Christos Tsitlakidis has graduated from Hellenic Aristotle University School of Medicine. He is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Pinderfields Hospital, MidYorkshire NHS Trust, ,United Kingdom. He has published more than 6 papers in reputed journals in UK and abroad and has been member of the RCOG.

Modifying the caesarean seven years on Caesarean carries the legacy of an Emperor. It is the procedure that more than any other complicated by bleeding and infection. The impacted fetus is potentially lethal. Modifying the procedure in several areas came out of necessity to respond to new challenges that appear over last decades. Principles: Minimise the need for assistance. Create a clean and dry procedure. Eliminate the bleeding. Operate in a controlled and calmed environment. Try and achieve natural birth simulation. Involve parents. Eradicate risk of post natal infection Methods: Retraction of the panniculus. Large intrabdominal packs. The Stay stitches. A dry and clean procedure. The impacted foetus. The Kiwi cup. The use of tocolysis. Natural birth simulation. Parental perception. Inspection of incicion and repair of lower segment. Broad ligament hematomas. Compresing the uterus. Eradicate surgical site infections. Results: We tried those modifications over 800 emergency and elective caesarean section carried out in two units in UK, over last 8 years, with excellent results Conclusion: Caesarean still remains a ferocious procedure that can claim lives. Should we do not recognize the challenges from a changing world, the furies could become the Nemesis of our practise. It is time now to move on to Modern Obstetrics

Yuriy S. Shmaliy is a professor of electrical engineering at the Universidad de Guanajuato of Mexico. He served as full professor of electrical engineering at the Kharkiv Military University of Ukraine. He was rewarded a title Honorary Radio Engineer of the USSR, listed in Outstanding People of the 20th Century, Cambridge, England and granted with the Royal Academy of Engineering Newton Collaboration Program Award. He has been a visiting professor-researcher in City University London and in TELECOM SudParis. His current interests include statistical signal processing and optimal estimation with applications to medical and biomedical problems

His interests include statistical signal processing and optimal estimation with applications to medical and biomedical problems

Álvaro Rocha holds Habilitation in Information Science, PhD in Information Systems and Technologies, MSc in Information Management, and Bachelor in Computer Science. He is Professor of Information Systems and Software Engineering at University of Coimbra, researcher at CISUC (Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra) and a collaborator researcher at LIACC (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science) and at CINTESIS (Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems). His main research interests are Information Systems Planning and Management, Information Systems Quality, Requirements Engineering, Software Engineering, e-Government, e-Health, and Information Technology in Education. He is President of AISTI (Iberian Association for Information Systems and Technologies) and Chair of IEEE Portugal Section Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of JISEM (Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management) and the Editor-in-Chief of RISTI (Iberian Journal of Information Systems and Technologies). And he is Vice-Chair of Experts in the Horizon 2020 of the European Commission, Expert in the COST - intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Expert in the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, and General-Chair of WorldCIST (World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies).

Healthcare Information Technology

Josep M Picas, MD of University of Barcelona has done his Diploma from ESADE Business School of Barcelona. He is the President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He has been Director of the Primary Care of Barcelona City and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau. Now he is promoting Adaptive HS.

Healthcare IT

Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak was born in Koszalin, Poland, on December 30, 1965. He graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2007 in computer science from the Polish – Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland. From 1991 to 1994 he was a civilian programmer in the High Military School in Koszalin. He was a teacher of mathematics and computer science in the Private Economic School in Koszalin from 1995 to 1999. Since March 1998 he has worked in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland and since October 2007 he has been an Assistant Professor in the Chair of Computer Science and Management in this department. His research interests connect mathematics with computer science and include computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction and geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics.

Computer Science

Dr. Kewei Sha is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Houston, Clear Lake (UHCL). He is also the Associate Director of Cyber Security Institute at UHCL. Before he moved to UHCL, he was the Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at Oklahoma City University. He received Ph.D in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 2008. His research interests include Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, and Network Security and Privacy. Dr. Sha has served as the secretary of Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS TCI), a guest Editor at Wireless Personal Communications, International Journal on Security and Networks and EAI Transactions on Wireless Spectrum, a conference technical program committee chair for ICCCN 2015, a workshop general chair for ICCCN 2013, a workshop founder and chair of MobiPST and MedSPT, a session chair in ICCCN and CollaborateCom, a member of editorial board in several journals, and a program committee member in numerous conferences. He is also a reviewer for numerous journals including IEEE TPDS, IEEE TC, ACM TAAS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TITS, Elsevier JPDC and so on. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.

Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Mobile Computing, and Network Security and Privacy

Josep M Picas, MD of University of Barcelona has done his Diploma from ESADE Business School of Barcelona. He is the President of the European Association of Healthcare IT Managers. He has been Director of the Primary Care of Barcelona City and CIO at the Hospital de St. Pau. Now he is promoting Adaptive HS.

Healthcare

Graduated Toho University Medical School at Tokyo in Japan on March 31th 1978 Passed the Japanese National Board Medical Examination on May 1978 Worked research fellow in Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston under Dr.Appel inUSA between October 1984 and October 1986 Assistant professor of Neurology, Toho University Ohashi Hospital from April 1991 and associate professor of Neurology, Toho University Ohashi Hospital on April 1997 and became Professor and Chairman in Department of Neurology Toho University Omori Hospital from April 2005 and present time.

Neurology, Neurotherapeutics, Neurorestoratology, Neuroprotection, Neuroregeneration and Neurodegeneration

Wanyang Dai is a distinguished professor of Nanjing University in China, Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information Engineering, Journal of Advances in Applied Mathematics. He received his Ph.D degree in applied mathematics jointly with industrial engineering and systems engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A., in 1996. He was an MTS (permanent) in End-to-End Network Architecture Department of AT&T Bell Labs (now called Nokia Bell Labs), U.S.A., from 1996-1999, where he was a principal investigator of several lightning projects with some (nowadays called cloud computing) project won "Technology Transfer". His "influential" papers are published in "big name" journals including Operations Research.

Information Engineering, Applied Mathematics, industrial engineering, systems engineering

Highly motivated professor and consultant dermatologist with more than 27 years of good experience in many dermatological diseases and their management. Special interest in laser therapy, phototherapy, dematopathology, cosmetic dermatology and study of genetic diseases. Has many publications in various international medical journals

Dermatology, Venereology, Dermatopathology and Laser medicine and Surgery

Jyh-Horng Chou received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Science from National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1981 and 1983, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronic Engineering from National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1988. He is currently the Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering Department, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan. His research and teaching interests include intelligent systems and control, computational intelligence and methods, automation technology, robust control, and robust optimization. He was the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan, the 2012 IEEE Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Tainan Section, the 2014 Distinguished Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan, the Research Award and the Excellent Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan 12 times, and numerous academic awards/honors from various Societies. Based on the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS) evaluation, his "Industrial Application Success Story" has got the 2014 winner of highest rank, thus being selected to become the first internationally industrial success story being reported on the IEEE CIS website. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), the Chinese Institute of Automation Engineer (CIAE), and the Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (CSME).

include intelligent systems and control, computational intelligence and methods, automation technology, robust control, and robust optimization

Mu-Chun Su received the B. S. degree in electronics engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1986, and the M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He was the IEEE Franklin V. Taylor Award recipient for the most outstanding paper co-authored with Dr. N. DeClaris and presented to the 1991 IEEE SMC Conference. He has authored more than 100 journal and refereed conference papers. He is currently a professor of computer science and information engineering at National Central University, Taiwan. He is an IET fellow and a senior member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. His current research interests include computational intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, affective computing, human-computer interaction, robotics, pattern recognition, biomedicall signal processing, rehabilitation technology, e-learning, and image processing.

computational intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy systems, swarm intelligence, affective computing, human-computer interaction, robotics, pattern recognition, biomedicall signal processing, rehabilitation technology, e-learning, and image processing.

Dr. Arcady Putilov received his PhDs (candidate and doctor of science) from the Institute of Physiology (Novosibirsk) and the Siberian Medical University (Tomsk), He’s a research group leader at the Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics (Novosibirsk). He’s experienced in study of rhythmic processes in physiology, biochemistry, zoology, ecology, psychology, psychiatry, and history. His other research interests include sleep regulation, personality, individual differences, evolutionary psychology, and history. He authored several hundred scientific publications including books and articles in peer reviewed international journals. He also writes for the general public about sleep, biological rhythms, mood disorders, psychology, and history of science.

Physiology, Biochemistry, Zoology, Ecology, Psychology, Psychiatry And History, Sleep Regulation, Personality, Individual Differences, Evolutionary Psychology, Sleep, Biological Rhythms, Mood Disorders, Psychology and History of Science.

Maulin Pramod Shah

Microbiology

Jawahar Jay Kalra, an educator, researcher, and quality health care advocate, is a Professor of Pathology in the University of Saskatchewan and has served as Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He is recognized for his many contributions as a clinical scientist, academic leader, and health system administrator. He has been a pioneer in establishing guidelines for thyroid-function testing, quality assurance program and contributed nationally and internationally in the area of total quality management. He has published extensively and is the author of the book “Medical Errors and Patient Safety: Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patience safety.”

Quality management

Andrew W. Gottschalk, M.D. trained in sports medicine at both Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. His extensive experience includes treating athletes of all levels of competition, including those in the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NCAA Division I. As the Ochsner Health System’s Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine, Dr. Gottschalk serves as Head Medical Team Physician for the NBA New Orleans Pelicans. Dr. Gottschalk is also an avid writer, his multiple publication projects include his regular newspaper column, “The Sports Medicine Doctor.” Dr. Gottschalk is the current Musculoskeletal Health Editor for the medical journal Evidence-Based Practice.

Sports medicine

Marc Matthews graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency training at the Mayo Clinic. His first task at Mayo was to redesign a community health clinic around the community’s definition of health, and this work led to a deeper understanding of how the healthcare system is not very aware of what it means for a community to be healthy. He is the Associate Medical Director of the Mayo Clinic Office of Population Health Management and an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine. In these roles, he focuses on rethinking the way large healthcare organizations deliver care.

Health Management

Tochi Iroku-Malize is a Professor and Chair of Family Medicine at Northwell Health (formerly North Shore LIJ Health System). She received her medical training at the University of Nigeria, did her internship in Trinidad & Tobago, completed her Master’s in Public Health at Columbia University and her Master’s in Business Administration at the University of Massachusetts. She is board certified in both Family Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Care. She has developed a curriculum for global health and has been involved in Academic Medicine and Primary Care for two decades. She has presented and published on multiple topics internationally.

Academic Medicine and Primary Care

Dr Richards qualified in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital London in 1981, he undertook a period of research looking at the effects of cyclosporine A on endothelial function at St Thomas’ Hospital London prior to being appointed as Consultant Physician and Nephrologist at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in 1992. During his time in Birmingham he was actively involved in the development of an electronic patient record with associated drug prescribing system. He went into medical management as Clinical Director, Divisional Director and finally Director of Operations in Birmingham before leaving the NHS and taking up the position of Medical Director for the UK and Ireland for Fresenius Medical Care in 2004. He moved to his current position as the CEO and CMO of SEHA Dialysis Services in 2012. He remains actively interested in clinical research particularly in relation to epidemiology and prevention of chronic kidney disease. He has published more than 50 papers in peer reviewed journals.

clinical research particularly in relation to epidemiology and prevention of chronic kidney disease.

Dr.Alkherayf is an associate Professor and a neurosurgeon at University of Ottawa. He is also a neuroscientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) with a cross appointment to the Clinical Epidemiology Program. He also directs the clinical research at the Division of Neurosurgery at the Ottawa Hospital. Additionally he directs the Spine Fellowship Program at University of Ottawa. After graduating from medical school he completed his neurosurgery training at University of Ottawa in 2010. He also completed two fellowships in complex spine surgery and minimally invasive skull base surgery. Additionally he obtained training in clinical epidemiology and biostatistics (MSc, Epidemiology and Biostatistics 2011) and he has completed the clinician investigator program by the Royall College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC). Dr.Alkherayf clinical practice focus on complex spine surgery, minimally invasive cranial surgery and complex cranio-cervical reconstruction. His clinical research interests lie in translational primary brain tumor research, clinical trials, and spinal cord injury. He has authored and co-authored many research papers and abstracts, and spoken at many international conferences. He has been serving as an editorial board member of many journals

Neurosurgery

Gill Hood has been involved in diabetes care since qualifying as a nurse in 1984 and from 1997 began working in diabetes research. She managed the NE London Diabetes Research Network from 2007-2013 increasing patient recruitment 5 fold during this period and conducting her own research into fasting during Ramadan for people with diabetes, how older adults manage diabetes over time, and improving the patient-doctor consultation in diabetes. Gill is also an original member of the EU funded Diamap study which aimed to project diabetes research milestones for the next ten years. She is also involved with patient and public information groups encouraging users to discuss research and be more involved. She is an honorary research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and continues to manage diabetes clinical research at QMUL. Gill is the Workforce Development and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for the North West London Clinical Research Network funded by the National Institute of Health Research. In her capacity as Workforce Lead Gill runs course in Clinical Research for nurses and allied health professionals. She also runs courses for patients and the public who want to be involved with research. Gill is a member of the Foundation of European Nurses in Diabetes (FEND) and the Novo Nordisk Research Foundation for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. Gill’s diabetes research interests are in ethnic minorities and engaging hard to reach groups in research, diabetes and older adults, health professional education, and patient and public involvement.

Diabetes research

Brian Littlechild, PhD, is Research lead in the Department of Nursing and Social Work at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. A qualified and registered social worker, he worked in hospitals and in the community with particular mental health needs before working in universities.He has published 44 books/book chapters/monographs, and 28 refereed journal articles.He has carried out 20 qualitative and mixed methods research projects, and published widely on, amongst other areas, mental health issues for young and adult offenders, mental health and risk assessment, and on violence from parents in child protection work.

Nursing and Social Work

Ingrid Schusterová is the head of the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine, Children University Hospital P.J.Š. University in Košice, Slovakia. At the same time, she is the head physician in the terciary center for valvular and congenital heart defects, Eastern Slovak Institute of cardiac and vascular diseases. She took specialization exam from adult and pediatric cardiology at National institute of cardiac and vascular diseases in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. After graduation she took part in fellowship training at Ottawa Civic Hospital, and later on performed research work in the area of cardiology at University of Ottawa in Canada. In the period from 11/1999 till 7/ 2004 she completed her training at Cardiologic department, II. Internal medicine clinic, General hospital, Vienna under supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerald Maurer. Later in 2005 she broaden her professional knowledge and skills at Cardiac surgery clinic, Kardiocentrum Universitätsklinik in Bad Oyenhausen, Germany. Her reaserch interests focus on preventive cardiology, obesity, and disorders of lipid metabolism, atherosclerosis and their prevention in the pediatric age group.

Paediatrics and Adolescent medicine

Gustavo Marin is Doctor in Medicine; Magister in Public Health; Magister in Health Economics; Magister in Political Sciences; Post-doc in Public Health Assistance, Paris, France. Former Director of Primary Health Care of Buenos Aires; Director of Scientific Research Commission, Buenos Aires, Argentina; PAHO Health International Leadership Fellowship; Head Professor of Health, National University of Central Buenos Aires, UNICEN, Argentina. Author of more than 150 papers and books in Public Health Research.

Health Economics

Brendan Mitchell completed his Bachelor of Science degree at the University in Queensland in 2010, and subsequently Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 2014. He is currently working as a resident Medical Officer at Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland, Australia.

Medicine

Naser Salihu finished his residency in Medical Faculty in Ljubljana. He has completed his PhD in Medical Faculty at University of Prishtina. His interests in ophthalmology are anterior segment surgery, oculoplastic surgery and ocular trauma. He has published a lot of papers in International Journals. He also is the president of Kosovo Association of Ophthalmologists and head of trauma department in Eye Clinic, University Clinical Center of Kosovo.

His interests in ophthalmology are anterior segment surgery, oculoplastic surgery and ocular trauma

Nasseer A Masoodi is a Senior Consultant and Vice Chair for General Internal Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha (Qatar). Prior to his arrival in Qatar, he was a primary care physician at The Villages Health System, The Villages-FL (USA), and Vice President of Health service and Chief Medical Informatics Officer for ACV Inc. Dowling Park-FL (USA). He was a Member of Medical Informatics Committee of American College of Physicians. He also served as a Member of PMC (performance measures committee) of American College of Physicians from April 2009-April 2013. In this multifaceted role, he focused on reviewing, commenting, and voting on many different performance measures that were developed by organizations such as the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), the National Committee on Quality Assurance, AHRQ, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, other specialty physician organizations, and Quality Improvement Organizations. He also served as Associate Professor of Geriatrics at FSU College of Medicine Tallahassee-FL. He is boarded in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care. He received his MBA through University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) and his Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Clinical Informatics through Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA. He is an Associate Editor of British Journal of Medical Practitioners, Specialist Editor for DynaMed and reviewer for many national and international journals including McMaster University’s the McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (MORE). He has published many research and review articles in peer reviewed journals.

Primary Care, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative Care

Rosa Gimenez-Garcia is working as a Clinical Assistant in Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine in Valladolid Spain. She done her residency 1981-1985. Hospital Clinico UNiversitario de Valladolid, DEPARTMENT OF DERMATOLOGY. Worked as Consultant Dermatologist in Hospital Clinico Valladolid and its area of health May 1985-Novembre 1987. Post of Clinical Assistant .Hospital Virgen Blanca" de León (Obtained through public competitive examination) 04-11-87 y el 06-11-90. Post of Facultativo Especialista de Área (Clinical Assistant) (obtained through public competitive examination) "Hospital Rio Hortega" Valladolid 06-11-90- present.

Medicine

Kaye has been a registered nurse for over thirty years, practicing predominantly in rural Victoria. Her passion is aged care and the focus of her research interests for the past 6 years. She is a member of the rural health department, the University of Melbourne. She has published 20 papers in international peer reviewed journals and regularly presents her research at National and International forums.

Nursing

Lori Sanderson completed her doctoral degree in public health education and promotion. She also holds a master’s degree of social work and is currently a licensed clinical social worker. She has worked as a medical social worker for over 10 years now and specializes with children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with kidney disease and/or diabetes. She recently accepted a part-time position at at eating disorder clinic in Claremont, CA. She has developed several programs to help the children with whom she works with. She is currently working to develop a non-profit organization in eating disorders.

Public Health

Clive Tobutt is a Registered Nurse (Adult & Mental Health Nursing and Practice Educator). He completed a Post-graduate Diploma in Addiction Studies at the Institute of Psychaitry, London University and an MSc in Sociology (Health & Illness) from London South Bank University. He is currently a PhD student at the Univertsity of Winchester. He is a teaching Fellow (Mental Health Nursing) at Surrey University and a Senior Lecture at the University of Winchester. He has published 8 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of the Advances of Dual Diagnosis Journal.

Adult & Mental Health Nursing and Practice Educator

Dybesh Regmi is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at UAE University. He also holds a faculty membership at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. He completed his residency training in Family Medicine at McMaster University. He has been an examiner for the College of Family Physicians of Canada and was a peer assessor for the regulatory body in the province of Ontario

Family and Community Medicine

Samy Abd Elsamad Nasef is the Dean of Faculty of Physical Therapy, Pharos University, Alexandria. He is a PhD holder (1993) (channel emission between Cairo University and Indian University, USA). He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Advanced Research, Cairo University and has published more than 30 papers in conferences and Journal of Physical Therapy, Cairo University.

Physical Therapy

Haw-Yueh Thong is Chief of the Cosmetic Center at Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan ROC. After graduating from National Taiwan University College of Medicine, she completed an Internship in National Taiwan University Hospital. Her Residency was in dermatology at National Taiwan University Hospital and her Fellowship was in cosmetic dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. She had worked closely with Professor Howard Maibach at UCSF. She is also a Graduate of Stanford University with a Master’s degree in management science and engineering, focusing on medical decision analysis. She has published numerous articles in professional journals and serves on many advisory boards and committees. Her interest in dermatology include acne vulgaris, cosmetic dermatology and filler injections

Dermatology include acne vulgaris, cosmetic dermatology and filler injections

Abdulaziz Abdulbaqi is the Director of Quality and Patient Safety at the International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Before this he worked as Director of outpatients, Director of patient experience, & as Senior Medical Technologist in clinical laboratories in Private and teaching hospitals, in Saudi Arabia & United States. His exposure to different areas in healthcare made him more passionate to pursue excellence in delivering best care for patients and community, believing that we cannot achieve best care without putting hands of care providers together, aligning their work and initiatives with the goals of creating Quality and safety culture in healthcare, and by this creating value for patients.

Abdulaziz Abdulbaqi is having a vast experience in different accrediting bodies, Canadian Accreditation in University hospital in Jeddah, JCI at private setting, a surveyor at the Central Board of Accrediting Healthcare institution ( CBAHI) for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and international Surveyor of the Australian Council of healthcare Standards (ACHSI). He is certified from the American Society of Clinical Pathology, Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, Executive Patient Safety.

As the Vice President of the Group, Dr. Subashnie Devkaran with the leadership team holds regular events including an annual leadership seminar. The MENA Group has had a 16% growth in affiliates over the past year. UAE has doubled its ACHE membership in two years. Through such efforts, ACHE works toward its goal of being the premier professional society for healthcare executives dedicated to improving healthcare delivery. Also, Dr. Subashnie Devkaran is Manager – Accreditation, Quality and Patient Safety Institute,Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE. She has regional leader in quality, patient safety and patient experience. She has held several leadership positions in quality and patient safety in the Middle East and South Africa. She led various hospitals through quality certification, hospital accreditation and regulatory audit programmes.

She continues to serve on various regulatory committees and leadership societies in the Middle East.

As a Director Supply Chain at Global Health Solutions,UAE, Mr. Tobias Stock has accomplished the transformation of public and private healthcare systems in the US, Europe and the Middle East to not only grow efficiencies but to ultimately increase patient safety and patient care. Collaboration in Healthcare is Tobias’ true passion. If all players from the physician to the manufacturer are able to rely on global standards, perfect data will lead to better planning, securing the right supplies, optimize inventory and actively links the Supply Chain to the best patient outcome.

He managed the set-up of a major Group Purchasing-Organization in Germany, integrating over 100 hospitals and clinics into one sourcing strategy. He also designed, built and operated the Supply Chain for large clinics and university hospitals in Saudi-Arabia and the region. With GMS, He manages the end-to-end Healthcare Supply Chain for the UAE Armed Forces.

Dr. Kinda Khalaf received her B.S. (Summa Cum Laude with Distinction) and M.S. (Honors) degrees from the Ohio State University, USA. Her Ph.D., also from OSU, is in Biomechanics/Computational Biomechanics, specializing in Biomaterials, and Dynamic modeling and control. Dr. Khalaf has held faculty appointments in Engineering and Medicine at several prestigious universities including the University of Miami and the American University of Beirut, and currently serves as associate chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. She has numerous publications in the areas of Orthopedic Biomechanics, Computational Biomechanics, biomaterials, and neuromusculoskeletal modeling and control Dr. Khalaf is on the list of International Who Is Who of Professionals. She has been awarded various awards and honors including the prestigious National Merit Scholar. She is currently the chairperson of the UAE branch of IEEE, EMBS, in addition to her membership is several professional organizations.

Dr. Kinda Khalaf has main research interest on the study of the human neuromusculoskeletal system, particularly focusing on quantitative assessment of human movement and performance, biomechanical modeling, and movement simulation and control. Teaching interests encompass biomechanics, orthopedic biomechanics, computational biomechanics, soft and hard tissue biomaterials, biological systems modeling, robotics, biomedical devices, technologies, and mechanical design.

Hamdy Fouad Moselhy is Professor and Chairman at Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in UAE University. He has wide experiences in UAE, Egypt and UK for several years. Initially he trained in psychiatry at Benha University Hospital, Egypt and acquired a master degree in psychiatry and neurology (MSC) and then an MD (medical doctorate) in psychiatry. In the UK he acquired postgraduate Diploma from the Royal College of Physician (DCP) in Duplin then the membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK (MRCPsych) in 1997 and finally FRCPsych in 2011.

Professor Hamdy Fouad Moselhy has extensive experiences as an expert witness in the British criminal justice system and writing medical reports for psychiatric patients particularly with addiction problems. Contributed to a large number of scientific National and International meetings. He published nearly a hundred papers in peer reviewed journals. His research interest is on general adult psychiatry, addiction, rare psychiatric syndrome and biological aspects in psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Rajaa Mohammad Al-Raddadi is VP of Saudi Epidemiology Association, KSA and Member of Health Ministers’ Medical Advisory Council also, Board Member, Saudi Society for Evidence Based Health Care.

Her research interests are Osteoporosis, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, Evidence based practice, women health, Clinical preventive medicine, Chronic diseases.

Dr. Mahmoud Al Yamany is the Chief Executive Officer of King Fahad Medical City (KFMC) and consultant Neurosurgeon at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) of KFMC. He received his MBBS in 1991 from the Faculty of Medicine King Saudi University in Saudi Arabia. He completed his residency program in Neurosurgery at the I=University of Manitoba, Canada. He is American Board & Canadian Board certified neurosurgeon.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada & he is also a certified fellow in Cerebrovascular Surgery, Neuro-oncology & Skull base surgery which he had obtained from the University of Toronto Canada.

A senior specialist of Conformity Assessment Body Services at Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council since 2012, responsible for controlling, regulating and setting up strategies and criteria for Abu Dhabi conformity assessment bodies to ensure their competency and improving their quality performance that allow them to get international recognition. Dr. Rehab spent her carrier life of 11 years in military, worked as an officer Gastroenterologist at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi until reached Major rank before leaving military life in 2011. In 2006-2009 worked as Gastroenterologist in Royal London and Barth Hospital in London, during that time she earned her MSc in scientific research on the NK-cells behavior toward Cryptosporidiosis infection in HIV patient and reworded with higher distinction from Queen Marry University London-UK.

Her focus now is to improve quality of life in UAE throughout helping organizations from different sectors to achieve and sustain Excellence focusing on healthcare needs and to guide CABs for the best measurable tools that can help in their continual improvement journey.

As a CIO of KFMC, Dr. Khalid focuses on innovation and patient centered services while increasing efficiency through technology modernization and business process improvements. He is also accountable for applications and infrastructure supporting all hospital functions. Dr. Khalid believes delivery of quality, appropriate, reliable and affordable technology services is the key attribute of a high performing information technology department. Prioritizing technology investments according to the value of the organization and making and meeting the right commitments for constituents is vital. Dr. Khalid received his PhD degree in Information Technology in 2011 from George Mason University –Fairfax, VA., and his MBA degree with Information System Concentration in 2006 at Santa Clara University – Santa Clara, CA. While studying in a full time basis he had 10 years of experience in information technology and engineering in IBM Corporation, Silicon Valley Lab., CA.

During his 20 years’ experience of Information Technology administration and engineering with IBM Corporation, AT&T Corporation, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh. Dr. Khalid established and led program for Industry Solutions business segment to provide business partners with end-to-end technical support and providing strategic and technical vision. He created and delivered world-wide management training to address complex customer situations. At King Fahad Medical City, he oversees the Health Informatics and Information Technology as well as sets its direction and coordinates infrastructure and service delivery across the medical city. He also assumed responsibility for application development, support services, and technology governance practices and leads strategic initiatives to transform the information technology department to be flexible, adaptable and responsive to customer needs. His Various projects in pipeline are Electronic Medical Record, Enterprise Resource Planning, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Electronic Entertainment Patients Service, Chart Viewer System Enhancement, Dictaphone Enterprise – Speech System Enhancements, are among vital projects in line for an advance healthcare infrastructure and efficient healthcare management.

Chenchen Wang, MD, MSc is Professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She is one of the world’s leading authorities on Tai Chi mind-body research and also holds leadership and mentoring roles in the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute research environment, collaborating actively with multidisciplinary teams around the United States and across the world in Complementary and Integrative Medicine disciplines (CAM).

Dr. Wang completed her rheumatology and clinical epidemiology training at McGill University in 1999. Her research focuses on clinical and epidemiological studies of CAM and their applications to treatments in chronic conditions. As Principal Investigator, Dr. Wang has been awarded several NIH grants, as well as awards from the American College of Rheumatology Research Foundation, Boston Pepper Center, and Tufts Catalyst/ Clinical and Translational Science Institute to test the health benefits of mind-body interventions for Fibromyalgia, Knee Osteoarthritis and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Populations. Recently, Dr. Wang received another privilege NIH award of Midcareer Investigator in Patient-Oriented Research award to protect her time for training the next generation of CAM scientists in innovative, multi-method, multidisciplinary clinical and translational research programs for chronic conditions. In addition, Dr. Wang serves on many NIH study sections and is a reviewer and editorial board member for over 50 scientific journals. She holds many advisory roles, including membership on the National Advisory Council for Complementary and Integrative Health at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. The council offers recommendations to NIH, the top federal agency for research on complementary and integrative medicine.

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, OOnt, MD, MPH, is a Palestinian physician and an internationally recognized human rights and inspirational peace activist. Dr. Abuelaish’s internationally best-selling book, I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, an autobiography that centers on his life, his achievements, and the loss of his daughters and nieces in the 2009 Gaza War, has been translated to 23 languages and has achieved critical acclaim. It has become a testament to his commitment to forgiveness as the solution to conflict and the catalyst towards peace.

Dr. Abuelaish has been nominated for three consecutive years for the Nobel Peace Prize. He has been named one of the 500 Most Influential Muslims five consecutive years by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan, as well one of the 500 Most Powerful Arabs in the World. In Canada, he was named one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants, and was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2013.

Abdul Razaq Ameri is a Senior Management Executive with experience of 27 years in high-impact roles that emphasized turnaround strategies within the Healthcare Industry in the UAE mainly with the Ministry of Health, Dubai Health Care Authority and currently with Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine. Through the years, He has developed great understanding of various organizational culture, leadership styles, strategic planning, financial management and thorough sense of the health care industry locally and globally.

He has also developed a vast exposure and experience in operation management – medical and non-medical, new projects, business development, patient safety, quality improvement, revenue cycle, human resources and performance enhancement. Also, He has been Director of Continuing Education Department at Dubai health Authority and Director of Hospitals at Ministry of Health - UAE.

Dr. Mohamad Miqdady is American Board certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He is the Division Chief, Ped. GI, Hepatology & Nutrition Division at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in UAE. Also an Adjunct Staff at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio USA. Dr. Miqdady completed his Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX, USA. He held the position of Assistant Professor at Jordan University of Science and Technology in Jordan for six years prior joining SKMC.

His Main research interests include feeding difficulties, picky eating, obesity, procedural sedation, allergic GI disorders and celiac disease. He has several publications and authored few book chapters including www.uptodate.com. On the Editorial Board of few journals including Gastroenterology & Hepatology.

Mr. Mesut Yurukcu is emeritus President of HiTech Nano Advanced Technologies,Inc. Houston based Nanotechnology Company, focused to grow in Nano and Advanced, and Medical Products Technologies. He has been formally recognized with excellence by DeVry University for his capstone project in Masters of Project Management. He earned distinction for both the Project Management certification at graduate level, and a Master’s in Project Management. His capstone project has been put forward for the National Award against the best of all Master level disciplines. He is also doing doctorate from University of Arkansas at Little Rock in Applied Science/ Chemistry/ Nanotechnology. He has played various major administrative and leadership roles as Science Department Head, Science Teacher and Academic Coordinator at Cosmos Foundation.

He has awarded many prestigious awards for Junior National Young Leaders Conference Honor, 2008-2009, Strathmore's Who's Who Honors, 2009-2010, Certificate of Recognition of Harmony Schools, 2006-2007, National Geographic Society Honor, 2008-2009, Appreciation of Science& Engineering Fair , 2009-2010, Appreciation of ISWEEP 2008, Texas Science Olympiad Honors, 2006-2007, Appreciation of ISWEEP 2009.