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Dr. Kalavani had completed his PhD in Healthcare Management at Kerman University of Medical Sciences. He has written many research papers and has been a part of the editorial board of many journals. He has been a presenter at many international conferences. He has been a book translator for many books like “Where and How to Start Quality in Health Care,";;;;;;; etc. He has been awarded a special award at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC) in Bangkok, Thailand. He has been honoured with the country's top researcher (IRAN), 2023. He has achieved many other awards and medals too.

Dr. Manov is serving as a Program Director in the Transitional Residency Program at Sunrise Health GME, Mountain View Hospital, Las Vegas. He is also a professor at Anne Burnett Medical School of Medicine at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. He is serving many other roles as a professor, adjunct professor, chairman, etc. in different places. He is specialised in medicine. He is currently serving as an editor and reviewer in many journals. He has been certified with Board Certification Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine and many other achievements too. He has been honoured as a Top Doctor in the Global Directory of Who is Who. He has been a keynote speaker and presenter at many conferences. He has been in regional lectures as a visiting professor. He has reviewed many research papers and has also published enormous papers. He is working towards the enhancement of the medical field.

Dr. Abdul is working as a Clinical Associate Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He has completed his Professional Doctorate (MD) in orthopaedic surgery. He has published many research papers and also been a part of many conferences. He has been internationally awarded X-INFECT by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia. He has written many books. He has previously worked as an associate professor in different institutions. He is working towards the advancement of the medical sector.

Dr. Wei Wang is Professor of Personality Psychology at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Dr. Wang completed his Ph.D. in Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Liège, Belgium in 1995. Later he successively joined the First University Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China (Formerly Anhui Provincial Hospital) in Hefei, China (1996-2004), the Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China (2004-2019), and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway (2019-Present). Dr. Wang and his crew members are focusing on personality traits and disorders, emotion components and disorders, dream experiences (nightmare and sexual dream) and disorders, and neurocognitive processes at cerebral and brainstem levels. His clinical researches involve the personality disorders, bipolar I and II disorders and schizophrenia and the like.

Dr. Zhonghua Sun is a Professor of medical radiation sciences at Curtin University, Australia. He gained his M.B and PhD degrees in clinical medicine and medical imaging, respectively, from Harbin Medical University in China and University of Ulster in UK. He worked as a radiologist in the department of radiology at Peking Union Medical College Hospital for 9 years prior to taking up one-year medical fellowship during 1998-1999 in Japan. His research interests include diagnostic imaging, 3D medical image visualization and processing, haemodynamic analysis of cardiovascular diseases and 3D printing in cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Chai Hong Yeong is a medical physicist, a certified Radiation Protection Officer and a Professor at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. She is one of the few medical physicists in Malaysia who completed the IAEA Clinical Training of Medical Physicists Specialising in Diagnostic Radiology (DRMP). She is the current President of the South-East Asia Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (SEAFOMP) 2022-2025, Chair of Medical Physics World Board, International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP) 2022-2025, and Vice President of the Malaysian Association of Medical Physics (MAMP). She is one of the Founders of the ASEAN College of Medical Physics (ACOMP) who aims to provide continuous education and clinical training in medical physics in the region. She is also an IAEA expert for multiple IAEA Task Groups and regional activities. She was the recipient of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) Young Scientist Award 2021, being the first South-East Asian who received this prestigious global award. She was also granted the SEAFOMP Young Leader Award in 2017, and Taylor’s University’s President’s Award (Research and Innovation) in 2019. Prof Yeong is the current Director of the Taylor’s Impact Lab: Medical Advancement for Better Quality of Life, an initiative to integrate education, research and advocacy to deliver sustainable solutions to societal problems. Her research areas focus on theragnostics nuclear medicine, interventional radiology and 3D printing in medicine. Her researches have won several local and international awards including the Certificate of Merit awarded by the European Society of Radiology in 2012. She currently owns four patents and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 academic books and 2 book chapters. She is the Editor of the e-Medical Physics World (eMPW) Bulletin and IOMP Newsletter. She also serves as a reviewer for several international renowned journals.

He is passionate trainee in Gynecology and Obstetrics with a strong affinity for high-tech solutions and data analytics. He has completed his PhD in Medicine. Currently he is serving as a reviewer in many journals. He has published many research papers over the years.

Dr. Peter Ekpunobi Chime holds the Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria. He is a Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (FMCP).
Dr. Chime is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, Nigeria. He was Head of Department of Internal Medicine from 2012 to 2014.
Dr. Chime is also Consultant Physician and Cardiologist at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. In addition to training medical students, he is also involved in the training of specialists in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. Dr. Chime has 52 publications in reputable journals. His research interests are Cardiology, General Medicine, Tropical Medicine and Psychological Medicine.

Dr. Denis Aiudi is a Neurosurgeon, PhD Fellow at Università Politecnica delle Marche of Ancona (Italy), at the Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital of Ancona. He is the Chair of the Youngster Group of the italian Neuroncological Society (AINO). His interest and expertise are in the field of Neurooncology. He is a reviewer for several International peer–reviewed journals and she is author of several articles published in International Journals.

Owen Carter is associate professor at the School of Medical Sciences and Research Director at the Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Health Advancement at Edith Cowan University (ECU), and adjunct associate professor at the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control (CBRCC) at Curtin University. He has published and worked on media campaigns in a variety of public health topics, including tobacco control, sun protection, nutrition, physical activity and alcohol.

Dr. Muhammad Ujudud Musa is the pioneer Head of Urology Unit and Consultant Urologist Department of Surgery, Federal Medical Center Katsina, a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons (FWACS), a Fellow and Member of The Nigerian Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and a Fellow of Minimal Access Surgery and Kidney Transplant (FMAS) in Fortis Hospital Vasant Kunj New Delhi India, He is a Member of Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium (CaPTC), He was awarded Doctor of Science (DSc) Honoris Causa by the Commonwealth University Belize, He was awarded Project Management in Global Health (PMGH) by the University of Washington, He is the Chairman of Continuous Medical Education (CME) Committee of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Katsina State Chapter, a Postgraduate Coordinator of the Department of Surgery Federal Medical Center Katsina, and was the Chairman National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Committee in the same Institution.

Prof. Nikolaos Andreas Chrysanthakopoulos was graduated from Dental School, University of Athens in 1998. He has also received another Degree from Faculty of Nursing from University of Athens in 1993. He was attended a program in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery in 401 General Military Hospital of Athens during 2003-2004. He got specialist in Clinical Oncology, Cytology and Histopathology during 2013-2015. His MSc Thesis titled ‘‘Correlation Between Periodontal Disease Indices and Lung Cancer in Greek Adults: a Case -Control study’’ consists the first in the International literature that was examined the possible association between periodontal diseases and lung cancer. Prof. Chrysanthakopoulos is a 6th year Pre-Grdt Student, and PhD Cand. in Medical School, University of Athens. He has received Outstanding Scientist Awards (Feb 2020, Apr 2020, Oct 2021,Mar 2021) by INSO and VDGOOD Awards, Admirable Scientist Award (Feb 2021) by VDGOOD Awards, Excellence Service Award (Nov 2021) by VDGOOD Awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards (Dec 2021, May 2022) by VDGOOD Awards, and Distinguished Scientist Award (July 2022) by VDGOOD Awards. He is also a Professor of Human Anatomy, Human Physiology and Sports Medicine in Public Institute of Vocational Training of Patra. He has published more than 104 manuscripts in International Medical, Oncological and Dental Journals as unique or the 1st author, he is an Editor-in-Chief in 4 International Dental Journals and in 1 International Oncological Journal , Associate Editor in 3 International Dental Journals, Honorable Editor in 2 International Dental Journals, Advisory Board Member in 2 International Dental Journals, Specialty Editor in 1 International Dental Journal, Editor in 17 International Dental Journals, Academic Editor in 2 International Dental Journals, Editorial Board Member in 67 International Dental Journals, Reviewer in 47 International Dental Journals, Associate Editor in 6 International Medical Journals, Honorable Editor in 1 International Medical Journal, Honorary Editorial Member in 1 International Medical Journal, Advisory Board Member in 3 International Medical Journals, Topic Editor in 1 International Medical Journal, Academic Editor in 1 International Medical Journal, Editor in 14 International Medical Journals, Manuscript Editor in 1 International Medical Journal, Editorial Board Member in 123 International Medical Journals, Reviewer in 176 International Medical Journals, Editor in 4 International Oncological Journals, Editorial Board Member in 11 International Oncological Journals and Reviewer in 21 International Oncological Journals. Till now (Dec 2023) he has reviewed more than 1,667 Scientific articles for diverse International Medical, Dental and Oncological Journals. He has also received personal invitations for writing Chapters in several e-Books regarding Dental Anatomy, Oral Health and Periodontics in more than 15 e-Books and to participate in 336 International Medical, Oncological and Dental Congresses as a Speaker and as an Organizing Committee Member.

Associate professor David Rowlands is an academic in the Department of Sport and Exercise Science, in the College of Health at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include exercise and nutritional interventions for Type-II diabetes and chronic achilles tendon injury rehabilitation, exercise metabolism, and performance nutrition research, including epigenomics and protein synthesis within the study of clinically-relevant phenotype plasticity of skeletal muscle. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the European College of Sports Science, and Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand.

Dr Priyadarshini Bhattacharjee, MD, MSc, AFHEA, is an Internal Medicine physician and researcher from Cambridge, UK. She is also a Clinical Supervisor at the University of Cambridge and a Mentor at University of South Wales. She served as an Associate Principal Investigator for the GenOMICC trial of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). She presently has three patents registered in India. She peer reviews for several renowned PubMed indexed journals. Her research interests are cardiovascular health, vasculitis and global public health. She is leading multiple collaborative research projects globally with researchers in UK, USA, Australia, Germany, India, Ukraine, Iraq, Pakistan, Nigeria, Congo, Malawi, Burundi, Uganda, and China.

Malik Olatunde Oduoye is a medical doctor in training at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is a renowned medical researcher worldwide. Malik is passionate about writing, academic research, public health, global health, preventive/rehabilitation medicine, telemedicine and the One Health approach in disease prevention and control. Malik has published more than 25 peer-reviewed online articles in several scientific/PubMed indexed journals, including ResearchGate, Google Scholar and Scopus.
In addition, He has a vast experience in project management, coordination, team-work, and public-speaking. He has worked as a monitoring and evaluation officer at the Federation of Medical Students’ Association (FAMSA), an editor at the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association (NIMSA) and as the West-African regional director at Oli Health Magazine Organization (OHMO) in a 5-year-period. Overall, Malik has many allies all over the world especially in Iran, India, Pakistan, Sweden, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, etc. His hobbies include traveling, reading, writing, and watching movies.

Professor Jennene Greenhill is the Associate Dean Flinders University School of Medicine and Director of the Flinders University Rural Clinical School. She leads the Masters in Clinical Education an interactive, online postgraduate program for health professional educators. She holds a PhD in change and complexity in health systems. She is passionate about building the rural health workforce and has expanded the Flinders rural health education in rural South Australia and western Victoria delivering longitudinal integrated rural programs for medical, nursing, paramedic, and allied health students.

Dr. Aneesh Basheer is associate professor of internal medicine and Dean of Medical Education at Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, India. He completed his post-graduate work in internal medicine (MD) at the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Pondicherry. His main research interests include infectious diseases, haematology and neurology, especially tropical neurology. His academic focus is primarily on clinical medicine and objective assessment of medical students.

Dr. Yuexiang Wang is a Professor at the Joint Center for Translational Medicine of the Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University. In 2015, Dr. Wang was supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Hundred Talents Program and established a translational cancer research laboratory at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai. Dr. Wang has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Nature Genetics, Journal of Clinical Oncology and the New England Journal of Medicine. His research focuses on (i) elucidating the molecular mechanisms of gastrointestinal stromal tumour and pancreatic cancer progression and (ii) translating these findings into early diagnosis and treatments for these deadly diseases.

Dr. Hassan Shora is a senior researcher at Port-Said University, supervisor of PhD and MSc theses in Molecular Medicine cooperating with staff of department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at faculty of science. He also is the head of medicine and director of diabetes center at Ismailia General Hospital and works as a senior lecturer, Egyptian Board of physicians to train medical residents in Ismailia, Egypt. Dr. Shora was awarded Physician Recognition Award of The American Medical Association in 2003 and 2007. He published his first paper in 1984 while he was a second year undergraduate student and published several original research papers thereafter in international journals in role of adiponectin and glycemic control in delaying subclinical atherosclerotic changes in type 1 diabetics, markers of subclinical atherosclerosis in type 1 diabetic adolescents, inflammatory biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk in obese type 2 diabetics iron binding stores in correlation with cardiometabolic risk in obese type 2 diabetics and NT ProPNB as a marker od microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Mauro Dobran, Neurosurgeon, is a temporary Professor of Spine Surgery and Neurotraumatology at Università Politecnica delle Marche of Ancona (Italy). He works as neurosurgeon at the Department of Neurosurgery University Hospital of Ancona. He is a member of the Italian Society of Neurosurgery, Italian Society of Spinal Surgery and Ao-Spine international. His interest and expertise are in the field of spine surgery and neurotrauma with more than 60 original scientific publications. Since 2014 Dr Mauro Dobran is the Director of the spinal live surgery course for residents of neurosurgery.

Dr. Michael E. Farkouh is the Peter Munk Chair in Multinational Clinical Trials at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Director of the Heart and Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, Professor and Vice-Chair, Research, Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a graduate of the Schulich School of Medicine at Western University. He completed his internal medicine and cardiology training at the Mayo Clinic and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York respectively and holds an MSc in Clinical Epidemiology from McMaster University. He is internationally known for his work on the management of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency room. He has a special interest and expertise in the field of cardiovascular disease in diabetic patients.

Professor Yingkun Guo, M.D., is a Deputy Director of Department of Radiology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, China. Also, Professor Guo is the PI of Molecular Imaging Lab. The laboratory of molecular imaging was established in 2015, and aim to develop novel molecular imaging in vivo, targeted nano-molecular probe, radiogenomics，and imaging contrast mechanisms; evaluate emerging MRI sequences in animal models of human diseases; translate and apply innovative diagnostic imaging in clinic. His focus of research includes cardiovascular imaging, pediatric radiology, molecular and metabolic imaging.

Dr. Jinping Lai is an Associate Professor of GI, Hepatic, Pancreatic, Head and Neck Pathology, Research Director of GI, Liver and Pancreas Unit, in the Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Florida, College of Medicine in Gainesville. He received his MD and PhD at Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University, China. He has written several book chapters and published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include, GI/hepatic, pancreatic, head and neck neoplastic and non-neoplastic diseases; tumour markers.

Dr. Xiaolei Shi graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in 2016 and started his career as a resident at Department of Neurology at Wannan Medical College. Dr. Shi undertakes basic and clinical researches in Alzheimer’s disease, migraine and ischemic stroke. He specially dedicated into the studies of microglia inflammatory responses in these diseases.

Dr. Gwo-Shing Chen is currently the Professor of Dermatology at Kaohsiung Medical University and Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. He obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from China Medical University, Taiwan, and received his PhD degree from the University of Kitasado, Japan. He completed his dermatology residency training in 1985, and since then had worked as a full-time dermatologist at Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital. Since 2000, he had been appointed as Director of the Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Medical University and Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Arianna Di Stadio is an Otolaryngologist, specialized in Otology/Neurotology, Facial Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery. She is currently responsible of the Otolaryngology research line at the San Camillo Hospital IRCCS in Venice (Italy). Her research interests are neurodegenerative disease. In particular she studies the involvement of hearing pathways in the neurodegenerative disease as Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer and Mitochondrial disease. She collaborates with the Columbia University of NY and the Wayne University in Detroit. She is a reviewer for several International peer–reviewed journals and she is author of several articles published in International Journals.

Antonio Pesce, MD, is a general surgeon at University of Catania, Italy and a PhD in Basic and applied Biomedical Sciences. He has University Degree in Breast Diseases-Paris Diderot VII-University, Degree in clinical ultrasound-SIUMB Italy and Degree of the European School of Surgical Ultrasonography (E.S.S.U.), Institute Humanitas Rozzano, Milan (Italy). He is Treasurer of the Italian Society of Surgical Research (SIRC) from 2014 to today, Councillor of Sicilian Society of Surgery (SSC) from 2017 to 2019, Co-investigator of European Registry on Fluorescent Image Guided-Surgery (Euro-FIGS) in collaboration with IHU-IRCAD center of Strasbourg, France. His research interests include hepato-biliary and colorectal surgery. He is author of several publications and book chapters.

Dr. Shucheng ZHANG is a professor at Key Laboratory of Chinese Health Ministry for Congenital Malformations and Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University. In 2008, he received MD and PhD in China Medical University. At present, he acts as the Member of Gastrointestinal Motility Committee of Chinese Medical Association, Member of Pelvic Floor Disorders Committee of Chinese Medical Association, Member of Paediatric Surgery Committee of Chinese Medical Association, and Member of Solid Tumour Society of Chinese Anticancer Association. The main research expertise includes gastrointestinal motility, Constipation, Pelvic Floor Disorders and Paediatric Surgery. He also takes the research in development of enteric nervous system.

Prof. Li received her PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006 and finished her postdoctoral training in 2010. She is currently a Research Assistant Professor in CUHK, Hong Kong, China. She focuses on the investigation of molecular mechanism of human cancer especially lung cancer, identification of the bio-markers for cancers, and exploration of the novel anti-cancer agents.

Professor Jong Hun Lee has received PhD in the year 2009 from Graduate School, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He is currently working as a Professor in the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Eulji University Medical center and a center manager of the Eulji Medi-bio Research Institute in Eulji University. His research interests include, Incurable Wound, Antibacterial Dressing Materials, Adipose Derived Stem Cell (ADSC) and wound healing, Perivascular Stem Cell (PVC) and wound healing, Senescence and Wrinkle, Cosmetic surgery, Head & Neck reconstruction, Pressure sore, Infected wound therapy, Maxillofacial bone trauma, Face & neck rejuvenation, Botulinum Toxin and Dermal Filler.

Professor Sam Cheol Kim M.D, Ph.D., is currently practicing as a director at Well-Being Functional Medicine Clinic/Dept. of Family and Community Medicine/International Health Care Center, Chosun University Hospital and Dept. of Family and Community Medicine Chosun University College of Medicine. Also he has worked at the Dept. of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Chosun University Graduate School of Health Science. He experienced Integrative Medicine/Palliative Care/Family and Community Medicine at the University of North Dakota Center for Family Medicine and Mayo Clinic as a visiting professor. His research interests include Integrative Medicine (Functional medicine, Chronic fatigue, Dysbiosis, Clinical nutrition) and Primary care.

Dr. Namiranian has completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Baylor College of Medicine and his fellowship in Pain Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic. He is an Anesthesiologist/pain specialist at the Baltimore VAMC and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Namiranian completed his PhD on the novel two-pore potassium channel TREK-1 in Baylor College of Medicine. His interests include, improving the peri-operative care and improving spine care using multidisciplinary approach.

Maria Caterina Pace, M.D. is currently Professor of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation And Intensive Care, at University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli” and is serving as Chair of Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital “L. Vanvitelli” in Naples, Italy. Her fields of interest are pain medicine, anesthesia, emergency toxicology and intensive care medicine.

Dr. Ramanathan, MD is currently working as Neurologist at Akron Neurology, Inc. Ohio. He pursued his post graduate Neurology residency at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh following which he did a Vascular Neurology fellowship from the highly ranked and prestigious Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio. He is board certified in Neurology, Vascular Neurology and Hypertension. He has numerous publications to his name in Neurology and subspecialties of Neurology like stroke, headache, and neuroimmunology.

Dr. Alexander E. Berezin has received PhD in the year 1994 from State Medical University of Zaporozhye, Ukraine. He is currently working as a Professor of Medicine in the State Medical University of Zaporozhye. As a Chief of Cardiology Unit of Internal Medicine Department, his research goals include fundamental study of biological markers, implementation of visualization procedures and percutaneous cardiovascular interventions, the development of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation, especially in the field affected heart failure, atherosclerosis, and coronary artery disease. Based on this research and training in heart failure he has received several awards and honors. He has authored for more than 850 research articles and 25 books/chapters.

Dr. Marco Fiore is a Senior Resident in Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy). He earned his MSc in Hepatology from the Department of Gastroenterology of the University of Padua (Italy) and Specialization in Infectious Diseases at the Second University of Naples (Italy). His fields of interest are difficult-to-treat infections in end stage liver diseases patients and non-invasive diagnostic techniques.

Dr. Luis del Carpio Orantes, is a specialist physician in Internal Medicine, serves as a physician attached to Internal Medicine and intensive therapy at the Mexican Institute of Social Security. He is a researcher at the Mexican Institute of Social Security with the subject of emerging arboviruses, carrying a protocol on guillain barré syndrome and zika. Writer of the book “Emerging Arboviruses, dengue, chikungunya, zika, mayaro and usutu”. Expert columnist of the Ibero-American Society of Scientific Information. Author of several articles related to Internal Medicine and intensive therapy with special emphasis on emerging arboviruses.

Camillo Ricordi, M.D. is the Stacy Joy Goodman Professor of Surgery, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Miami (UM), Florida, where he serves as Director of the Diabetes Research Institute (DRI; www.diabetesresearch.org) and the Cell Transplant Program. Dr. Ricordi also served as Responsible Head of the Human Cell Processing Facility (1993-2014), an NIH funded cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) facility that has been providing Human Cell Products for research and clinical applications at UM, in Florida and worldwide since 1993.

Dr. Goudra is an Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. He obtained his primary medical education from Bangalore Medical College, Bangalore, India. After training as a junior resident at the prestigious Jawaharlal Institute of Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, he moved to Ireland for Specialist training. His main area of focus is out of operating room anaesthesia with an emphasis on anaesthesia for endoscopic procedures and total intravenous anaesthesia. He has conducted clinical research and published extensively in this area. Additionally, he has invented airway devices “Goudra Bite Block” and “Goudra Mask Airway” that are likely to improve the safety and efficiency of out of operating room anaesthesia practice.

Valerio D’Orazi, M.D, Ph.D., is corrently Assistant Professor in General Surgery at Department of Surgical Sciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy. He teaches General Surgery at many degree courses of Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. His main clinical and research interests are the application of microsurgery in general surgery, particular in thyroid microsurgery, hand surgery, peripheral nerves microsurgery (compression syndromes, traumatic injuries and tumors of the peripheral nerves like neurofibromas and schwannomas) and andrological microsurgery.

Dr. Niels Tommerup graduated as MD from the University of Copenhagen in 1978, and joined the cytogenetic laboratory of Prof. Margareta Mikkelsen at the John F. Kennedy Instítute, Glostrup, Denmark, separated by a two year stay at the University of Oslo, Norway (1989-91). He is a full professor and head of the Medical Genetics unit at the University of Copenhagen since 1996. Funded by The Danish National Research Foundation to establish Wilhelm Johannsen Centre for Functional Genome Research as a Centre-of-Excellence at the University of Copenhagen (2001-2011). Coordinator of Mendelian Cytogenetics Network (EU-Biomed 2 (2000)). Established the International Breakpoint Mapping Consortium in 2014, a global effort to dissect the human genome with 10,000 sequenced constitutional chromosomal breakpoints.

Dr. Benjamin Tharian is an interventional gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Medical Director of Endoscopy at UAMS, Little Rock, USA. He graduated from India and completed fellowship training in Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and General Medicine in the UK (Manchester and Northern Ireland Deanery). He did advanced endoscopy fellowship at Center for Interventional Endoscopy, Orlando, USA. He has a keen interest in quality improvement projects and has published in the field of interventional endoscopy.

Dr. Naveen Patil serves the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) as the medical director for HIV/STI/TB/Hepatitis sections, and is the project director of the Hansen's Program grant. He is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and has master's degrees in health services administration and gerontology, and a fellowship in Hospital Administration. Dr. Patil is the chairman of the Arkansas AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) Formulary Advisory Committee, and serves on the board of the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and the advisory board of the Heartland National TB Center and HIV/STI Prevention Training Center.

Dr Samuel SW Tay is graduated from the National University of Singapore with a PhD in Anatomy (1985), and did his post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Iowa (1984-86) under the tutelage of Professor Terence Heaton Williams. He joined the Department of Anatomy, National University of Singapore in 1986 as a Lecturer, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1992. In 1992-93, he worked as honorary post-doctoral fellow under Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, the doyen of Neuroscience at University College, London (UK). In recognition of his research achievements, he was appointed as an Associate Professor in 1997. Over these years, he has taught more than 5,000 doctors, 400 dental surgeons and 200 pharmacists.

Dr. Timothy Albertson is currently Chair of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis. Prior to this position, He was Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He had a long-standing interest in both clinical and research in the toxicology of clinical drugs of abuse including their epidemiology. His current research effort combines his training in pharmacology and toxicology, patient care and clinical medicine. His academic responsibility continues to focus on environmental health and lung pathophysiology. In addition, because of his clinical association with the CTSC and his academic administrative position, He is the key faculty trainer to bridge the clinical translational research and basic pulmonary pharmaco-physiology.