Women's Health and Cancer Awareness

Dr. Greiner, holder of three doctoral degrees, is an ophthalmologist, physician and surgeon, optometrist, teacher and medical research scientist, who has authored over 150 publications in the scientific and medical literature, and holds six U.S. patents and corresponding foreign patents in the areas of treatment of dry eyes and the integument (skin). With extensive training as both a basic and clinical scientist, many of these publications integrate both basic sciences and clinical medicine. In his 30 years of biomedical research, Dr. Greiner has presented more than 175 scientific papers at over 110 domestic and foreign meetings. Dr. Greiner is devoted to both scientific and clinical medical research as well as to clinical medicine in the fields of ophthalmology and surgery.

Ocular surface, Optic Diseases

Javier Carbone has his expertise in evaluation and passion in improving the health and wellbeing. He is a leading expert in transplant immunology. He is a Member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Transplantation Society, Clinical Immunology Society, European Society for Organ Transplantation. His open and contextual evaluation of secondary antibody deficiency in solid organ transplantation has changed clinical practice and improving healthcare for these high vulnerable patients. He has built this model after 20 years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and administration of immune based therapies.

Vaccine Development

Tamaki Nakano received his BSc (1986), MSc (1988), and PhD (1991) degrees from Osaka University, Japan. He joined Nagoya University as an Assistant Professor (Prof. Yoshio Okamoto’s group) in 1990 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1998. During his appointment at Nagoya University, he also served as a visiting scientist at Cornell University Sogah, 1993–1994). In 1999,he moved to Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) as an Associate Professor. He was appointed as a Professor of Hokkaido University in 2006 and is currently supervising his research group at Institute for Catalysis.

Catalysis

Dr. Salah Rubayi is the Chair of Surgery and Chief of Pressure Ulcer Management Program at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and International College of Surgeons (FICS) and member of all the spinal injury organizations in the United States and Europe. At the University of Southern California, Dr. Rubayi is a Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and the Division of Plastic Surgery at UCLA. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. He has published many articles in regards to the plastic reconstructive surgery of pressure ulcers in spinal cord injury patients, including a textbook in reconstructive surgery of pressure ulcers, which was published in 2015 by Springer. His research interests include spinal cord injury and pressure ulcer management & prevention.

Plastic Surgery,Pressure Ulcer Management, Surgery

Tony Velkov is a principal research fellow & NHMRC CDF Level 2 Industry fellow. He is currently pursuing his research as an associate professor in Pharmacology & Therapeutics in the University of Melbourne.

From breast cancer to antimicrobial: Combating extremely-resistant Gram-negative superbugs using novel combinations of polymyxin B with selective estrogen receptor modulators

Vincent C. Hascall, Jr. was born in Burwell, Nebraska in 1940. He attended the California Institute of Technology and earned a B.S. in 1962. After graduating he enrolled at Rockefeller University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1969. While at Rockefeller, Hascall met Alan Kapuler who had won a Westinghouse Prize in high school for using a new method for meristem cultures on an orchid species. As a result Kapuler was taken to Bogota, Colombia to learn how specimens were collected and preserved.Hascall is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a position he has held since 1995. He also received the NIH Merit Award in 1979, was President of the Society for Complex Carbohydrates in 1987, and was awarded the Karl Meyer Award for Glycoconjugate Research from the Society for Complex Carbohydrates in 1992.

His research area includes Chemistry and metabolism of macromolecules,Proteoglycans and Orchids,Proteinpolysaccharide Complex from Bovine Nasal Cartilage and Aggregation of Cartilage Proteoglycans.

Sam Vaknin is Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies). Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited and other books about personality disorders. His work is cited in hundreds of books and dozens of academic papers. He spent the past 6 years developing Cold Therapy: a treatment modality for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Over the years, with dozens of volunteers, he found that it was effective with clients suffering from a major depressive episode as well.

Personality disorders

Director Statewide Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology Services Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital and Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital. Chair Queensland Maternity and Neonatal Clinical Network (2010- current) Founder & Director Queensland Clinical Guidelines (2008-current) Pre-Eminent Staff Specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology RBWH Independent Health Advisor Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Border Protection and the Australian Border Force

Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology

Prof. and Chairperson, Dept. of CHS. United medical & dental college, Karachi. Prof. and HOD, Dept. of CHS. Al – Tibri medical college, Karachi.

Gynecology and Obstetrics

Fusun Terzioglu graduated in first place from Hacettepe University in 1989. She won the İhsan Dogramacı Superior Merit Award and Student Science Incentive Award. She studied about counseling on assisted reproductive techniques at Liverpool Women’s Hospital Reproductive Medicine Unit in United Kingdom. In 2007, she worked on a project named “Development of Leadership Skills in Nursing Doctoral Students” at University of Michigan Faculty of Nursing. She worked as a Research Assistant at Hacettepe University School of Nursing in the Maternity and Women's Health Nursing Division from 1990 to 1997. She was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1998, Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2012. She worked as a Co-Head of Nursing Department, Erasmus Department Coordinator, Head of Strategic Planning Group and board member of Hacettepe University Women’s Research and Implementation Center (HUWRICH) between 2009 and 2011. Her interest subjects are sexuality and reproductive health and management and leadership. She is member of national and international nurse’s organizations such as INDEN and Sigma Theta Tau. She has been working as a Director of Nursing Services at Hacettepe University Hospitals since September 2012 and Founding Dean of Faculty of Nursing between 2012- 2013.

Nursing and Women's health

Dr Gopa Chowdhury, Rtd. Associate Prof, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, MD, FICOG, has her expertise in different areas of Gynecology and Obstetrics and is passionate about spreading her knowledge through papers, articles, Knowledge sessions and her work with patients in the rural region of Jharkhand. She is an Executive member of ROGS and has held different positions as Speaker, Panelist, Chair-person in ROGS and National conferences. Dr Gopa was also the Vice President – FOGSI ROGS (Ranchi Obst, & Gynae Society); 2013-2015 and is an ongoing active member of the group. Besides her work as Associate Prof., she Several Papers published in State, National, International Journals and has been an active participant in CMEs, Conferences (State, National, International): FIGO-SAFOG, RCOG, FIGO, AOCOG, SICOG (research paper presentation), National-YUVA- FOGSI, AICOG as delegate and faculty

Gynecology and Obstetrics

Nelly Staderini is the Sexual and Reproductive Health referent in the medical department of MSF Geneva since 8 years. She has a midwifery and Public Health background with few years of field experiences in different positions in Humanitarian settings including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Chad, Cambodia and Burundi. She had pubhised articles in journals, reviews and books on traditional birth attendant, nutrition, cholera, HIV and pregnancy and more recently on abortion.

Sexual and Reproductive Health

Advisory committee member Ministry of Health Sri Lanka; Adolescent, Maternal, Neonatal, Communicable disease, Non Communicable disease, STD AIDS,Food and drug since 2000

Maternal, Neonatal, Communicable disease

Wassil Nowicky is working as the Director of Nowicky Pharma and the President of the Ukrainian Anti-Cancer Institute (Vienna, Austria). He has finished his studies at the Radiotechnical Faculty of the Technical University of Lviv (Ukraine) at the end of 1955 with graduation to “Diplomingeniueur” in 1960 which title was nostrificated in Austria in 1975. He is the Inventor of the anticancer preparation on basis of celandine alkaloids “NSC-631570”. He is the Author of over 300 scientific articles dedicated to cancer research. He is a Real Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Member of the European Union for Applied Immunology and of the American Association for Scientific Progress, Honorary Doctor of the Janka Kupala University in Hrodno, Doctor “Honoris Causa” of the Open International University on Complex Medicine in Colombo, Honorary Member of the Austrian Society of a name od Albert Schweizer. He has received the award of merits from National Guild of Pharmacists of America, the Award of Austrian Society of Sanitary, Hygiene and Public Health Services and others.

Maternal, Neonatal, Communicable disease

Liane Deligdisch graduated Medical School in Bucharest, Romania. Following positions were: Gynecologist and General Physician in Romania until 1963, Pathologist at the Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Medical School, Israel 1963 to 1975, Visiting Professor Magee Women Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa.; 1975-6 Boston Free Hospital for Women, Harvard Medical School ; 1976 to present The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, full Professor of Pathology and Obstetrics-Gynecology and Attending since 1986. Founded the division of Gynecologic Pathology and directed the course of Gynecologic Pathology at the Medical School, Authored 143 peer reviewed articles , 7 textbooks on Gynecologic Pathology.

Health and Human Services

David G. Mutch, MD is the chief of the Division on Gynecologic Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine, USA. Dr. David Mutch treats patients with all types of gynecologic cancer, including ovarian and cervical cancer. Dr. David Mutch completed his medical degree from Washington University school of Medicine, USA and holds fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology from Duke University Medical Centre, North Carolina.

Dr. David Mutch research interest lies in gynecologic oncology, endometrial cancer, vulva carcinoma, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, adnexal masses, tumors, hysterectomy, lymphadenectomy, endometrial adenocarcinomas, cervical intraepithelial neoplasia, gynecologic malignancies, ob/gyn and women's health.

Dr. Steven R. Lindheim is the Professor at Boonshoft School of Medicine, Wright State University, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Dayton, Ohio. Dr. Steven R. Lindheim did his masters from Temple school of Medicine, Philadelphia and masters in medical management from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans.

Dr. Steven R. Lindheim research interest lies in Infertility Assisted Reproduction, In Vitro Fertilization and Third Party Reproduction Hormonal Imbalance (Endometriosis, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Menopause, Adolescent Gynecology) Advanced Hysteroscopy and Robotic Assisted Laparoscopy Oncofertility.

Dr. Natalie Rasgon is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Rasgon has been involved in longitudinal place bio controlled neuroendocrine studies for two decades. She has been involved in neuroendocrine and brain imaging studies of estrogen effects on depresxed and menopausal women for many years. Dr. Rasgon is also the director of the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Program and Women’s Wellness Program in the Department of Psychiatry and she also founded the Behavioral Neuroendocrinology program which focuses on the interaction between reproductive hormones and brain function.

Dr. Natalie Rasgon research interest lies in areas like longitudinal place bio controlled neuroendocrine studies for nearly two decades, and she has been involved in neuroendocrine and brain imaging studies of estrogen effects on depressed menopausal women for the last eight years.

Dr. Michael Vernon is the IVF lab director and a Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology. He graduated with a Bachelors degree from the University of Kentucky, a MS degree from Eastern KY University, a PhD from the University of Florida and completed his post-doctoral fellowship in Reproductive Physiology at the Wisconsin Primate Center. Dr. Vernon has been an Andrology & Embryology Lab Director for over 20 years and was previously a faculty member at the University of Kentucky and Louisiana State University. He was part of the research team in the 1970’s at the Wisconsin Primate Center that successfully performed the first IVF in the rhesus monkey and the Embryologist for the first babies born in Kentucky through IVF, GIFT, ZIFT, micromanipulation and embryo cryopreservation

Dr. Vernon Research Interest lies in In-vitro fertilization, Embryology, Infertility and Andrology

Dr. Nissrine Nakib is an Assistant Professor at University of Minnesota and her studies specializes in a variety of urologic conditions, including kidney stones, urinary incontinence, and pelvic pain. Dr. Nakib is also currently working on a project that looks at 3-D simulation of female pelvic and organs.

Dr. Nissrine Nakib research interest lies in following areas: Urinary tract infections Interstitial cystitis Hematuria (blood in urine) Kidney stones Urinary incontinence

Dr. Lewis is the Chairman and Professor in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of South Albama.

Dr. Lewis research interest lies in High-Risk Obstetric.

Dr. Amit Chakrabarty is the Chairman of Urologic Clinics of North Alabama P.C. and the Director of Center for Continence and Female Pelvic Health.

Dr. Amit Chakrabarty has special expertise in 5 areas: Enlarged Prostate (Prostatic Hyperplasia) Kidney Stones (Kidney Calculi), Overactive Urinary Bladder Prostate Cancer (Prostatic Neoplasm) Urinary Incontinence