Open Medicine Journal

Prof. Bassam R. Ali is the professor of Molecular and Genetic Medicine at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, UAE. Prof. Ali obtained his PhD degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and worked at UCL and Imperial College London before joining UAE University in August 2006. His current research interests include (1) Elucidation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying human monogeniv diseases (2) Pharmacogenomics and (3) Cellular trafficking in eukaryotic cells. Prof. Ali published over 100 original research articles and reviews in international refereed journals and participated in numerous scientific meetings.

Dr. T. Archer was obtained an Honour’s degree (Psychology and Physiology) at Newcastle-upon-Tyne University (1974), and a PhD, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (1979). From 1978 (Aug) to 1988 (Dec), he was employed by Astra Läkemedel AB with the position of Head of CNS Drugs when he left to take up his appointment as Professor and Chair of Biological Psychology. He has the position of Guest or Visiting Professor at: University of Hawaii at Manoa(1994), Örebro University(1996-2006), Karlstad University (2000-2004), Kalmar University (2003-2013), Madrid University(1991-2009), Sapienza University,Rome(2013-) and received an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award from St. Joseph’s College, North Point (2010); Honorary Doctorship,: Professorship and Membership Awards from the Polish Academy of Science Pharmacological Society (May, 2013); and the Sansone Award (April, 2014): School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Dr. Alessandra Barassi graduated in Medicine (2001) and did post-graduation in Clinical Chemistry (2005). Since 2006, she is Assistant Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Milan and from 2007 onwards she also became Assistant of Laboratory of Clinical Chemistry, San Paolo University Hospital (Milan, Director Prof. Gianlodovico Melzi d’Eril). Prof. Barassi is co-author of 68 peer reviewed publications overall.

Prof. Grzegorz Cieślar, M.D., Ph.D. Vice-Head of Department of Internal Medicine, Angiology and Physical Medicine in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Education: 1985 - M.D., 1989 - Ph.D., 2006 -Ass. Professor, 2013 – professor. Specialist in internal medicine (1992), balneology and physical medicine (2010) Co-author of: 11 monograph books, 37 chapters in book, 178 articles in journals, 219 congress papers. Scientific editor of 7 monograph books. Member of Editorial Boards of 15 international Journals and reviewer in 34 international Journals.

Dr. Rupali Das did her Bachelors (B.Sc.) and Masters (M.Sc.) in Microbiology and Immunology from University of Mumbai, India in 1998 and 2000. She did his Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Immunology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR (2006). Since 2015, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, Michigan State University. Dr. Das has numerous publications and honors/awards to her credit.

Dr. Kenji Dohi is a professor of emergency medicine, and chief director of emergency center at Showa University, School of Medicine, Japan. Dr. Dohi has published extensively on the neuroscience, clinical neuroscience and emergency medicine with over 100 peer reviewed international publications. Especially, his research activity is focused on neuro-resuscitation, neuroinflammation and oxidative stress on CNS diseases. He is an associate editor of journal on behalf of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine.

Dr. Jacova is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Pacific University. She has internationally recognized research expertise in characterizing early clinical, cognitive and neuroimaging manifestations of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), Frontotemporal Dementia and Vascular Cognitive Impairment. She has contributed to defining the diagnostic entities of prodromal and preclinical AD. Dr. Jacova has also contributed to designing and implementing randomized controlled trials of pharmacological and behavioral interventions in older adults with and without cognitive impairment. She has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, and several book chapters/books on topics of cognition, aging, and dementia.

Dr. Jay Kalra is a Professor of Pathology in the University of Saskatchewan and has served as Head of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Saskatoon Health Region. He is recognized for his many contributions as a clinical scientist, academic leader and health system administrator. He has been a pioneer in the area of applied biochemistry by establishing the role of oxygen free radicles in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and atherosclerosis and guidelines for thyroid-function testing, laboratory utilization. He has also contributed nationally and internationally in the area of total quality management and lean transformation strategies. He has published extensively and is the author of the book “Medical Errors and Patient Safety: Strategies to reduce and disclose medical errors and improve patience safety.”

Dr. Kontoyianni holds a PhD in computational chemistry from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is an associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwarsdville. Before joining the SIUE School of Pharmacy, she worked in Research & Development of Fortune 500 companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble. Dr. Kontoyianni’s interests involve the development of computational methodologies to understand ligand recognition, and implementation of processes to accelerate drug discovery. She sits on the editorial board of several journals, holds seven patents, and is panelist for the European Union large scale grant application proposals.

Dr. Shigeo Masuda received his MD from the University of Tokyo in 1996, and PhD in Hematology/Oncology from the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan. He was an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor at Jichi Medical University, Japan, from 2007 to 2012, and joined RIKEN CDB in 2011. He studied at the Belmonte Lab in the Salk Institute from 2012 to 2014. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery in Osaka University, Japan. His interest is regenerative medicine using iPS-derived cells, including molecular targeted therapy for iPS-derived undifferentiated cells to improve safety.

Dr. Murdaca has obtained Ph.D. in Sciences and Space Engineering. He is presently serving as an Assistant Professor at Internal Medicine-University of Genova-Italy. He has contributed more than 100 publications, having citations around 2373. His skills and expertise are in Immunology, Innate Immunity, T Lymphocytes, Rheumatic Diseases, Psoriasis, Clinical Immunology and Autoimmune Disease.

Dr. Peckler received his undergraduate BA from Tulane University and doctorate from St. George’s University School of Medicine. He was part of a team that had developed and trauma course for primary care providers in Spanish that was given in many different countries He was the director of simulation and worked extensively with the medical school simulation program. He has been working in New Zealand part time since 2009 and has been a full time consultant since 2013 at Wellington Hospital and runs the simulation program. Simulation and educational process have been his main focus of teaching and research. He has traveled the globe presenting and giving courses in trauma, simulation, and ultrasound.

Dr. Walter F. Riesen has obtained Ph.D. from University of Bern, Switzerland. He is a fellow at the Basel Institute for Immunology. He is a member of the Executive Committee and treasurer of the International Task Force for the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease, Member of the Editorial Board of the Eur Heart Journal, Corresponding Member of the Austrian Society of Clinical Chemistry. He does his research in diagnosis and treatment of Lipid disorders. He has contributed more than 350 publications, having citations around 5812.

Prof. Giuseppe Scalabrino obtained his M.D. degree in 1968 (magna cum laude) from University of Milan, Italy. Prof. Scalabrino has served most years of his career at University of Milan on the positions of Assistant Professor, Professor and Director in different departments. His skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas of Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Neurodegeneration, Brain Diseases, Neuropathology, Central Nervous System, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Experimental Pathology, etc. Prof. Scalabrino, as an author/co-author, has published more than 80 articles in various journals, having over 1,670 total citations.

Aswani Dutt Vadlapudi, currently a Senior Scientist at Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He obtained Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is actively engaged in improving drug delivery and development approaches for new drug products and has extensive experience in manufacturing of oral dosage forms, process optimization, scale-up, and technical investigations. He has authored/coauthored more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles in reputable international journals. He is currently an Editor titled “Drug Delivery”. Dr. Vadlapudi is also the Chair for AAPS Targeted Drug Delivery and Prodrug Focus Group whose goals are to expand drug-targeting technologies impact the direction of targeted drug delivery, encourage interdisciplinary collaborations, provide a common forum for universities, industry, and government.

Professor Arjumand S. Warsy did his B.Sc. from St. Joseph College, Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan (1966) and M.Sc. from Department of Biochemistry, University of Peshawar, Pakistan (1968). Later (1974) he did Ph.D. from Department of Applied Biochemistry & Nutrition, University of Nottingham, U.K. Currently, Dr Warsay is a Senior Scientist in Central Laboratory, Female Centre for Medical and Scientific studies, King Saud University.

Dr George K. Paraskevas born in Greece and works as Associate Professor of Anatomy at Department of Anatomy, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Medical degree from Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, attained the Ph.D. degree in 2000 (degree:excellent) and gained full qualification as specialist in Orthopaedic surgery in 2005. In 2005 was appointed as Postdoctoral Lecturer at Department of Anatomy, AUTH and in 2010, G.K.Paraskevas served as Assistant Professor at the Department of Anatomy in Medical School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and since 2014 serves as Associate Professor.

Adelaide Almeida is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Biology from the University of Aveiro (Portugal), where she got her Ph.D. degree, in 2001. She is an integrated member of the Associated Laboratory Centre for Environmental and Marine Sciences (CESAM). In the last years, she has been involved in the development and application of alternative methods to the use of antibiotics, such as photodynamic therapy and phage therapy. She has published in these fields and her publications can be found in http://www.cesam.ua.pt/adelaidealmeida

Prof. Dr. Antonio Arnaiz-Villena studied Medicine and Biology at Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, and obtained his Ph.D. doctorate in Medicine. He spent 9 years at the London Hospital Medical College and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, UK, giving training in Immunology and Genetics. He came back to Spain and set up the Immunology departments of Hospital Ramon y Cajal and Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid. He also participated in Spanish Transplant Law redaction and promotion, for which he has recently received an award at Senate by Queen Sofia. He has published over 350 articles in Immunology, Ornithology, HLA and Population Genetics. At present, he works and is Chairman at The Madrid Regional Blood Center and University Complutense, Madrid.

Dr. Robert is a doctorate of Medicine from University of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery, Des Moines, IA in 1972. He is presently serving as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Medicine, San Antonio, TX. He has also some Non- Academic appointments as a Director at Clinical Proteomics Research NHLBI-UTHSCSA, as a Medical Director: Invasive Cardiopulmonary Technicians Training St Phillips College: San Antonio, Texas, and as a Cardiology Consultant to NASA. He has been recognized with many awards and honors such as Interventional Cardiology Outstanding Teaching Award, Outstanding Teacher Award from Internal Medicine Residents 1980 and Outstanding Teacher Award from senior medical student class 1994.

Dr. Nicola Daniele received Undergraduate Degree in biology (Molecular and cellular biology, genetics) in 2006 and Master Degree in biology from University of Rome in 2009. In 2014 he became a Clinical Pathologist from University of Rome. His current research areas include vitro fertilization, ICSI, studies of human gamete, zygote and embryo morphology in relation to their developmental ability, and chromosomal constitution (PGD, PGS), as well as the cryopreservation of embryos and oocytes.

MD, Ph.D, Professor of Physiology, Specialist in Endocrinology, Scientific Director of The Medical Center Foltra, Qualified Deputy in Advanced Regenerative Therapies. 25 Prizes in Research. Maximum grade reached in my professional career as researcher and medical doctor. Nominated as Excellence in Research. Reviewer of Several Spanish and Foreign Agencies for qualification projects and researchers. Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Member of the Royal Society. Invited plenary lectures in several World Congresses around the world.

E. Gammella obtained her doctorate in pathology and neuropathology experimental (Ph.D) at the university of Milan. She worked on the field of hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension, and more recently she is working on the field of iron metabolism and its modification in different pathophysiological conditions such as increased erythropoiesis and different inflammatory processes. He authored several publications on relevant international journals.

Dr. Abdo R. Jurjus is a Professor of Anatomy for the past 40 years, at the Faculty of Medicine of the American University of Beirut Dr. A.R. Jurjus is the author of more than a hundred articles and book chapters. His main focus is on inflammation, burn wound healing, He is also a member of the American Association for Advancement of Science, The N.Y. Academy of Sciences and the American Association of Anatomists.

Dr. Jurjus is also the Chair of the Animal Care Facility and Chair of the Institutional Animal care and Use Committee at the American University of Beirut.

Dr. Young-Kug Kim is currently an anesthesiologist and a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Republic of Korea. His anesthesiology specialties include urologic surgery, robotic surgery, plastic surgery, and organ transplantation. He is particularly interested in preoperative anesthetic risk evaluation, intraoperative hemodynamic monitoring, perioperative fluid management, blood transfusion management, coagulation management, and postoperative outcomes evaluation. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and is on the Editorial Board for multiple journals.

Dr Joanna Kopecka received her PhD degree from University of Turin, Italy in 2013. Her research focuses on basis of chemoresistance and immunoresistance of cancer cells. In particular, she is interested in finding new therapeutic approaches to target resistant cancer cells, using both pharmacological and molecular biology tools. She has coauthored more than 30 scientific papers, abstracts and reviews.

Premendu P. Mathur, Ph.D. is the Vice-Chancellor, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India. He is Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences (India)and received Ph.D. from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He served as Dean, School of Life Sciences, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Head, Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at Pondicherry University, Pondicherry. He is General Secretary (Scientific Activities), Indian Science Congress Associationand Vice-President, Asian Association of Andrology. He has contributed more than 150 papers and book chapters. He is on the Editorial Boards of many international journals and reviewer for more than 100 journals.

Alexandra Nunes completed her PhD in Chemistry in 2004 in Aveiro University, since then she has participated actively in the implementation of    several methodologies of analysis in the areas of biochemistry and metabolomics. She developed skills in the area of spectroscopy and multivariate analysis that allowed her to interpret of spectroscopic signals for the analysis of biological samples. She is interested in metabolic profiling and use FTIR as a screening tool discriminate biologic samples with different ages and with different pathologies (age related pathologies, dementia, prostate cancer and viral infection) with particular interest in protein aggregation profile.

Dr. Ramana obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Biochemistry form the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Research, Chandigarh, India. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. The chief objectives of his investigations are to examine the involvement of cellular metabolism and oxidative stress signals in inflammation and to delineate the role of aldo-keto reductases and anti-oxidants in mediating the inflammatory pathways. He has published more than 100 peer reviewed articles. He is also serving as an editorial board member of several journals.

Dr. Sanada obtained a doctorate in Cardiology from Osaka University and is an Associate Professor in Department of Medical Innovation, Osaka University Hospital. His professional career is dedicated to understanding cardiac functional or ischemic disorders and developing novel treatments. He has published more than 100 scientific publications．His continuous and outstanding contributions resulted in receiving many YIAs and other awards including JHF Research Award and Cardiology Research Award, JVDRF Okamoto Research Award, Osaka University President Encouragement Award as well as the Best Reviewers of the Year Award from JCS in 8 consecutive years from 2008.

Dr. Enrique Soto is Full Time Research Professor at the Institute of Physiology of the Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico. Is the author of more than hundred articles in peer reviewed journals and several book chapters. His main focus is on Sensory Neurobiology. His work has dealt with the study of vestibular and auditory system and holds patents for the developing of a Vestibular Prosthetic System. He is also involved in the study of ionic channels in physiology and pathophysiology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico.

M.Z. Younis is an internationally recognized scholar and was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Research of Healthcare Financial Management. Dr Younis has authored and published over 200 articles, abstracts and presentations in refereed journals and meetings, and has presented at national and international conferences. Dr. Younis has consulted with several organizations on Healthcare Finance, and Economics. He has presented topics, such as, healthcare reform, ownership structure, profitability, unit cost, payment system and efficiency in management, at a variety of forums and conferences in Europe, Asia and Middle East.

Dr. Gaetano Cairo is a professor of General Pathology at Department of biomedical sciences for health at University of Milan. He was a member of “Scientific research commission” from 2006-2012 and Director, Institute of General Pathology from 2004-2008. His major research interests include Molecular mechanisms controlling iron homeostasis, Gene expression under pathological conditions and Cellular response to stress. He has over 120 publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Prof Cairo has chaired many scientific sessions in international congresses and has been invited to present his work as invited lecture or selected abstract in national and international meetings.

Georgios Androutsopoulos completed his Degree in Medicine in 1995, at the University of Athens. He received his Medical Specialization in 2006 and his Doctorate of Medicine in 2007, at the University of Patras. He started his clinical career in 2006, as Obstetrician - Gynecologist at “Mitera” Hospital of Athens. In 2009 he became a Consultant of Obstetrics and Gynecology at General Hospital of Amfissas. He started his academic career in 2012 as a Lecturer and Consultant of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Patras. In 2014 he became Assistant Professor and Consultant at the same Department.

Dr. Nidhi Chauhan is Assistant Professor at Amity Institute of Nanotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. She has published 65 high quality research papers in International journals with H-index of 21. Her research work in the area of disease detection and biological important molecules is of high scientific and social relevance. Her research work focused on "Synthesis of nanosensing interfaces for the detection of various metabolites in clinical samples". She has made outstanding contribution in developing novel biosensors for fine detection or measurement of metabolites in human body fluids essential for reliable diagnosis and better management of human health and diseases.

Dr. Marco Fiore is a Senior Resident in Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" (Italy). He earned his MSc in Hepatology from the Department of Gastroenterology of the University of Padua (Italy) and Specialization in Infectious Diseases at the Second University of Naples (Italy). He is a member of the "Infection Study Group" of the Italian Society of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Dr. Fiore' publications reflect his interest in difficult-to-treat infections in end stage liver diseases patients and non-invasive diagnostic techniques.

Prof.Dr. Soner Soylu received his PhD from Wye College, University of London, UK in 1998. Since He is working at the Department of Plant Protection, Mustafa Kemal University, Agriculture Faculty as Academician & Researcher Professor Dr. He has more than 20 years research experience and has guided MSc and PhD thesis & Studies in the field of Plant Pathology. He is the principal investigator several externally funded projects in this area. He has published more hundreds research papers, book chapters and conference proceedings. His published research papers in different aspects have been extensively cited and has been included among "The Top 10 Cited Papers" in the particular Journal category in the area of Agriculture Science.

Dr. Cristiana Bellan obtained her Ph.D. degree (2006) in Quantitative and Diagnostic Pathology from University of Siena, Siena, Italy. Dr. Bellan is currently Researcher of Anatomical Pathology (Faculty of Medical Biotechnologies) at University of Siena. Her skills and expertise mainly lie in the subject areas of PCR, Cancer Biology, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cancer Research, Cancer Diagnostics, Histopathology, Microscopy, etc. Dr. Bellan, as an author/co-author, has published more than 65 articles in various journals, having over 1,860 total citations.

Dr. Pınar Erkekoglu did her Bachelor of Science from Faculty of Pharmacy, Hacettepe University in 1992 and Faculty of Public Relations, Anadolu University in 2002. She did her Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Toxicology from Hacettepe University in 2004. Later she did Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Toxicology from Hacettepe University in 2009. Since 2013, Dr. Erkekoglu is an Associate Professor in Hacettepe University Faculty of Pharmacy Department of Toxicology. She has around 100 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Michael S Ortiz is a qualified pharmacist, pharmaceutical industry consultant and Conjoint Associate Professor at the St Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, Sydney. Dr Ortiz has prepared of a large number of major reimbursement submissions in a broad range of treatment areas.  His has published  the area of patient compliance and in particular, treatment persistence with cardiovascular products.

Massimo Tusconi, M.D. (2011, University of Cagliari, Italy), Specialization in Psychiatry (2016, University of Cagliari, Italy), Visiting Scientist and Research Collaborator (2016, University of Texas, Houston, TX, U.S.A.), EPA Gaining Experience Programme (2017, Second University of Naples, Italy), is currently working at the Department of Medical Sciences and Public Health of the University of Cagliari, Italy. Clinical researcher with focus on Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder, Translational Psychiatry, and clinical aspects of Emergency Medicine in Mental Disorders. Skilled in Epidemiology and Statistics, Informatics, proficient in Computer Science, SPSS, Data Mining and Information Systems; he published articles and abstracts for presentation at scientific congresses.