disruptive services, intelligent agents.

Artificial Intelligence domain, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science and Semantic Web

MS. SUCHI is an experienced International Pre School Principal/Manager who picked up Laughter exercises from many coaches around the world. She then designed ‘Laughter Therapy' which is being used in many places such as hospitals and Senior Activity Centres. She provides individual and group therapy in educational and home settings.

Neurology/Psychiatry /Public Health

Giulio Tarro graduated from Medicine School, Naples University (1962). Research Associate, Division of Virology and Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital (1965-1968), Assistant Professor of Research Pediatrics, College Medicine (1968-1969), Cincinnati University, Ohio. Oncological Virology Professor, Naples University (1972-1985). Chief Division Virology (1973-2003), Head Department Diagnostic Laboratories, (2003-2006). D. Cotugno Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Naples; Emeritus, 2006 -. Since 2007 Chairman Committee of Biotechnologies and VirusSphere, World Academy Biomedical Technologies, UNESCO, Adjunct Professor Department Biology, Temple University, College of Science and Technology, Philadelphia, recipient of the Sbarro Health Research Organization lifetime achievement award (2010).

His researches have been concerned with the characterization of specific virus-induced tumour antigens, which were the "finger-prints" left behind in human cancer. Achievements include patents in field; discovery of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in infant deaths in Naples and of tumor liberated protein as a tumor associated antigen, 55 kilodalton protein overexpressed in lung tumors and other epithelial adenocarcinomas.

Dr. Shamim Ahmad is a very senior distinguished Professor of Microbiology ,Superintendent (Examinations) Faculty of Medicine & Officer In-Charge Microbiology Section , Institute of Ophthalmology , JN Medical College ,Faculty of Medicine , Aligarh Muslim University ,Aligarh ,India since January,10,1983 .He has also worked as Officer In-Charge (Administration), Manager , Blind School and many other academic & administrative positions at Aligarh. Beside, he was deputed to serve as Faculty for more than 5 years abroad at Faculties of Medicine abroad. After earning his Ph.D. degree in 1982, he obtained his Post Doc. training in various Departments of Microbiology at 7 Universities of world repute in 6 countries, being recipient of at least 6 International Fellowships including "DAAD (W. Germany) , "JSPS"(Japan)"ROYAL SOC. London"(UK),"DAAD"(Germany),"TUBA" (Turkey) and "SAIA" (Slovak Republic). Beside, regular Undergraduate (MBBS) and Post Graduate (MS & DO) medical students and some Professional Courses (DOA) teaching ,he has been actively engaged in the teaching & practical Classes of some of M.Sc.,M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes in India and abroad .Professor Ahmad's research work mainly involved Multi resistant Eye Pathogens including Super Bugs MRSAs and their alternative treatment with newer antibacterial and innovative natural products especially the "Honey". He has a credit of publishing many papers , o books and Book Chapters and Supervised /Co-supervised of about 51 theses beside presenting many papers at National and International conferences having being visited about 30 countries for his academic purpose. Currently, Prof. Ahmad is honored to be member in the Editorial team including Chief Editor of at least 71 International Journals of world repute.

Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine & Officer In-Charge Microbiology Section

Scott is a Crisis Coach, behavioral health advisor, and leads the team at Confidential Recovery—an intensive substance abuse recovery program for adults, 18 years old+. As the author of Tell Me No, I Dare You: A Guide for Living a Heroic Life, Scott shares strategies for living an authentic and fulfilling life. Scott is also a charismatic speaker with a passion for helping people achieve their goals in life. His presentations are no-holds-barred; they describe barriers to treatment, what works (also shedding light on ineffective approaches) and how individuals, communities, and work environments can get help for those around them. Scott shares, “As a society, we are not prepared for the challenges that the new wave of addiction is bringing.” Scott’s presentations, geared toward organizations he is working with—individuals and their families struggling with addiction—help to create effective action plans to move forward. Scott has received numerous awards and honors including being named CNN Hero of the Week and the City of San Diego honored him by selecting February 19 as “Scott Silverman Day” for his contributions to the community. As the Founder of Second Chance, Scott worked to break the cycle of substance abuse, unemployment, poverty, and homelessness. For over 15 years, Scott assisted more than 25,000 people in San Diego with job readiness training, employment placement assistance, mental health counseling, case management, and affordable housing referrals to people who desire to change their lives.

Addiction Treatment, Sobriety, Recovery

Dr. George Nemer earned his B.Sc degree in Biology from the American University of Beirut (1992). He received his Ph.D. degree in Molecular Pharmacology from the Université de Montréal (2002).He received many scholarships from Pfizer Canada and Gibco-Ingelheimer for his work on transcription factors in heart development and diseases. His major area of research is cardiac development and congenital heart diseases. He co-authors more than 35 publications in that field including a Cell paper in 2001, which made the cover of this prestigious journal. Since moving to AUB in 2002, Dr. Nemer has focused on the genetics of congenital heart disease building a DNA registry with Dr. Bitar, the first of its nature in the region. The identification of GATA4 by his team as one of the most important player in congenital heart disease earned him a reputation in the field that was translated in more than 100 citations of the article since its publication in 2006. Besides the focus on research, Dr. Nemer helped in re-launching the new PhD program in Basic Sciences and is a strong supportive of students’ research activities. Since 2002, more than 25 students earned their MSc degree in Biochemistry under his supervision, most of them are pursuing their PhD studies in the USA, and Canada.

Cardiovascular Genetics GATA factors Cardiac Development

My research is aimed at understanding the roles of the innate and adaptive immune systems in health and disease. The organs of my interest are the two specialized filtration units, glomeruli and blood-brain barrier, of the kidney and brain respectively. Recently, our understanding of the immune system has undergone a substantial paradigm shift: researchers now recognize that the innate immune system, the body’s first line of defense, assesses the level of danger of a particular event and initiates an adaptive immune response that subsequently confers protection. My studies focus on the role of an important arm of the innate immune system, the complement cascade in inflammatory conditions such as glomerulonephritis and lupus. For both disease conditions, the perfect therapy remains an enigma. Using a gamut of techniques, we are attempting to define the molecular mechanisms involved and the resulting behavioral aberrations. Once molecular targets are identified, therapeutic strategies will be defined.

Experimental renal inflammation, Neuropsychiatric lupus, Pathobiology of the complement system

Professor of Internal Medicine The Maralyn S. Budke Endowed Chair in Cancer Experimental Therapeutics Associate Director, Translational Research Chief, Division of Molecular Medicine University of New Mexico Cancer Center

Increasing cancer care access and educating

Tanja Planinsek Rucigaj is working as Head of Dermatovenereological Clinic, University medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia; She is also active vice-president of Balkan Venous Forum; president of Slovenian Flebological and Lymphological society; teacher of dermatovenereology at Faculty of Health Angele Boskin, Jesenice, Slovenia; member of the Expert Council of the Association of Vascular Disease in the Slovenian

Dermatology, Dermatovenereology, Skin care

Jerry Katzman is the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Katzman has always been an entrepreneur, scientist, and pioneer in medical science. His focus has targeted various biotechnology companies, biopharma, and Wall Street. Upon completion of his medical training, Katzman joined a multi-specialty group practice in Brandon, FL where he founded and established the group’s department of ophthalmology. Katzman graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering in 1974 and thereafter earned his M.D. from the Universidad de Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico

Ophthalmology

Roberto Fainstein, Ph.D. Geophysics Advisor & SEG Emeritus Professional Biography: Roberto Fainstein, Ph.D., Rice University 1979, is a Geophysics and Geology Advisor with more than 45years experience with the International Oil Industry, mainly with Petrobras S.A., Atlantic Richfield International and Schlumberger. His career in Petrobras comprised resistivity and seismic exploration in the Brazilian jungles (five years) and several years at sea during the very beginning of offshore exploration. He was Chief Geophysicist of the REMAC Project the first comprehensive survey of the entire Brazilian Continental Margin (1972-1975). At that time, through his work at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution he published the first suite of magnetic maps for all basins offshore Brazil and a series of multi-measurement integration papers on the Equatorial Atlantic Margin and Eastern Brazil Continental Margins. Upon return to Brazil in 1999 he was responsible for the design and implementation of the highly praised 2D/3D Brazil 99/2000 multiclient regional seismic programs that led to the significant discoveries in deepwater offshore Brazil, both in the post-salt and in the pre-salt sequences. Prior to this return program in Brazil he had contributed many oil and gas discoveries in Southeast Asia while with Atlantic Richfield International Oil & Gas Company these in Northwest Java along the Thousand Islands trend and in the East Java Sea, particularly the finding and development of Pagerungan Gas Field, the largest domestic gas provider of Indonesia. Afterwards moving to Schlumberger (Geco-Prakla) he designed and implemented the still very marketable Southeast Asia multi-client portfolio of WesternGeco that led to significant discoveries in the Natuna Sea and Makassar Strait in the Sunda Shelf, and with wildcat discoveries in Arafura Sea and offshore Irian Jaya in the eastern Archipelago deepwater, contributed also with the very first deep-water seismic papers and co-authored the “Seismic Atlas off Southeast Asia and Australia”. In 2002 in the now highly praised interview “Sub-Salt Could be Sweet” that was published by Petroleum Economist he accurately predicted, five years in advance the deep-water Tupi discovery that led to the chain of pre-salt eventful discoveries in the Santos and Campos Basin. This major achievement was based upon his regional deepwater mapping assessment of the Brazil 99/2000 program. His pioneering studies linking the post-salt and pre-salt plays of West Africa and Brazil are described in a number of papers, both in the Equatorial margin basins without salt and in the Atlantic Margin Salt basins proper. From 2007 to 2011 he worked in India having received a ‘Business Innovator Award” for his E & P on the “De-Risking of Deepwater Andaman Sea” and published extensively in sub-basalt areas offshore India and worldwide. Moving to Saudi Arabia he coordinated the UniQ Project a broadband, high-resolution, multi-azimuth, forefront project in rock physics and on seismic inversion in extensions of Ghawar Field (world’s largest oil field) delineating conventional and un-conventional reservoirs. Worked also with the uncovering of the pre-salt sequences of Red Sea. More recently back in India was involved in projects in the East Coast with modern broadband technology. In Academia, he was formerly oceanography and ocean engineering faculty at Florida Institute of Technology, taught Mathematics (Fourier Transforms & Seismic Technology) at Cape Canaveral for Martin-Marietta, and still teaches seismic interpretation courses to oil companies over the entire world (South and North America, Europe, Africa, Siberia, Australia) in association with NExT (Network of Excellence in Training); also taught geophysics at the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Indonesia for five years and taught a highly attended course in Structural Seismic Interpretation and Seismic Stratigraphy at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) these courses from 1999 to 2007. Recently, his short-course in “Deepwater Interpretation of Margin Basins” is widely sought by the oil industry.

Seismic exploration, Off shore surveys, Deepwater Reservoirs, Salt Tectonics, Seismic Interpretation of 2D Regional and 3D Prospect and Field Development, Regional Geology, Oil & Gas Risk Economics

Rinku Majumder has completed his PhD in 1999 from Bose Institute, India and postdoctoral studies from UNC Chapel Hill, School of Medicine in 2003. She is currently an associate professor in the department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health Science Center, School of Medicine. She has published more than 22 papers in very reputed journals and has been serving as an standing study section member for NIH, AHA grants.She is the reviewer for reputed journals like Blood, JTH, JBC, Plos One, Biochemistry and Thrombosis Hemostasis.

I am interested in the biochemistry of lipid-protein interactions and my research focuses on the structure-function relationships of plasma coagulants and anticoagulants. My main research project focuses on the anticoagulant Protein S. PS is a vitamin K-dependent plasma glycoprotein synthesized in the endothelium

In the last 10 years, my research focus has been the desert truffle Terfezia boudieri that forms mycorrhizal association with its host plant Helianthemum sessiliflorum. I am studying the fungus at several levels including physiology, ecology and molecular biology. I participate in a comprehensive project to sequence the entire genomes of 23 fungi including our two desert truffle species, in the frame of The European Community Sequencing Program entitled "Exploring the Genome Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Understand the Evolution and Functioning of Symbiosis in Woody Shrubs and Trees"

I also study secondary metabolite biosynthesis in plants, with emphasis on aroma volatiles biosynthesis. This is carried mainly in fruits at both the biochemical and molecular levels. We use tomato as a model system to identify genes and important traits. Metabolic engineering offers a solution for improving the taste and aroma of tomato.

Dr. Pashankar completed his basic medical training in India and in the UK. He completed fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver, Canada. He directs the Pediatric Gastroenterology Postdoctoral Fellowship Training Program at Yale. He is the director of Yale Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program. He runs a multidisciplinary Inflammatory Bowel disease clinic on Tuesday morning at Yale New Haven Children's Hospital in New Haven.

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Dr. Silay is serving as the CEO of MAIN, one of the fastest growing angel investors network in MENA region & Chairman of İstanbul Consulting Group in Europe, providing clinical trial administration, market access, medical writing, patient recruitment, retention, regulatory and medical affairs support, drug repositioning for hospitals, academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies from preclinical to post marketing stages for several years. Dr. Silay is also providing comprehensive and strategic consulting services for the approval of Drugs and Medical Devices and attended several meetings with FDA, EMA, Health Canada and Turkish Health authorities and social security institute.Dr. Silay in USA, most recently worked as the Vice President, Medical Affairs, and head of Medical Affairs Neurology in the US headquarters Basking Ridge, New Jersey reporting to the President and CEO of Ipsen North America where he was key in building a Neurology Franchise by hiring many employees. Dr. Silay is a senior consultant, project manager, executive physician scientist, certified clinical research professional in the healthcare ( pharmaceutical, medical device, hospital chains) industry with an Executive MBA degree from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis which is ranked #2 in United States of America by Wall Street Journal in 2010. Dr. Silay is a member of American Academy of Neurology, chief editor of Journal of Developing Drugs, an editorial board member of Expert opinion on Emerging Drugs, a current ad-hoc reviewer at the NIH ( National Institute of Health) and NINDS, past speaker at DIA ( Drug Information Association) and member of DIA SIAC’s for Good Clinical Practice/Quality Assurance Special Interest Activity Community (GCP/QA SIAC), Clinical Trial Registry/Results Disclosure Working Group (CTR/RD Working Group), Natural Health Products. , MDS (Movement Disorder Society) , current secretary general of HEPA (Health Economics& Policy Association), charter and previous president of AMSA (American Medical Student Association) Turkey, previous president of SOCRA (Society of Clinical Research Associates) in New Jersey, board of directors member at the SoPE and founder of SoPE(Society of Physician Entrepreneurs) Turkey chapter. Dr. Silay is a recognized senior consultant executive in the public health, PPP, health economics and pharmaceutical industry with a track record of conducting successful, carefully designed outcomes trials as well as randomized double blind placebo controlled clinical trials in CNS (Central Nervous System) therapeutic area such as Parkinson’s, MS (Multiple Sclerosis), Stroke, head trauma, Fibromyalgia, Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease as well as Pulmonary Critical Care/ Lung transplant, Cardivascular (Cardiac stent, MI, Ambulatory Blood pressure monitoring trials) and Oncology therapeutic areas. Dr. Silay, a dual citizen of U.S.A. and Turkey was born in Turkey and educated in Turkey, Germany and U.S.A. He completed his medical School at The University of Ankara in Turkey and his internship at Baylor College of Medicine and University of Texas in Houston, Texas. He attended a Physician Scientist Training Program at The MD Anderson Cancer Center of University of Texas. Dr. Silay worked on projects with several Pharmaceutical companies such as Astellas, Chiron, Fugisawa, Nabi Biopharmaceutical, Forest Pharmaceuticals, KV Pharmaceuticals, Medtronics, Deep Breeze, Teva, Ipsen as well as governmental organizations such as NIH, Chest foundation, American heart association grants, FDA, Turkish minister of Health and the World Bank As a prolific scientific writer he published extensively with more than 15 peer reviewed article and more than 100 platform and abstract presentation at the academic and industry level in national and international meetings. Dr. Silay is currently serving as the Chairman of the Istanbul Consulting Group (ICG) . He provides guidance and support to Turkish Ministry of health through World bank project. As the former General Manager of the largest distributor of Siemens healthcare company with ~220 employees, he played key role in developing mobile Breast cancer screening program for Turkish and Syrian refugees in Turkey. As a BioPharma CEO, Carveout, Turnaround Specialist he is known as, Entrepreneur Doctor & "International Healthcare Executive (Pharmaceutical, Hospital Chain, Diagnostic & Medical Device)", Management Consultant, "Business, Strategy, Marketing Savvy Physician. He has Proven ability to build high performing teams and productive organizations, turn around brands, and build revenue in diverse markets. As the former director, Market Access & Health Policy for AIFD( Research Based Pharmaceutical Companies) which the 40 members represent all major global pharmaceutical companies, 650 billion dollars of 1 billion dollar Global Pharmaceutical market. He represented pharmaceutical companies and was in discussion with all ministerial levels, including the ministry of health, finance, labor, development and science& technology in Turkey.

Neurology, Pulmonary Critical Care, Rheumatology, Oncology and related therapeutic areas within academics and industry. regulatory processes, identifying and addressing risk management issues throughout the lifecycle, presentation development to large payers, safety monitoring, designing and conducting clinical trials.

Zoe Vlamaki, MD, FRCS maintains a position at National Health Service Trust as a general surgeon. She has over sixteen years of experience and specializes in breast surgery. Dr. Vlamaki was educated at the University of Athens Medical School and continued her studies with an internship at the university as well. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery and maintains professional memberships in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, and the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Breast Cancer, Breast Surgery

Dr. V. Ramgopal Raois a P.K.KelkarChair Professor for Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Chief Investigator for the Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics project at IIT Bombay. Dr. Rao has over 350 publications in the area of Electron Devices &Nanoelectronics in refereed international journals and conference proceedings and is an inventor on 30 patents (including 13 issued US patents) and patent applications, with many of his patents licensed to industries for commercialization. He is also a co-founder of the company NanoSniff Technologies Pvt. Ltd. at IIT Bombay which is developing products in the area of Nanotechnology. Prof. Rao has supervised/co-supervised over 100 Masters students&30 Ph.D. students at IIT Bombay in the area of Nanoelectronics since the year 2000. Prof. Rao’s work is recognized with many awards and honors in the country and abroad. Some of the notable recognitions he received include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences in 2005 and the Infosys Prize in 2013. Dr. Rao is also a recipient of the Swarnajayanti Fellowship award from the Department of Science & Technology, IBM Faculty award, Best Research award from the Intel Asia Academic Forum, Techno-Mentor award from the Indian Semiconductor Association, DAE-SRC Outstanding Research Investigator award and the Excellence in Research Award from IIT Bombay. Prof. Rao was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 2003-2012 for the CMOS Devices and Technology area and currently serves on the Editorial boards of various other international journals. Dr. Rao is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Indian National Science Academy, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Electron Devices Society and interacts closely with many semiconductor industries including Intel, IBM, Infineon, Applied Materials, Maxim and Texas Instruments.

Chair Professor
IIT Bombay
India

Presently, I am Professor Ph.D. at the Hyperion University of Bucharest, Head of Psychology Department, where I teach Psychotherapy and Psychology of addiction. I am also certified psychotherapist in cognitive-behavioral therapy and clinician psychologist. I have a Ph.D. in psychology obtained from the University of Bucharest, with the thesis: Pathological gambling; model of cognitive-behavioral therapy. I supervise master degree dissertations and I am a member of Scientific Board of the Romanian Journal of Experimental Applied Psychology, Gavin Journal of Addiction Research and Therapy and The Psychologies Studies Review of the Hyperion University of Bucharest.

Introduction to psychotherapy; Psychology of addiction; Psychodiagnosis and clinical assessment of child and adolescent; Child and adolescent psychopathology, clinical practice.

Prof. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Head of IVF unit , Ain -Shams University ,Cairo, Egypt

In vitro fertilisation

Mohamed Sami Mourali studied at Tunis Faculty of Medicine, Tunisia is currently the Head of the cardiology Department at the Hospital La Rabta and President of STCCCV( Tunisian Society Of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery)

Adult and Pediatric Interventional Cardiology

PERSONAL: US Citizen Married to Maria Molenda, February, 1967 Master in Law, George Washington University Attorney at Law CHILDREN: Katarzyna M. Ostrzenska, M. D., Board Certified Internist Bartosz A. Ostrzenski, J.D., Attorney at Law ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Professor Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology Florida International University Miami, FL, 2009-2010 Professor Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology University of South Florida Tampa, FL, 2001-2008 Visiting Professor La Sapienza University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics “Non-compensatory Site-specific Pelvic Reconstruction for Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence: Surgical Techniques” Rome, Italy, December, 2004 Professor Gynecology and Obstetrics Howard University College of Medicine Washington, D.C., 1994-2001 Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, D.C., 1987 Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology George Washington University School of Medicine Washington, D.C., 1982 Visiting Professor University of Rome “La Sapienza “, School of Medicine Rome, Italy, 1993 Professor International Faculty Member Jagiellonian University, College of Medicine International Postgraduate Educational Center Krakow, Poland, 1992 Professor and Consultant Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Jagiellonian University College of Medicine Krakow, Poland, 1991 Professor Gynecology and Obstetrics Arabian Gulf University Manama, Bahrain, Academic Year 1998/1999 Visiting Professor Gynecology and Obstetrics Silesian University School of Medicine Katowice, Poland, Academic Year 1997/1998 and 1999/2000 Visiting Professor Classic Gynecologic Surgery & Gynecologic Advanced Video Endoscopy & Laser Surgery Live OR Demonstrating Surgeon The Kuwait University Faculty of Medicine October 1994 Assistant Instructor, OB/GYN State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 1980-1982 Adjunct at the Academy of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland Adjunct at the Academy of Medicine, Lubline, Poland 1971 1973 Demonstrating Surgeon Classic Gynecologic Surgery & Gynecologic Advanced Video Endoscopy & Laser Surgery “La Sapienza” University. Rome, Italy, June, 1994, December 1994 Demonstrating Surgeon Classic Gynecologic Surgery & Gynecologic Advanced Video Endoscopy & Laser Surgery Warsaw, University School of Medicine, Poland, May 1994 Demonstrating Surgeon Classic Gynecologic Surgery & Gynecological Advanced Video Endoscopy & Laser Surgery Jagiellonian University, College of Medicine Krakow, Poland, 1991; 1992; 1993; 1994 Demonstrating Surgeon Classic Gynecologic Surgery & Gynecological Advanced Video Endoscopy & Laser Surgery Silesia University School of Medicine, Poland, February 1991, October 1991, May 1993, May 1994, January 1995, August 1999. CURRENT POSITION: Medical Director Institute of Gynecology 7001 Central Avenue Saint Petersburg, FL 33710 POSITIONS HELD: Director Operative Gynecology - Endoscopy and Laser Surgery Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Howard University, College of Medicine Washington, D. C., U. S. A. July 1994- July1998 Director Institute of Video Endoscopy & Laser of Washington Premier Surgical Center Washington, D. C., U. S. A. 1992 to 1994 Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology Chairman Department Obstetrics & Gynecology Arabian Gulf University Manama, Bahrain. September to November 1998. (Due to military build-up and the threat of terrorism against the US citizens in the Middle East during that period American citizens were advised to leave the region) Coordinator Student Gynecology-Obstetrics Clerkship Howard University, College of Medicine (Co-author of a new clinical teaching curriculum) Washington, D. C., 1995 – 2001 Coordinator Residency Program of Gynecology-Obstetrics Howard University, College of Medicine (Co-author of a new RRC approved residency program curriculum) Washington, D. C., 1995 – 2001 Lecturer 1. Proctor in Operative Laparoscopy Omnia, Research and Education Division Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June, 1996 2. United States Medical Licensing Examination (USML) Intense Prep Review Course in Gynecology & Obstetrics Medical Education Services. Arc Ventures, Inc Washington, D.C., U. S. A., 1996 3. The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology Preparatory - Review Course for Oral and Written Examinations of ABO+G. The Osler Institute, Dallas, TX, Chicago, IL, 2006 – 2008. Co-author 1. New Residency Program Core Curriculum 2. New Application for residency program accepted by RRC, Howard University, College of Medicine, The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Washington, D. C., 1994 Implementation New Residency Program of Gynecology and Obstetrics Howard University College of Medicine Washington, D.C., 1996-1998 EDUCATION: M. D. Diploma Academy of Medicine, Wroclaw, Poland 1966 Ph. D. Diploma Academy of Medicine, Wroclaw, Poland 1971 Habilitant Doctor Diploma (Post Ph.D. degree) Jagiellonian University, College of Medicine, Krakow, Poland, 1995 PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Internship: Internal: Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology, General Surgery, Pediatrics [6 months rotation per area) Academy of Medicine, Wroclaw, Poland 1966 1968 Residency Program in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Academy of Medicine, Wroclaw, Poland 1968 1971 Fellowship in Extended Pelvic Surgery (2nd degree of specialization in OB/GYN ) Academy of Medicine, Lublin, Poland 1971-1973 Fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology Academy of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland 1973-1975 Residency Program in Obstetrics & Gynecology (American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology granted 2 year credit for European clinical experience) State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA, 1980 1982 CERTIFICATION: Diplomate (Re-Certified 2009) Obstetrician & Gynecologist The American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2009 Diplomate (Re-Certified 1996) Obstetrician & Gynecologist The American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology Diplomate Obstetrician & Gynecologist The American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1986 Identified Specialist Obstetrician & Gynecologist and Reproductive Endocrinologist State of Maryland, Board of Medical Examiners, 1988 E.C.F.M.G. 1980 F.L.E.X. 1982 Diplomate Obstetrician & Gynecologist. The Europian-Polish Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, I-Degree 1971 Diplomate Obstetrician & Gynecologist The Europian-Polish Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, (Second Degree), 1973 Diplomate Reproductive Endocrinologist The Europian-Polish Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 1975

Gynecologic Surgery

Trofimov Alexander Vasil’evich. 1973 – got a diploma of the Doctor on Novosibirsk State Medical University. 1998 - degree of Doctor of Medical Sciences, after- ISA professor (1999), academician of International Academy Energyinformative Sciences (2001), academician of American biographic Institute (ABI), (2010), General director and Chief of Scientific council of International Scientific Research Institute of Cosmoplanetary Anthropoecology named after Academician V.P,Kaznacheev (1994- 2017), chief of laboratory helioclimatopatology of Science Center of Clinical and Experimental Medicine of Siberian Department of Russian Academy of Medical Science (until 2010 year). Trofimov Alexander is too D.Sc (H.C.,Colombo,1996), D.Sc of Open International University for Complementary Medicine in Affilation with Zoroasrtian College (1998) From 1975 till 2017 wrote more than 300 scientific works, 7 monographs and have 7 patents.Awarded with honorary certificate for achievements in the field of helioecology and geocosmic medicine by Cambridge Biographical Institute (GB) and with the Medal of achievements in field of Cosmic Anthropoecology by American Biographic Institute (ABI) and included in the list of 500 Greatest Geniuses of the 21st Century book (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 2009).Awarded of the Medal of Russian Federation of Cosmonauties (2001) and the American Medal of Honor for Contribution to Cosmic Anthropoecology (ABI-USA,2007).

Heliobiology, Cosmic Anthropoecology, Geoecology, Cardiology, Transpersonal Psychology, Kozyrev’s space Investigations

Vishal Laroia is a Founder and CEO at Global Healthcare & Medical Services Pvt ltd. He is healthcare industry veteran currently leading medical tourism domain in his company. He is a seasoned healthcare leadership experience with special expertise in the areas of hospital management projects, medical travel and new venture analysis. He is an MBA graduate with specialization in marketing & IT.

Healthcare Management

Professor Dr. Mohammad Hadi Dehghani (PhD) is a Full Professor at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Tehran, IRAN. His scientific research interests include the Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, Solid Waste and Disposal, Air Quality and Health, Water treatment, Drinking Water and Health, Air Pollution and Human Health, Environmental Toxicology and Human Risk Assessment. He is the author of various research studies published at national and international journals, conference proceedings and Head of several research project at the TUMS. He has authored 8 books and more than 150 full papers published in peer- reviewed journals. He is an editorial board member and reviewer in many internal and international journals and is member of several international science committees around the world. He has supervisor and advisor PhD and MSc theses at the TUMS.

Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

Dr. Mojtaba Mafi M.D., Medical Doctor/ Physician, graduated from Tehran university, School of Medicine with honor. He studied in neurosurgery ward and graduated with A score with thesis on Meningioma Brain Tumor during 6 years. With continuing his practice with special consideration on psychosomatic disorders, He completed many post graduate courses on health psychology, addiction medicine, sexual disorders therapy successfully. He passed many post graduate courses in Neuro, approved by Medical sciences university. As well, He have been passed post graduate courses on Nutrition, Gastroenterology and hepatology, Obesity treatment and diabetes approved by Tehran University of Medical sciences. He successfully passed more than 10 programs with certificates and membership in Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Having honor of working as associate of Iran Hepatitis Network and Gastroenterology and Hepatology research center, Middle East Liver Diseases Center (MELD). This strong study background enabled me to successfully earn certificates on 3 programs: Updates of skin and treatment from Tehran university 2015 and course on skin care updates from Iranian society of practitioners on 2016, and during 2 years, He had passed Beauty and Skin care courses in South Korea and certified from Sunghuwan co Ltd for using and working of beauty technology, RF and IPL. I am director of fatty liver and related metabolic disorders study among Iranian families since 2015 and currently publishing the results of our study and research about fatty liver and hyperlipidemia, diabetes and nutrition as study director and clinician associate member of Iran Hepatitis Network. I am reviewer and associate editor of Hepatitis Monthly Journal and reviewer of journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology.

Neurosurgery, Osteoporosis

Hans von Holst received his Medical Doctor´s degree in 1976 and specialist in Neurosurgery 1982 at Karolinska University Hospital. In 1985 he earned his PhD and Associate Professorship in Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. During 1991-1996 he was appointed as Chairman of the Dept of Neurosurgery and Division Manager of the Neuroclinics at Karolinska University Hospital, respectively. He has been appointed as senior neurosurgeon from 1974 to 2015. Between 1995-2015 he was appointed as Professor in Neuroengineering at the Royal Institute of Technology. He has published around 150 original papers in reputed journals, reviews and books and has been serving as an editorial board member in several journals

Stroke, TBI, Dementia

Dr.Olivia Catolico currently working as Professor in Department of Nursing, Dominican University of California and has a Faculty of Record for N4100 Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing. She has done her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from California State University,Fresno,1973, Master of Science in Nursing from Loma Linda, California,1986, Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from Hahn School of Nursing and Health Sciences University of San Diego, May, 2005. She has around 30 research presentations and publications.

Dr. Olivia Catolico Research Interest includes Healthcare Issues of Refugee and Immigrant women, Transcultural Nursing, Education Leadership, Vulnerable Populations.

Dr. Afia Zafar is a Professor and Consultant Microbiologist and also Chairperson, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan. Currently, she is working as Consultant microbiologist and have 20-22 years of experience in Infection control. So, she can talk on nurse role/surgical cases/ infection control etc. She can serve as Chair or co-chair or can be part of a workshop. She has been associated with Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA) for more than eight years and has thoroughly enjoyed the experience of serving on the editorial board. It is the oldest medical scientific indexed journal of Pakistan, providing an important service to our scholar community. She has reviewed numerous articles for the journal; this provided her the opportunity to review recent research work conducted in this region. She has also published several papers in JPMA. She received several awards like Joint award (National Tuberculosis Programme and WHO) for participation in Global Training Course on Infection Control for TB, Cairo, Egypt, 2009; 2nd prize for Oral Presentation at the 3rd EuroAsia Congress of Infectious Diseases, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2009; Kaizen award, 2nd prize for the Quality Improvement Project, Expo Centre Reducing Ventilator-associated Pneumonia in ICU at AKUH. 2006; 2nd Prize for abstract submission from 5th International Federation of Infection Control (IFIC) Congress in Zagreb, Croatia, 2005; Outstanding Teacher Award, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan 2004.

Infection control, Antimicrobial Resistance.

Dr. Choudhery earned a BS (Hons) degree from the University of Punjab in 2007. He completed his Doctorate from National Center of excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) in 2012. He completed a part of his research work in Professor David Harris’s Laboratory at College of Medicine, Department of Immunology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. Dr. Choudhery also worked as Post-doctorate Fellow at the College of Medicine, Department of Immunology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA. In 2012 he joined the faculty at the King Edward Medical University as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Choudhery’s research interests include clinical applications of stem cells, caloric restriction, tissue engineering, stem cell transplantation and gene therapy. Further he has a great interest in developing cell-free stem cell based therapies. He has published several research articles in peer reviewed international journals. Currently he is serving as a reviewer and editorial board member of more than 15 international Journals.

Stem cell based regenerative therapies, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, stem cell transplantation and gene therapy, Cell-free stem cell based therapies

Dr. M. Walid Qoronfleh is currently the Director of Healthcare Research and Policy at the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH). Immediately prior to this he was Biotechnology Development Director at Hamad Bin Khalifa University - Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (HBKU-QBRI). He has over 20 years of scientific, technology, business, and commercial experience. Dr. Qoronfleh leads the WISH Doha-based research unit which is engaged in research areas that are of immediate global and local healthcare relevance to Qatar. The research is undertaken with a view to positively impacting health policy. These areas include autism, mental health, dementia, patient safety, cancer, diabetes & obesity, precision medicine and bioethics.

Biotechnology, Diagnostics, and Precision medicine/healthcare

Biography: Roberto Hegg, MD, PhD, professor of School of Medicine at University of São Paulo, Director of Clinical Oncology Service at Reference Center of Woman´s Health and Director of Clinical Research Center

Center of Woman´s Health and Director of Clinical Research Center

Alexander Gorin is a professor of Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus. He is a holder of a conjoint Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics and PhD degree in Engineering Science. Due to his achievements he has been awarded as well the Higherpost-doctoral Doctor of Science degree andan Academic titleof Professor. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE, UK). His research in manufacturing and machining of advanced ceramics, composite materials, fundamental heat and mass transfer studies in porous media and fluid mechanics of separated flows, biofluidmechanics, multiphase systems, transport phenomena in living systems is widely recognized in the scientific and engineering communities. He has served on numerous organising committees for international conferences, has collaborated with various international institutions. He has published more than200 papers, including books and patents. He is a member of Editorial Boards for International Journal of Energy & Technology, Bioceramics Development and Applications,Journal of Fluid Flow Heat and Mass Transfer and has been invited as a keynote speaker for many conferences, congresses, and symposia. More than 20 PhD students have been awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree for studies completed under the Prof Alexander Gorin’s supervision.

Nanotechnology

Mar 2006–present Working as a Senior Researcher International Research Institute of Stavanger · Environment Norway,Stavanger

Man-made pollution effects (individual and population level), climate change effects from individuals to ecosystems, environ. modelling, environ. risk assessment, international environmental legislations and regulations, GIS.

Despoina Iatridou graduated in 2000 from Veterinary School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. After her graduation, she set up her own veterinary practice in Greece, where she worked for more than seven years as a veterinary practitioner, before leaving for Brussels. Since February 2010, she has been working in the FVE Office as a veterinary policy officer. Her duties involve monitoring of legislation of the European Union and initiatives related mainly to veterinary education, veterinary medicines, antimicrobial resistance, One Health, animals used for scientific purposes. In 2014, she was additionally appointed as General Secretary of VETCEE (Veterinary Continuous Education in Europe), an independent organisation that runs an accreditation scheme for postgraduate modular programmes for veterinary practitioners.

Monitoring of policies and other initiatives related to veterinary medicine, animal health, animal welfare and public health and in particular in areas related to veterinary education and research, veterinary medicines, antimicrobial resistance and One Health.

He completed his under graduation in 1996 from Ashwood Medical University (Texas) and Masters (MD) in internal medicine in 1999 from Belford University (Texas).

Interventional Cardiology

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University of Gothenberg

Claudio Nicolini was born in Udine, Italy. He received the doctoral degree in physics from the University of Padua, in 1967. After serving as Adjunct Professor at the University of Bari, he moved for 17 years to the United States, of which he became citizen since 1974, and was originally at Brown University, MIT, and BNL. He then moved to Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, where after a period of intensive training and research in pathology he became Associate Professor of Pathology and then Professor and Chairman of the Biophysics in 1976. In 1985, he was called as “eminent scientist” to the Chair of Biophysics of the University of Genoa, in Italy until 2012, where he was successively Director of Biophysics Institute, DISTBIMO and CIRSDNNOB. From 1993 until now is Life President of the Fondazione ELBA Nicolini and of the Nanoworld Institute. On 2008 has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and on 2010 Honoris Causa Professor of Biophysics and Nanobiotechnology at Moscow State University. He was Chief Editor of Cell Biophysics (USA), Science and Technology Advisor to Italian Prime Minister Craxi, Member of the National Science and Technology Council upon Parliament election, Scientific Director Industrial Consortium CIREF, Founder Technobiochip; President Polo National Bioelectronics, President Scientific Technological Park of Elba Island. He received several awards and prizes and has authored more than 480 publications in international scientific journals (SCI), 35 patents (WPI), 28 books and Series Editor in Bioelectronics (Plenum) and Nanobiotechnology (Pan Stanford). His main scientific activities concerned cancer research, biophysics and nanotechnology, pioneering world-wide chromatin structure-function, bioelectronics and nanobiotechnology.

Cancer research, Biophysics and nanotechnology, pioneering world-wide chromatin structure-function, Bioelectronics and Nanobiotechnology.

Prof.Dr. Osmond Onyeka Trained in Homeopathic Medicine & Surgery, Acupuncture, and Naturopathy in about five Institutes/Universities around the World. He awarded With a Doctorate Degree in Alternative Medicine and about Twenty (25) years’ experience. He also licensed in Alternative Medicine Doctor by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (M.D.C.N) and Doctor of Naturopathy By, the D C, Dept. of Health, Washington DC USA (2004-2010). He was also Visiting Professor of CAM to the Medicina Alternativa Institute/ the Open International University for Complementary Medicines. Recipient of the US Govt. Alien of Extra-Ordinary Ability, Achievement in Science & Education Status, 01A, 2008 -2011, Compare to the Nobel Prize. Former Dean of Academics, Federal College of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (FEDCAM) of the Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja. Holder of Harvard University’s CME Certificate (2009).also a Member in American Naturopathic Medical Association. Appointed: Editor (Alternative Medicine). International Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences (IJMMS) Editorial Board, 2009.

Alternative Medicine

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Department of Chemical Engineering (September 1987 ~ December 1992) Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, December 1992 and Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea Department of Chemical Engineering (March 1981 ~ February 1985) B.S. in Chemical Engineering, February 1985

• Nanobiotechnology • Nanomedicine & Biosensor/Biochip • Protein Engineering

Theodore M. Brown completed his PhD in the History of Science at Princeton University and pursued postdoctoral studies in the History of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He spent 42 years on the faculty of the University of Rochester and is now Professor Emeritus of History and of Public Health Sciences. He is the author or co-author of several books and many articles in peer reviewed journals. His most recent book is a co-authored history of WHO, “The World Health Organization: A History” (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has served for over twenty years as the History Editor of the American Journal of Public Health

Public Health and Epidemiology

Dr. Fadi El-Jardali is a Professor of Health Management, Policy and Systems, Director of the Knowledge to Policy (K2P) Center; Co-Director of the Center for Systematic Reviews in Health Policy and Systems Research (SPARK); Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice; and Co-Director of the Nodal institute at the American University of Beirut. He is also a part time Professor at McMaster University in Canada. Dr. El-Jardali has worked and held senior positions with policy analysis related organizations and hospitals such as the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (as Hospital Consultant), Federal department of health / Health Canada (as Senior Policy Advisor) and the Health Council of Canada (as Health Economist and Program Manager). He was also a hospital director.He is a recipient of the Global Health Leadership Award and was elected to the Board of Health Systems Global Society (and currently the treasurer). He is a recipient of the Fellowship on Evidence Informed Policy from the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research. He is the founding member of the MENA Health Policy Forum and a member of its board of trustees. He is a certified Accreditation surveyors with Accreditation Canada and ISQUA. He has more than 70 academic publications in the field of health management, policy and systems including a book and book chapters.

Health policy making and knowledge translation, quality of care, patient safety and accreditation, health human resources, and performance reporting.

Professor dr. LPH (Philip) de Goey studied physics at the RU in Nijmegen and did his PhD in physics in Eindhoven. He then moved to Mechanical Engineering in 1990, where he was assistant professor, associate professor (1996) and full professor (2000) and finally also dean of department (2011). He was visiting professor at RWTH Aachen (1999) and at BIT (since 2011), where he is appointed as leading scientist of China’s 111 program. He is member of many boards and organisations, for instance, he is member of the board of directors of the Combustion Institute (since 2002) and secretary of the executive committee of the board of the Combustion Institute. He is editor of several journals and was co-editor-in-chief of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. He received several awards, under which the prestigious Simon Stevin Meester Award 2010, the highest award in technical sciences in the Netherlands (500.000 euro).

Combustion science, technology and innovations, laminar and turbulent flames, reacting flows, thermodynamics and heat/mass transfer.

Dr. Szabolcs Fogarasi completed his PhD in 2012 in chemical engineering targeting the recovery of gold and silver from WPCBs. Currently, he is lecturer at Babes-BolyaiUniversity being responsible of the following academic disciplines: Heat transfer and heat transfer equipment’s (HTHTE), Fluid mechanics and Mass transport. His research activities are mainly focused on the recovery of metals of economic and industrial interest from WEEE. He published more than 20 ISI scientific articles and 1 book in the field of HTHTE. He participated in various national and international projects emphasized on environmental issues such as recycling and treatment of e-waste.

Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Mass Transport

Theodore M. Brown completed his PhD in the History of Science at Princeton University and pursued postdoctoral studies in the History of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He spent 42 years on the faculty of the University of Rochester and is now Professor Emeritus of History and of Public Health Sciences. He is the author or co-author of several books and many articles in peer reviewed journals. His most recent book is a co-authored history of WHO, “The World Health Organization: A History” (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has served for over twenty years as the History Editor of the American Journal of Public Health

Public Health and Epidemiology

Leanne Zaver and I bring more than 25 years’ experience in natural medicine to the Sunshine Coast. Assisting people achieve quality in their lives has been my passion since qualifying as a therapist in Acupuncture and Natural Therapies in 1989. In 2001, I upgraded my qualifications to a Bachelor of Health Science Acupuncture and 2012 was registered with APHRA. I believe in natural therapies as a safe and effective way to maintain optimum health. My aim in the clinic is to enable you to establish a balanced state of body, mind and emotions. This will allow for a healing process to occur naturally. My approach is to listen to and focus on individual health needs and I place top priority on ensuring you and I work together to acheive your health objectives. I am a former National Board Member, State Committee Chairperson for the Australian and Chinese Medicine Association (AACMA). I have also lectured at Australian Colleges of Natural Medicine (Endeavour Colleges) and am currently registered with the Chinese Medicine Board, a Fellow and Membership Assessor with AACMA.

Acupuncture, Electro Acupuncture, Moxa and Liniment, Cupping, Dietry Advice, Herbs Vitamins and Minerals.

Dr. Jagdish N. Sharma is currently a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics of which he is the Founding Chairman, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait. He has also served as a Professor of Pharmacology at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, prior to joining Kuwait University in 1999. Prof. Sharma is an author of a book entitled “Topics in Mediators Pharmacology”, which has been published by the Nova Science Publishers Inc., N.Y., USA. Prof. Sharma is the Editor of a book Progress in Drug Research” series entitled “Recent Developments in the Regulation of Kinins” 2014 which is published by Springer Basel AG, Switzerland. He has been to numerous International conferences as invited speaker. Prof. Sharma has been holding several research grants for the support of his clinical and basic research activities and supervised PhD and MSc theses. He has been PhD external examiner and evaluator for promotions to the ranks of Associate Professor and Professor externally. In Malaysia, his research investigations were funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Malaysia. Currently his clinical priority research grant is funded by the Kuwait University research sector. He is the editorial board member of Pharmacy Times (USA) of Middle East from 2007 to date, Inflammopharmacology (UK) from 1997 to date, International Journal of Immunopathology and Pharmacology (Italy) from 2006 to date, European Journal of Inflammation (Italy) from 2006 to date, Archives of Medical Research (Mexico City) from 2006 to date, Clinical Medicine: Endocrinology and Diabetes (New Zealand) from 2008 to date, Clinical Medicine: Therapeutics (New Zealand) from 2009 to date, American Journal of Biomedical Sciences (USA) from 2009 to date and Journal of Pharmaceutical Technology and Drug Research (UK) from 2011 to date. He has more than 109 publication in reputed international biomedical journals

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Dr. Szabolcs Fogarasi completed his PhD in 2012 in chemical engineering targeting the recovery of gold and silver from WPCBs. Currently, he is lecturer at Babes-BolyaiUniversity being responsible of the following academic disciplines: Heat transfer and heat transfer equipment’s (HTHTE), Fluid mechanics and Mass transport. His research activities are mainly focused on the recovery of metals of economic and industrial interest from WEEE. He published more than 20 ISI scientific articles and 1 book in the field of HTHTE. He participated in various national and international projects emphasized on environmental issues such as recycling and treatment of e-waste.

Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Mass Transport

Dario Furnari is a Clinic Manager and Rehab & Health Scientist at the St Magnus Hospital and Clinic Spa Manager, Lecturer, Researcher, Consultant Neuroscience at Aesthetics. His research interests are Neuroscience, Neurophysiology, Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology.

Dementia , Dementia care mangement

Dr Shu Kay (Angus) Ng is Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the School of Medicine, Griffith University. After receiving his PhD degree in statistics from the University of Queensland in 1999, he has worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland. In 2003, he was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral (APD) Fellowship by the ARC. His research interests include statistical modelling, pattern recognition, machine learning, biostatistics, image analysis, and survival analysis. He has published more than 50 research articles and book chapters. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. His current ARC funded research projects (ARC Discovery Project Grants) are in the fields of high-dimensional clustering and multivariate analysis of microarray gene-expression data with applications to cancer diagnostics. Angus was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and is a researcher with the Centre for Applied Health Economics (CAHE).

Statistical Modelling
Biostatistics
Survival Analysis

Associate Professor Dr. Chavalit Ratanatamskul is The Director of Research Unit on Waste Treatment, Faculty of Engineering and The Deputy Director of Technopreneurship and Innovation Management Program, Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received Ph.D. and Master degree of Engineering in environmental engineering from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1996 and 1993, respectively, and B.Eng. degree in environmental engineering from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand in 1991. His major research interests arefocused on anaerobic digestion, waste management and water reuse. He has published research works in international journals and proceedings more than 60 publications. Moreover, he is presently The Chairman of Project Committee and The Vice Chairman of Environmental Engineering Committee at The Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) under the King’s Patronage.

Waste Treatment,Water reuse

Loai Aljerf is a Professor in the Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Dental edicine/Damascus University. He is a specialist in analytical and industrial chemistry. He obtained many awards and published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers (two of them in French) in Environmental Sciences, Green Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Synthesis Chemistry, Concrete, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Petrochemical, Extraction, Separation, Lithium-Ion-Batteries, and Oral Chemistry. He is a partner in Advances in Cleaner Production Network, and a member of the German Chemical Society e.V. (GDCh), Asian Chemical Society, and the American University of Beirut. He is a member of the higher committee of the 6th International Workshop-Advance in Cleaner Production (São Paulo, Brazil (May 24th to 26th - 2017)) and in more than 60 conference organizing committees. Loai Aljerf is in the Cambridge Scholars Publishing-Life Science Advisory Board and an editor of more than 80 journals and a reviewer for Top journals in Industry, Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Industrial Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Cement Industry, Ceramics, Paper Industry, Advances in Cleaner Production, Climate Change, Pollution, Wastewater Treatment, Air Pollution, Eco-friendly Biopolymers, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Polychlorinated biphenyls, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Nanotechnology, Adsorption, Ecology and Natural Resources, Biodiversity, Sustainable Development, Waste Management, Environmental Management, Life Cycle Assessment, Ecodesign, Design for the Environment, Energy Labeling, Eco-efficiency, Chromatography, HPLC, GC, MS, AAS, Spectroscopy, and Lithium-Ion-Batteries.

Theodore M. Brown completed his PhD in the History of Science at Princeton University and pursued postdoctoral studies in the History of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He spent 42 years on the faculty of the University of Rochester and is now Professor Emeritus of History and of Public Health Sciences. He is the author or co-author of several books and many articles in peer reviewed journals. His most recent book is a co-authored history of WHO, “The World Health Organization: A History” (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He has served for over twenty years as the History Editor of the American Journal of Public Health

Public Health and Epidemiology

Dr.Pushpa S Murthy is presently working as a Senior Scientist at Department of Spices and Flavor Science. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology at Mysore University, India. and also recipient of UNU-Kirin fellow from United Nations University. Her primary field is Microbiology and biotechnology with research emphasis on food biotechnology. She is Her research work involves production of value-added products, Food and Pharmaceutical components, bioactivity evaluation of the isolated plant extracts or synthesized compounds on food borne pathogenic microbes and application of the bioactive molecules for food safety. She holds patents, process know –how and is the author of peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and reviews. She is a fellow of society for applied biotechnology, member of Association of microbiologist of India, society of Biological sciences and also association of Food scientist and technologist of India.

Food biotechnology

Prof. Em. Aharon Gedanken obtained his M. Sc. from Bar-Ilan University, and his Ph. D. degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel. After his postdoctoral research at USC in Los Angeles. He got a lecturer position at BIU on Oct. 1975. He spent two sabbatical years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980-8l, and 1987-88 as well as a summer in 1984. He also has done research at NIDDK, NIH in the summers of 1989, 1990 and 1991. In 1994 he switched his research interest from Spectroscopy to Nanotechnology. His special synthetic methods of nanomaterials include: Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET). Since 2004 he is mostly focused on the applications of nanomaterials. Gedanken has published 782 per-reviewed manuscripts in international journals, and has applied for 38 Patents. His H-Index is 85 according to the WEB of SCIENCE. Gedanken has served as the Department Chairman as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He is on the editorial boards of 4 international journals. He still leads a group of 13 research people. He was a partner in five EC (European Community) FP7 projects one of them, SONO, was coordinated by him. This project was announced by the EC as a “Success Story”. He is a partner in PROTECT a textile project in Horizon 2020. He was the Israeli representative to the NMP (Nano, Materials, and Processes) committee of EC in FP7. He was awarded the prize of the Israel Vacuum Society in 2009 and the Israel Chemical Society for excellence in Research in Feb. 2013.

Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET)

Mohamed Siaj received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Laval University, Quebec, Canada, under the supervision of Peter McBreen, a world leader in Surface Science. Following postdoctoral training at the Colin Nuckolls group at Columbia University, New York, a leading institution in graphene research, Siaj joined the Department of Chemistry at université de Quebec à Montréal as an assistant professor, and he is holding the rank of associate professor since 2012. He is acting as Co-Director of the Research Center on Nanomaterials and Energy (NanoQAM) and Director of Analysis of Materials and Microsystems Regrouping (RAMM), Faculty of Science, UQAM. Prof. Siaj has extensive experience in different areas of surface science and nanomaterials-based graphene. Siaj’s group activities focus on the growth, synthesis, processing and characterization of advanced nanostructured electroactive materials and their integration into chemical and biosensors.

Conductive coatings for energy dissipation and lightning protection. Large-area graphene Base Chemical and Biological sensors.

Prof. Em. Aharon Gedanken obtained his M. Sc. from Bar-Ilan University, and his Ph. D. degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel. After his postdoctoral research at USC in Los Angeles. He got a lecturer position at BIU on Oct. 1975. He spent two sabbatical years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980-8l, and 1987-88 as well as a summer in 1984. He also has done research at NIDDK, NIH in the summers of 1989, 1990 and 1991. In 1994 he switched his research interest from Spectroscopy to Nanotechnology. His special synthetic methods of nanomaterials include: Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET). Since 2004 he is mostly focused on the applications of nanomaterials. Gedanken has published 782 per-reviewed manuscripts in international journals, and has applied for 38 Patents. His H-Index is 85 according to the WEB of SCIENCE. Gedanken has served as the Department Chairman as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He is on the editorial boards of 4 international journals. He still leads a group of 13 research people. He was a partner in five EC (European Community) FP7 projects one of them, SONO, was coordinated by him. This project was announced by the EC as a “Success Story”. He is a partner in PROTECT a textile project in Horizon 2020. He was the Israeli representative to the NMP (Nano, Materials, and Processes) committee of EC in FP7. He was awarded the prize of the Israel Vacuum Society in 2009 and the Israel Chemical Society for excellence in Research in Feb. 2013.

Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET)