Title: Technological Frontiers in the Delivery of Life-saving

Biography

Donovan B. Yeates, Ph.D., CEO, KAER Biotherapeutics Corporation, is an internationally recognized authority in aerosol drug delivery and respiratory function. He has developed game-changing technologies to deliver aerosols to the lungs, quantify the dose delivered and evaluate the physiological mechanisms whereby they are cleared from the lungs. He was a Senior Research Career Scientist in the Department of Veterans Affairs and a Professor in the Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Section Chief in the Department of Medicine and Director of a university wide Occupation Health and Safety Center. Dr. Yeates is an emeritus professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago with over 90 publications and 19 issued patents. He is a past president of the Chicago Thoracic Society. He has a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto.

Title: Molecular pathobiology of aspirin responsive erythromelalgia in thrombocythemia and incurable inherited erythermalgia in Nav1.7mutated neuropathy

Biography

Dr Jan Jacques Michiels is educated as Farmer and Multidisciplinary Internist, Hematologist and Bloodcoagulation & Vascular Medicine Specialist, and founded the GoodHeart Insitute (GHI) in Nature Medicine & Health in 1998. Dr JJ Michiels served as Director of Hemostasis & Thrombosis Research, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam and wrote his Thesis 1981 on Erythromelalgia and Thrombocythemia caused by Von Willebrand factor-platelet-mediated arteriolar inflammation and thrombosis (1981-2000) as the origin of a series of publications between 1985-2019 on a novel  Sticky Platelet Thrombophilia in TPO, JAK2 and MPL mutated Thrombocythemia of myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN).

Title: Family as Medicine: What the Largest Research Study to Date Tells Us About What Could Be the Most Effective Way to Treat Adolescent Mental Illness

Biography

Paul A. Sunseri, Psy.D. is the founder of three community mental health agencies in the United States serving children and adolescents with severe mental illness. His research interest is in improving treatment outcomes and he has conducted some of the largest studies to date on the relationship between family dynamics and children’s mental health. Dr. Sunseri has spoken both nationally and internationally on advanced family therapy techniques for improving family functioning and he is the developer of Intensive In-Home Family Treatment (IIFT), a science-based treatment approach for high conflict families (myIIFT.org).

Title: CONFIDENTIALITY AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH

Biography

Steven gained his MSc at the London School of Economics and Political Science in Social Work and Social Policy, qualified as a Psychotherapist, and completed his MPhil in Child and Adolescent Mental Health in 2008. He worked in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) services and then appointed Head of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Anglia Ruskin University in 2002 where he designed a multi-disciplinary National award-winning training course. Steven has presented his research in Russia, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Hong Kong, Buenos Aries, Greece, Scotland and the UK. His specialist research interests are in cyber bullying, multi-cultural service provision, refugees and asylum seekers, and feminist practice.

Title: Neutropenia in Patients with Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID)

Biography

Dr. Reza Yazdani has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He is a young researcher in Research Center for Immunodeficiencies (RCID), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran. He has over 90 publications that have been cited over 500 times, and his publication H-index is 17 and has been serving as an editorial board member of several journals.

Title: Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection Registry in Flanders : Opportunities and Pitfalls

Biography

Annelies Keymeulen was born in 1978. She received her master degree in medicine in 2003 at the University of Ghent. In the same year she started the specialization of pediatrics at the Ghent University Hospital during 5 years. She developed a special interest in Neonatology and started as a resident at the NICU of the Ghent University Hospital in 2009, where she became a staff member in 2011. Within the field of neonatology, congenital cytomegalovirus infection is one of her topics of interest and it has become her topic for PhD.

Title: The Feldenkrais Method and Cerebral Palsy

Biography

King’s College, University of London: PhD: Olivier Messiaen and the Culture of Modernity Supervisors: Prof. Daniel Chua, Prof. John Deathridge Central Research Fund Scholarship, London University, (1998), Lacey Bursary for French Studies (1999, 2000, 2001), Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (2000-03). MMus in Theory and Analysis: Dissertation: ‘Structure and Counter-Structure, Metaphor and Multiple Meaning in Olivier Messiaen’s Couleurs de la cité céleste’. Supervisor: Prof. Arnold Whittall.

Title: Assessment of the effect of intimate partner violence on low birth weight: A community based prospective cohort study in Ethiopia

Biography

Sewhareg Belay has completed her Master of Public Health (MPH) at the age of 32 years from Addis Ababa University in 2013 and now a PhD fellow at the joint PhD program at Hawassa University, Ethiopia and the University of Bergen, Norway. She is lecturer at Hawassa University. She has published two papers in reputable journals.

Title: Examining Freddie Gray Jr.’s Death through the Determinants of Death in the United States

Biography

Sharon D. Jones-Eversley, Dr.PH, is a tenured Associate Professor at Towson University in the Family Studies and Community Development Department. She was the first tenured-track Black faculty hired in her department. In March 2018, she became the first Person-of-Color to earn tenure in her department’s history. As a social epidemiologist, she studies the intergenerational disease distribution and morbidities adversely impact families and communities of color. She examines incidents of chronic diseases, premature deaths, homicide-suicide rates, structural violence, community deprivation and systemic social disabilities in communities of color.

Title: Neonatal and long term consequences of illicit drug use during pregnancy

Biography

Koenraad Smets,Medical head NICU,Ghent University Hospital,Belgium

Title: The Impact of Fetal Middle Cerebral Artery Doppler on the Outcome of Congenital Hydrocephalus

Biography

King Abdullah University Hospital, Jordan University of Science and Technology

Title: Parent-Child Relationships, Parenting stress and Acculturation Stress in North Korean Refugee Mothers

Biography

In sook Lee has completed her PhD. from Catholic University, Korea. She is the professor of Dept. of Nursing, Hannam University, Korea. Her major is pediatric nursing. She is interested in children's growth and development, family-centered health care. She has recently been interested in North Korean refugees’ health and is conducting relevant research.

She is supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and conducts research on healthy social adjustment of North Korean refugees and their families.

Title: Variability of which electrophoretic fractions affect total protein homeostasis in pregnant serum?

Biography

Agnieszka Strawa has graduated from Medical University of Warsaw in 2017. She has a masters degree in Medical Laboratory Science. She started her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the age of 26 years at Medical University of Warsaw, Poland. She has just started her scientific career, published her first article last April.

Title: Risk factors, outcomes and the effect of levosimendan in paediatric cardiomyopathy

Biography

Master of Science (MSc): Dr Georgios Kourelis has been practising as a Consultant in Paediatric / Cardiac Intensive Care. He has completed Post-graduate programme ‘Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation’ in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School. He has been to many international conferences as a speaker/delegate and published articles in international journals.