Biography

Arthur Jason De Luigi, DO, MHSA is the Chair of the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, and Director of Sports Medicine for the Mayo Clinic Arizona. Dr. De Luigi is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Sports Medicine, Brain Injury Medicine, Pain Medicine, and Musculoskeletal Ultrasound.

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• Sports Medicine, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, Concussions, Musculoskeletal Injuries, and Ultrasound & Fluoroscopic Guided Interventional Spine, Joint, and Nerve procedures

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Dr. Paolo Roberti di Sarsina Graduated in Medicine in 1979 at the University of Bologna School of Medicine and specialized in Psychiatry in 1983 at the same University. From 1980 to 2012 full-time psychiatrist in the National Health Service at the Bologna Local Health Authority, Mental Health Service, practising as a clinical psychiatrist, psychotherapist and integrating Homotoxicology and other Non Conventional Medicine into the Italian NHS. Founder of the not-for-profit network Permanent Committee of Consensus and Coordination for Non-Conventional Medicine in Italy (established in Bologna on December 5, 2003 among the signatories to the Consensus Statement that coordinated until March 20, 2009; Committee Chairperson for International Relations. 

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• Complementary & Integrative Medicine.

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He has published many research articles in international journals and filed several patents.  Also, he is author of two international books. He is member of editorial board  of many reputable scientific journals and serves as a reviewer for various prestigious journals. He is member of the organizing committee's numerous international conferences in Asia, Europe and North America. He has received “Best Teacher Award” by Dr D Y Patil Knowledge City, Pune. He has honored by "Excellent Researcher Award (Male)” by "International Academic and Research Excellence Awards (IARE-2019)”. During his research, he has Synthesized 78 organic compounds (By conventional & green method) out of which 76 compounds are novel compounds. He used PbO Nanoparticles for the synthesis of Azo compounds.

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• Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Nanotechnology.

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Dr. Kevin Yap is an inter-disciplinary cyber-pharmacist and digital health researcher at the Department of Public Health, La Trobe University. He has knowledge in digital media creation, web databases, data mining and analytics. His interests span the whole digital healthcare innovation cycle through the development, utilization, application and/or evaluation of informatics, internet, digital and other health-related technologies in various healthcare settings to enhance medications management in patients, as well as the flow of drug-related information and knowledge to healthcare professionals and patients. These include drug databases, mobile apps, prediction of adverse drug reactions, telemedicine/telepharmacy, social media, virtual platforms, and serious games, among others, to enhance health education, medicines use and improve patient care.

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• Digital healthcare & E-health, Tele-medicine & M-health, Pharmaco-informatics & Cybernetic pharmacy, Social media in healthcare, Onco-informatics, CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Informatics and Digital education & E-learning.

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Dr. WS Fred Wong is a pharmacist by training. He graduated with a BS in Pharmacy (Cum Laude) from the St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health in New York. After completing his pharmacy internship, he moved on to pursue his graduate study in The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, majoring in Pharmacology. Subsequently, he did his postdoctoral training in Lilly Research Laboratory in Indianapolis, Indiana. He then moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, as a research associate in medicine to study the role of urokinase in inflammatory conditions. He has joined the Department of Pharmacology of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore since 1995.

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• Allergy and Respiratory Medicine : Asthma and Airway Management Immunology : Inflammation

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Dr. Vera SF Chan is a cellular immunologist. In receiving the Croucher Foundation Scholarship, She obtained her PhD training in the area of T cell immunology in autoimmunity at the University of Oxford, UK.  Dr. Chan then continued post-doctoral training to study T cell activation and tolerance mechanisms in autoimmunity at the Ontario Cancer Institute, University of Toronto with the support of the Croucher Foundation Fellowship. In 2006, she was recruited as a Lecturer at Imperial College London, UK and in 2010, she re-joined her alma mater in Department of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong. Over the years, Dr. Chan has broadened her research interest in innate receptors, specifically in the role of the C-type lectin pathogen receptors DC-SIGN and L-SIGN in infectious diseases.  She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, with the research focus on the cellular immuno-dysregulation in lupus pathogenesis and innate receptor immunology.

Researches :

• Innate receptors immunobiology, Molecular profiling, Molecular and cellular immunology

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Dr. Mullin is an associate professor in the department of medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is an internist, gastroenterologist and nutritionist. Dr. Mullin is nationally and internationally renowned for his work in integrative gastroenterology and nutrition. Mullin has accumulated over 20 years of clinical experience in the field of integrative gastroenterology and earned his master’s degree in nutrition while in practice. In 2009 he was named by the American Dietetic Association’s as an honorary member. He is an associate editor of several nutrition and integrative medicine journals and serves on several exam boards. Dr. Mullin has authored/edited several books in nutrition and integrative medicine (http://thefoodmd.com/books). He has been interviewed on radio and television and has contributed to many stories in print media. Dr. Mullin’s biography has been included in Marquis Whos Who numerous times and continues to be selected as one of America’s Top Physicians since 2004.

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• Nutrition, Gastroenterology, CAM-Integrative Medicine, Obesity/weight loss, Capsule Endoscopy, Parenteral and enteral-based nutrition support, Functional Bowel Disorders, Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

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Dr Vural Fidan has recieved his MD and PhD in Hacettepe University. He is deputy director of ENT department. He is an Otorhinolaryngologist at Yunus Emre Goverment Hospital. He worked as a visiting scientist at Yale University ENT and Allegry departments. He has more than 20 SCI indexed articles. Research interests are pulmonary hypertension, allergy, otology, rhinology and sleep medicine.

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Dr. Chandradhar Dwivedi earned his Ph.D. degree from the Pharmacology Department of King George Medical College, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India in 1972. He was a Postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. He served as faculty member at Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, and Research Scientist at the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He has been a faculty member at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, South Dakota State University (SDSU) since 1987. He was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor in 2000 and serving as Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences since Fall 2003. He is also serving as a Director of Translational Cancer Research Center funded by the State of South Dakota. His current research areas are on neuropharmacology, and cancer prevention and treatment.

Researches :

• Pharmacology, toxicology, and pathophysiology

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Dr. Shibata is a professor in Graduate School of Health Sciences, Osaka Health Science University, Osaka, Japan. He obtained doctor degree of medical sciences from Graduate School of Medical Science, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan. After this he investigated cancer development and cancer prevention in National Institutes of Health, USA (1994-1999). He was awarded at the title of NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence in 1999. Then, he became an associate professor in Osaka Medical College, Osaka, Japan and conducted cancer research and medical education at this medical college in 1999-2011.

Researches :

• Anatomy and Cell Biology

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Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bologna. Since 1990 he has contributed to the development of in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy in basic research and in diagnostic applications. In 1987 he gained his master’s degree in Chemistry, and PhD in Biochemistry in 1994. From 1992 to 1993 he has been working at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the University di Pennsylvania. His scientific activity ranged from organic and physical chemistry to biochemical thermodynamics. At present part of the activity is directed to the study of magnesium homeostasis in living human tissues and in vitro in cell culture. He contributed to the development of a novel procedure to simplify the treatment of the thermodynamics of complex systems making possible to re-unify the two worlds of chemical and biochemical thermodynamics, which so far have been treated separately, and represents a new paradigm in the biochemical thermodynamics

Researches :

• Biochemistry, Biochemical thermodynamics, Physical chemistry, Cell imaging, Alternative medicine, Science and art integration, Effect of sound on living systems

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Dr. Norimune (Nori) Kawai, CCC-SLP, is an Professor in the Center for Special Needs Education Research and Practice, Graduate School of Education at Hiroshima University, Japan. His research topics are listeners auditory perceptions of stuttering and speech motor activities of people who stutter. Although his primary area of interest involves fluency disorders, Nori spends more than 600 hours to deal with children and adults who have various kinds of speech, language, and hearing disorders every year in addition to his teaching and research hours.

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Arthur yin Fan,PhD,CMD,LAc. An active researcher in Acupuncture and Oriental medicine(AOM).Director of McLean Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, PLC. Research adviser for Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine program,Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland. Research interests: AOM Basic study, acupuncture mechanism, herb safety evaluation, AOM clinic trial design and methodology,and AOM history.

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• Scientific study, clinical practice and history of Acupuncture,Chinese medicine(herbology)

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Dr. Søren Ventegodt was born in 1961. His father was a historian specialised in maritime history and co-editor of the large Gyldendal Danish Encyclopaedia, his mother a nurse with a master degree in French. When Søren was 10 years old his younger brother Jesper died in a terrible drowning accident, which awakened Søren’s spiritually and he soon became interested in philosophy, science, sport and arts. At age 11 years, he started to write poetry, play music and read books on chemistry and at age 13 years he had his own chemistry lab in the family basement, which he continued to develop though his teenage years. Gifted with a special talent for science he entered the University of Copenhagen at age 18 years and after studying chemistry, philosophy and finally medicine, he entered the research field of theoretical biology. During his last years at the university he developed a highly controversial theory of quality of life (QOL) and the state of consciousness as the primal factors causing disease including cancer. His research in quality of life soon became popular with the general public and in 1992 the Pharmacist Foundation of 1991 awarded him, while still a medical student, a grant of 600,000 Euro for his research in quality of life and health. The University Hospital in Copenhagen (Rigshospitalet) and the late pediatric professor Bengt Zachau-Christiansen helped him to establish the Quality of Life Survey using the Copenhagen Perinatal Birth Cohort 1959-61 as the sample for the research. This way the Quality of Life Research Center (QOLRC) was established in 1993 at the University Hospital. In 1994 this institution became one of the first independent QOL Research Centers in Northern Europe and moved to its present location in the center of old Copenhagen with Søren as its director. In 1997 the Research Clinic for Holistic Medicine was established. More than 100 peer reviewed scientific papers have now been published, making the QOLRC one of the worlds most productive centres of new medical knowledge in the field of clinical holistic medicine – “quality of life as medicine”. In 2003 the Scandinavian Research Institute for Working Life Quality (NFA) was established in Oslo, Norway based on the ideas, books and materials produced by Søren Ventegodt. In 2004 the Nordic School of Holistic Medicine was established at the QOLRC. He also participated in establishing the International Society for Holistic Health (ISHH) in 2004. In 2006 he became director of Nordic Campus, Interuniversity College, Graz. Søren Ventegodt is today the author of 10 popular books (some of them best sellers) and hundreds of papers and articles in magazines and scientific journals. He is often used as a speaker on QOL and holistic health throughout the Nordic countries. Through more than 1,000 presentations and lectures at most of the universities and large companies in Denmark he has made 100,000 Danes understand the fundamental quality of life concepts. After more than 1,000 presentations in the national medias, from the nine a clock news to national TV- and radio programs and the front pages of the leading newspapers during the past 14 years, the Danish society at large now seems to have assimilated the key message: that you can improve your QOL and thus prevent disease and even improve your health and ability if you are sick, unhappy or poorly functioning. He is also working on several international text book series i.e. “The Principles of Holistic Medicine” together with professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc. He is a permanent member of the organizing committee arranging international conferences on Holistic Health together with the ISHH (International Society for Holistic Health), which he initiated in Copenhagen in 2004. His most ambitious project is starting a holistic research hospital and he is working to raise the funds needed for the establishment. The hospital will take the scientific holistic medicine to the next level, which is the phase 3 clinical studies, documenting the effect of the new drug-free medicine on a large number of patients with many different diseases from cancer, autoimmune diseases, and chronic pains to schizophrenia and existential, developmental and psycho-sexual problems. His dream is that in 2030 many more physicians will use holistic training programs to help their patients fight the diseases instead of just giving bio-medical drugs, which often is not effective with chronic illness.

Researches :

• human sexuality and treatment of sexual problems and dysfunctions.

Biography

Dr. Paolo Gisondi was born in Rome in 1972. He is married with Emanuela and is the father of Marco. He currently works as a research assistant in the Dermatology and Venereology Section of the University Hospital of Verona, Italy. He received his degree in Medicine from the Catholic University of Rome in 1997 and then specialized in Dermatology and Venereology at the University of Parma in 2002. Before moving to Verona in 2006, he worked for two years at the Istituto Dermopatico dellImmacolata of Rome. He is a member of the Italian Society of Dermatology (SIDEMAST), European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV), Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA) and he has been invited to join to the European Dermato-epidemiology Network (EDEN). He is an editorial board member of the Open Journal of Dermatology, World Journal of Diabetes and Advances in Psoriasis and Inflammatory Skin Diseases. He has been sub-investigator in 15 clinical phase III randomized trials investigating the effects of biological therapies in psoriasis. His main scientific interests include the epidemiological, clinical (i.e. comorbidities) and therapeutic aspects of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Apart from clinical research, more than half of his working hours are dedicated to the outpatient clinic and dermatological surgery. He is a co-author of 80 original articles, 14 book chapters, 88 abstracts for congresses and 80 invited lectures.

Researches :

• Alternative & Integrative Medicine.

Biography

Dr. Olga Golubnitschaja has studied journalism, biotechnology and medicine and was awarded fellowships for biomedical research in Paediatrics and Neurosciences (Medical Centres in Austria, Russia, UK, Germany, The Netherlands, and Switzerland). She is well-cited in the research fields of “gene hunting” and “subtractive hybridisation” applied to predictive prenatal & postnatal diagnostics published as O.Labudova in years 1990-2000. Dr. Golubnitschaja is an expert in molecular diagnostics actively publishing in the fields of perinatal diagnostics, Down Syndrome, Diabetes mellitus, hyperhomocysteinemia, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, cancer. She is the author of fundamental works in the integrative concept of predictive, preventive and personalised medicine. She is Secretary-General of the European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine (EPMA, Brussels), Editor-in-Chief of "The EPMA-Journal", BMC, London, Book Editor of "Predictive Diagnostics & Personalised Treatment: Dream or Reality", NSP, New York 2009; Book-Series Editor "Advances in Predictive, Preventive & Personalised Medicine", Springer.  

Researches :

• Integrative concept of predictive, preventive and personalised medicine