Preventive Medicine & Public Health

Prof. Dr. Carol Thomson, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Professor and Academic Tenure of Genetics, Virology and Immunology at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He is a British scientist, who along with Qui-Lim Choo, George Kuo and Daniel W. Bradley, co-discovered Hepatitis B in 1989. He also co-discovered the Hepatitis D genome in 1986. The discovery of Hepatitis B led to the rapid development of diagnostic reagents to detect HCV in blood supplies which has reduced the risk of acquiring HCV through blood transfusion from one in three to about one in two million. It is estimated that antibody testing has prevented at least 40,000 new infections per year in the US alone and many more worldwide. Prof. Dr. Carol Thomson is currently America Excellence Research Chair in Virology and Li Ka Shing Professor of Virology at the California South University (CSU) where he is also Director of the Li Ka Shing Applied Virology Institute.

Genetics, Health Care

Prof. Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. His research interests include Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure, Biochemistry, Molecular Simulation, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncology, Synchrotron Radiation, LASER, Anti–Cancer Nano Drugs, Nano Drugs Delivery, ATR–FTIR Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Intelligent Molecules, Molecular Dynamics, Biosensors, Biomarkers, Molecular Diagnostics, Numerical Chemistry, Nucleic Acids, DNA/RNA Monitoring, DNA/RNA Hypermethylation & Hypomethylation, Human Cancer Tissues, Human Cancer Cells, Tumors, Cancer Tissues, Cancer Cells, etc. He has participated at more than two hundreds reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Turkey, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, China, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor and so on heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than twenty books and book chapters in different fields of Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than eight hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals, books and publishers. Hitherward, he is a member of more than two hundreds reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. In addition, he is member of the Nobel committee for Chemistry. It should be noted that he is currently the President of American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Public Health

XUE-QIAO ZHAO, is a Research Professor of Medicine and Director of Coronary Atherosclerosis Research Laboratory, University of Washington. She was a Senior Research Fellow, Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1993. She was also Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Laboratory, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 1989. She was Chief Resident, Cardiology, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, 1988 and Cardiology Fellow, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, 1988. She was Resident in Internal Medicine, Beijing Post-Telecommunications Hospital, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, 1986 .She has completed MD, Beijing Medical University, Beijing, China, 1983.

Medicine

Dr. Yong Zhu is an Associate Professor at Yale University School of Public Health and Assistant Director of Yale Cancer Center for Global Cancer Epidemiology. Dr. Zhu's research interests are oriented towards the use of the molecular epidemiological approach in the study of genetic susceptibility biomarkers and their interactions with environmental exposures in human disease development. Dr. Zhu has been developing and validating novel phenotypic and genotypic assays and biomarkers for several cancer types, including non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, breast, bladder, lung and prostate cancer. By utilizing various techniques in genetics, epigenetics, cytogenetics, cell biology, and computational biology, his studies have identified biomarkers that can characterize inherited predisposition and cellular response to environmental factors. Current research focuses on studying the role of two transcriptional factors, circadian genes and small noncoding RNAs, in tumorigenesis.

Environmental Health; Genetics, Medical; Public Health; Molecular Epidemiology; Breast Neoplasms; Molecular Epidemiology

In 1979 Professor Jamil joined Baghdad Univrsity, in 1997 emigrated to USA, in 1998 joined Wayne State University and in 2015 joined Michigan State University. He is author of 20 books, In 2013 wrote chapter in a Book title “Biopsychosocial Perspective on Arab American : Cultural Development and Health”. He has 194 publications. He has given 1190 presentations at scientific meetings. Participates in research funded by E.g., NIMH, CURES, Pfizer. He is one of the founder of " “AlNahrain International Society of Iraqi Scientists” in 2017. In 2003 Prof. Jamil biography was listed in the 25th. & 26th. Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, as well as in the American Biographical Institute, USA. In 2012 the Iraqi Society of Occupational Health and Safety named the conference Room of the Society by Professor Hikmet Jamil. He had received several Awards from different academic institutions, non-profit organizations, WHO and Governmental agents.

Health Care

Dr. Masako Morishita is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University (MSU). She is an environmental exposure scientist, focused on improving physicochemical characterization of indoor/outdoor airborne particles, quantification of biomarkers of trace metals, and emission source identification – all of which is essential for toxicological and epidemiological studies in public health. Until recently she led exposure assessment tasks in the Great Lakes Air Center for Integrated Environmental Research (funded by USEPA), and directed the Trace Metals Laboratory for the University of Michigan Environmental Health Sciences Core Center (funded by NIEHS). She now directs the newly-constructed MSU Exposure Science Laboratory. She is currently the PI of an NINR R01 project, conducting a community-based intervention study focusing on the reduction of personal PM2.5 exposure and adverse cardiovascular responses. She received her B.S. in chemical engineering and her M.S. and Ph.D. in environmental health sciences from the University of Michigan.

Environmental Health Science

Professor Lau received his Bachelor Degree (First Class Honor) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his master and doctorate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and was a recipient of the Yale in China Scholarship, the CUHK-University of California Reciprocity Scholarship, the Hewlett Packlett Fellowship and the Population Council Fellowship of the United States. He joined the Faculty of Medicine in 1989 and served as the Director of the Centre for Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Research from 1993 through 2002 and the Director of the Centre for Epidemiological Research from 2002 till 2010. He was the President of the Hong Kong Epidemiological Association from 2007-2009. He also served as the Secretary of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the University from Oct 2002 to Jun 2008. He is currently Professor and Head of the Division of Behavioral Health and Health Promotion and the Director of the Centre of Health Behaviors Research of the School of Public Health and Primary Care. Professor Lau is also the Director of the Community Research Program on AIDS, an active research program which was established in 1996 and has been awarded a Focus Investment Grant of the University. He has been a member of the Management Committee of the Institute of Chinese Medicine of the University from 2002 to the present. ​ Professor Lau is the Founding President of the Hong Kong Society of Behavioral Health, newly established in 2013. He is currently an Overseas Review Expert and an honorary professor of the Institute of Psychology, China National Academy of Sciences, and an honorary professor and the Director of the Centre for Medical Anthropology and Behavioral Health of the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat Sen University, adjunct professor of the Peking Union Medical College, and guest professor and external examiner of the Master of Public Health Program of the Shantau University. He is also serving as an assistant editor of the Addiction journal (ranked first in its field) and an editorial board member of the journals including Addictive Behavior, AIDS Care, Journal of BioMed Research, Health Psychology and Behavioral Health, Journal of OpenAIDS, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Journal of Environmental and Public Health and Chinese Journal of Sexually Transmitted Infections, The Open Aids Journal and Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as a consultant and advisor for five other scientific journals. Professor Lau has authored and co-authored over 400 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and has been awarded 59 grants as Principal Investigator and 42 grants as Co-investigator. He has also served as a reviewer for major journals including Lancet, American Journal of Public Health, Emerging Infectious Diseases, AIDS, Journal for Epidemiology and Community Health, Social Sciences & Medicine, Cochrane Collaboration, Journal of Gerontology, Tropical Medicine & International Health In terms of consultancy services, Professor Lau serves as a consultant of the China National Hospital Association and as a consultant of the Centre for Disease Prevention and Control for Hunan Province, Jiangsu Province, Shenzhen, Dazhou and the Institute of Family Planning in Shenzhen and the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies of the Columbia University. He provided professional consultancy to international organizations such as the Family Health International, HLSP and the Cambodian government. Professor Lau is also very active in community services. He has been involved in various advisory governmental committees such as those in HIV/AIDS, rehabilitation, civic education and youth development etc. He chaired the Hong Kong Coalition for AIDS Services Organizations from 2000 to 2002 and has been a Director of AIDS Concern in Hong Kong since 2005 to present and an advisor of the Community Health Organization for Intervention, Care and Empowerment (CHOICE) and the Friends of Scout Association.

Public Health, Health Care

Vera Simovska is University Professor for Hygiene of Nutrition, Medical Dietetics and Health Management at the MIT University-Skopje. Prior to that, she was the founding director of the Master Studies for Nutrition, and Food Quality and Safety at the University of Bitola from 2012 to 2015. She was also a member of the Macedonian Committee for Health Promotion and an expert in the Ministry of Health from 2002 to 2011. From 2005, she is the first President of the National organization for the promotion of health-enhancing physical activity “HEPA Macedonia” which is a member of the WHO HEPA Europe. She was a National coordinator of several programs covered by the World Health Organization and an independent expert of the European Commission (FP7, HORIZON2020). Dr. Simovska research is focused in area of public health nutrition, physical activity, obesity, cardio metabolic risk, and the NCD prevention and health promotion strategies and programs. She is the author of published academic books and chapters, and over 100 original scientific articles.

Public Health Nutrition, Physical Activity, Obesity

Delfina Ramos has a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering. University of Minho, with the thesis entitled “Cost-Benefit Analysis in Occupational Risk Assessment". Delfina Ramos is also Professor Honoris Causa of University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. She is Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) and Polytechnic Institute of Management and Technology (ISLA). Lectures in the area of Occupational Health and Safety in BSc and MSc Courses in the area of Engineering and of Management Systems. Researcher Member of Ergonomics & Human Factors research group at University of Minho. Research Member of the IEM R&D Line Algoritmi Centre, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal. Research work focuses in Occupational Health and Safety. Author of several publications in international journals and book chapters in these domains. Collaborating as a reviewer with one international peer-reviewed scientific journals in the domain of Occupational Health and Safety. Member of the Editorial Board of Global Journal of Health Science. Member of Scientific Comittee of several International Conferences. IRCA Certified Coordinator Auditor. Occupational Health and Safety Area (OHSAS 18001). She is a Member of group of auditors of SGS Certification SGS ICS - International Services of Certification, Lda. Health and Safety (OHSAS 18001) and Quality (ISO 9001) area. Certified Health and Safety High Technician. Senior member of the Professional Association of Engineers of Portugal. Member of the Evaluation Board of Internships of the College of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Member of CT194 (Technical Commission for the Standardization of Nanotechnologies - SC4 - Health, Safety and Environment) of the Portuguese Quality Institute (IPQ) representing EST- IPCA.

Health and Safety

Aizman Roman Idelevich, Head of the Dept. of Human Anatomy, Physiology and Safety of Life, Director of the Scientific Research Institute of Health and Safety of Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, the Honorary worker of National education & the Honorary worker of science of the Russian Federation. He is a member of 2 scientific councils for defensing doctor's degree dissertations on physiology & psychophysiology, the associate editor of three scientific journals. He is a Scientific director of 8 doctor's and 40 candidate's dissertations, the author and co-author of about 500 scientific and methodical works, the head of Ph.D. programs on physiology & safety of life. In 1994-2004 worked as the visiting professor at the California University (USA), Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), Weictman Institute of Science (Israel). He has diplomas of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry on Extreme situations, the Medals «Property of Siberia», and K.Ushinsky.

Developmental physiology, renal physiology and water-salt homeostasis, sports physiology, psychophysiology

Dr. Yuji Aoki is the Director of the Outpatient Department, and head of the Lifestyle Disease Laboratory, National Hospital Organization Matsumoto Medical Center, Matsumoto, Japan. He is a Visiting Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Matsumoto Dental University, Shiojiri, Japan. He got his Medical Doctor in 1981 and Ph.D.-medicine in 1993 at Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.

Metabolism, Endocrinology, Anti-Aging Medicine

Dr. Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya is a Director General of Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India. He has completed his M.B.B.S. examination in 1975 from N.R.S. Medical College, Calcutta and M.D. (Internal Medicine) examination in 1979 from University of Calcutta. He is a Member, ICMR Central Ethical Committee on Biomedical Research. He is also Founder Member in National Brain Research Centre, New Delhi.

Medicine, Health Care

Dr. Lu is Ministry of Health and Research Professor at the National Institutes of Health, University of the Philippines Manila; and has published 15 ISI journals related to Occupational and Environmental Health. She is also a University Scientist, and has authored two books on the subject matter.

Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH), Sociology of Health and Work

Basma Abdelmoez Ali Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Minia university, EGYPT. She is Co-Manager of Minia University Children's and Maternity Hospital. She is Head of the pediatrics' diabetes and Endocrinology's Unit. Reviewer of more than 15 National and International journals. She is graduated with MBBCH with the a rank of excellent at 1993 , MD of pediatrics with the a rank of excellent at 1997, PhD of pediatrics at 2003 and professor of pediatrics since 2013. She supervised and evaluated more than 100 Master and MD thesis in different Egyptian Universities. MEMBER of many National and International SOCITIES. Published 32 articles in National and International journals. Attend and was a speaker in more than 100 conferences and workshops. She had 7 awards for publications and research working.

Medicine

Professor Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar has over 25 years teaching experience in biomedical sciences. Besides teaching, he has a very strong portfolio of academic administration by serving as Director, Principal Investigator, and Vice Chancellor/President of the higher education institutes in North America and Asia. Dr. Mukhtar received United States Agency for International Development Scholarship to complete his Ph.D. from the Drexel University of Philadelphia, PA, USA. Additionally, the US government awarded him the Outstanding Scientist (O-1) visa award during the years 1995 - 2006 for conducting research, training students and young scientists pursuing their careers in medicine and biomedical field in the USA. Diversified assignments in several parts of the world including Brazil, Portugal, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America provided him with an opportunity to interact and lead people from different backgrounds. Dr. Mukhtar teaching was recognized with the outstanding clinical faculty award 2005 from the Thomas Jefferson University of Philadelphia, USA and academic management with Asian Education Leadership Award 2012. Committed to his field, he is serving at multiple honorary assignments. Among several, a few worth mentioning are: invited professional membership (2016 – 2017) of the New York Academy of Sciences, USA; global outreach member for the American Society for Microbiology; Member of the International Advisory Committee and General Scientific Committee of the 3rd Middle East Molecular Biology Congress & Exhibition, Doha, Qatar (November 2016). Dr. Mukhtar’s scientific research is reflected in the form of >100 research, review, book chapters, critiques and general articles. Besides several others, his contributions have been recognized with UNESCO Award, a recognition by Sigma Xi in the area of Science and Technology and a most recent fellowship honor by the Pakistani Academy of Medical Sciences.

Biomedical Science