Dr. Bishara Atiyeh is a clinical professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon. He graduated from the American University of Beirut and completed his plastic surgery training at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He then completed a fellowship in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York. He is the current President of the Euro-Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters, the Association od Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Descent, and the Lebanese Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is also Past-President of the Lebanese Society of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery and the Pan-Arab Association for Burns and Plastic Surgery. Dr. Atiyeh is the Executive Editor of Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters; he is also member of the Editorial Boards of several scientific publications. Dr. Atiyeh has organized many local, regional and international congresses and instructional courses and has been invited as a guest speaker to numerous conferences; he is the author of more than 150 scientific publications and chapters in reference books and has edited 2 books the first about post bariatric body contouring and the second about oncoplastic breast surgery and breast reconstruction.

Burns,plastic surgery,oncoplastic breast surgery and breast reconstruction

Valentina Dini received her medical degree (2000) and her residency (2005) in Dermatology at the University of Pisa, where she doctorated in Immunology and Technology of Transplantation in 2009, also completing a fellowship in wound healing (2006) at the University of Miami. For 3 years she was post-doctoral fellow at the Division of Dermatology of the University of Pisa. Currently, she is a researcher at the University of Pisa pursuing her research work mainly at the Division of Dermatology . Her research interests are tissue repair of chronic wounds and psoriasis. She has designed and conducted clinical trials to evaluate novel therapies for psoriasis. The major part of her activities was focused on setting up her laboratory of non-invasive diagnostic techniques for skin assessment. She has ongoing collaborations with the dept. of rheumatology and the dept. of chemistry in a variety of preclinical and clinical studies. Efforts of her laboratory continue to be focused on all aspects of translational research in wound healing and psoriasis. Dr. Dini’s scientific accomplishments resulted in numerous publications in prominent scientific journals. She continues to dedicate her efforts to research, education through supervising clinical care of our residents and providing clinical and dermatopathology teaching cases as well as frequently participating in research projects and teaching in national and international conferences. Dr. Dini recently joined as a co-investigator an international research group which was the recipient of an European Union 7th FrameWork Programme grant. She is a member of a Tuscan committee for the guidelines development of psoriatic patients management. She is president of the International School of Tissue Repair (SIRTES) since 2010. She is the author of several papers, lectures to international conferences and chapters in international books. She is in the editorial board of Acta Vulnologica and Chronic wound care and Research journals

Tissue Repair of Chronic Wounds and Psoriasis

Marco Romanelli is board certfied in dermatology and venereology from the University of Pisa. He is Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Pisa. Coordinator of the Task Force in Wound Healing inside the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV). President of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS). He is in the editorial board of the journals: Wound Repair and Regeneration, WOUNDS, Journal of Tissue Viability, Journal of Wound Care, International Journal of Lower Extremities Wounds, Wounds Medicine. Main interests in research are: non invasive diagnostic techniques in wound management and dermatology, biomedical sensors, tissue engineering, atypical wounds biomarkers. Coordinator of phase II and III clinical trials. Director of a Master Course in Wound Management at the University of Pisa and Scientific Director of the International Tissue Repair School (SIRTES). He is active member f European Tissue Repair Society, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, American Academy of Dermatology.

Non invasive diagnostic techniques in wound management and dermatology, biomedical sensors, tissue engineering, atypical wounds biomarkers.

Jasmina Begic finished postgraduate study on the Sarajevo University Medical School of Medicine. She is Medical Consultant for BIOPTRON, Zepter Internastional for Bosnia and Herzegovina , Founder of Association for Wound management in B&H, Founder and author of Euro-Asian Forum, one of founder of www.BALWMA.org. She is member of EWMA Cooperating Organisations Board.completed her PhD n the field of Tissue Regeneration and Wound Healing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Her research focus comprises the understanding of cellular homeostasis during tissue regeneration

Chronic Wounds, Leg ulcers different etiology, Disorders of sebacious glands(Acne vulgaris, Rosacea), Anti-Aging Treatments (Non-Invasive Treatments)

Denis Barritault graduated in Physics, completed his PhD in biochemistry in Paris University. Post doctoral in molecular immunology at Pasteur Institute and NYU as NIH Fogarty Fellow he joined INSERM unit in Paris as developmental biologist. He made the first description and patents of FGF extracted from retina in 1979 and 82 as skin and cornea healing agent, became full professor at Paris-Est University in 1985, founded and directed a CNRS Laboratory on cell and tissue regeneration until 2003. He is now President of OTR3, Emeritus professor, honorary director CRRET CNRS unit and author in over 200 publications and 30 patents. He succeeded in transforming his research in basic science into product to treat patients, one to treat skin wound the other for corneal ulcer. Several other products are now in development for new indicatiions in regenerative medicine

Tissue Regeneration, Molecular Immunology

Ferdinando Mannello received his Biological Science degree (1982) and his specialization (1999) in Clinical Biochemistry at the University “Carlo Bo” of Urbino, where he trained in Laboratory Technology, and completing fellowships as Visiting Professor in USA (2005-9) and UK (2010). For several years he was Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at the Faculty of Biological Sciences of the University of Urbino. Since 2015, he is Associate Professor of Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Urbino, and Director of the Section of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the Dept of Biomolecular Sciences of the University of Urbino. He holds the chair of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology at the School of Biotechnology of the University of Urbino. Currently, he is pursuing and supervising the research work at the Section of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, mainly focusing the interests in the biochemical aspects of the chronic wound microenvironments. He has designed and conducted clinical studies to evaluate novel therapies for venous leg ulcers, especially with glycosaminoglycans-based therapy. The main research activities were focused on setting up his biochemical laboratories to diagnostic and prognostic biomolecular techniques for wound assessment and identification of clinically useful biomarkers in wound fluids. He has ongoing collaborations with the Dept of Surgery and the Dept of Angiology in a variety of preclinical and clinical studies, with collaborative works with USA and UK Universities. Efforts of his laboratories continue to be focused on all aspects of translational research in wound healing. Prof. Mannello’s scientific accomplishments resulted in numerous publications in prominent peer-reviewed and impacted scientific journals

Clinical Biochemistry of Wound Microenvironment Biomarkers of Wound Healing Bio-molecular characteristics of Venous leg Ulcers Pharmacological treatments of Leg Ulcers

Dr. Barbul joins our surgical faculty as Professor in the Division of General Surgery after serving as Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD and Medical Director of Operating Rooms/Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery, Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.His clinical areas of interest include surgical procedures involving the GI tract, hernia repair, complex wounds, surgical nutrition and a broad range of other general surgical procedures. Dr. Barbul is currently expanding a specialty treatment program for patients with gastroparesis, a growing population of chronically ill patients who have unique gastric/digestive conditions due to diabetes, and other health issues. Dr. Barbul is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. For his contributions to wound healing, he has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wound Healing Society of America.

Surgical nutrition, amino acid metabolism and research pertaining to the treatment of wound healing.

Shaik O. Rahaman, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food science at the University of Maryland, USA. His laboratory is interested in elucidating the molecular signaling events underlying the pathogenesis of various inflammatory diseases, specifically, atherosclerosis and fibrosis. Dr. Rahaman earned his PhD in Molecular Biology at Jadavpur University, and a BS in Human Physiology (Honors), and an MS in Biophysics and Molecular Biology from University of Calcutta. From 2000-2014, Dr. Rahaman worked at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA, as a Postdoctoral Fellow, eventually as a Project Scientist studying signal transduction in Cell Biology and Oncology. He has received many awards and honors. Dr. Rahaman was honored with Elsa Albrecht Award by Cleveland Clinic, which is awarded for outstanding publication. During 2011-2014, Dr. Rahaman also served as an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, USA. In 2013, he was the recipient of the American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant. Dr. Rahaman is the author or co-author of 20 research papers on neurobiology, oncology, atherosclerosis, or fibrosis in high impact international peer-reviewed journals of repute including Cell Metabolism and Journal of Clinical Investigation. Dr. Rahaman has given numerous invited talks nationally and internationally, and is a reviewer/editorial board member in numerous scientific journals. Dr. Rahaman also served as a reviewer for National Institute of Health (USA).

Cell Metabolism, Inflammatory diseases,Atherosclerosis and Fibrosis

Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD FACS, Founder and Medical Director of SerenaGroup™, a family of wound, hyperbaric and research companies. Dr. Serena completed his residency in Surgery at the Hershey Medical Center. To date he has opened and operates wound care centers across the United Sates and globally. He has been the lead or Principal investigator in over 100 clinical trials and is recognized internationally as an expert in the field of wound healing: He has more than 100 published papers and has given more than 1000 invited lectures throughout the world. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Wound Healing Society and served two terms on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC) and is now the President-Elect. He has also been Vice-President of the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine and President of the American Professional Wound Care Association

• Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy in the treatment of any of the 14 approved indications • Amputation prevention • The business of wound care • Research in wound healing • Diagnostics in wound healing • Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Angiography in wound healing • Advanced wound care

Dr. Gerlach was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh after the Washington-based non-profit World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) report, “Tissue Engineering and Research 2002", identified him as one of the experts worldwide addressing 3-D perfusion high-density culture design for medical devices. Dr. Gerlach holds an MD and two PhDs with a background in surgery, experimental surgery, and bioengineering. With his dual appointment, he directs the interdisciplinary Bioreactor Group at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine within the University of Pittsburgh and contributes to the Schools of Medicine and Engineering. Most of his projects focus on cell biology methodology and bioengineering technology developments are designed to contribute to knowledge on controlling cell behavior for anticipated patient treatments. His working hypotheses, consequently, relates mostly to the behavior and function of progenitor cells in an in vitro environments that he developed. Dr. Gerlach´s general interest is in technologies for the clinical translation of stem cell biology research, and he concentrates on the development of innovative cell-based therapies. In the area of skin he developing active wound dressings and cell spray grafting technologies. His “Skin Gun” development was broadcasted on National Geographic TV and is posted on YouTube under the key word “skin gun”.

Dr.Gerlach's research focus is on improving the understanding of how to control the expansion and differentiation of stem cells on a clinical translation scale. Organs and cells of interest have been skin, liver, bone marrow and hematopoietic, neuronal, adipose tissue, and cancer cells. He works with adult progenitors, fetal tissue derived progenitors, and embryonal stem cell lines. He specializes in advancing 2-D in vitro culture models to 3-D perfusion high-density cell-co-culture systems for stem cells, development of bioreactors for organ support, and systems for the production of cells for regenerative medicine cell transplantation. General topics include maintenance and differentiation of cells in vitro for extracorporeal, temporary clinical use as a hybrid organ, in vitro models for studies on stem cell niche interactions, and production of cells in cell-based therapy.

Brian Peskin, BSEE-MIT (1979), is a theoretical research scientist specializing in lipids‐based pharmacognosy, and CEO of Peskin Pharmaceuticals. His research focuses specifically on physiologically targeted essential fatty acids (EFAs) and their eicosanoid metabolites. Being a translational science expert with a long-term interest in diabetes and its underlying pathophysiology, extensive work in oncology and cardiology preceeded his applications into diabetic foot ulcers. His work is focused on pathways maximizing oxygen delivery and blood flow to the human cell and maximizing tissue functionality. Focus is on supporting and optimizing the patient's natural physiologic processes—not blocking or impeding metabolic pathways.

His research focuses specifically on physiologically targeted essential fatty acids (EFAs) and their eicosanoid metabolites. Being a translational science expert with a long-term interest in diabetes and its underlying pathophysiology, extensive work in oncology and cardiology preceeded his applications into diabetic foot ulcers/wounds.

Dr. Chaur-Dong Hsu received his medical degree from Kaohsiung Medical School in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1982, and his master of public health degree from The John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, MD., in 1991. Currently, he is Chairman and Frank P. Iacobell Endowed Professor of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine; Program Director and Principal Investigator of Women’s Reproductive Health Research Career Development, National Institutes of Health (NIH); Specialist-in-Chief, OB/GYN, Hutzel Women's Hospital/Detroit Medical Center and Chief of OB/GYN at Barbara Ann Karmano Cancer Institute.

Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgical site Infection control, Maternal-Fetal Medicine,Hygiene and Public Health

Born in Los Angeles, Ronald Sherman earned his BS in Entomology at UC Riverside, his MD at UCLA, and his Masters degree in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the University of London, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his Internship at Mt. Zion Hospital & Medical Center (one of the UC San Francisco training hospitals) in 1984, his Internal Medicine Residency at UC Davis in 1987 and his Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UC Irvine in 1991. Dr. Sherman started studying myiasis and maggot therapy during medical school, published his first paper on the topic in 1983, and started the first prospective studies in 1990. Twenty years ago, Dr. Sherman published his laboratory methods, so that maggot laboratories could develop throughout the world and supply local populations with medicinal maggots. There are now approximately 22 independent laboratories around the world producing medicinal maggots. After 4 years working for the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Long Beach, CA) as an infectious diseases and geriatrics specialist, Dr. Sherman joined the faculty of the University of California in 1995, where he continued his research in myiasis and maggot therapy. Requests for Dr. Sherman’s medical grade maggots increased world-wide, and in 2004, after review of Dr. Sherman’s clinical studies, the FDA granted full marketing clearance for his Medical Maggots. In order to comply with the high manufacturing standards of the FDA, the laboratory (now known as Monarch Labs) separated from the University in 2005, and Dr. Sherman left the University himself in 2008 to oversee that laboratory, and to continue directing the BioTherapeutics, Education & Research (BTER) Foundation, a non-profit, member-supported organization dedicated to advancing health care through education and research in the therapeutic use of living animals. To minimize conflicts of interest, Dr. Sherman does not accept salary for his work for Monarch Labs nor the BTER Foundation, and he donates all speaking honoraria to the Foundation. To support his family, Dr. Sherman works 1 - 2 days/week as an HIV / AIDS Specialist for the Orange County health department.

Maggot therapy, Leech therapy, and the many other Biotherapeutic modalities

Dr. Efraim Jaul is a specialist in Family Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. He is the Head of the Geriatric Skilled Nursing Department at the Sarah Herzog Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel. It is affiliated with the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Hebrew Medical School Faculty. He teaches medical students as well as nursing students at the Academic Nursing schools of Hadassah Hospital (Jerusalem), Kaplan Hospital (Rechovot), Ichilov Hospital (Tel Aviv), and Jerusalem College of Technology (Jerusalem). He supervises clinical practice and mentors students. He developed and established a pioneering inpatient unit at the Herzog Hospital specifically for the treatment of pressure ulcers concerning the need for a special unit and the resulting benefits for the immobile elderly patients. This unit has elicited interest in serving as a model for geriatric treatment facilities around the world and has set the standard for developing specialized pressure ulcer units.

The primary concept behind the pressure ulcers is the idea that pressure ulcers do not occur alone, and are an integral part of the clinical assessment and preventive treatment of the geriatric patient became a guiding principle in all of his work. It is important to attend not only to the pressure ulcers but also the general needs of the patient. This approach was summarized by Dr. Jaul in an article entitled "Non-Healing Wounds The Geriatric Approach" and a review article about " Assessment and Management of Pressure Ulcers in the Elderly Patients Current Strategy ". This leading essay highlights multi-factorial risks and treatment involved in Multidisciplinary and Comprehensive Approaches to Optimal Management of Pressure Ulcers in the Elderly. Dr. Jaul coined a new terminology in the field of pressure ulcers "atypical pressure ulcers", based on location and etiology classified medical devices, bone deformation and severe spasticity. He was a stream planner for the scientific program of Pressure Ulcers in the 4th Congress of World Union Wound Healing Societies (WUWHS 2012) in Yokohama, Japan. Currently, he is investigating comorbidities focusing on advanced dementia and other comorbidity on pressure ulcers to understand the underlying pathogenesis

Dr. Angela Peghetti is the A.I.S.LE.C. President. She performs coordinative and organisational tasks within different fields: scientific committees, administrative office organizations, institutions and media. In collaboration with the relevant bodies, she draws up projects, deals with paperwork, budget and balance sheets for the same Society. She is Professor and lecturer in the Tor Vergata University of Roma and Bicocca University of Milano. She works in Solatrix hospital in Rovereto (Italy) and focuses on developing Education, Research, Data Collection, alongside organising the research and updating of practice recommendations in the field of wound care.

wound care, biofilms in clinical practice

Dr nidal Younes has completed his MD from Jordan University and postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He is the director of foot clinic at the national center for diabetes, endocrine and genetics, an endocrine surgeon at the JUH.

Diabetic Foot Ulcers, Endocrinology and Genetics

Dr Hamilton completed his PhD in Cellular Engineering at the University of Glasgow in 2000. He worked as a Research Scientist with Advanced Medical Solutions PLC., in England, followed by Postdoctoral studies at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He established his independent laboratory at the University of Western Ontario in 2007, which is focused on biomaterials and connective tissue repair. He has published 39 original research articles, and serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Cell Communication & Signaling and The Journal of Cytology & Histology

Non-healing skin wounds, Wound Therapy and Wound Management

Onnen Grauhan is professor of cardiovascular surgery at the Charite`, Humboldt University Berlin and consultant surgeon at the Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Germany.

Cardiovascular surgery, Wound mannagement, Nagative pressire therapy

Michele (Shelly) Burdette-Taylor has completed her PhD at the University of San Diego in California. She is an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in community health, foot care, and wound care for the college of health, school of nursing and physician assistant program. She has published numerous skin, wound, pressure ulcer, and foot care articles. Her most recent publication was a chapter for the new Wound Ostomy Continence Nurses Core Curriculum for Wound Care for entitled Foot and Nail Care.

Lower extremity wounds

Mieczyslawa Franczyk has completed her master's degree in PT and post graduated study for PhD from University of Physical Education in Poland. She graduated from University of Illinois Public School of Health. She is a member of American Physical Therapy Association. She is author or co-author 8 papers, 7 in arena of subatmospheric pressure wound therapy

Subatmospheric pressure wound therapy , Fistulae management, Wound Mangement and Therapy

Jasmina Begic finished postgraduate study on the Sarajevo University Medical School of Medicine. She is Medical Consultant for BIOPTRON, Zepter Internastional for Bosnia and Herzegovina , Founder of Association for Wound management in B&H, Founder and author of Euro-Asian Forum, one of founder of www.BALWMA.org. She is member of EWMA Cooperating Organisations Board.

Wound Management, Wound Healing, Advance wound treatments

Jeanette Kallstrand Eriksson is a RN and ophthalmic nurse. She is also a PhD in Medical Science with a specialization in Healthcare Sciences and works as a senior lecturer at the School of Health and Welfare at Halmstad University in Sweden.

Healthcare Sciences

Dr. Shargall completed his medical school and bachelor in medical sciences and immunology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He then completed cardiothoracic residency at the Haddasah University Hospital of Hebrew University Jerusalem, followed by cardiac and thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Toronto. Since 2004 he practiced thoracic surgery at the University of Toronto, St. Joseph’s Health Centre and St. Michael’s Hospital (both in Toronto). Between 2007 and 2010 he was the director of medical education at St. Joseph’s Health Centre and the associate director of undergraduate education at the department of surgery, University of Toronto. Since October 2010 he is the division head of Thoracic Surgery at McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at McMaster University and an adjunct Associate Professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. He is the local LHIN 4 (Ontario) thoracic oncology lead and serves at multiple expert panels for Cancer Care Ontario. His main research focus is on post-discharge care for thoracic surgery patients and he has received numerous grants, including the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR), Heart and Stroke Foundation and Ontario Thoracic Society. He is currently chairing the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ working group on VTE in Thoracic Surgery.

Surgery

COL Sara Breckenridge-Sproat, PhD, RN, has a broad range of clinical, administrative, operational, research and leadership positions in a variety of acute care settings. She has been an Active Duty Army nurse for over 27 years and is currently the Regional Nurse Executive for Regional Health Command Europe. She has spoken internationally and published in the areas of nurse staffing, acuity, nursing workload, change management, organizational culture, and empowering junior nursing staff. She is currently the Principal Investigator on a program evaluation appraising the effectiveness of key aspects of the Patient CaringTouch system, a comprehensive and strategic, yet patient-centered, framework for nursing practice in military hospitals.

Nursing Practice

Dr. Lori A. Loan, PhD, RN, FAAN is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, U.S.A. She received her BSN degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and her MS and PhD degrees from the University of Washington, School of Nursing in Seattle, WA. She has extensive experience as a nurse scientist and mentor. Dr. Loan has completed 48 sponsored research studies with grant funds totaling over $6,000,000, and has 33 data-based, peer-reviewed published papers. Her research efforts led to improved policies, staffing models, training programs, and other practice and health services enhancements.

Healthcare

Mary S. McCarthy, PhD, RN, CNSC, is a senior nurse scientist at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA. Dr. McCarthy has over 15 years of clinical nursing experience in medical-surgical, emergency, and critical care and 20 years of funded research in nutrition, bone health, and nursing quality outcomes with a bench-to-bedside focus. Her program of research, supported by over $2 million in grant funding, focuses on health and wellness for service members; she is currently leading a 3-year clinical trial funded by the TriService Nursing Research Program to evaluate vitamin D genomics and Warfighter nutritional resilience.

Healthcare

Cathy Bailey (PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow in International Ageing, at the Department of Public Health and Wellbeing , Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her interests broadly encompass participatory approaches to working with older people, to develop preventative, enabling and cost effective, services and supports. She has managed and supported international and national research projects including those focusing on: health technologies and older adults; social aspects of falls and older adults; creating dementia friendly communities and intergenerational understanding of health and well being. Cathy has collaborated within large multidisciplinary and cross sector research teams and is widely published

Health technologies

Joaquim J.F. Soares has a PhD in clinical psychology (Uppsala University). He is professor in psychology and public health sciences (Mid Sweden University). Tutor of 12 PhD students in the areas of psychology and public health. Reviewer of such journals as quality of life research and psychosomatic medicine. He has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of psychology, public health and epidemiology. Awarded several research grants, including grants from the European Union.

Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Francisca Cisneros Farrar received her Ed.D in higher education administration with a concentration in nursing, MSN, and BSN from Vanderbilt University. She has 40 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and 35 years of experience as an educator. She has a diverse clinical background working in hemodialysis, administration, critical care, emergency room, oncology, home health, pediatrics, and mental health. She has conducted multiple research projects, developed best practice guidelines, and had several grants funded. She has authored multiple articles and made numerous presentations at the state, regional, national, and international level.

Nursing & Healthcare

Dr. Roganovic is the Full Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine Rijeka, and the Head of the Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka. At the national level, she contributed to the improvement of cure rate of children with cancer, and is interacting with regulatory bodies and parent groups. Dr Roganovic is a certified member of many national and international pediatric hematological and oncological societies. She is the author of more than 300 publications, abstracts and proceedings and several book chapters. She serves as a reviewer and editorial board member for number of journals. Dr Roganovic received several awards, including Patients' Choice Award Winner for 2011 and 2015, City of Rijeka Annual Award for outstanding contribution to the lives of children with cancer and the humanization of hospital care, and University of Rijeka Foundation Award for the contribution in biomedical and biotechnical sciences.

Pediatrics

Eileen Savage is a Chair in Nursing at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland. Her primary research interests relate to chronic illness management across the lifespan. She has conducted a number of funded commissioned reports, systematic reviews and studies relating to chronic illness management. She has published widely in the international literature and is on the editorial board of Chronic illness. She leads a research cluster on chronic illness management at University College Cork and has developed strong collaborative interdisciplinary research relationships both nationally and internationally.

Nursing

Anjan Bhattacharya is an Honorary Affiliate Tutor and Course Co-ordinator of DCH/IPPC of Sydney University Australia; MRCPCH UK Invigilator for India Examinations and an examiner elect of the DCH, UK examinations. He is a Fellow of the RCPCH, UK. He is ex-head DNB Program of AGH, Kolkata and DNB Centre Appraiser of NBE, New Delhi. He was awarded Pioneer Award by East Zone IAP and Bharat Jyoti Award by India International Friendship Society. He is one of the course designer and national Trainer of the Trainers (ToT) module on Emotional Intelligence as part of Presidential Action Plan 2014 of Indian Academy of Paediatrics. He is one of the first 15 Honorary Fellows of India in the subject of Disability Prevention and Early Intervention, as conferred by the President of Indian Academy of Paediatrics through its Childhood Disability Group. Appointed as one of the Royal College examiners for the Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH, UK) for MRCPCH and DCH, UK

Pediatrics, part of pioneering core standard setters of ICF for Children and lead in multi centre international validation study

Heather MacDonald 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. In addition to having authored a number of publications, she has presented papers at various local, national, and international conferences. In addition to working at the University of New Brunswick, she has a Parish Nursing Practice.

Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Su-Fen Cheng has completed her Ph.D. at the age of 34 years from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in the USA. She is an Associate Professor of National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences and teaches pediatric nursing. Her research focus is on nursing education and pediatric nursing. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Nursing education and Pediatric nursing

Zekiye Karaçam is professor at Adnan Menderes University Aydın School of Health, Division of Midwifery. She has completed her PhD at Hacettepe University Health Science Instuties on obstetric and gyneacology nursing. She woked at Hacettepe University as lecturer and nurse up to 2004. She has worked at Adnan Menderes University since 2004. She is head of the Deparment of Midwifery. She has published 16 international papers and 21 national papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewers for some international and national journals

Midwifery

Evridiki Papastavrou is an assistant professor at the Cyprus University of Technology teaching the Fundamentals of Nursing and Nursing Science. She holds a PhD and a Masters Degree in Nursing (University of Athens and University of Manchester) and a degree in Public Administration. Dr Papastavrou served as a President of the Nursing and Midwifery regulatory body in Cyprus for 6 years (2006-2012) and is an active member of the National Alzheimer’s committee of experts. She also served as a consultant for the evaluation of nursing education programs in Cyprus and in European peer assessment missions concerning the recognition of professional qualifications. Dr Papastavrou is involved in several international research projects and is a reviewer in many nursing journals.

Dr Papastavrou research interest focus on the concept of care form several different perspectives, like the burden of care, caring behaviours, individualized care as well as the organizational and moral aspects of care.

Working as Professor at College of Nursing at Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. She holds Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing from India and she pursued her Post-doctoral Nursing administration degree from USA. With more than twenty years of experience in nursing education, she held national credentials as a Member, Inspection committee in Indian Nursing Council, State Nursing Council and the T.N.Dr.M.G.R.Medical University from 2001 to 2012.She was awarded as best teacher in Nursing education in 2012 from the T.N.Dr.M.G.R.Medical University. She published more than 30 of her Article in national and international reputed Journals.

Major interest focusing on promoting quality nursing care among rural mothers in collaboration with national health programs.

David Randall, Ph.D. currently serves as Executive Director of the Consumer Driven Health Care Institute based in Washington, DC. (www.cdhci.org) and is Resident Scholar with the American Research and Policy Institute in Washington. Dr. Randall has testified before both U.S. House and Senate committees of Congress on a variety of health policy issues and has extensive experience as a former top insurance regulator, legislative staff member, health care lobbyist, consultant and executive with not only insurance companies, but also with several provider trade groups in Washington. He has over two dozen peer-reviewed and professional publications as well as book chapters on health care entitlements and the policy process surrounding health care reform. His research includes study of Medicaid entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges and health care information technology. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science (Policy Analysis and Administration) from Kent State University.

Study of Medicaid entitlements and privatization, Health Insurance Exchanges and health care information technology

Professor Jeong-Sang Lee has completed his Ph.D. at Seoul National University College of Pharmacy (Biochemistry major) and postdoctoral training from Yale University School of Medicine(Comparative Medicine and Pharmacology) for 3 years. He is now serving as the Director of Food Industry Research Institute of Jeonju University. He has published 45 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Frontier in Bioscience. He has been studying cancer prevention research especially focusing on gastro-intestinal inflammation. He expanded his expertise to translational research, utilizing human patient samples (gastritis, colitis, gastric and colon cancer).

MicroRNA, Big data mining, Target genes, Colon, Cancer prevention

Thurayya Eid has completed her Ph.D at age 35years from the University of Melbourne. She is the Director of Nursing Clinical Practice and Research Unit at King Abdulaziz University hospital since 2012. Her research interests are in decision-making, pain management and communication. She has undertaken various clinical positions, published in reputed journals and served as reviewer for abstracts of medical decision-making conferences, and manuscripts for various journals.

Nursing and Healthcare

Dr. Storfjell is Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Practice Partnerships and Policy, and is the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Innovation in the College of Nursing at the University of Illinois at Chicago—a top ten ranked nursing school. She is responsible for the entrepreneurial, continuing education and clinical practice initiatives of the College and also teaches graduate classes on healthcare financial and strategic management.She is founder and past President of a diversified home health care company operating in four states and affiliated with a multi-institutional health care system

Dr. Storfjell is interested in field nursing, communicable disease, home health, and clinic services, health care costs and care management.

Wahoush is an Assistant Professor in the school of nursing at McMaster University, a recent graduate from Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto with a PhD in Health Policy Management & Evaluation (Outcomes measurement & evaluation stream). She has extensive experience in international settings in nursing practice and leadership, education and research. Dr Wahoush’s most recent international experience includes the opening of a new 160 bed pediatric cancer centre in Cairo Egypt and currently coordinating a collaborative Oncology Nursing program with the University of West Indies in Trinidad

Primary interests for education and research are in health system performance and capacity development in communities, specifically in relation to child health, immigrant health, equity, and the application of knowledge and research to practice. Dr Wahoush received two postdoctoral fellowship awards a Lawson Post Doctoral Fellowship Jan.-Jun 2008 and a CHSRF fellowship Jul 2008 – June 2010

Prof.Dr.Gülten Kaptan, PhD in Nursing from Hacettepe University Institute of Health Sciences in the field of Internal Medicine in year of 1997.2005 in the year received the title of associate professor in the same area, has been professor in 2012. Many articles in international journals in the field served as a faculty member. Prof.Kaptan,30 years, has made college and university health research and practice serves as a director of nursing at the hospital. That the author published in Turkish and internal school used as a textbook in health and geriatric diseases are nursing books. Euthanasia, pain and spritüalizm,violent in pregnancy have been published by titles in international book in English. Scientific board member one of the international open access journal. The scientific committee membership in Turkish health journals about nursing.In Turkey ,She is the Turkish Nurses Association, Oncology Nursing Society and Nephrology Nursing associations member. Currently, Istanbul Arel University Medical Nursing is a Professor.

HPV, Health Profession, Attitude

HWKim has been the professor, from Seoul National University College of Nursing.She in Director of the Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University. And she has been Editor in chief, Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing (indexed in SSCI) since 2014 and Perspectives in Nursing Science (published by Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University) since 2013.

Nursing

D. Ayman K.M. Hassan has completed his interventional cardiology Ph.D. at the age of 33 years from Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands after finishing this Master studies from Assiut University School of Medicine. He was nominated as the vice director of Assiut University Hospitals and the head of a new health care quality unite. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. He is the founder of E-learning courses for under-and post-graduate students. Also as an experienced interventional cardiologist he pushed the field forward by practicing difficult cases.

Cardiology,

Karen Oehme, J.D. is the director of the Institute for Family Violence Studies and a Distinguished University Scholar at Florida State University, USA. She is an attorney and researcher specializing in trainings for professionals on issues related to intimate partner violence and child welfare. Her work includes a National Prevention Toolkit for Medical Professionals. (dvmedtraining.csw.fsu.edu). She also works with law enforcement agencies and child welfare agencies on prevention strategies.

Domestic violence, health care

Michael Frass has completed his M.D. at the age of 24 years from Medical University of Vienna. He is specialist for Internal Medicine and Internal Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Frass is the Director of the Outpatients Unit “Homeopathy in malignant disease” at the Medical University of Vienna. He has published almost 200 papers in reputed journals and has invented the Combitube as an emergency airway.

The use of complementary and alternative medicine has increased over the past decade. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether homeopathy influenced global health status and subjective wellbeing when used as an adjunct to conventional cancer therapy. In this pragmatic randomized controlled trial, 410 patients, who were treated by standard anti-neoplastic therapy, were randomized to receive or not receive classical homeopathic adjunctive therapy in addition to standard therapy. The study took place at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Medicine I, Clinical Division of Oncology. The main outcome measures were global health status and subjective wellbeing as assessed by the patients. At each of three visits (one baseline, two follow-up visits), patients filled in two different questionnaires. 373 patients yielded at least one of three measurements. The improvement of global health status between visits 1 and 3 was significantly stronger in the homeopathy group by 7.7 (95% CI 2.3 to 13.0, p=0.005) when compared with the control group. A significant group difference was also observed with respect to subjective wellbeing by 14.7 (95% CI 8.5 to 21.0, p<0.001) in favor of the homeopathic as compared with the control group. Control patients showed a significant improvement only in subjective wellbeing between their first and third visits. Results suggest that the global health status and subjective wellbeing of cancer patients improve significantly when adjunct classical homeopathic treatment is administered in addition to conventional therapy.

Guang Zeng is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Research Methodology in the Department of Educational Leadership, Curriculum, and Instruction. She joined Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi after earning her Ph.D. in Policy Research, Evaluation and Measurement in 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania. Zeng is a versatile and innovative young scholar. Her specialties include applied statistics and educational measurement. She was previously awarded the Educational Testing Service (ETS) GRE® Warren W. Willingham Graduate Research Assistantship in Psychometrics. Her research that utilized the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was published in Education in 2005. Moreover, her dissertation that employed Multi-Level Individual Growth Curve Modeling, an advanced statistical method, was awarded AERA Dissertation Grant.

Her research interests include child development and early childhood education. Her work on the temperament of infants was presented as new research in the joint annual meeting of the American/Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in 2005. Currently, she is studying the mental health problems among young children in the U.S.

Dr. Hughes received a B.S. in nursing from Boston University, a M.H.S. in health policy with a minor in biomedical ethics from Johns Hopkins University, and her PhD. in Health Policy and Health Services Research from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Hughes is a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. She is an associate professor at Marquette University. She has published more than 60 articles and book chapters in reputed journals and books. She has and continues to serve on several national nursing and health committees and boards.

Midnight census is commonly used to determine registered nurse staffing. Unit-level workload increases with patient churn, the movement of patients in and out of the nursing unit. Failure to account for patient churn (i.e., the inflow and outflow of patient admissions, discharges and transfers) in staffing allocation impacts nurse workload and may result in adverse patient outcomes. An analysis was conducted to compares the staffing implications of three measures of nurse staffing requirements: midnight census, turnover adjustment based on length of stay, and volume of admissions, discharges and transfers. This analysis was done using unit-level data from a nationwide sample of 32 hospitals, where nursing units were grouped into three unit-type categories: intensive care, intermediate care, and medical surgical. Key findings indicated that the Midnight census alone did not account adequately for registered nurse workload intensity associated with patient churn. On average, units were staffed with a mixture of registered nurses and other nursing staff not always to budgeted levels. Adjusting for patient churn increases nurse staffing across all units and shifts. Based on this analysis, the use of patient admission, discharges and transfers to adjusted the midnight census may be useful in adjusting RN staffing on a shift basis to account for patient churn. Nurse managers and leader should understand the implications to nurse workload of various methods of calculating registered nurse staff requirements.

Debra A. Simons, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE, CCM, is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean for the School of Nursing. She is a certified nurse educator (CNE), a certified simulation health care educator (CHSE) and certified case manager (CCM). Her research includes recommendations to implement a needs assessment tool in order to hone in on the mentoring needs of novice nurse educators. The needs assessment tool focuses on specific areas of development in order to reduce unnecessary utilization of resources at a time when higher education resources are limited. As well as created learning environments where students thrive. Recently she developed an outcomes evaluation instrument inspired by QSEN competencies titled Safety and Quality Nursing Student Self-Efficacy Scale

All students in higher education have to know how to produce scholarly written manuscripts. Students initially do not possess excellent writing skills and may lack confidence (Schunk and Pajares, 2009). Bandura’s (1986) model of triadic reciprocality suggests that self-efficacy is a personal factor that may be affected by one’s own behavior and environment. Excellent learning communities foster critical thinking and creativity. Building a learning community that fosters critical thinking and creativity requires thinking outside of the box and involves alternative learning strategies to promote self-efficacy and improve writing skills. Some students struggle with technical writing skills. While some students struggle with motivation, creativity and time management related to hectic academic schedules. Building learning communities that involve some form of peer pressure and support may provide assistance with technical skills, motivation, creativity, critical thinking and time management which can help improve student writing skills and increase self-efficacy. Strategies such as peer review have been found to provoke reflection as well as broaden student thinking and understanding when they compare their own writing to their peers (Yang, 2010). This type of peer pressure may motivate students to modify their strategies in writing, or reject their peers’ revisions.

Julie Hall is the Executive Director with responsibility for high secure provision at Rampton Hospital; medium secure units at Arnold Lodge in Leicester and Wathwood Hospital in Rotherham, the Low Secure and Community Forensic Directorate and Offender Health in the East Midlands and Yorkshire. Julie began her career as a Registered Mental Nurse, and has since worked as a clinician, senior manager and director within mental health services in the East Midlands. Between these appointments Julie spent time as a full time lecturer in Nursing at the University of Nottingham, before returning to the NHS. Julie’s role prior to taking up this position is of Director of Nursing and Operations at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Julie has made a number of professional contributions and gained accolades including holding the title of Queen’s Nurse, being a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Mental Health and Visiting Fellow at the University of Lincoln, and appointment to the East Midlands’ Clinical Senate. Julie is professionally known particularly for her research into the use of care pathways in mental health, service redesign, quality improvement and governance.

Nursing & Healthcare

Dr. MacDonald completed a Master’s degree in Nursing at the University of Toronto, Canada and a PhD at the University of Manchester in the UK. Currently she is a Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of New Brunswick (Canada). Dr. MacDonald’s doctoral work examined respite for parents who were caring for children who required complex care. This paper comes from that work. Dr. MacDonald has three children of her own.

In this grounded theory study 40 English speaking women from a rural province of Canada were interviewed to learn about their experiences of returning to work after a depression. Women described getting back in the game as being difficult and challenging as they had not completely recovered by the time they returned to work. However, they felt compelled to return to work in order to keep their jobs, in order to resume health and social benefits, and to reinstate their wages. A number of themes emerged from the interview data. These included the presence of stigma, the active pursuit of silence, and battling adversity. Each of these core themes serves to describe the women’s experiences of returning to work. The women described wearing a mask or “putting on a face” to combat the stigma associated with their illness. In this presentation the three themes will be discussed along with a thorough description of wearing a mask. Strategies that employers can employ to ease the transition back to work will be discussed.

Toby Bressler is the Director of Nursing for Professional Practice at Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY where she is focused on the patient, family and employee experience and supports the advancement of evidence-based practice through research, education and the application of scholarship. Toby earned her BSN, Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Downstate, Master’s degree at NYU, receiving an award for exemplary leadership and academic achievement, and her PhD from Molloy College of Nursing. Her research interests include interprofessional education, promotion of pediatric palliative care and quality of life of patients and families. Dr. Bressler is Chair of the American Nurses Association Education Committee and is also serving a 2 year term as a Jonas Policy Scholar with the American Academy of Nursing. She has published and presented extensively both nationally and internationally and has received awards for exemplary leadership, academic excellence and community service.

Description: Mentoring and leadership has been described in the literature as human-becoming incarnating meaning and committing to our protégé with enthusiasm and to use impelling, gentle urging. Mentoring is an enduring human relationship that is essential for both personal and professional growth for anyone (Latham et al, 2008). Studies have found that dedicated mentors engaged in supporting and enhancing the work environment for RNs. The partnership enhanced mutual respect between frontline RNs and managers, and administration and improved the mentoring and supportive culture. The evidence correlates mentoring with the promotion of talent, achievement, leadership, knowledge, and skill development in nursing. Every nurse requires the invested interest and involvement of others to fully develop talent, to imagine our future possibilities and contribute to healthcare. The overall aim of this presentation is to educate colleagues about mentorship and how it relates to nursing practice, nurses in all areas of practice can benefit from a skillful mentor in a setting where their involvement might not be intuitive. 1. Define the broad concepts relating to mentorship and nursing leadership 2. Recognize the role of the mentor in helping navigate professional practice issues and work-life encounters 3. Describe the role of mentor in the mentor-mentee relationship 4. Identify characteristics of a community of mentorship This presentation of the role of the mentor in nursing practice with an emphasis on leadership at the point of care. All nurses are leaders, in clinical practice, education, research or administration. Nurses are leaders and as such we have an opportunity to mentor others on their journey. This presentation will describe how nurses as leaders and mentors can advance practice and the profession.

Dr. Wagner is an Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Regina. She is a member of the SCBScN Evaluation Committee, University of Regina Research Committee and University of Regina Executive of Council. Her multidisciplinary PhD research focuses on spirit at work, workplace empowerment and resonant leadership for nurses, occupational therapists and physical therapists. She is presently investigating factors that lead to healthy workplaces for registered nurses. In addition she is investigating Horizontal Violence, which can be a significiant negative outcome within an unhealthy work environment. Although she utilizes mixed methods research within her studies, she has a special interest in structural equation modeling.

Nursing Management Clinical Nursing Advanced Nursing

Dr. Wolf is an Associate Professor of Nursing and an independent Healthcare Informatics Consultant. Dr. Wolf has over 35 years of experience within the healthcare arena. Her area of expertise focuses on integrating technology into a healthcare setting focusing on change management, process redesign and more recently the use of social media in supporting clinicians health 2.0 needs. Dr. Wolf has worked closely with various IT vendors and health systems in exploring and integrating new technologies. In 2013 she published her first book titled “Social media for nurses: Educating practitioners and patients in a networked world”.

Healthcare informatics, patient centered care

Kari Ingstad has completed her PhD at the age of 38 years from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and postdoctoral studies from Nord University. She is director of Research in the Faculty of health Sciences, Nord University. She has published more than 20 journal papers, book chapters, and conference papers. She has edited one book on Gender, Work and Employment.

Extended work shifts of 12 hours or more have become a common scheduling strategy for nurses in several countries, though this is not the case in Norway. There, many managers, nurses, and union representatives have expressed concerns about whether nurses can function effectively while working long shifts. This study thus aimed to examine how long shifts influence nursing outcomes such as stress, continuity, and responsibility in Norwegian nursing homes. Data were collected during indepth interviews with 16 nurses employed at four different nursing homes who have worked 12–14-hour shifts. Results suggest that long shifts actually reduce stress and increase both work continuity and accountability, though these positive impacts of long shifts occur primarily when all departmental staff work long shifts. Furthermore, fewer shift changes mean more time spent with patients and better communication. Keywords: job satisfaction, nursing home, shift length, work performance

She is member of national and international nurse’s organizations such as INDEN and Sigma Theta Tau. She worked Director of Nursing Services at Hacettepe University Hospitals, Board and Quality Commission member of Hacettepe University Hospitals between 2012-2015 and Founding Dean of Faculty of Nursing between 2012- 2013. She has been working as a Chair of Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing Department since 2013. She has published more than 80 papers, 15 grant projects, 14 books as an editor and author, and more than 100 presentations in the national and international congress. She is also invited as a speaker more than 100 congress, course programme and symposium. Her interest research subjects are sexuality and reproductive health and management and leadership.

Anxiety; Clinical practice; Communication; Nursing education; Nursing skills laboratory; Psychomotor skill; Satisfaction; Standardized patient

Dr. M. Al azrak is a plastic surgeon, graduated in Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University , Egypt, in 2003 .After spending of Internship in Cairo University Hospitals, he started two years of residency in Trauma and Emergency Surgery Division , Fayoum General Hospital, Fayoum. Followed by two years of residency in General surgery department , Fayoum General Hospital .Then he moved to Kasr El Ainy School of Medicine - Cairo University, where he spent one year of residency in Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit , Surgery Department and received Master of Surgery .Then he received residency for one year in Plastic Surgery Division ,General Surgery Department , Al Helal Specialized Hospital ( National Trauma Centre ) Ministry of Health & completed thesis in Flap Reconstruction of Post Burn Head and Neck Scar Contractures. He gained experience and wide access to surgical management of patients in rural hospitals, trauma & emergency , general surgery, diabetic foot management and wound healing in problematic situations .Starting from 2011 he became a Plastic Surgery Specialist in Burn & Plastic Surgery Unit, Fayoum General Hospital , Fayoum & board certified by European Board Of Plastic Reconstructive Aesthetic Surgery and affiliated researcher in Surgery Department, faculty of medicine , Cairo University .

Plastic surgery, Trauma and Emergency Surgery, General surgery, Burn & Plastic Surgery

Sathappan Subramanian has completed his MBBS from Madras University and M.S ( Otorhinolaryngology) from University Malaya , Kuala Lumpur. He is the Head, Division of Surgical specialties, at Cyber Jaya University College of medical sciences. He has published many papers in reputed journals

Otorhinolaryngology, Surgery

Dr Saloni Bansal is one of the youngest, dynamic, enthusiastic and devoted assistant Professors of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the only second women medical college of India. She has been studious and meritorious all through her career having received scholarship for sporty activities and appreciation awards for academic achievements during secondary education. Graduated from a reputed institute of the area with accolades in the form of glittering gold and silver medals and is one of the few postgraduates from the premier Institute of India: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Her thesis titled ‘Role of Doppler in patients with IUGR, those with non-reactive NST-a comparison with biophysical profile’ is considered as the most relevant contemporary topic. Also an active participant of the ongoing research activities, she has presented papers at various National level conferences and been awarded first prize for the best presentation in one of those. With numerous international publications to her credit, she is also one of the co-authors of an editorial of an international journal as well as a reviewer.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Prof Richards specialised in internal medicine in 1985 and subsequently as a pulmonologist and intensivist. He was awarded his PhD in medicine in 1992 and has authored 12 book chapters, 126 peer reviewed scientific papers and has 1196 citations. His Score on ResearchGate is 39.58. He has reviewed for the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, European Journal of Clinical microbiology and Infectious Diseases, BMC infectious diseases, antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, Thorax , the International journal of Tuberculosis, Critical Care and others

Infectious diseases, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, Thorax, Tuberculosis, Critical Care and others.

Dr. Prof. Shyam Parashar completed his Masters in Surgery from Vikram University, India in 1962. He has fifty years of extensive experience as an active general surgeon and medical teacher. He is a recipient of awards in Goa as Best Clinical Teacher, 1973 and Doctor of the Year, 1975. In 1981, he joined King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia as professor of surgery and as Consultant Surgeon at King Fahd teaching hospital of the University. He has also held the addition appointments as Director, Internship training program and later as Director, post-graduate training program in surgery. After thirty three years, retired and recognized as Emeritus Professor. He played active role in establishing new colleges for Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy in the kingdom; and in developing undergraduate medical curriculum and postgraduate training programs; and constantly reviewing them. He has seventy scientific publications in Indian, Saudi and International Journals. He is an international editor for Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, and for Journal of Family and Community Medicine, of University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He is the recipient of many Awards like Hind Rattan Award, Bharat Gaurav Award, Medical Excellence Award and Life Time Achievement Award, Glory of India Gold Medal and Global Indian Achievers Award at Indo-British Friendship banquet in London. Has published two books on surgery by Scientific Publishing Group and are available on their website as E-Books, Surgery: the way I teach and Atlas of Surgery. He has also published three books on Philosophy; Twists and Turns of Destiny, Scattered Gems and Bikhre Moti

Surgery

Dr Asem Anwar has completed his combined supervised MD thesis at the age of 35 years from both Alazhar School of Medicine and Glasgow universities. He is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Alazhar School of Medicine Since 2002 Ex Director of the maternity university hospital [Syed Galal ]Cairo-Egypt. Secretary general of the Egyptian society for population reproductive health studies Secretary General of the healthy child healthy mother association Consultant of ob/gyn at Air Force Specialized Hospital.

obstetrics and gynecology, Surgery

Chris completed Diploma in RN (1980), Diploma in ICN (1983), and Diploma in RM (1993) from Kenya Medical training College, Nairobi; CertHSM (International) from Birmingham University (1996); BScN from American World University (2005); and is perusing MS International Management (Health Systems) with research interest in migration of health workers. He became Chief Nursing Officer in 2006 retiring as Director Nursing Services from Ministry of Health, Kenya, in 2015, after initiating several nursing skills development programs. He has made 9 international publications and several presentations in local and international conferences including participation in 6 WHAs and development of Global Code of Practice for international Recruitment of Health Workers.

Health care, Nursing, Surgery

I am professor of pediatrics and neonatology in Cairo University. I was graduated in 1994, had my Master degree in pediatrics in 1998 and doctorate degree in pediatrics in 2001. I am an international board certified lactation consultant since 2004 (got the highest score in Egypt). I am a board member of Lactation education accreditation and approval committee in USA, which provides approval and accreditation to all

Pediatrics, Neonatology

Prof. Dr. Rajiv Mahendru possessed Post-Graduate Degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Himachal Pradesh University at the age of 29 years and became one of the youngest Professors. Presently, Head of the Department in the only second women medical college of India. He has 41 Publications in reputed journals and is the recipient of a prestigious Award for excellence in Medical field. Appointed as the Chief-editor of the Special issue of an international journal of repute and has numerous presentations to his credit at international arena as an invited Guest Speaker. He is the member of editorial board of international journals, Academic Board of many universities, member of recruitment for medical teachers, and assessor for establishing Medical colleges. He has chaired numerous sessions in the National and International conferences.

Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pregnancy

mushtaq chalkoo is currently affiliated as Associate Professor of Govt.medical college in India and containing research in the specialized area laparoscopic and minimal access surgeon his Serving as Honorary Author for International Journal Of Surgery, International Journal Of Surgery Case Reports, Malaysians journal of surgery, North American journal of medicine, surgical science & Other reputed Journals

surgical science, Medicine,

Prof . P.Thamilselvam is working in National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM) He specialized in General Surgery in 1987 (Madras Medical college –University of Madras ) and subsequently worked as Lap and General Surgeon in Chennai Apollo Hospitals ,Maldives and various Universities in Malaysia-AIMST University ,International Medical University and Perdana University –Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Malaysia. .He participated in International Education Forum 2015 in Dublin-Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland . He contributed a Chapter in OSCE surgery book and published articles in Indexed Journals including Canadian Family Physician.In Hospital BatuPahat ,he conducted Laparoscopic workshops twice a year for 6 years .He was invited as speaker by various Hospitals and Universities - Malaysia and chair person for CMEs and he participated as examiners for various Universities in Malaysia.He was attached with James Cook University –Australia as ementor since 2006 and was visiting lecturer in Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine –Perdana University ,Malaysia.

Surgery.

Prof. Dr. Mohd. Anisur Rahman Forazy, RN, PhD is a Bangladeshi citizen who has publications nationally and internationally and is the pioneer doctorate in the field of Nursing in his country obtained from University of New Castle, USA. He did is M.Sc. from University of Adelaide, Australia. He has experience in overseas jobs as a clinical nursing supervisor as well as a Nurse Educator. Currently he is the Principal of a renowned Nursing College in Bangladesh, Begum Rabeya Khatun Chowdhury Nursing College. He raised the voice & image of nursing globally. He is having a regular correspondence with the President of “International Council of Nurses”. He has been trying to buildup nurses work capacity, Global standard, handsome wages and honor of nurses.

Burning issues, Nursing