World Congress on
Diabetes and Endocrinology

Chandan Saha, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM), Indiana, USA and Director of the Biostatistics Core of the Diabetes Translational Research at IUSM. He earned MA degree in Demography from the Australian National University, MS degree in Statistics and Biostatistics in 1994 and 2000, and Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Iowa in 2001. Dr. Saha served the Central Indiana Chapter of the American Statistical Association as a vice-president in 2004, president in 2005 and past president in 2006. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member for three journals, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of ISRN Hypertension, and Austin Biometrics and Biostatistics. In addition, Dr. Saha reviewed numerous manuscripts for a large number of journals, including Journal of Endocrinology & Metabolism, Journal of Diabetes Science and Primary Care Diabetes. As a result of his excellent collaboration in diabetes research, Dr. Saha served as a member of Data Safety Monitoring Board, Scientific Advisory Committee and Steering Committee, to provide advice, analysis and feedback on a variety of scientific and clinical issues in conducting diabetes related research at multiple well respected pharmaceutical companies.

Primary research area of Dr. Saha has been in diabetes focusing on preventing diabetes, understanding barriers to insulin initiation and interventions on improving diabetes related outcomes. Dr. Saha is also involved in several other collaborative research areas, e.g., stroke, hypertension, HIV, improving pediatric health outcome through computer automation and health service outcomes. His statistical research includes quantifying bias in mixed-effects model and LOCF approach under informative dropout and subsequent impact of bias on Type I and Type II errors. Dr. Saha published about 80 articles as a result of his collaborative and statistical research.

Dr. Al-Jebawi is a consultant endocrinologist & director of Diabetes Care Center/ Saint Vincent Hospital in Anderson, Indiana/USA. He is also a clinical assistant professor at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana/USA. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1996 and 2008. He was also certified by the American Board of Endocrinology in 1998 and 2008. He is a fellow of American College of Endocrinology and the American College of Physicians. He is the editor of the book: "Glucagon: Structure, Biosynthesis and Physiological Effects". Nova Science Publishers, Inc. and a reviewer of "Journal of Postgraduate Medicine". He served as the director of "Diabetes Diploma Program" at Joslin Diabetes Center "Now, Dubai Diabetes Center" during the period Aug 2008-2013. In addition to his publications on Glucagon, he published on the PTH responsiveness to vitamin D deficiency among patients suffering from type 2 diabetes. He also served as a principal investigator in many clinical trials in USA.

Diabetes , Endocrinology, Type II diabetes

Dr. Javed Akram is a highly reputed Professor of Medicine in Pakistan. He is an author of six books and 400 research papers presented in International/National meetings/symposia and seminars and rendered valuable services through participation in numerous academic, administrative and clinical committees. He is a clinician, a laboratory researcher, a medical educationist and a health delivery administrator. He is also an active laboratory research leader. He is presently leading a group working on cloning of human pharmaceutical protein genes. His recent efforts have resulted in the cloning of human interferon genes in E. coli and yeast, as a source material for the semi-commercial production of interferon, a therapeutic agent against hepatitis B & C. His research efforts are also focused on regeneration of bone marrow and adipose tissue derived stem cells to exploit their potential in the repair of burnt damaged skin.

Diabetes, Surgery, Oncology cellular functioning, Heart disease and Stroke

Dr. Kishor Mazumder has completed his PhD at the age of 34 years from Osaka University, Japan and postdoctoral studies from Charles Sturt University School of Biomedical Sciences, Australia. He is the Chairman and Associate professor as well as advisor, Research Cell of Jessore University of Science and Technology, Jessore Bangladesh, Bangladesh. In addition he is also an Adjunct Sr. Lecturer, School of Biomedical Sciences, CSU,NSW, Australia. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewer of many reputed journals.

He research interest in on Anti-diabetic and anticancer drug development and discovery from natural sources.

Gundu H. R. Rao obtained his B.Sc degree from the University of Mysore and B.Sc (Hons) and M.Sc., degrees from the Poona University. He worked for an year with the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Bangalore and five years at the Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore. He immigrated to the USA in 1965 and specialized in grain storage technology and obtained his Ph.D degree from the Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. After working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Texas A& M University and University of Minnesota, he joined department of Pharmacology as an NIH fellow to get training in toxicology. He has been with the University of Minnesota Medical School for over 40 years. He is a naturalized US citizen and a tenured professor in the department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology. He also has faculty appointments in Anesthesiology, Lillehei Heart Institute, and Biomedical Engineering Institute. He is an author or co-author of over 300 publications in the field of interest (thrombosis and stroke). In the past, he has consulted various medical device development companies in the Twin Cities including 3M, Medtronic Inc, St Jude Medical, Medical CV Inc, Vascular Solutions, APP Tech, Endocardial Solutions, PlaCor Inc., Medical Innovations Inc, Hypertension Diagnostics Inc. and Boston Scientific on problems related to biocompatibility, thrombosis and stroke.

Vascular Diseases, Obesity , Pharmacology, Diabetes

“Dr. Amer Alata is currently working as the Medical Director at Via Medica International Healthcare. Dr. Alata received his MD from Ross University School of Medicine. Dr. Alata completed his Bachelor degree from the University of Michigan – Dearborn, in the USA. He then managed a chain of Urgent Care clinics in different cities in Michigan. He dedicated 4 years to education working at Detroit Business Institute in Downriver, Michigan as both an instructor and the Medical Programs Director. Dr. Alata moved to the UAE early 2015 and is now working as the Medical Director for Via Medica International Healthcare, managing different sectors of healthcare, providing patient education, and ensuring high quality delivery of healthcare. He is a member of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, as well as the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation.

Interested in research relating to chronic illnesses and its impact on health economic.

Ali Hussein Albayati is a fully registered doctor in Iraqi Medical Association since 1999. He got his specialty in 2006 from Iraqi Council for Medical specialization (MD) since 2006. Nowadays, he is consultant ,fellow of American college of endocrinology(FACE), a faculty member in University of Babylon /College of Medicine (Assistant Professor) as well he is member of higher scientific committee of Merjan teaching hospital. He is a medico-legal expert in internal medicine and diabetes and Head of CME unit in Babylon medical college. He is Member in AACE, ADA, endocrine society ,obesity society and ESE .he's national and international speaker about diabetes and endocrine diseases. Doctor Albayati is supervisor and trainer for the postgraduate student in diabetes and endocrine field .he attend many international meetings and conferences about diabetes and endocrine dysfunction. He have been awarded the excellence award from Babylon medical college and also from Merjan teaching hospital for his outstanding leadership and scientific abilities. He have also Leicester diabetes certificate in complete diabetes management.

diabetes, endocrine, obesity and diabetes management.

Irina Kurnikova - MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, RUDN University (Peoples Friendship University of Russia), Moscow, Russia She has extensive experience in the field of scientific and practical Endocrinilogy. Dealing with Problems of Endocrinology more than 20 years. The main areas of her research are the optimization of the system approach to the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with diabetes mellitus, diseases of the thyroid gland, disturbances in the system of regulation of the organism and other endogenous factors (comorbidity, interstitial humoral transport et al.). Currently teaches at Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, curator of the scientific direction of endocrinology. Has published more than 20 articles in well-known journals, the author of 25 books and manuals in Russian, 10 patents for inventions.

Rehabilitation of patients with diabetes mellitus, diseases of the thyroid gland, disturbances in the system of regulation of the organism and other endogenous factors

Dr. Adeghate obtained his MD from Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary in 1986 and his PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1992. He was awarded a DSc by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2010. He also has a Master of Family Medicine degree from Monash University, Australia. Dr. Adeghate worked as a lecturer in Anatomy at Semmelweis University, Hungary before joining the College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. Dr. Adeghate is a Professor in the Department of Anatomy and a past Chairperson of the Diabetes and Cardiovascular Research Priority Group, United Arab Emirates University. His research interest is in the field of experimental diabetes. He has published more than 150 full-length articles in peer-reviewed journals, 9 book chapters, 116 abstracts and attended over 72 scientific conferences. The cumulative impact factor of his publications is over 270 with a total citation of 2,968. Dr. Adeghate is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism, and a member of the Editorial Board of the World Journal of Diabetes, Current Diabetes Reviews, Austin Journal of Endocrinology and Diabetes Neuroendocrinology Letters and The Open Medicinal Chemistry Journal.

Diabetes mellitus

Mr Dimitrios Karponis is a medical student at Imperial College London (UK), intercalating in pharmacology. His main interests are diseases of bone and bone metabolism, with special focus to osteoporosis. Dimitrios has been involved in research at an international level, from anaesthetics (MN, USA) to immune defence (Imperial College National Heart and Lung Institute and Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford). He has attended several national meetings on osteoporosis (HELIOS, Greece) and is the author of a textbook as well as various journal articles. Dimitrios is a reviewer for two UK-based journals and the student president of the Imperial College Society of Research and Academia (SORA) as well as the Pharmacology society, after resigning as former secretary of the Imperial College Surgical Society. He currently works in developing a surgical robot with haptic feedback, addressing the limitations in the current market.

Osteoporosi and Bone metabolism