Masahiko Hirota has completed his PhD from Kumamoto Unversity. He is the director of Kumamoto Regional Medical Center, Japan, and the clinical professor of Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Kumamoro University Medical School, Japan. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals.

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Jose R Torrealba has completed his MD in 1994 from the Central University of Venezuela. He then did a Post-doctoral fellowship in Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wisconsin and obtained his degree in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology from the Univeristy of Wisconsin. He specialized in Immunopathology of Transplantation at the University of Toronto, Canada in 2005. He held a job as Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Wisconsin until 2010 and currently is the Dr. George and Anne Race Distinguished Professor of Pathology at the Department of Pathology, UTSW Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

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Jose Mario F. De Oliveira is a former post-doctorate fellow at the Brigham&Women´s hospital in Harvard Medical School and a deputy editor for diabetes in the global community forum of the British Medical Journal. He is a reviewer for a number of high impact peer review journlsals and has been an author or co-author for a number of peer review journals.

His research interest includes: Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity, Hypertension, Non-Communicable Diseases

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- Many research work in the field of bronchial asthma its treatment modalities and recent diagnostic facilities. - Bronchoscopy of all types: • Fiber-optic- flexible bronchoscope- biopsy and lavage. • Rigid bronchoscopy and foreign body extraction. - Lung biopsy using different needles: CT guided and Ultrasonic Guided. - Pleural biopsy, tapping, and tube drainage.

Dr Petrou S. Athanasios is the Head of the Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic (HPB) and Surgical Oncology Services, at the AIMIS (American Institute of Minimal Invasive Surgery), at the American Medical Center, and, Associate Consultant HPB Surgeon, at Nicosia Teaching Hospital, Department of Surgery/Div. HPB, Cyprus, EU. He completed his Higher Surgical Training in the First Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, LAIKO Teaching Hospital, Greece in 2009. During his Higher Surgical Training, he trained extensively in HPB Surgery along with Surgical Oncology. His expertise in HPB and Surgical Oncology was further enhanced during his Fellowships at The Royal Marsden NHS Trust - Department of Academic Surgery (HPB & Surgical Oncology), and, at the University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, NHS Trust - HPB/UGi & Transplant Center. He gained a Master of Science (MSc in HPB Surgery), in 2009 from the University of Thrace, and a PhD in Medicine, (Liver Surgery) in 2010 from the University of Athens. Dr Petrou deals with Surgical Treatments and Management for the whole spectrum of HPB diseases. He is also specialized in Surgical Oncology. The treatment of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract malignancies (Oesophageal & Gastric Cancer), as well as, the Abdominal and Retroperitoneal Sarcomas are integrated in his proficiency. Since 2016, Dr Petrou is the Clinical Lead for the Nanoknife program (Irreversible Electroporation - IRE) in Cyprus, and for the recently established Advanced Laparoscopic HPB, & HIPEC surgical programs, at the American Medical Center. Dr Petrou is a member of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also a member of the International & European Hepato – Pancreato - Billiary Association (E-AHPBA and I-HPBA) & European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), and, Member of Subcommittee on educational activities for the E-AHPBA.

He has a strong academic background with more than 80 publications in international peer reviewed journals and decades of studies presented in international surgical meetings and conferences. The main field of research and clinical studies remains the Liver - Pancraetic and the Surgical Oncology.

Experienced healthcare executive with more than a decade in hospital operations, hospital & healthcare business management, strategic restructuring and turnaround hospital projects.

Specialties: Business Plans and Feasibility Studies, Strategic Plans, Hospital Operations, Process reengineering, TQM, Staff Training. was appointed in multiple top managerial positions for many private sector’s hospitals. implementing the overall organizational strategic objectives. my scope covers business generation & sales target achievement, collection, manpower planning, budgeting, structuring of products pricing, ensuring compliance of operations with policies & procedures.

Prof Irfan Ahmed is a Consultant Surgeon specializing in complex liver, pancreas and bile duct diseases with a specialist interest in advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques and the development of modern surgical innovations. He has pioneered various special techniques in Virtual Scarless surgery and introduced these techniques worldwide. He is faculty for various international courses and teach advanced laparoscopic skills to the surgeons and is also involved in developing telemedicine & telementoring for young surgeons using modern technologies. He completed his higher degree (MD) at the University of Leeds working with an internationally renowned team researching organ preservation and did pioneering work on cold liver preservation techniques while developing a novel liver preservation solution. His work was funded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England via a research fellowship. He holds academic appointments at the University of Aberdeen as a senior lecturer and clinical tutor at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a visiting Professor in Robert Gordon University and part of the court of examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Joint Committee of Intercollegiate Examinations in the UK.

He has extensive experience in research and leads various research groups collaborating with the international institutions. With a broad research base, He has published in all aspects of his areas of clinical interest. With more than 100 peer review publications (book chapters, review, editorials, original articles etc) and more than 100 scientific presentations, he remains on the forefront of latest surgical developments and innovations. I have received a number of awards throughout his career including 5 medals, merit scholarships and various presentation awards on national and international forums.

Dimitrios H. Roukos, MD, Ph.D., is Professor of Surgery – Precision Cancer Medicine and Founding director of “Centre for Biosystems and Genome Network Medicine” in the Ioannina University, School of Medicine. Assessing the unmet needs of traditional linear single – gene research, he has shifted to intrapatient comprehensive coding and non-coding genomic and regulatory network heterogeneity in time and space towards the achievement of Precision Cancer Medicine. He has published > 240 PubMed papers, 32 on Precision Medicine and Oncology, and 44 on static and spatiotemporal genome analysis with NGS. These publications have received more than 8800 citations with h-index: 73 (Scopus). He is a reviewer in many high impact journals including some with impact factor (IF) >30, evaluator in innovative research projects (EU, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland), member in the editorial board of 25 international journals with IF, and Organizing Committee member in >20 International Conferences.

Precision Cancer Medicine: Static and Spatiotemporal genome analysis with conventional and breakthrough NGS systems. Intratumor heterogeneity (MR-NGS, single-cell DNA/RNA seq), serial cfDNA-NGS, comprehensive intra-patient heterogeneity, coding and non-coding genomic and transcriptional heterogeneity. Integration of Hi-C and CRISPR-Cas9 for understanding regulatory networks and future development of non-linear transcriptional network-based next-generation drugs.

Safwan Taha is Professor of Surgery, Basrah College of Medicine and was founding Dean of Thi-Qar College of medicine. He holds Fellowship of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Glasgow, Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons, Diploma laparoscopic Surgery from Strasbourg University and Certificate of the Arab Board of Surgery. Prof. Taha is currently Governor of the UAE Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and VP of the Emirates Society for Laparo-Endoscopic Surgeons. He is an international speaker and has more than 37 published papers. Prof. Taha is the Medical Director and Director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Center, Mediclinic Airport Road Hospital, Abu Dhabi; UAE.

Prof. Taha is recognized by the Surgical Review Corporation; the USA, as Master Surgeon in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He has keen interests in metabolic surgery, revisional bariatric surgery, quality of life following bariatric surgery, reduced port bariatric surgery and SILS (Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery). Prof. Taha is an international speaker and has more than 37 published papers.

Prof. Aamir Ghafoor Khan is Past President of Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology & GI Endoscopy. Currently, he heads GI & Hepatology division at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. He was until recently Medical Director of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, which is one of the largest tertiary care teaching Hospital in Pakistan. Besides being the Focal Person for Hepatology in KPK Province of Pakistan, Prof. Aamir is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is an examiner for MRCP(UK) and FCPS exams. He is currently International Adviser(IA) to Royal College of Physician of London and also Royal College of Physician of Edinburgh. He has a sound academic background with the presence on editorial boards and as the reviewer for various Journals like Arab Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatitis Journal of Iran, and Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology etc. He is a core committee member of World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Guidelines Committee and Hepatology Interest Group of WGO. Prof. Aamir is a frequent speaker at various International GI & Hepatology meetings and his unit is actively engaged in clinical research in the field of Gastroenterology, with nearly 40 publications to his credit. Besides his academic & professional commitments, he is a keen Squash and Cricket player and a keen Hunter as well.

clinical research in field of Gastroenterology

• Consultant and head of pediatrics gastroenterology and hepatology unit • Professor of pediatrics, Faculty of medicine, Mansoura University Children Hospital, Mansoura University, Egypt. • Head of Dakhalia pediatric association • Member of Egyptian medical syndicate (dakhalia, head of medical education committee)

Since 1996 I hade the interest in the field of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology at Mansoura University Children hospital where I become completely devoted towards the academic & scientific activity of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology.

Prof. Dr. Amin El-Gohary completed his MBBCh in 1972 and his Diploma in General Surgery in 1975 at Cairo University, Egypt. He became a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons in UK: Edinburgh in 1979, London in 1980, and Glasgow in 1997. Prof. Dr. Amin worked initially in Egypt, then moved to Kuwait, then to UK, before coming to UAE in 1983. In the same year, he became the Chief and Head of the Department of Pediatric Surgery of a large government hospital. Additionally, he held post as a Medical Director for the same hospital starting 1989. He was appointed as Chief Disaster Officer during Gulf War in 1991. He also held post as the Clinical Dean of Gulf Medical College, Ajman for 3 years. Prof. Dr. Amin is well known in Abu Dhabi for his extensive interest and involvement in scientific activities. He is the President of the Pediatric Surgical Association of UAE. He was awarded the Shield of the College of Pakistan in 1996 and the Medal of International Recognition in pediatric urology from the Russian Association of Andrology in 2010. He was given a Silver Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons – Ireland in 1978 and an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons – Glasgow in 1997. In 2001, he became a Visiting Professor at Munster University, Germany. Prof. Dr. Amin is a member of several associations in pediatric surgery: Executive Member of the International Society of Intersex and Hypospadias Disorder (ISHID), British Association of Pediatric Surgery, Egyptian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Asian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, and Pan African Association of Pediatric Surgery. He is also the founder and member of the Arab Association of Pediatric Surgeons. Prof. Dr. Amin has an intensive academic and teaching experience, has written several publications in distinguished medical journals, and has made several poster and paper presentations in national and international conferences. Currently, he is an external examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons.

Gastroenterology,Pediatric Surgery

Professor Reda Elwakil graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1977 and certified as MD of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Ain Shams University in 1988. He currently serves as an Emeritus professor of Tropical Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo , Egypt. He has served as the Director of the Combined Endoscopy Unit , Ain Shams University Hospital, 2006 -2008 and the Past President of the Egyptian Association for Study of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases (EASGLD) 2009 -2011. Now, He is the Current President of the African Middle East Association for Gastroenterology (AMAGE).

Gastroenterology and Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Dr. Hideaki Kawabata is a clinical gastroenterologist to the core and now Director of the Department of Kyoto Okamoto Memorial Hospital, Head of the Gastroenterological Center and Chief of the Palliative Care Team at our hospital, as well as a Specialist and Councilor in the Japanese Society of Gastroenterology and the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society and a Specialist in the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine and the Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Cancer Screening.

Gastroenterology and Endoscopy

Ahmed Farag has completed his PhD at the age of 32 years from Cairo University and postdoctoral studies from Cairo University School of Medicine. He is the Ex-Chairperson of Department of General Surgery and Ex-Chief of Colorectal Unit Faculty of Medicine Cairo university and currently the Emeritus Professor of General and Colorectal Surgery – Kasr Al-Aini medical school - Cairo University, The largest “6500 beds” and oldest medical School in the middle east “{ 200 years”. He has published more than 15 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute including AJG and a reader in the BMJ.

Gastroenterology (Colorectal)

Prof. Aamir Ghafoor Khan currently heads GI & Hepatology division at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. He was till recently Medical Director of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, which is one of the largest tertiary care teaching Hospital in Pakistan. Besides being the Focal Person for Hepatology in KPK Province of Pakistan, Prof. Aamir is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is examiner for MRCP(UK) and FCPS exams. He is currently International Adviser(IA) to Royal College of Physician of London and also Royal College of Physician of Edinburgh. Prof. Aamir Ghafoor Khan is Past President of Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology & GI Endoscopy.He has a sound academic background with presence on editorial boards and as reviewer for various Journals like Arab Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatitis Journal of Iran, and Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology etc. He is a core committee member of World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Guidelines Committee.Prof. Aamir is a frequent speaker at various International GI & Hepatology meetings and his unit is actively engaged in clinical research in field of Gastroenterology, with nearly 40 publications to his credit.

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Radha Krishan Dhiman M.D , MNAMS , FACG , FAMS graduated from King George’s Medical College, Lucknow, India, National Academy of Medical Sciences, India and then American College of Gastroenterology, USA. He currently serves as as Professor and Head of Department of Hepatology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. He has been awarded Harold O Conn award by American Association for the study of Liver (AASLD),“Basanti Devi Amir Chand” by ICMR, Dr DV Datta Memorial Oration Award, “Apollo Award of Merit” in 2006 by Apollo Hospitals, “Olympus Mitra Endoscopy Award” by Indian Society of Gastroenterology and many more. He has served as the President of International Society on Hepatic Encephalopathy and Nitrogen Metabolism (ISHEN), 2014-2017.In 2008, he also received “Dr BC Roy National Award” from Honorable President of India Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil. He is also the member of various societies ,i.e., American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), American, Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), National Academy of Medical Sciences (MNAMS) till 2010, Indian Society of Gastroenterology (ISG), Indian Association for study of the liver (INASL),Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India (SGEI), etc.

Hepatology (Hepatic Encephalopathy)

Dr. Akkary is a Board Certified Surgeon. He started his practice in Morgantown, WV at an academic institution followed by a community hospital where he and his team were able to achieve the designation of Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence at both hospitals. His extensive background includes General Surgery Residency training in Michigan and two Fellowship training programs; Bariatrics & Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery at Yale University, New Haven, CT and Cosmetic Surgery Fellowship at Shumway Cosmetic Surgery Institute, San Diego, CA. Dr. Akkary performs General and Bariatric Surgery procedures via Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic Approach. In addition, He specializes in Cosmetic Surgery including different aspects of Body Contouring. Since the start of his practice, Dr. Akkary has been consistently receiving Patients' voted awards for his dedicated & compassionate patient care.

Bariatrics and Cosmetic Surgery

Anil Kaul MD, DDS, MPH graduated from Madras Medical College in Medicine, King Georges’ Medical College in Dentistry, and in Public Health from University of Minnesota. He currently serves as a Clinical Professor and Director of High-Complexity Clinical Laboratories at Oklahoma State University-Center for Health Sciences. He has been awarded 6 Patents and has published more than 50 scientific papers. He has served as senior health advisor to the U.S. Department of State and received “Expeditionary Service Award”. In 2014, he also received “Lifetime Achievement Award” at Global Health Summit in Hyderabad, India and in 2008 he was named Sony’s “Scientist of the Year Award”.

Global public health and Healthcare administration

Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than eighty 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, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Turkey, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, China, India, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor 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 ten books in Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than six hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals. Hitherward, he is a member of more than one hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. It should be noted that he is currently the President of American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA.

Biophysical Chemistry Biomolecular Spectroscopy Quantum Chemistry Nanochemistry Theoretical Chemistry Mathematical Chemistry  Computational Chemistry Vibrational Spectroscopy Molecular Modelling Ab initio & Density Functional Methods Molecular Structure

Dr. Shiaw-Yih (Phoebus) Lin’s is a tenured professor and Deputy Chair of Department of Systems Biology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Lin’s research efforts are focused within an overall theme of DNA damage response defects in cancer with the specific emphasis on systems and translational precision cancer therapy. Dr. Lin serves on editorial boards of nine international journals and has served on numerous grant review committees for NIH, DOD and other funding organizations both nationally and internationally.

Cancer, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Biomarkers

Syed Rahmanuddin is Director of 3D Oncologic Imaging Center,U.S.A from Oct 2015- now. At present he is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology at Helford Clinical and Research Hospital, City of Hope National Medical Center & Beckman Research Center, Duarte CA. His research interest is in 3D volume & detection of imaging biomarker on CT, MR and US modality. Perfusion studies add vaulable info in diagnosing disease and could predict early detection of disease. 3D volumetric estimation could provide more detail voxel based info for tumor.

3D volume & detection of imaging bio-marker on CT, MR and US modality

Omer Engin is a General Surgeon at Buca Seyfi Demirsoy State Hospital, Surgery Department,Izmir,Turkey. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and Editor in Chief in Journal of Universal Surgery (imedpub insight medical publishing), International Archives of Medicine, International Journal of Onco Therapy.He is International Organisation Scientific Committee Member at International Medical Society Scientific Committee member and Athens Institute for Education and Research.

General Surgery,Onco- Therapy,Clinical Trials, Medicine

Vincenzo Neri is born in Bari, Italy, on 15th March 1946. Full Professor of General Surgery, University of Foggia. (2002-today). Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences. Director of the Division of General Surgery (1997- today). Director of Residency School of General Surgery, Policlinic University of Foggia (2008-today). He was graduated on 1970 in Medicine and Surgery in the University of Bari. Assistant Professor from 1974 to 1982 (University of Bari – Italy). Associate Professor from 1982-2001 (University of Bari – Italy). He obtained the Diploma of “Maitrise Universitaire en Pedagogie des Sciences de la Santé” on the Université Paris-Nord Bobigny. Into ERASMUS-Program 2010-2011 he developed in the University of Gent (BE) a seminare on “Cystic tumours of the pancreas”. He was the President of the Course of Degree of Medicine and Surgery, University of Foggia from 1996 to 2002. He was Director of Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, from 2002 to 2008.

Surgery, Medicine

Dr. Zhang joined the faculty of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in 1994 and rose to the rank of Full Professor in Pathology and Cancer Biology in 2006. Dr. Zhang was the director of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Cancer Genomics Laboratory since 1999 and has been the co-director of one Genome Data Analysis Center (GDAC) under the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Dr. Zhang is also the Director of the National Foundation for Cancer Research’s Center for Systems Informatics. In 2016, Dr. Zhang joined the Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center to become the inaugural Hanes and Willis Family Professor in Cancer and the Director of Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology. Dr. Zhang has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Zhang’s research has been supported by numerous grants from NCI/NIH, DOD and various foundations. Dr. Zhang has served on many study sections of NIH and other funding agencies. Dr. Zhang has reviewed 300 NIH grants.

Cancer Biology, Pathology, Oncology, Genome Data Analysis

Professor Xu is a world-renowned specialist in gastroenterology, hepatology and cancer treatment. He is Chairman of International Society of Cryosurgery (ISC). He was awarded the highest honor - "Bethune Medal" in 2012 for his excellent work and contributions to China's national healthcare system. He was the professor of internal medicine and director of digestive research at Nantong University, guest professor in First Military Medical University, visiting professor at Chiba University in Japan, Wright state university, Johns Hopkins University in USA. He is the Chief member for Digestive Disease Committee of Chinese Association of Integrated TCM and Western Medicine, head of the National Cancer Research Collaboration Committee, former member of Helicobacter Pylori Rosearch Committee member of Pancreatic Disease Research Committee in Chinese Medical Association, member of the International Society for Liver Diseases. He is the deputy chief editor for following journals: World Journal of Gastroenterology, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Digestive Diseases and Interventional Treatment, Chinese Journal of Medicine in Transportation. Professor Xu also serves as editor for Chinese Journal of Pancreatic Diseases, Journal of Gastroenterology. He was the chief editor for the following 9 books " Applications of Corticosteroids in Clinical Treatment and Diagnosis " (published in 1972), "Clinical Significance of Laboratory Tests on Hepatic Diseases" (published in 1981), "Clinical Application of Corticosteroid" (published in 1987), "Clinical Pancreatic Diseases" (published in 1989), "Modern Treatment for Digestive Diseases"( published in 1993 and revised edition published in 2003)," Liver Fibrosis: Basics & Clinics "(published in 2003), "Cryosurgery for Cancer"(published in 2007), "Modern Cryosurgery for Cancer" published in 2012 by World Scientific Press. He co-authored another 29 medical books. He has so far published more than 496 scientific papers.

Pancreatic Surgery, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Chinese Medicine,Digestive Diseases