Nursing Care and Healthcare

Dr.Rasler is an Atlanta emergency physician experienced in behavior modification and disease prevention, with past work at the C.D.C. Motivating healthy behavior during a brief patient encounter has been a focus of his clinical care: www.DrRasler.com

Emergency medicine, Illness prevention, Coagulation diseases

Dr. Halley-Boyce has been a registered nurse and a seasoned healthcare executive for decades. She has served in a number of offices in the hospital’s C-Suite including CEO, COO and Chief Nurse Executive Officer. Dr. Halley-Boyce maintains her own consultant firm, JHBALS Spectrum International, Inc. and additionally serves as an Associate Professor and the Director of the Health Systems Administration Graduate Program in the College of Nursing at Seton Hall University. Dr. Halley-Boyce is professionally recognized for her continuous pursuit of excellence in education and service delivery, her grace, and for her humanistic, servant leadership style.

Nursing

Director, Gynecologic Oncology, Emory University School of medicine 1975-1982 Director, Gynecologic Oncology, Northside Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia 1982-present Founder and CEO, Ovarian Cancer Institute 1999-present Co-discoverer of a 100% sensitive and specific diagnostic test for ovarian cancer which was published in November, 2015 in Nature Scientific Reports Author of The Ultimate Guide to Ovarian Cancer – second edition, 2016 Appointed to the Ovarian Cancer Steering Committee by the National Institutes of Health, 2015 to present

Gynecologic Oncology

Fred Calixtro has completed his Doctor in Nursing Practice from Touro University Nevada. He is an Associate Professor at Roseman University of Health Sciences in Henderson, NV. At Roseman, he teaches medica-surgical course. His passion is to eliminate lateral violence in nursing and nursing education

nursing and nursing education

I have taught numerous courses at the bachelor’s and graduate level. This includes didactic and clinical areas of instruction. I have taught community nursing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and my dissertation. Some of these courses include a focus in community nursing. I have been responsible for planning, coordinating and participating in several large community related events. My dissertation, A Quantitative Study on Perceptions of Support Services and Student Persistence at a Southern University explored race and gender student retention at a HBCU in Southwest, Georgia. My master’s and doctorate level training and leadership roles within the college has provided me with insight, leadership, and compassion to further guide others in the facilitation of knowledge. I have also been Senior Level Bachelor Coordinator and Graduate Level Coordinator for various Nurse Education programs. In 2013, I developed and implemented a NCLEX board preparation course that helped the institution to improve their board passing rates from 75% to 100%. I have also been involved with various college level programs that are responsible for enhancing and maintaining the excellence level of institutions ensuring continued accreditation such as the Program Evaluation (PET) Committee, Curriculum Development Committee, and Faculty Senate Committee.

Higher Education Retention of minorities Innovative teaching

Joyce Bredesen, DNP, RN, PHN, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her expertise and passion is teaching public health nursing. Dr. Bredesen teaches both undergraduate and graduate nursing courses primarily in Public Health Nursing. She also is faculty advisor for DNP students and their projects. Dr. Bredesen’s research interests are working primarily with underserved populations. Her most recent research includes work with PhotoVoice and Parkinson’s disease. She has done research with the homeless population in Minnesota, as well as women’s health care issues in both India and Senegal.

Nursing Education

she is the Nursing & Midwifery faculty at Alborz University of Medical Sciences

Nursing & Midwifery

Dr. Sidharth Sahni is a certified consultant breast surgeon. He obtained his diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, before further honing his skills by undergoing additional training at the Edinburgh & South East of Scotland Rotation. Dr. Sahni’s specialization lies in breast surgery, having worked at one of the leading breast centres in the world - the Edinburgh Breast Unit. Under the guidance of Mr. U Chetty and Mr. JM Dixon, he underwent specialist training in breast and axillary conservation as well as benign breast disease management, focusing on minimally invasive management of infective and inflammatory conditions. Dr.Sahni is a certified tutor at the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. He is the specialist breast surgeon to the Embassy of the United States of America, Russia, Italy, Israel, Germany & The Australian High Commission in New Delhi. Dr Sahni was the lead consultant for breast services at the Artemis Health Institute in Gurgaon & Head of Department Breast Surgery at Dr B L Kapur Memorial Hospital, New Delhi He is currently --Senior Consultant Breast Surgeon at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi Dr Sahni has also been recently appointed onto the board of directors of the European and Asian Society for Mastology (EURAMA), heading the South Asian office as President till 2016. Dr Sahni has also been recently appointed onto the editorial board of eCancer Medical Journal, the largest web based oncology journal in the world.

Breast Conserving Surgery, Sentinel Node Biopsy and Intra-Operative Radiotherapy in breast cancer management.

Bilkis Vissandjée is a Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Montreal. She is also a researcher at the Institute of Public Health Research at the same university. Most of her research work is carried out in partnership with frontline community health services organizations attending to the needs of migrant populations in Montreal as well as at the provincial and national levels. Her contributions to the scientific community along with nationally and internationally-based partners highlight the importance of accounting for sex, gender, migration and ethnicity when deriving strategies for providing quality and equity sensitive care within a diversified socio-cultural context. The main theme of her research work is to address the challenges associated with providing quality of care in a multiethnic context within a gender, migration and equity sensitive perspective.

she is actively involved with a variety of partners in identifying best practices towards culturally and linguistically safe nursing care.

K. Zaman, MBBS, MPH, PhD has been working as senior scientist and epidemiologist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), in the centre of Child and Adolescent Health. After completion of MBBS from Bangladesh, he obtained MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, USA. For the last 32 years he has gained extensive experience in the design, implementation, and analysis of data from clinical and community-based epidemiological studies. His primary interests is to conduct researches on vaccines and infectious diseases. Besides clinical studies on ORS, drug trial, vaccine studies, vitamin A supplementation and hospital surveillance, he has been involved in community-based research on diarrhoeal and respiratory diseases and other public health problems in Bangladesh. Currently he is the Principal Investigator of several rotavirus, Flu, pneumococcal, polio, Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine studies and epidemiological studies on tuberculosis in icddr,b. The vaccine studies included all phases I,II, III, IV and with ICH GCP maintained. Dr. Zaman served as Section Editor in “Immunization” of the Journal of “Health, Population and Nutrition” and also reviewer of more than 20 international journals. Dr. Zaman received several awards and has more than 135 publications in international journals and had 115 conference presentations.

His primary interests is to conduct researches on vaccines and infectious diseases. Besides clinical studies on ORS, drug trial, vaccine studies

Dr Saloni Bansal is one of the youngest, dynamic, enthusiastic and devoted assistant Professors of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the only second women medical college of India. She has been studious and meritorious all through her career having received scholarship for sporty activities and appreciation awards for academic achievements during secondary education. Graduated from a reputed institute of the area with accolades in the form of glittering gold and silver medals and is one of the few postgraduates from the premier Institute of India: All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. Her thesis titled ‘Role of Doppler in patients with IUGR, those with non-reactive NST-a comparison with biophysical profile’ is considered as the most relevant contemporary topic. Also an active participant of the ongoing research activities, she has presented papers at various National level conferences and been awarded first prize for the best presentation in one of those. With numerous international publications to her credit, she is also one of the co-authors of an editorial of an international journal as well as a reviewer

Role of Doppler in patients with IUGR, those with non-reactive NST-a comparison with biophysical profile’ is considered as the most relevant contemporary topic.

Prof. Dr. Mohd. Anisur Rahman Forazy, RN, PhD is a Bangladeshi citizen who has publications nationally and internationally and is the pioneer doctorate in the field of Nursing in his country obtained from University of New Castle, USA. He did is M.Sc. from University of Adelaide, Australia. He has experience in overseas jobs as a clinical nursing supervisor as well as a Nurse Educator. Currently he is the Principal of a renowned Nursing College in Bangladesh, Begum Rabeya Khatun Chowdhury Nursing College. He raised the voice & image of nursing globally. He is having a regular correspondence with the President of “International Council of Nurses”. He has been trying to buildup nurses work capacity, Global standard, handsome wages and honor of nurses.

Burning issues, Nursing, surgery

Vladimir Obolenskiy, MD, PhD (2002), Head of the Septic Surgery Unit, City Clinical Hospital № 13, Moscow; Associate Professor of the Department of surgery of the Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov, Moscow; correspondent member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS). He is a member of several professional societies, including EWMA, AO Trauma, participant EBJIS. He has published more than 40 articles in reputed journals and 8 tutorials. He has been serving as an editorial board member of the journal "Wound Medicine" and "International academic journal of RANS".

Wound Medicine

Prof. Dr. Rajiv Mahendru possessed Post-Graduate Degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Himachal Pradesh University at the age of 29 years and became one of the youngest Professors. Presently, Head of the Department in the only second women medical college of India. He has 41 Publications in reputed journals and is the recipient of a prestigious Award for excellence in Medical field. Appointed as the Chief-editor of the Special issue of an international journal of repute and has numerous presentations to his credit at international arena as an invited Guest Speaker. He is the member of editorial board of international journals, Academic Board of many universities, member of recruitment for medical teachers, and assessor for establishing Medical colleges. He has chaired numerous sessions in the National and International conferences

Obstetrics,Gynaecology

Mingli Jiao completed her PhD at the Public Health School, Harbin Medical University (HMU), in Harbin, China—site of the 1911 pneumonic plague outbreak (it was called Fujiadian, Manchuria). The surgeon general at that time, Wu lien-teh, was the first president of HMU. Mingli Jiao studied at the University of Washington and at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health as a visiting scholar. She is the vice director of Health Policy and Hospital Management Center in HMU.

Healthcare Research

Dr. Anil K. Mandal is a native of India and a naturalized citizen of the United States. He graduated from Calcutta National Medical College and is a diplomaye of American Board of Internal Medicine. He is the author of many books and articles on research in diabetes and kidney disease. He is two-time Fulbright Scholar to India and Visiting Professor to 24 countries where he has lectured on diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease, Dr. Mandal began the Diabetes Research Foundation for the prevention and treatment of diabetes based on his knowledge that diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure worldwide. Dr. Mandal’s conviction are in office, patients come first and in the home, children comes first. He is dedicated to helping diabetic patients live a good life and not enter dialysis.

Diabetes Research Foundation.

Dr Roger Worthington is an independent medical educator and consultant adviser on medical ethics and professionalism. Based in the UK, he lectures widely, including at Yale University (USA) as an Assistant (Adjunct) Professor of Medicine. Roger is a former adviser at the Ministry of Health, New Zealand, and a former consultant at the General Medical Council (UK). His PhD in Philosophy is from the State University of New York, USA; his MA in Medical Ethics is from Keele University (England), and he has a lifelong interest in Indian culture and philosophy.

He has a lifelong interest in Indian culture and philosophy.

Dr Felicia Tan is Director and Chief Surgeon of FeM Surgery – one of the leading surgical group practices in Singapore. She graduated with a Bachelor in Medicine and Surgery from the National University of Singapore. She received her post-graduate training as a general surgeon at the National Cancer Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital and chose to subspecialize in breast surgery. She served as an associate consultant in Kerdang Kerbau Womens’ and Childrens’ Hospital and as a consultant surgeon in Raffles Hospital prior to starting her own practice at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh) and received her specialist accreditation in General Surgery in Singapore. She continues to serve as a visiting consultant to the Breast Department at KK Womens and Childrens Hospital where she is involved in training of medical students, fellows and trainee surgeons

Her current research interests lies in breast oncology, especially in understanding breast cancer in young women. Her research background is in translational medicine, utilizing molecular and genetic profiling of tumour subtypes to identify biomarkers, which will assist in diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of cancer. She received the prestigious Singapore Millennium Foundation Scholarship in 2007 to pursue her research interests

Biography: Roberto Hegg, MD, PhD, professor of School of Medicine at University of São Paulo, Director of Clinical Oncology Service at Reference Center of Woman´s Health and Director of Clinical Research Center.

Center of Woman´s Health and Director of Clinical Research Center.

Dr.N.K.Suryadevara has completed his PhD from Massey University - New Zealand. He has authored/co-authored 40+ articles in reputed international journals, conferences and book chapters. At present, the Google citation i10-index is 12 and h-index is 11. He is the recipient of Massey University doctoral scholarship (NZ$25000/Year) for three years. He has demonstrated consistent success as an educator and administrator at the graduate and post graduate education levels during his teaching career. He has extensive teaching experience, working across India, Ethiopia, Oman and New Zealand countries. He has received best student research paper award Health Informatics-New Zealand (HiNZ) for the year 2014

At present, the Google citation i10-index is 12 and h-index is 11. He is the recipient of Massey University doctoral scholarship (NZ$25000/Year) for three years.

Prof Sharma completed his MD from PGIMER, Chandigarh in 1979 and worked as a Project Psychiatrist for WHO collaborative research studies carried out at the Institute. In 1982, he moved to UK and in 1986 he was appointed as Consultant Psychiatrist at Walton Hospital (Now University Hospital Aintree) in Liverpool. He completed his PhD in 1993 from University of Liverpool. Between 1996 and 1999 he worked as Senior Lecturer at Liverpool University, where he successfully led the Primary Care Mental Health Service Project. He was invited to join Wirral and Cheshire region to develop comprehensive mental health services close to primary care. He held Medical Director and Director of Research positions with the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust. In the last fifteen years Prof Sharma served Department of Health in the UK as the Health Technology Assessment Panel member, National Institute of Health Research (as Deputy Lead for the Northwest MHRN hub) and Royal College of Psychiatrists as examiner. He is Vice Chair of Global Rural Mental Health section of the World Psychiatric Association. He developed the Global Mental Health Assessment Tool (GMHAT) primary care as well as full version. GMHAT/PC has been translated in to nine languages and getting world-wide attention. His other area of research interest is early intervention in psychosis being a part of a very large national study in early intervention in psychosis. He was offered chair at University of Chester in 2010 to facilitate international work involving training and education to front line health workers in mental health. He has published over 35 research papers in International Journals and ten chapters in books.

He held Medical Director and Director of Research positions with the Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust

Head of the Department & Dean of Faculty, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak

Co-ordinator, DST-FIST, Co-Principal investigator – UGC, ePG pathasala

A.K.Susheela after obtaining her Doctorate degree from an Indian University have had post-doctoral training in U.K, USA and Canada. On return, she joined the Faculty of the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1970; continued to serve the Institution through teaching, research and patient care services until superannuation in 1997. Then, she took the reins of the Foundation as the Executive Director which she continues till date. The Foundation is a National and Global Consultation Centre on all aspects of Fluoride and Fluorosis, besides a Training Centre for Doctors, Water Supply Personnel and Diet Counsellors including other Health Functionaries

The Foundation is a National and Global Consultation Centre on all aspects of Fluoride and Fluorosis, besides a Training Centre for Doctors, Water Supply Personnel and Diet Counsellors including other Health Functionaries.