Primary Healthcare and Emergency Nursing

Heather MacDonald has completed her MScN at the University of Toronto, Canada and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been a Professor at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada, since 1990. She is the author of number of publications and presented papers at various national and international conferences. In addition to working at the University of New Brunswick, she has a Parish Nursing Practice.

Women and Child Health

Hee Yun Lee is a Professor and Director of Research at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in USA. Her major research areas include cancer health disparity and health literacy among immigrant and refugee populations. She is currently conducting several RCT trials to improve cancer screening behavior and health literacy funded by the National Cancer Institute, Susan Komen for the Cure Foundation, and Department of Defense. She has published more than 47 papers in reputed medical/public health journals and has been serving as an editorial board member and currently serving as an Associate Editor for a high impact journal.

Cancer health disparity and health literacy among immigrant and refugee populations

Dr Josef Holzki is a teaching professor at the University Children´s Hospital Liège, Belgium, after retiring from being Director/Chairman of the department of Pediatric Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in Children´s Hospital Cologne, Germany for 23 years. He also served as a President of the FEAPA (Federation of European associations of Pediatric Anesthesia), Lecturer in international meetings of Pediatric Anesthesia and –intensive care and airway endoscopy, honorary member of the Association of Pediatric anesthesia of Great Britain and Ireland (APA).

Pediatric Anesthesia and intensive care, Airway Endoscopy

Luis Beato-Fernández (MD. PhD.) has completed his MD from University of Seville (Spain) and postdoctoral studies PhD from University of Cordoba School of Medicine. He is the director of Eating Disorders Unit at the General Hospital of Ciudad Real and he is professor at the School of Medicine University of Castilla La Mancha. He has published more than 25 papers mainly related to Eating Disorders in adolescents.

Eating Disorders

Hideya Kodama graduated from Akita university of Medicine in 1982, and promoted to a professor of the department of maternity child nursing at Akita university graduate school of medicine and faculty of medicine in 2000. Since them, he have studied about a human circadian rhyme, including a sleep-wake cycle, a melatonin rhythm, regulation of autonomic nervous system and a body thermal rhythm, with nurses who entered his postdoctoral course. Now, he manages several research projects of the doctoral course regarding this issue, and his research subjects include early infants, pregnant women, puerperal and adolescent girls.

Human circadian rhyme, Sleep-wake cycle, Regulation of autonomic nervous system

Professor Michael Silbermann (D.M.D.; Ph.D., and certified specialist in oral and maxillo facial surgery; Chief Resident at Boston City Hospital in Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Ph.D. at Tufts University Medical School (Boston, MA), Post-doc at USC in Los Angeles, CA and the NIH, Bethesda, MD) was head of the laboratory for musculoskeletal research at the Faculty of Medicine in the Technion. He has gained international reputation through multinational research projects related to skeletal development, metabolism and senescence, funded by international research agencies (Israel National Council for Research and Development, Ministry of Science; Chief Scientist Office in the Ministries of Health, and Commerce and Industry; NIH, USAID, and BSF in the United States; BMBF, GBF and GSF in Germany). Large financial support was obtained also from industries. He has been awarded research fellowship grants by the American Association of Dental Research, The Fogarty Foundation (Bethesda, MD), EMBO, Max Planck Society, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences. He served as the Chairman of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine; Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Technion; Chief Scientist, Ministry of Health; Chairman of the Board of Governors, the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation; Member of the Committee for the Promotion of Infrastructure in Biomedical Research, Ministry of Science, State of Israel; Member of the Foulkes Foundation (United Kingdom) Committee for Doctoral Fellowships; The Isreal Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Member of the National Committee for Ethics in Science and Intellectual Property, Israel; Executive Director, the Middle East Cancer Consortium since its establishment in 1996; First representative of the State of Israel in the European Commission in the Program Committee of Bio-Medical Research; EU, Brussels; Chairman, National Committee for Examining Academic Specialty Training in Health, Social and Education Professionals, The Council for Higher Education, State of Israel; Excellence in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, The Finnish Academy of Sciences, Helsinki, Finland. Serves as Editor of J. Palliative Care & Medicine, and Editor-in-Chief of Palliative Medicine and Hospice.

His research interests include end of life, Survivorship research,Quality of life (Qol),And the delivery of palliative care

Momcilo Jankovic has completed his Specializations in: Pediatrics and Hematology (1981) and Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (1989) at the School of Medicine - University of Milan. Since 1982 he is Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at the Department of Pediatrics of the University of Milan, Hospital S.Gerardo, Monza. Since 1994 he is Director of the General Paediatric and Haematological Outpatient Clinic in the same Department. Responsibilities: leukemias, thalassemias, platelets disorders, bone marrow transplantation Research: CNS sequelae in leukemic children; Cooperative studies with the Italian Association of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (AIEOP) and European Countries. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals.

Leukemias, Thalassemias, Platelets disorders, Bone marrow transplantation

Imran Aslan has done his four years healthcare education as Emergency Medical Technician at Batman Health Vocational High School between 1996-2000 years. "Moreover, he has published more than 25 international articles at famous SSCI, ISI etc. indexed journals and also a book named as “Healthcare Management: Optimization of Resources and Determining Success and Performance Factors ” has been published in 2016.

His major interests are Healthcare Optimization and Management, Supply Chain Management, Management and Numerical Analyses.

Louise Kenney currently the Chief Clinical Officer at El Centro Regional Medical Center in El Centro, California. She has been a registered nurse for over forty years. Ms. Kenney has served in many leadership and consulting roles for academic, community based, government and for profit and not for profit hospital settings

Nursing, Healthcare Operations, Healthcare Strategy

I am the Founder and Chairman of the humanitarian organization Cardiac Eye International Foundation (CEIF; www.cardiaceye.com). I am a cardiothoracic surgeon by profession and also a clinician scientist with basic, translational and clinical research, from the bench to the bedside. My work in basic and clinical work has ended up over 200 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals of repute. I bring expertise and skill in general adult cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, complex congenital / paediatric cardiac surgery, surgery for aortic diseases, CCRT placements, MICS aortic and mitral valve, off-pump CABGs, mechanical circulatory support (LVADs, RVADs, ECMO) heart and lung transplant.

adult cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, complex congenital / paediatric cardiac surgery, surgery for aortic diseases, CCRT placements, MICS aortic and mitral valve, off-pump CABGs, mechanical circulatory support (LVADs, RVADs, ECMO) heart and lung transplant

Mr. Salim Hasham is Executive Chairman of Mediheal Group based in East Africa. Prior joining Mediheal Group he has implemented Global Health System Enterprise in East Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan which includes seven hospitals which also includes two university hospitals and more than 400+ centres. He has also served as Senior Vice President - Global Services for Johns Hopkins Medicine International and was responsible for managing its global strategy and service delivery in eight countries. Mr. Salim Hasham has also served as President and CEO of Hawaii Medical Centres, a two hospital and a skilled nursing facility system in Hawaii, USA. He has a 30+ years history in international health care work, private equity health care and health system management. Mr. Salim Hasham got his honours undergraduate degree in Mathematics from University of Nairobi. He has a Master in Health Administration from University of Ottawa, Canada and a summa cum laude Master in Systems Engineering from Clemson University, US.

Health Care systems, Nursing, Global Health

Dr. Ahmed Al-Qahtani is a Experienced Professor with a demonstrated history of working in higher education,training and the hospital & health care industry. He is working as the Director of of Health & Medical Sciences Program Development at Khawarizmi International College. He is Skilled in Health related Curriculum Development, Teaching, Research, Business Planning, Coaching, Medical Devices, and Team Building. Strong education professional with a PhD focused in Medical Immunodiagnostic.

Medical Immunodiagnostic, Health Care

Vimal Narayanan works as the Director at MedTrix Healthcare. Previously he worked as the senor business director at Indegene life systems private limited. He also has work experience in Novartis and Sanofi Aventis.

Health Care, Pharmacy