Diabetes and Endocrinology

Fadi Nabhan has completed his MD at Damascus University and then Internal Medicine Residency and Endocrinology Fellowship at Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Endocirnolgy, Diabetes, and Metabolism at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH in the USA . His research interest is in thyroid disease.

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Thyroid Diseases, Pancreatic Islets Transplantation

Judith Aponte is a Hispanic Nurse, Educator, Researcher and Speaker. She is a tenured Associate Professor at Hunter College, School of Nursing, City University of New York. Her research focus is on Hispanics with diabetes. She is a fellow at the Academy of Medicine. She was an awardee and finalist of the 2014 NY/NJ Nursing Excellence in Giving Excellence Meaning award in the category of Advancing and Leading the Profession. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed articles and has received grant funding, to examine diabetes and diabetes-related disparities among Hispanics and interventions that promote optimum health and minimize complications

Diabetes is causing an increase in mortality and morbidity especially among Hispanics and integration of CHWs may improve and reduce diabetes-complications.

Abdelmarouf Hassan Mohieldein is an Associate Professor of Medical Biochemistry & Research Methodology, Department of Medical Laboratories, Qassim University. He was awarded Ph.D degree from Institute of Molecular Medicine, Moscow Medical Academy, Russia. He has got the training in chemical pathology, Newham General Hospital, London, U.K. He is a peer reviewer for several international journals and research funding agencies. He has 22 published papers in refereed journals. He authored the textbook of Medical Biochemistry. He participated in following international conferences (Moscow-Russia 2001, Cannes- France 2002, Brussels- Belgium 2003, Athens-Greece 2006, Nice-France 2009, and MarrakeshMorocco 2010). He has ongoing funded projects and supervising research students.

glucose tolerance, gestational diabetes mellitus, glycosylated hemoglobin

Zhengyuan Xia had served as a cardiovascular anesthetist for more than 10 years in China before he completed his Ph.D study at the University of British Columbia, in Canada in 2004. He is now Assistant Professor and Honorary Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Anesthesiology Research Laboratory of the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Hong Kong. His major focus of research is post-ischemic cardiac protection in diabetes. He has published more than 96papers in reputed journals (such as Diabetes, Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Critical Care Medicine) and is serving as an Executive Editor of Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism.

Reactive oxygen species signalling in diabetic cardiomyophathy Antioxidant treatments for myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury Pharmacological (anesthetic) preconditioning and postconditioning

Mohsen Khalid has graduated from faculty of medicine Cairo University in November 1980. He has completed his Master degree in Internal Medicine May 1986, and then he completed his Medical Doctorate in Internal Medicine November 2003. He is a consultant of Diabetes and Endocrinology in the Egyptian National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals. The research interest of Prof. Dr. Mohsen Khalid is Genetics of Diabetes, diabetic complications and how to assist diabetic patients to live a good life with life style modification and medical treatment.

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Endocrinology, Genetics of Diabetes, diabetic complications

Seyedaghanoor Sadeghi graduated from Tehran Medical Sciences in 1987 as a Professional Medical Doctor. He has practiced Conventional Medicine during the last 27 years and about 7 years as a professional Homeopath. More than 35 articles have been authored by him and have been published on various websites especially hpathy.com. Six books were authored under various topics, related to homeopathic medicine. Some of his articles have been translated to various languages like Farsi, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. He held a workshop on Homeopathic Treatment of diabetic patients in Tokyo, being relayed to 4 other cities, for about 100 people, on April 29, 2017.

Diabetes Management

Hamzeh Awad has completed his PhD at the age of 30 from the University of Munich, Germany and worked in Healthcare Operation and System, Planning and Development, Disability, Rehabilitation, Diabetes and eHealth in different countries such as Germany, Belgium, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UK and UAE. Further; he was appointed as a Researcher at WHO center in Munich, Researcher at University Hospital of Technical University of Dresden, Assistant Prof. at King Saud University in Riyadh, and Research and Clinical programs Development Manager at Prince Sultan Rehabilitation City, KSA. He is now Associate Prof. in Health Science Department at Al Khawarizmi International College (KIC) and Adjunct Faculty member in Public Health Department, Abu Dhabi University, UAE and Senior eHealth consultant at e-Point, Belgium (Founder of SEHA eHealth). He has several publications in ISI journals and Books and keynote speaker in several international conferences. He has several international collaborations with different research groups in Healthcare system, Physical therapy and Rehabilitation, Diabetes, Health Information Technology, Health Management and eHealth.

TeleHealth; Telemonitoring; Glucomail Application; Prevention; Management; Diabetes Mellitus

Hidekatsu Yanai, MD, PhD, Fellow of American College of Physicians (FACP), is the Director of the Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Research and Trial Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine Kohnodai Hospital, Japan. He obtained his MD and PhD degrees in National Defense Medical College and Hokkaido University School of Medicine, respectively. He studied as Invited PhD Research Fellow in the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism and also an Editorial Board Member of ten medical journals. He has 181 published papers in refereed medical journals.

Dr. Hidekatsu Yanai research interest includes atherosclerosis, diabetes, endocrinology, obesity and lipid metabolism

Dr. Ian Martins is a Reveiwer for Open Acess Pub and various other international journals. Appointed as the Chief Editor for International Journal of Diabetes Research (2014-2017), Research and Reviews: Neuroscience (2016-2017)/Journal of Diabetes and Clinical Studies and Editor for various journals. He is a BIT Member (BIT Congress. Inc) with an H-index of 43, (ResearchGate STATs (23), Mendeley STATS (20). He is now a Scientist for The Science Advisory Board (USA) and an Academic with Academia.edu. ResearchGate’s analysis available on google, Tweet, Facebook, Lindekin under Ian James Martins’ name places publication Stats RG score higher than 96% of the international SCIENTISTS. Prestigious Recognition of Lifetime Membership by International Agency for Standards and Ratings as Fellow for Diabetes, Medical Science (Nutrition), Endocrinology and Metabolism.Conferred with the RICHARD KUHN RESEARCH AWARD-2015 ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM. Winner (World Academic Championship -2017) in Diabetes and Medical Science (Nutrition).

Diabetes & Endocrinology

Dr. Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, PhD is a medical scientific professional with having 17 years of professional experience, which included more than 11 years experiences in public health research and project management and 4 years experience of teaching in public health. Currently he has been working as Assistant Professor and Chairman, Department of Public Health at North South University (NSU), Bangladesh.

Diabetes & Endocrinology

Gina Rayat received her Bachelor of Science degree major in Molecular Biology at the University of Winnipeg and completed her Master of Science degree in Transplantation Immunology at the University of Manitoba. She completed her PhD training at the University of Alberta and moved to Denver, Colorado, USA for a postdoctoral training at the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes. She returned to Edmonton and was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Alberta. She is now Professor in the same department and the Director of the Ray Rajotte Surgical-Medical Research Institute, which is a state of the art facility for surgical education, training, and research at the University of Alberta. Her focus of research is to understand the mechanism(s) of islet graft rejection and to develop safer strategies for preventing rejection and induction of tolerance to islet grafts.

Islet xenotransplantation, tansplantation tolerance, autoimmunity (type 1 diabetes)

Yanfei (Jacob) Qi is establishing his scientific reputation in lipid research. He is currently Head of Diabetes Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at Centenary Institute, The University of Sydney (USYD), Australia. His current research focuses on the lipid metabolism and signaling in type 2 diabetes (T2D). Jacob commenced his research career with pharmacological studies of anti-diabetic medicines at USYD, and then continued his research as foreign co-researcher at Kyoto University, Japan. Jacob obtained his PhD at Sydney Medical School, USYD. His PhD study focused on sphingolipid signaling and lipotoxicity in T2D and NAFLD. More recently, he was research fellow at The University of NSW, Australia, where he developed research expertise in phospholipid metabolism, intracellular lipid transport and lipid droplet biology. Jacob published a number of well-cited first-author papers in the past 5 years. His research output has been increasing as reflected in the number of publication and citation per annum.

Dysregulated lipid metabolism is a well-known risk factor in the development of type 2 diabetes. Ectopic lipid accumulation in the liver causes insulin resistance, while lipid overloading of pancreatic islets impairs insulin secretion due to lipotoxic stress. Our research focuses on multiple aspects of lipid metabolism: how sphingolipids and phospholipids regulate hepatic insulin resistance both in vivo and in vitro; how sphingolipids determine pancreatic beta-cell viability; how neutral lipids are stored and mobilised in adipocytes; and how phospholipids are transported within cells. In addition to lipid studies in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes, we also aim to identify lipid biomarkers for diabetes at early diagnosis. The majority of pre-diabetic subjects proceed to type 2 diabetes, however, prediabetes is usually unrecognised, which constitutes a major public health concern. Thus, identification of high-risk individuals via a biomarker is urgently needed. We will utilise the plasma sample bank from a cohort with over 6,000 subjects to screen the lipid species that is closely correlated to insulin resistance and prediabetes.

Presently Dr. MOHD. AKHTAR working as Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Formerly: Faculty of Pharmacy ranked Ist in NIRF Ranking) Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) Mahruali Badarpur Road, Sangam Vihar New Delhi 110 062. He did his B.Pharm, M.Pharm Ph.D (Pharmacology) from Jamia Hamdard. Before joining Hamdard, he worked as clinical Pharmacist in Saudi Arabia for 2 and half years and as lecturer in HNB Garhwal University. Has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience. He supervised more than 37 M. Pharm Pharmacology; Pharmacy Practice and M.D students also supervised 7 Ph.D students. His areas of Research include CNS, CVS, Endocrine, drug-drug interaction studies, Pharmacovigilance studies. He has more than 90 research papers in national and international journals of repute. He also received projects like fast track project for young scientist from DST, AICTE, CCRUM. He received scientist of the year 2008 award from NESA, Recipient of 2nd Academic Brilliance Awards 14 for Excellence in research presented by Education Expo 2014. He has presented papers in so many symposiums, conferences and workshops. He is life member of IPS, APTI, IPGA, IHPA Society of Pharmacovigilance and NESA.

Diabetes & Endocrinology

An experienced and caring clinician with extensive experience in caring for patients in government and private set ups. Experienced in modern hospital care set up in Singapore. A brilliant academician with gold medals / honours in almost every subject during medical training, best student of the year 1987, University of Calcutta topper in MBBS First part 1987, followed by Post doctoral and Royal College of UK degrees. Excellent speaker regular at API, ESI, DAI conferences. Extensive experience in medical teaching at under and post graduate levels.

Diabetes & Endocrinology

BIOGRAPHY Dr. Farhan Ahmad Khan currently working as Professor & Head in a Medical College and has more than 10 years of research as well as clinical experience. Serving as Editor-in-chief of an International Peer-reviewed Medical Research Journal and present in the editorial board of reputed journals. He is also the Member of The American College of Clinical Pharmacology, Asian Council of Science Editors. Have vast experience in Training and supervision of Postgraduate students (MD, MSc) in Clinical Pharmacology. Have been involved in Helping Physicians in setting Treatment Guidelines. Invited as Guest Speakers at Scientific meetings/conferences in Sydney, China, Austria.

Pharmacovigilance, Clinical Pharmacology, Immunopharmacology, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Rational Use of Drugs, Clinical Trial

Dr. Kshitij Shankhdhar (age 40) is a Diabetologist from Lucknow, India. He has specialized in diabetic foot care and diabetes education. He did his medical graduation in India followed by post graduate trainings and fellowships in European countries. He did his fellowship in diabetic foot at Manchester, UK (Prof AJM Boulton) and observed clinical Podiatry at London, UK (Prof Mike Edmonds). At Oxford, UK he attended the Robert Turner Clinical Research Course (Prof David Matthews) along with Scientist Training Course (Prof Per Henrick Groop) at Helsinki, Finland. He is recipient of Albert Renold Fellowship, given by the European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes. He was selected for the prestigious Gary Sibbald International Scholarship by the Canadian Association of Wound Care. In 2011, at Birmingham, UK he received the 'Highly commended - Innovations in diabetic foot ulcers award' given by Wounds UK. He is the only Indian doctor to hold the fellowship of APWCA (American Professional Wound Care Association) and was selected as a member of the Medical Advisory board of APWCA. He is the only Indian doctor to hold the fellowship of APWH (Academy of Physicians in Wound Healing, Winston-Salem NC 27106). Dr. Kshitij Shankhdhar established the first diabetic foot clinic of north India called Lucknow Diabetic Foot Care Clinic and Research Centre under L.K.Diabetes Centre, Lucknow, India. For 15 years, Dr. Kshitij Shankhdhar has been actively involved in diabetes care and diabetic foot amputation prevention. Dr. Shankhdhar holds the credit of inventing (in the year 2000) - The Samadhan System of Offloading the diabetic foot. His work in the field of Diabetic foot care has been selected for oral presentation at most esteemed international conferences in Diabetology, organized by associations like The International Diabetes Federation, American Diabetes Association, Canadian Diabetes Association, European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Diabetic Foot Study Group (EASD), Wounds UK, Diabetic Foot Global Conference and many others in different parts of the world. In the year 2009, he solely conducted a two day workshop on diabetic foot, organized by the International Diabetes Federation, at Seychelles, Africa in which he trained a number of African doctors and nurses. On 23rd April, 2015 he delivered a 40 minute key note lecture at International Diabetic foot conference at Novosibirsk, Russia. In April 2016, he was faculty speaker at 7th Abu Dhabi wound care conference and also Chairman of a session. Recently, on 14th July; he was conferred with State-of-the-art diabetic foot clinic award for his pioneering work in the field of diabetic foot care in India. This was handed over to him by Dr. N.C. Schaper (Nicolaas), Department of Internal Medicine/Endocrinology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands during the National Conclave on Diabetic Foot, held at Mumbai, India. Diabetes leads to one amputation every 20 seconds. 85% of these amputations are preventable. Such specialized diabetic foot clinics play a major role in amputation prevention. Dr. Shankhdhar is the Working President of the UPMA - Uttar Pradesh Madhumeh (the word madhumeh means diabetes in Hindi language) Association in the state Uttar Pradesh, India. He had successfully established a first of its kind, UPMA's Medical College of Diabetology, for a structured education program for people with diabetes. He strongly believes in the words of Dr. Elliott Joslin (regarded as the father of modern diabetes care), the person with diabetes who knows the most lives the longest.

Diabetes Medical Care, Diabetes Education, Diabetic foot care (Podiatry)