Hypertension, Cardiology, Primary Health and Patient Care

I am Dr. Mojtaba Mafi M.D., Medical Doctor/ Physician, graduated from Tehran university, School of Medicine with honor. I studied in neurosurgery ward and graduated with A score with thesis on Meningioma Brain Tumor during 6 years. With continuing my practice with special consideration on psychosomatic disorders, I completed many post graduate courses on health psychology, addiction medicine, sexual disorders therapy successfully. I passed many post graduate courses in Neuro, approved by Medical sciences university. As well, I have been passed post graduate courses on Nutrition, Gastroenterology and hepatology, Obesity treatment and diabetes approved by Tehran University of Medical sciences. I successfully passed more than 10 programs with certificates and membership in Iranian Association of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Having honor of working as associate of Iran Hepatitis Network and Gastroenterology and Hepatology research center, Middle East Liver Diseases Center (MELD). This strong study background enabled me to successfully earn certificates on 3 programs: Updates of skin and treatment from Tehran university 2015 and course on skin care updates from Iranian society of practitioners on 2016, and during 2 years, I had passed Beauty and Skin care courses in South Korea and certified from Sunghuwan co Ltd for using and working of beauty technology, RF and IPL. I am director of fatty liver and related metabolic disorders study among Iranian families since 2015 and currently publishing the results of our study and research about fatty liver and hyperlipidemia, diabetes and nutrition as study director and clinician associate member of Iran Hepatitis Network. I am reviewer and associate editor of Hepatitis Monthly Journal and reviewer of journal of Clinical and Translational Hepatology. I am editorial board member of International Journal of Psychology and Neurosciences. I am certified graduate, verified reviewer and certified mentor of Publons academy in the field of Clinical Medicine and Hepatology.

I am working clinically on patients with Brain Tumor and publishing my results on these topics: 1. Recurrent Meningioma 2. Trigeminal neuralgia 3. Radiation induced meningioma 4. Behavioral change in Brain Tumors 5. DVT prevalence and management among patients with meningioma And some others.

Dr. Maria Dorobantu has worked as senior specialist in internal medicine and Senior specialist in cardiology during 1990-1996. She is Director of the Research Center of Excellency for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular emergencies and she is Director of Hypertension Center of Excellence, European Society of Hypertension. She is Initiator and Coordinator for National Studys SEPHAR (I-III). She is reviewer for multiple journals viz., American Heart Journal, Cor et Vasa, Journal of Hypertension, PLOS ONE

Arterial Hypertension, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Heart Failure

Samer Ellahham has served as Chief Quality Officer for SKMC since 2009. In his role, Dr. Ellahham has led the development of a quality and safety program that has been highly successful and visible and has been recognized internationally by a number of awards.Dr. Ellahham is Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) by The National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). He is Certified in Medical Quality (CMQ) by The American Board of Medical Quality (ABMQ). He is the recipient of the Quality Leadership Award from the World Quality Congress and Awards and the Business Leadership Excellence Award from World Leadership Congress in 2015. He is the recipient of SKMC Infection Prevention Award in 2011 and 2012.Dr. Ellahham is Middle East Representative of the JCI Standards Subcommittee. He is Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belted. Dr. Ellahham is certified as EFQM 2013 Model assessor and is leading EFQM Excellence Model at SKMC with great success including winning the prestigious Dubai Quality Award in 2015 and Sheikh Khalifa Excellence Golden Award in 2015. Dr. Ellahham is the Executive SKMC sponsor of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®).SKMC is the first multispecialty ACS NSQIP center outside the US.Dr.Ellahham is a Board-certified internist, cardiologist and vascular medicine senior consultant and continues to care for patients. He is currently Cleveland Clinic Staff and on the Executive Team of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received several research awards including the DuPont Pharmaceuticals Research Award, ACCP 58th Annual Scientific Assembly, Young Investigator Award and the American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines Award. He is also a reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals.

Cardiology and Vascular Medicine

Aristotle Protopapas Msc. (DIC) FRCS (Glasg), is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon on the Specialist Register of the Unite Kingdom since 2013. He read Medicine in Athens, Greece and holds an Msc. in Surgical Technology from the Imperial College London since 2006. Mr. Protopapas is a fellow-qua-surgeon (by examination) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow since 1998, and member of the society of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland since 2002. Mr. Protopapas served as an Army Medical Officer for two years before embarking in a career in surgery in native Greece, Republic of South Africa, New Zealand and presently the United Kingdom. Mr.Protopapas is interested in surgical Technology, minimal access surgery and repair of chest deformities, beating-heart and computer-assisted surgery, endoscopic conduit harvesting, pulmonary resection for primary and metastatic tumours, thoracoscopy, assessment of surgical technological solutions at clinical outcome level and virtual endoscopy-augmented reality. Mr. Protopapas envisages z hybrid cardiovascular physician for the immediate future. He serves at the Editorial Boards of Interactive Cardio Vascular and Thoracic Surgery and Medical Instrumentation, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Medicine Case Reports. Dr.Protopapas has sat at committees for healthcare commissioning and guiding of clinical evidence, and working groups of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Biomedical Publishing/Bibliometry Limited Access Surgery Avalanche Safety/Snowboarding Surgical Technology and Innovation

Zeliha Selamoglu is a Professor in Medical Biology department of Nigde Ömer Halisdemir University, Turkey. She earned her PhD in Biology from Inonu University, She has published over 80 peerreviewed journal articles with over 760 citations and many technical reports. She is a member of Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine: Associate Membership and European association for cancer research. She has served as Editorial Board member for many Journals.

Tyrosine Hydroxylase (TH), stress, oxidative stress, hypertension, antioxidants, selenium, propolis, pollen, apitherapy.

Jalal K Ghali is Professor of Medicine at Mercer University. He is the Associate Chair for Clinical Research and Chief of Cardiology. He received his MD degree from Damascus University in Syria. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine. As principal investigator, Dr. Ghali has conducted over 200 clinical trials predominantly in heart failure and has contributed to the medical literature more than 200 publications, predominantly in the field of heart failure. He currently serves as the associate editor for the Journal of Cardiac Failure editorial board members of the American Heart Journal, European Journal of Heart Failure, JACC: Heart Failure, Current Cardiology Review and several others. He has served as a member of several steering committees, adjudication committees and data and safety monitoring boards in various heart failure trials. He came to Mercer from Detroit where he held the positions of Director of Cardiovascular clinical trials and the heart failure program at the Cardiovascular Institute, Detroit Medical Centre, Chief of Cardiology, Detroit Receiving Hospital and Associate Chair for Research at Wayne State University.

Chronic Heart Failure, Heart Failure, Hypertension, Cardiovascular System, Coronary Artery Disease, Cardiology, Echocardiography, Cardiac Catheterization, Arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation, Heart.

Siniša Grujić, MD, is an internal medicine specialist – cardiologist with specialisation in internal medicine and diploma in cardiology. He completed his education in Moscow (Russia), Novi Sad (Serbia) and London (United Kingdom). He has a rich experience of over 30 years in cardiology. He particularly specialises in ultrasound cardiac diagnostics, where he works in Slovenia, Italy and Austria. He regularly participates in professional training at clinics in the US and Europe. His international career path also means that he speaks several languages fluently. He is a member of the European, US and Austrian societies of cardiology and the European Association of Echocardiography.

Cardiologist, Ultrasound cardiac diagnostics, Echocardiography

Bertram Pitt received his MD degree from the University of Basel in 1959. After a residency in medicine he worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical research Institute from 1963-1966. He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and remained there on the faculty until 1977 when he joined the University Of Michigan School Of Medicine as director of the division of cardiology. He is currently professor of medicine emeritus, has published over 750 peer reviewed papers, and received life time achievement awards from the AHA and ESC-HF society.

Cardiovascular diseases, Ischemic heart disease, heart failure

François Mach born in 1961, is an expert in the field of cardiology, in particular with regard to the development and progression of atherosclerosis diseases. After obtaining his MD at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, he studied internal medicine and cardiology at Geneva University Hospital. He then went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Prof. Peter Libby, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (1995-1999). Following his return to Switzerland in 2000, he became full Professor of cardiology, and in 2006 he was appointed Head of the cardiology department at Geneva University Hospital. Between 2012-14, he was the President of the Swiss Society of Cardiology. François Mach is the author of more than 350 High Impact Factor publications, has obtained several European research grants (“European Vascular Genomic Network” [EVGN] FP6, “Inflammation and Vascular Wall Remodelling in Atherosclerosis” [AtheroRemo] FP7), and is currently involved in the Athero-B-Cell FP7 (Targeting and exploiting B cell function for treatment in cardiovascular disease, all funded by the European Community. As director of the cardiology basic science laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine University of Geneva, Prof. François Mach and his research group have developed animal models of atherosclerosis, acute myocardial infarction, chronic myocardial ischemia and ischemic stroke. During the last 10 years, the group of Prof. François Mach has substantially contributed to a better clarification of the inflammatory mechanisms underlying atherosclerosis and its acute dramatic complications, such as myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke, both in human cohorts and animal studies. For several years now, Prof. François Mach has also been strongly implicated in clinical research in the field of lipidology, by contributing to the design and completion of several clinical research projects and multi-center studies focussed on lipid lowering agents, such as statins and, more recently, anti-PCSK9. In addition, he is also responsible of several Swiss cohorts of atherothrombotic patients

Cardiology, Atherosclerosis, Cardiovascular diseases, Acute myocardial infarction

Hossein Tabriziani is well known speaker whose has special interset in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantaion. He has completed his Medical School at Iran University of Medical Sciences(IUMS) with honors. He finished his Internal Medicine residency at St. Barnabas Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Then he did his fellowship in Nehrology and Hypertension at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and conitnued his eduction at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) with a Transplant Nephrology fellowship. He was appointed at the Medical director of Pancreas Transplantation at Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical college before moving to Loma Linda Univeristy in California to serve as an Assistant Professor of Medicinie in Nephrology / Transplant division. He is a diploamte of American Board of Internal medicine(ABIM) as well as a diplmoate of American Board of Nephrology. He is also an active member of American Society of Nephrology(ASN) and American society of Tranplantation(AST).

Hypertension, Chronic kidney disease, Oxidative Stress, Transplantation

Sekib Sokolovic is professor of Internal Medicine at Medical Faculty of Sarajevo and subspecialist cardiologist at University Clinical Center. He is the director of the Excellence Center for Hypertension, and director of the National Training in Cardiology representing Cardiac National Society in the ESC. He has published more than 100 papers in some of the reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Blood Pressure, Arterial Stiffness, Cardiovascular risk factors, Hemodynamics

Walid Bsata Since June 2013, he is working as full time Consultant at Cardiology Department at International Medical Center (IMC) in Jeddah / KSA. IMC is a modern 300 bed multidisciplinary tertiary private referral hospital.Also,he is in charge of Cardiology OPD. He is the Founder & Board Member / Saudi Hypertension Management Society.

Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Renal Denervation, CRT and Pacemaker Implantation