6th World Congress on Public Health, Epidemiology & Nutrition September 21-22, 2018 Hong Kong

Dr Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD. Professor in Immunology & Medicine. Director, Center for Personalized Medicine, Sechenov University and Chair,Dept for Translational Medicine, Moscow Engineering Physical Institute (MEPhI). Born on 11 Jan 1957, Astrakhan, Russia; two sons. Education: MD, Astrakhan State Medical University, Russia, 1980; PhD, I.M.Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, 1985; Doctor Degree, National Institute of Im-munology, Russia, 2001. Positions held: Post Doc Research Associate, Institute of Medical Enzymology; Head of the Lab of Immunology, Helmholtz Eye Research Institute in Moscow; Trainee, Laboratory of Immunology, NEI, Bethesda, MD, USA; Chair, Department for Clinical Immunology, Moscow Clinical Research Institute; Executive Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board, Biomedical Science International journal. Honours: Secretary General, United Cultural Convention, Cambridge, UK. Memberships: New York Academy of Sciences, USA; ISPM, Tokyo, Japan; PMC, Washington, DC, USA; ACS, USA; AMEE, Dundee, UK; AHA, USA; EPMA, Brussels.

Translational Medicine

David J Galton is Emeritus Professor at London University. He gained doctorates in Medicine (M.D. for work done in the USA) and in Science (D.Sc.). He has published 8 books, and more than 250 research papers on genetics of common metabolic disorders; nine students from his laboratory have become Professors. He served as consultant physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London. David J Galton has served in various senior positions as the former Chairman of Clinical Science U.K, Chairman of HEART UK and Secretary to the European Atherosclerosis Society. He is an elected Fellow of 2 Royal Colleges, the Physicians (FRCP) and Ophthalmologists (FRCOphth).

Metabolic regulation, SNP analysis, genetics of lipid disorders, atherosclerosis.

Dr. Farid Menaa is an inter- and multi-disciplinary professional with worldwide reputation. He has three international post-doctoral terms in Oncology, Dermatology, and Hematology; MBA Entrepreneurship and MD candidate. During his ongoing career, he has mainly contributed to the identification and functions of new human disease-causing genes and variants, formulated natural products for anti-aging and developed innovative theranostic strategies against cancers, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and infectious diseases. He has more than 10 years’ experiences either in the academic, hospitals or industrial sectors. As Chief Scientific Officer and Vice-President R&D at Fluorotronics, Inc. he actively participated in the development of the disruptive “Carbon-Fluorine Spectroscopy”. Dr. Menaa collaborates with various organizations worldwide. He is a member of several prestigious medical and scientific organizations and editorial boards in the field of medicine, science, technology and business, including in the nano-segment. He has authored more than 100 articles including research and review articles, books, book chapters, textbooks, proceedings, and has participated to over 200 scientific international events including as co-organizer, keynote speaker, chairman. Dr. Menaa’s worldwide collaborations, holistic point of view and strong expertise in various fields led him to prevent, implement early diagnosis, and develop efficient and safer therapy.

Dr. Farid Menaa’s research interest includes Preventive Medicine, Personalized Medicine, Translational Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Green Medicine, Nanomedicine, Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology.

Prof.Dr.Václav Bunc, PhD - born 19.9.1947 - graduated from Technical University Prague 1970, applied physics, 1970-1973 research worker in Tesla VUST A.S.Popova Prague, 1973-1975 PhD study on Technical University Prague, from 1975 until now Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Charles University, PhD earned from Technical University Prague in Applied Physics, senior scientific worker, Ass.Prof. 1993, Prof. 1998 - Exercise Physiology

Exercise physiology, training checking, body composition, movement activity.

Dr. Abdul Qayyum Rana is a Canadian neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders. Dr. Rana is currently the Director of Parkinson’s Clinic of Eastern Toronto and Movement Disorders Centre in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Rana is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parkinsonism and Restless Legs Syndrome. Dr. Rana is founder of the World Parkinson’s Program. He has written several books and published extensively in the field of Neurology, Parkinson’s disease and Movement disorders. Dr. Rana has been an invited speaker on Parkinson’s disease and has conducted seminars on Parkinson’s disease at international levels. Dr. Rana has been honoured with the Wayne Hening Award for his research on association on Parkinson’s disease and RLS. He has also served as examiner for the medical council of Canada. Beside his BSc, MD, and FRCPC from the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Dr. Rana has also been awarded an honorary FRCP of the Royal College of Physicians of UK.

Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders

Sheying Chen is Professor and Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Pace University, New York.

He has published more than 50 articles on social policies, social issues and social works all over the world. His research work mainly focuses on social policy and social issues.

Dr. Lu Qi has been Graduated from Tuft Univerisyt as PhD. Later on he obtained his post-graduation from Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and becaue Assistant Professor and Associate Professor. He is now Regents Distinguished Chiar and Professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Qi is a fellow of American Heart Association (FAHA), American College of Nutrition (FACN), and The Obesity Society (FOS).

Epidemiology, Nutrition, Genetics

Yiannis Koumpouros, Ass. Prof. in the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Department of Informatics. Specialized in health informatics, ehealth, mhealth, telemedicine, and strategic management. Expert for the European Commission in the e-health sector, and evaluator of numerous research and development projects. Senior manager in business operations with wide expertise in design and implementation of strategic, conceptual and complex changes in an international framework. Significant experience in introducing organizational, process and IT solutions for business performance improvement. Top-level managerial experience in private and public healthcare sector (as chairman of hospitals). Teaching in several universities for almost 10 years. Project and R&D manager in IT fields with European experience. Chairman of several Permanent Committee of Experts (Ministry of Development, General Secretariat of Trade), for issues related to Electronic Scientific Equipments and Medical Equipments. Regular member of the Consultative Technical Council (Ministry of Internal Public Administration and Decentralisation) for subjects on new technologies and IT in the wider public administration, etc.

Health Informatics, e-health, mhealth

Dr K. Mohan Iyer did his MCPS (1971) from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mumbai, India; MBBS (1971) from the University of Mumbai; D’Orth. and FCPS Orth. (1975) from the College of Physicians and Surgeons; MS Orth. (1978) from the University of Mumbai; and M. Ch. Orth. (1981) from the University of Liverpool, UK. During this time, he wrote three theses on fractures of the patella, excision arthroplasty of the elbow, and excision of the trapezium for carpometacarpal arthritis of the thumb.

Hip Joint,Orthopaedic and accident Surgery.

Kinda Khalaf received her B.S. (Summa Cum Laude with Distinction) and M.S. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University. Her Ph.D., also from OSU, is in Biomechanics/Computational Biomechanics. She has held several prestigious international academic appointments and currently serves as the associate chair of Biomedical Engineering at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi. Dr. Khalaf is on the list of International Who’s Who of Professionals. She has multiple awards and honors reflecting academic and leadership excellence. Her research in the areas of Orthopedic and Computational Biomechanics is reflected in numerous journal and book chapter publications, lectures and conference proceedings.

Biomechanics, Computational Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Human Movement and Control.

Professor of Pathophysiology Marina Zueva graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity), received her Ph.D. and Biol.Sci.D. from Moscow Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases. Currently, she is the Head of the Division of Clinical Physiology of Vision at the Moscow Helmholtz Research Institute of Eye Diseases. Zueva is a member of International Society on Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV), European Association on Vision and Eye Research (EVER), European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA). She has published over ten peer-reviewed papers in English (over 86 in Russian) and presented over 65 topics at international conferences.

Abnormal development and aging of the central nervous system,neurological disorders

I am faculty member of Department of Computer Engineering and bio Technology, Payame Noor University, Iran. I was graduated from software engineering college of shomal University. In 2009 I got my first master degree after my graduation in Industrial Engineering-System management and productivity and 2011 second master degree in computer science -bioinformatics. My major is soft computing for medicine applications and my research field focus on the fuzzy and adaptive fuzzy influence neural network for cancer diseases prediction. I published some 30 papers in professional journals and 4 ended research projects in this regard. Secondly, I published 5 books and I conduct some research workshops About 100 hours . I am editorial manager of journal-of-cancer-open-access and reviewer of several journals and conference. I'm very interested in artificial intelligence and its application in medicine and new articles have talked about this.

Soft computing for Medical and health, Chronic Disease , Cancer prediction , DNA, Survival prediction.

Qingrong Huang is a Professor, Department of Food Science, Rutgers University at New Brunswick. 9/2008-8/2009 Cluster Coordinator, Nanotechnology Application to Foods Cluster, Center for Advanced Food Technology, Rutgers University 1/2008-present, Full member of Graduate Programs in Molecular Biosciences, UMDNJ/Rutgers University, and Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry-Rutgers 1/2003-present, Full member of Graduate Program in Bioresources Engineering-Rutgers University at New Brunswick. 9/2002-6/2008, Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science, Rutgers University at New Brunswick. 1/2000-8/2002, NIST ATP Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University/IBM Almaden Research Center Advisors: Drs. Curtis Frank and Robert Miller 2/1999-3/1999 Visiting Scientist, Intense Pulsed Neutron Source Division, Argonne National Laboratory. 6/1998-1/2000, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, Indiana-Purdue University, Advisor: Dr. Paul Dubin2 8/1993-5/1998, Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 9/1989-7/1993, Research Assistant, Laboratory of Polymer Physics, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2010 American Chemical Society Young Scientist Award finalist. Distinguished Speaker, College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, November 19, 2009. Received 2007-2008. The Professor Endel Karmas Award for Excellence in Teaching Food Science, Department of Food Science, Rutgers University. Honorable Speaker for the Polymer Science Lecture Series, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May, 2007. Honorable Speaker for the Polymer Science Lecture Series, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, May, 2006.

Food Nanotechnology and biopolymers, with specific research interest in: (1) structure and self-assembly of biopolymers; (2) development of nanoemulsion/nanoparticle-based, controllable, traceable, and targetable nutraceuticals/drug delivery systems; (3) nutraceutical/protein (including receptor proteins) interactions, protein/carbohydrate interactions; (4) chemical force microscopy/single molecular force spectroscopy; (5) small-angle neutron/x-ray scattering, dynamic light scattering, surface laser light scattering, rheology; and (6) DNA and antibody-based biosensors.

Dr. Mina T. Kelleni is a 36 years old assistant professor of pharmacology at faculty of medicine, Minia University, Egypt. He's also a clinician practicing internal, family medicine and dermatology since 2006. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed international medical journals; invited to speak in tens of international medical conferences in cities all over Europe, Asia, Australia, USA and he has been serving as an editorial board member of more than twenty international medical journals and was also selected as member of the organizing committee of more than 10 international medical conferences, meetings and workshops.

Diabetes Mellitus, Obesity, Autoimmune disorders, Cancer chemotherapy, NAFLD, HCV Pharmacotherapy, Pharmacovigilance.

Dr. Ilich received her advance degrees at the University of Utah and University of Zagreb/Ohio State University. She joined the Florida State University in 2006 where she came from the University of Connecticut. She is also a visiting professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, Zagreb, Croatia. Her publishing activity amounts to over 100 publications including original studies,review or by request papers, book chapters/symposia volumes and numerous abstracts. She is also a member of numerous professional organizations and serves either on the editorial board or as a regular reviewer for many professional journals. She is a frequently invited speaker for presentations and lectures about her research as well as about the topics on women’s issues by different organizations and forums, nationally and internationally.

Dr. Ilich’s research scope spans through several modalities:basic, in mesenchymal stem cells investigating nutritional influences on osteoblast (bone forming cells) and adipocyte lineages; translational, in animal models with feeding studies and mechanical loading, as well as investigating bioavailability of calcium, magnesium, and zinc and their competitive interaction during absorptive processes; clinical trials,including nutritional interventions in human subjects incorporating behavioral modification and modes of physical activity to investigate the effects of various life-style modifiers (nutrition, physical activity), on bone health and body composition (lean and muscle tissue); outreach, including education.

Abdul Rahman Ilyas, born 23rd May 1973, started his professional career in 1995 soon after finishing his post graduation in business management and in a span of 18 years he has worked in diverse sectors and organization setups. He decided to make his career in the development sector as early as 1999 and built his career in core agribusiness development. Worked for a State Government of Andhra Pradesh as OSD – Marketing and Processing and went on become the COO of Agri-Science Park for ICRISAT (a CGIAR Center headquartered in India). Through his career span he has worked with smallholder farmers, progressive farmer, stakeholders from varied sectors – horticulture, dairy, aquaculture and agribusiness. His core expertise is institutional innovations, sustainable business modeling and research / technology outreach. Widely traveled on missions and work, with contacts spread across globally from academia, private sector and research institutions in USA, Africa, Asia and Middle East, he has helped various organizations with strategic advise and custom facilitations. Lead industry missions abroad for technology and research collaborations and vice versa. He is on various national and internationals committees / action groups that work in the agricultural / agribusiness spectrum. Supported ventures in Gherkins, Organic Farming, bio diesel, nutraceuticals and agricultural extension. Currently he is CEO of IKP Center for Advancement of Agricultural Practice (ICAAP), a center promoted by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington and ICICI Knowledge Park Trust, India. ICAAP is developing a knowledge platform which, will be supported by the Centers of Excellence to showcase innovative technologies, global best practices and scalable models that can benefit small holders at large.

Horticulture, dairy, aquaculture and agribusiness

Dr. Elida Mataj obtained her PhD degree in Public Health in 2012 and has been working as a Chief of Environmental Epidemiology Sector at the Department of Health and Environment, in Public Health Institute Tirana, Albania. Dr. Mataj is also a Lecturer of Statistics and Epidemiology at the ALBANI Medical University. Her primary areas of expertise are Environmental health and statistics.

Epidemiology, Statistics, Environmental Health

Ghufran Jassim has graduated in Medicine from Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. She was trained as a family physician and completed the Arab Board and Irish Board in Family Medicine. She has also graduated from Arabian Gulf University with a Master's degree in Health Policy and Population Studies. In 2014, she was awarded a PhD degree in General Practice from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. The title of her PhD was: Quality of life of Bahraini women with breast cancer. In 2015, she has completed a one year program in Global Clinical Scholars Research Training at Harvard Medical School-Harvard University. Last year she has graduated from the Health Education Profession Diploma Program at RCSI. She is the Coordinator of Evidence Based Health Module at RCSI Bahrain. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bahrain Medical Society.

Evidence Based Medicine, Research Methodology, Medical Education, and Family Medicine. Academic coordinator for career development.

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

Biophysical Chemistry,Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Modern Electronic Structure, Human Cancer Tissues, Nano Drugs Delivery

Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude) from University of Gottingen, Germany. She has over a decade experience in infectious diseases, in particular in HIV molecular epidemiology and molecular evolution. She is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at University of Georgia, USA, and affiliated with Faculty of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Bioinformatics, and Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute at University of Georgia. She leads an interdisciplinary research group towards understanding pathogen diversity under various epidemiology settings. She enjoys teaching and educating next generation of critical thinkers and innovators in epidemiology.

Molecular epidemiology of human pathogens, especially HIV, influenza, & HCV Molecular immunology Viral vaccine design Big-data health database, tool development, and algorithm design

Dr. Gupta obtained his B.Pharmacy from Guru Jambheshwar University, India and his M.S. (Pharmaceutical Sciences) fromPoona College of Pharmacy, India.His project involved synthesis and evaluation of prodrugs of anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer agents. Later, he underwent training at Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow, India in drug design and molecular modeling. His Ph.D. dissertation mainly focused on the design, synthesis and biological evaluation of mechanism based inhibitors targeting malaria. Dr. Gupta later joined University of Michigan (UM) as postdoctoral research fellow under Dr. Gordon Amidon at the Center for Molecular Drug Targeting.At UM, he was involved in the design, synthesis, in-vitro, in-situ and in-vivo evaluation of Influenza drugs and also MRI active contrast agents for diagnosis of solid tumors. He joined LECOM-School of Pharmacy in July 2009 as assistant professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is currently the Director of Center of Drug Delivery and Targeting (CDDT) at LECOM.

Drug Design And Development, Drug Delivery (Prodrugs), Mucosal Transport and Transporters, Drug Metabolism and Activation Pathways